How to sleep faster when we can’t?

How to sleep faster?, it is very important aspect for every human being we are seeking for, but most of the time we can’t sleep as per our necessity, and it’s become painful as climbing into bed and lying awake for half the night tossing and turning while the rest of the world are fast asleep.

In these articles, I am going to show you the necessity of sleep, some natural sleeping tips, how to sleep, some tips of quick sleep and what happen during sleep.

The necessity of sleep:

• Sleep is necessary for the body just as food is. Sufficient sleep must be taken, but no excessive sleep. What sufficient sleep is depends on the need of the body.

• It is great mistake not to take sufficient sleep. Seven hours is the minimum needed, when one has a very strong nervous system one can reduce it to six, sometime even five-but it is rare and ought not to be attempted without necessity.

• Both for fevers and for mental troubles sleep is a great help and its absence very undesirable-it is the loss of a curative agency.

• It is not a right method to try to keep awake at night: the suppression of the needed sleep makes the body tamasic and unfit for the necessary concentration during the waking hours. The right way is to transform the sleep and not suppress it, and especially to learn how to become more and more conscious in sleep itself. If that I done, sleep changes into an inner mode of consciousness in which the sadhanna can continue as much as in the waking state, and at the same time one is able to enter into other planes of consciousness than the physical and command an immense range of informative and utilizable experience.

• To begin with, we should remember that more than one third of our existence is spent in sleeping and that, consequently, the time devoted to physical sleep well deserve our attention.

I say physical sleep, for it would be wrong to think that our whole being sleeps when our bodies are asleep.

Some philosophy and tips of good sleep:

How is it better to go to bed early and to get up early?

• When the sun sets, a kind of peace descends upon the earth and this peace is helpful for sleep.

• When the sun rises, a vigorous energy descends upon the earth and this energy I helpful for work.

• When you go to bed late and get up early, you contradict the forces of nature and that is not very wise

Why are the hours before midnight better for sleep than the later hours?

Because, symbolically, during the hours till mid-night, the sun is setting, while from the very first hour after midnight sun begins to rise.

Right food choice:

The quality of sleep is much more important than its quantity, in order to have a truly effective rest and relaxation during sleep; it is good as a rule to drink something before going to bed, a cup of milk or soup or fruit juice, for instance. Light food brings a quiet sleep, one should, however, abstain from all copious means, for then the sleep becomes agitated and it disturbed by nightmares, or else is dense, heavy and dulling

Clear mind:

But the most important thing of all is to make mind clear, to quietness the emotions and calm the effervescence of desires and the preoccupations which accompany them.

Avoid exciting things before sleep:

If before retiring to bed one has talked a lot or had a lively discussion, if one has read an exciting or intensely interesting book, one should rest a little without sleeping in order to quietness the mental activity, so that the brain does not engage in disorderly movements while the other parts of the body alone are asleep.

Use some relaxation technique:

Those who practice meditation will do well to concentrate for a few minutes on a lofty and restful idea, in an aspiration towards a higher and vaster consciousness. Their sleep will benefits greatly from this and they will largely be spared the risk of falling into unconsciousness while they sleep.

How to sleep well?

To sleep well one must learn how to sleep:

• If one is physically very tired, it is better not to go to sleep immediately, otherwise one falls into the inconsistent.

• If one is very tired, one must stretch out on the bed, relax, loosen all the nerves one after another until one becomes like a rumbled cloth in one’s bed, as though one had neither bones nor muscles. When one has done that, the same thing must be done in the mind.

• Relax, do not concentrate on any idea or try to solve a problem or ruminate on impression, sensations or emotions you had during the day, all that must be allowed to drop off quietly: one gives oneself up, one is indeed like a rag. When you have succeeded in doing this, there is always a little flame, there-that flame never goes out and you become conscious of it when you have managed this relaxation. And all of a sudden this little flame rises slowly into an aspiration for the divine life, the truth, the consciousness of the divine, the union with the inner being, it goes higher and higher, it rises, rises, like that, very gently.

• Then everything gathers there, and if at that moment you fall asleep, and also sure that instead of falling into a dark hole you will sleep in light, and when you get up in the morning you will be fresh, fit, content, happy and full of energy for the day.

• Even for those who have never been in trance, it is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the words: I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of that kind, but a vibration.

• And its effect on the body is extraordinary: it begins to vibrate, vibrate, vibrate…..and quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go to sleep. The body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and away you go. That is the cure of tamas.

It is tamas which causes bad sleep. There are two kinds of bad sleep: the sleep that makes you heavy, dull, as if you lost all the effect of the effort you put in during the preceding day; and the sleep that exhausts you as if you cut your sleep into slices (it is a habit one can form), the nights become better. That is to say, you must be able to come back to your normal consciousness and normal aspiration at fixed intervals-come back at the call of the consciousness. But for that you must not use an alarm-clock, when you are in trance, it is not good to be shaken out of it.

When you are about to go to sleep, you can make a formation; say:”I shall wake up at such an hour” (you do that very well when you are a child). For the first stretch of sleep you must count at least three hours; for the last, one hour is sufficient. But the first one must be three hours at the minimum. On the whole, you have to maintain in bed at least seven hours; in six hours you do not have time enough to do much(naturally I am looking at it from the point of view of sadhana) to make the nights useful.

Make use night for positive work:

• To make use of the nights is an excellent thing. It has a double effect: a negative effect, it prevents you from falling backward, losing what you have gained-that is indeed painful-and a positive effect, you make some progress, you continue your progress. You make use of the night, so there is no trace of fatigue any more.

What happens during sleep?

• According to the recent medical theory one passes in sleep through many phases until one arrives at a state in which there is absolute rest and silence-it lasts only for ten minutes, the rest of the time is taken up by travelling to that and travelling back again to the waking state. I suppose the ten minutes sleep can be called susupti in the Brahman or Brahmaloka, the rest is Svapna or passage through other worlds (planes or states of conscious existence). It is these ten minutes that restore the energies of the being, and without it sleep is not refreshing.

• According to the mothers experience and knowledge one passes from waking through a succession of states of sleep consciousness which are in fact an entry and passage into so many worlds and arrives at a pure sachchidananda state of complete rest, light and silence, after words on retraces ones way till one reaches the waking physical state. It is this Sachchidananda period that gives sleep all its restorative value. These two accounts, the scientific and the occult-spiritual, are practically identical with each other. But the former is only a recent discovery of what the occult-spiritual knew long ago.

People’s idea about sleep:

People ideas of sound sleep are absolutely erroneous. What they call sound sleep is merely a plunge of the outer consciousness into a complete subconscious. They call that a dreamless sleep; if it is only a state in which the surface sleep consciousness which is a subtle prolongation of the outer still left active in sleep itself is unable to record the dreams and transmit them to the physical mind. As a matter of fact the whole sleep is full of dreams. It is only during the brief time in which one is in the Brahmaloka that the dreams cease.

Call the God before sleep:

The rule should be to call the GOD before sleeping, to concentration on him and try to feel the GOD’s protection around him and go with that into sleep. In the dream itself a habit of call the GOD when in difficulty or peril should be formed; many sadhaks do it. Not to allow the invasion, any invasion of any power or being, whether in dream, meditation or otherwise-no force except the Divine Force, means to reject it, never to give assent, whether through attention or through weakness.

So finally we understood, if we gain some knowledge about the sleep then it will be easy how to concentrate on sleep and easily we can adopt above technique to sleep faster when we can’t. 

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