DON’T JUMP OUT OF BED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2810, 13 November 1924, Page 4

DON’T JUMP OUT OF BED.

Do not spring from your bed the moment you awake in the morning. Do not spring from your bed at all —take it quietly. This is the adviee that the best physicians in London give to those who consult them. The old idea was that as soon as you opened your eyes you should fling off the bedclothes, bound to the Hour with a display of magniliecnt vitality, and hurl yourself at the business of the day. It was all wrong. It was unscientific. If took no account of the mental and physical state of the individual mi waking. Physicians who have -considered the question lay down an entirely different rule. They advise that live minutes-should be devoted to the business of waking ui>. and that huiTv should be avoided.

The act of springing from bed is bad, because if accelerates tlm action of the heart suddenly, after (lie period of repose, and this in turn excites the brain, with the consequence that the individual becomes unbalanced, and remains in an unbalanced condition for hours, possibly for the rest of the day. (tel ting out; of bed should be a leisurely, not a hurried, process. The feet should be let down quietly to the floor, and the body then raised gently to a sitting position before standing up. The movements should be gradual and placid. There should be no rush. Body and mind will then come to the .day’s work in an equable condition. Springing from lie* 1 tends to shorten life.