Insomnia can be one of our best teachers to allow us to witness it is the mind, not the body that creates the challenge.
I struggled with insomnia for about 15 years. I learned the way to sleep better was to quiet my mind. Last night I fell asleep very late. The difference is by not seeing it as a problem, often I have no physical consequence. I understand that once we are entirely returned to Presence, we need little or no sleep. I now see the toll it took as a gift as it forced me crawling to begin to witness how to not sleep and not suffer, how to quiet the mind. Now often I can get little sleep yet not be tired yet I must be very careful not to tell myself I will be tired simply because I did not sleep. I saw how I was using autosuggestion ahead of time to equate sleep and tiredness. I learned they do not necessarily equate, a hard one for me to get. Yes, for over a decade it took a huge toll on me until one time I hardly slept at all for about six weeks. That forced me to find a new way.
More on insomnia: as I decided to post more on this topic a flash of insight arose. Look at the base of the word. Soma is there and defined as • “the body as distinct from the soul, mind, or psyche.” Insomnia keep us tied to the body, convinced the body is our problem, convinced our bodies can keep us imprisoned so we don’t look behind the curtain to see the mind pulling the levers, don’t look behind the curtain to see the separated self, the ego, the human as Lisa Brown calls it, trying to convince us something is wrong.
Seeing the mind’s influence with sleep was a huge awakening for me, the beginning of the end of the mind’s power to imprison me. Notice how many beliefs and stories we have about sleep. I need eight hours, six hours, ten hours. As Wayne Dyer said, believing is seeing.
Seeing the mind’s influence with sleep was a huge awakening for me, the beginning of the end of the mind’s power to imprison me. Notice how many beliefs and stories we have about sleep. I need eight hours, six hours, ten hours. As Wayne Dyer said, believing is seeing.
Thus try not looking at a clock when sleep eludes us. Have no clue how much sleep we actually receive. Watch what the mind is saying at 3 am, try getting excited wondering what magnificent upgrades to DNA and brain circuity must be occurring (it is.) Wake up and immediately say I choose to be rested today, I choose to have all the energy I need.
Yesterday I drove over three hours. When the night before, sleep remained elusive until the wee hours, I had to be very careful not to complain or go into a story about how it would make it difficult the next day with all that driving, how it might spoil a day I was looking forward to. I was able to drop all story, have a wonderful day and never feel tired or sleepy. I believed I could and so it was. Eventually, all beliefs will drop away and we will rest in Presence yet until then it is possible to use sleep to be a wake-up call to taking dominion of our consciousness, to witness how the mind wants to enslave the body to limitation. Play with it and see what you discover
Yesterday I drove over three hours. When the night before, sleep remained elusive until the wee hours, I had to be very careful not to complain or go into a story about how it would make it difficult the next day with all that driving, how it might spoil a day I was looking forward to. I was able to drop all story, have a wonderful day and never feel tired or sleepy. I believed I could and so it was. Eventually, all beliefs will drop away and we will rest in Presence yet until then it is possible to use sleep to be a wake-up call to taking dominion of our consciousness, to witness how the mind wants to enslave the body to limitation. Play with it and see what you discover
