sleep habits

Restful Sleep, Restless Thoughts, Unfinished Processes

There are many ways to process our thoughts.  Exercise can stimulate both the physical flow and mental flow.  Thoughts accumulate just as do fluids in the body, or waste products in the blood.   We all need an occasional mental “flush”, and with our busy lives and so many distractions we forget to take time to assess our days.  Restless thoughts and unfinished “processes” can interfere with our restful sleep by agitating our internal “on alert system” known as the fight/flight response.

Tibetan Meditation Music: For Quiet Mind and Peaceful Heart

 

Taking time during the day to process and release is as important as digesting your food.  You’ll find no gain from what you’ve eaten unless it is broken down into usable form.  How is that done with our mind and experiences?   We digest our life through reflection, finding the value in what we contribute and the response to our actions.   How is our perception of the world around us connecting within our own heart and soul? 

Without a time of reflection we accumulate our problems, queries and questions into a mass of thoughts.  The dam will eventually break at a point of the least resistance, and that can be during our sleep cycle when we do not have our normal distractions and protections in place. 

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How do we recover our sleep time from our thought processing?  There are several ways: through meditation during the waking hours, or by consciously separating the restful time for the body from the active processes of the mind.  One simple technique is to have a vessel of some sort, like a long stemmed glass, in your sleeping space.  Focus on the glass before you go to sleep.  Gently allow the day to flow into the glass, using the stem to ground away the unusable.  The remaining energies and experiences are then contained within the vessel, but like the glass they are open to the influence of your higher guidance.  Ask for the resolution and completion of your day, and ask that it come to you in a peaceful, nurturing way.

Utilizing the services of a medical intuitive can help you find and release stuck thoughts and experiences that affect your ability to relax and sleep.  These services are intended to compliment, not replace, the services of your health care provider.