How Modernity And Technology Are Harming Your Sleep Cycle

And what to do about it

Too much family stress can harm your sleep cycle. Photo by Christyl Rivers

Let’s be non-groggy and clear. Technology is good. No one need bash technology. Still, our addiction and ever-increasing reliance upon it is changing who we are. Here are just a few examples. Lights on twenty-four hours a day, all over the world, sap both human and resource energy. In other words, they cost not only light pollution, and use of fossil fuels, but they cause sleep…

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