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Relationships with others are the best thing life gives us. They also make us sleep better.

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Try to read a boring book or newspaper article. Non-stimulating material will aid us in feeling tired again.

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Yet I’m oddly unworried, floating backward on this conveyer belt into what I’m told will be a “very loud” machine, an MRI for these headaches that plague me each day. The sounds are loud, unbelievably so, but I feel good, safe in a moment where all I can do is surrender to stillness, close my eyes and breathe.