Spiritual Sleep Tips
This is an evolving list of the SPIRITUAL TIPS that can help one sleep, and sleep well:
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Surrender to your Higher Power, Higher Self, Consciousness, The Universe, Spirit, Nature, God
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Forgive all of Creation, everyone in it, especially yourself!
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Accept that whatever is happening is according to “Thy Will Be Done” – ‘Cosmic Law’ – ‘The Ideal’ – for you at all time &/or “What Is”
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have Trust and Faith that All is Well at all time
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use Courage to get past all fear and worry at all time
- (give us your tips in the comment section below)
the following is from:
The Problem is not Sleep
not Even the Absence of Sleep
The problem is our usual way of comprehending sleep, which often creates a nightly struggle to capture and control the elusive entity we long for. Much of life in this modern age has been reduced to just such conceptual struggles. Because of the mandate to think, to “figure it all out,” many people view dozing off as a complicated process, subject, like other bodily processes, to disorders requiring intervention.
Zen Buddhism offers a radical alternative to this common way of thinking about sleep. By heeding the Buddha’s advice to become aware of how the mind creates suffering, it becomes possible to see the mistake of so much conceptualizing. In fact, beyond the reach of the mind, sleep is a simple experience that presents no problem. This insight into the fundamental nature of slumber may be difficult to grasp at first, given the tangled web of thoughts and ideas about sleep that overshadow the real thing. However, Zen Sleep makes it easy. It’s simply a matter of observing each moment as it comes, aware that thoughts can never substitute for directly experiencing reality.
In this way Zen Sleep offers a practical introduction to Zen Buddhism, easily applicable to modern life. Close attention to the moment reveals that much of the pressure to sleep comes not from any real urgency, but from worries about performance the next day. And could it be that the longing for sleep might be more of a desire to accommodate it than anything else? Digging even deeper, there is no “do” in sleep to be found. The mind will insist one “does” sleep as though it were an action that can be done at will. But such a belief has little basis in reality. Zen offers a completely different understanding based on direct observations instead.
In showing how to see through the fog of constant thinking to accurately determine how things really are, Zen Sleep uncovers how modern medicine renders average people unqualified to understand their own consciousness. Submission to the elaborate conceptual schemes favored by the experts only creates pressure to “achieve” sleep, even when the true nature of rest has nothing to do with achieving anything. Zen empowers individuals to trust their own understanding instead of the ideas of others who claim to know more.
Familiarity with Zen is not required to make a profound shift in how you comprehend sleep. All that is needed is an unflinching willingness to carefully observe your own mind and compare that to how things really are – like observing your attempts to obtain sleep as though it were some separate entity when in fact there is nothing to “capture and control.” Quiet reflection on exactly what is offers substantial insights and directions no academic explanation can. A deep, intuitive sense of sleep grows out of this Zen approach, revealing each moment to be not so different from any other moment, free to unfold naturally and without any effort.
In the end, sleep is just part of the overall ebb and flow of consciousness, a delightful movement within the rhythm of a larger world, best left to its own devices and requiring no assistance. Zen Sleep shows the way to that easy, natural, problem-free relationship with that side of life, and the insightful path of Zen that makes it possible.
