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第23章 我们为什么不快乐 (9)

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3. If you are _______ a displaced family, or for some reason cannot be with your loved _______ during the holidays, seek out others in the same situation and plan a special _______ .

佳句翻译

1. 你不能做所有想做的事,如果你尝试一下,就知道那其实并不开心。

2. 度假的精神实质是给予。

3. 将自己的心事吐露出来,有助于缓解消极的情绪,而且交流可以给你提供一个缓解压力的环境。

短语应用

1. Write down your spending list and stick to it.

stick to:坚持;忠于;信守

2. and the interchange can provide you with some stress-relief solutions.

provide with:供给;提供;为……装备上

不再为失眠而焦虑

How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia

戴尔?卡耐基 / Dale Carnegie

Jeanette MacDonald told me that when she was depressed and worried and had difficulty in going to sleep, she could always get “a feeling of security” by repeating Psalm XXII: “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters.”

But if you are not religious, and have to do things the hard way, then learn to relax by physical measures. Dr. David Harold Fink,who wrote Release from Nervous Tension, says that the best way to do this is to talk to your body. According to Dr. Fink, words are the key to all kinds of hypnosis; and when you consistently can’ t sleep, it is because you have talked yourself into a case of insomnia. The way to undo this is to dehypnotize yourself—and you can do it by saying to the muscles of your body: “Let go, let go—loosen up and relax.” We already know that the mind and nerves can’t relax while the muscles are tense—so if we want to go to sleep, we start with the muscles. Dr. Fink recommends—and it works out in practice—that we put a pillow under the knees to ease the tension on the legs, and that we tuck small pillows under the arms for the very same reason. Then, by telling the jaw to relax, the eyes, the arms, and the legs, we finally drop off to sleep before we know what has hit us. I’ve tried it—I know. If you have trouble sleeping, get hold of Dr. Fink’s book, Release from Nervous Tension, which I have mentioned earlier. It is the only book I know of that is both lively reading and a cure for insomnia.