The document discusses factors that can cause sleep issues like allergies, sickness, injury, hormones, irritants, lack of sleep, screen time, worry, stress, sorrow, loss, hardship, heartbreak and betrayal. It then recommends sleep hours needed for different age groups from newborns to adults. Finally, it discusses the benefits of sleep like consolidating memories, processing emotions, balancing hormones, refreshing brain cells, clearing waste and rejuvenating muscles. It also includes biblical references about God resting on the seventh day and choosing Zion as his resting place.
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3. Allergies
Sickness
Injury
Changes in hormones
Environmental irritants
Lack of sleep
Screen time
4. Allergies
Sickness
Injury
Changes in hormones
Environmental irritants
Lack of sleep
Screen time
Worry
Stress
Sorrow
Loss
Hardship
Heartbreak
Betrayal
8. Newborn = 14 to 17 hours
Preschool = 11 to 14 hours
Elementary = 9 to 11 hours
Teens = 8 to 10 hours
Adults = 7 to 9 hours
10. Memories are consolidated
Emotions are processed and sorted out
Hormones are balanced out
Brain cells are refreshed
Waste materials that can slow or damage
brain function are cleared out
Muscles are rejuvenated
12. Genesis 2:2-3 - By the seventh day God completed His work that He had
done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had
done. God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He
rested from His work of creation.
13. Psalm 132:7-8, 13-14 - Let us go to his dwelling place;let us worship at
his footstool! Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place,you and the
ark of your might. For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for
his dwelling place: This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell,
for I have desired it.
16. Isaiah 66:1-2 - Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth
is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what
is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all
these things came to be, declares the Lord.