Secrets of Health and Healing People who fail to get the rest they need, often resort to heavy doses of coffee and other stimulants to remain awake. As a result of these stimulants they sleep badly the following night, and so by degrees enter a cycle that leaves them chronically out of tune with life, like a motor functioning on only one cylinder. If you are troubled with insomnia, try the following:
1. Do a few yoga postures before going to bed. Get the energy in your body flowing smoothly, instead of leaving it gathered and blocked in local knots of tension.
2. Then lie flat on your back in bed. Inhale deeply; tense the whole body, equalizing the flow of energy throughout the body; then throw the breath out and relax. Repeat this exercise two or three times, as you desire.
3. Next, watch the breath mentally for a while, allowing its steady rhythm to soothe you, like the ocean waves stroking the shore on a calm day.
4. After some time, inhale deeply; then exhale slowly and completely, as if with a sigh, and feel that you are surrendering yourself to an infinity of peace. Hold the breath out as long as you comfortably can and repeat mentally, “Aum, peace, peace, amen,” or “Aum, shanti, shanti, shanti.”
5. Visualize an ocean of peace spreading out in all directions around you—or think of peace as gathering protectingly around you in great, soft clouds. Repeat this breathing process six to twelve times. If, after that, you are still awake, continue watching the breath, calmly, passively. Yogis say that the bed’s head should not point westwards, as this position is said to induce fitful sleep and restless dreams. Point it eastwards, to aid the development of wisdom and southward, to promote longevity.
Never go to sleep with the thought that you are utterly exhausted. Not only will the desperate desire for rest often drive sleep away, but the mental affirmation of exhaustion will be carried into the subconscious mind, and will affect your wakefulness the next day.
Nervousness and Hypertension The two curses of modern times are said to be hypertension and nervousness. Both are essentially mental disorders, but the physical results are far from pleasant - sleeplessness, exhaustion, an inability to digest food properly and other such ailments.
If you suffer from any of these maladies, try the following practices which will contribute to calming your nervous system. 1. The deep breathing described earlier is a must for people suffering from these ailments.
However, the energy that one brings into his body by breathing and by other practices, must be introduced with a consideration for the present state of one’s nerves.
Too much energy could overwhelm an already weakened nervous system. Therefore proceed gradually and remember above all to be calm and relaxed in all your practices.
2. Yoga postures that incorporate deep, slow breathing—Savasana in particular—will be invaluable. But all poses in one way or the other, help calm the nervous system.
3. A healthy diet - particularly fruits and vegetables are important.
4. Of supreme importance is environment, both natural and human. The subtle influences of the city act harmfully on the nervous system, deranging it.
The impurities in the air, the speed of the traffic, the threat to one’s privacy that is felt from the crowds, the heterogeneous vibrations of countless human beings with diverse and conflicting desires and interests - all of these conspire to produce tension.
The countryside, by contrast, with its spiritual environment of harmonious people is a powerful influencer for peace.
5. If one cannot live full-time in a wholesome environment, every effort should be made to surround oneself with spiritually magnetic influences: spiritual music, spiritual books, spiritual thoughts. Shun the company of people who would pull you down from your state of peace.
Do not waste too much time on what guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, used to call “fillers”: television, magazines, radio, etc.
There is no person, no matter how nervous or tense, who cannot overcome this condition to a large extent, even perfectly, with time and patience. The most restless person on earth can become a shining example of peace.
Above all, therefore, try meditating before you go to sleep. Sow in the fertile soil of your sleepland the nourishing seeds of God’s peace.
1. Do a few yoga postures before going to bed. Get the energy in your body flowing smoothly, instead of leaving it gathered and blocked in local knots of tension.
2. Then lie flat on your back in bed. Inhale deeply; tense the whole body, equalizing the flow of energy throughout the body; then throw the breath out and relax. Repeat this exercise two or three times, as you desire.
3. Next, watch the breath mentally for a while, allowing its steady rhythm to soothe you, like the ocean waves stroking the shore on a calm day.
4. After some time, inhale deeply; then exhale slowly and completely, as if with a sigh, and feel that you are surrendering yourself to an infinity of peace. Hold the breath out as long as you comfortably can and repeat mentally, “Aum, peace, peace, amen,” or “Aum, shanti, shanti, shanti.”
5. Visualize an ocean of peace spreading out in all directions around you—or think of peace as gathering protectingly around you in great, soft clouds. Repeat this breathing process six to twelve times. If, after that, you are still awake, continue watching the breath, calmly, passively. Yogis say that the bed’s head should not point westwards, as this position is said to induce fitful sleep and restless dreams. Point it eastwards, to aid the development of wisdom and southward, to promote longevity.
Never go to sleep with the thought that you are utterly exhausted. Not only will the desperate desire for rest often drive sleep away, but the mental affirmation of exhaustion will be carried into the subconscious mind, and will affect your wakefulness the next day.
Nervousness and Hypertension The two curses of modern times are said to be hypertension and nervousness. Both are essentially mental disorders, but the physical results are far from pleasant - sleeplessness, exhaustion, an inability to digest food properly and other such ailments.
If you suffer from any of these maladies, try the following practices which will contribute to calming your nervous system. 1. The deep breathing described earlier is a must for people suffering from these ailments.
However, the energy that one brings into his body by breathing and by other practices, must be introduced with a consideration for the present state of one’s nerves.
Too much energy could overwhelm an already weakened nervous system. Therefore proceed gradually and remember above all to be calm and relaxed in all your practices.
2. Yoga postures that incorporate deep, slow breathing—Savasana in particular—will be invaluable. But all poses in one way or the other, help calm the nervous system.
3. A healthy diet - particularly fruits and vegetables are important.
4. Of supreme importance is environment, both natural and human. The subtle influences of the city act harmfully on the nervous system, deranging it.
The impurities in the air, the speed of the traffic, the threat to one’s privacy that is felt from the crowds, the heterogeneous vibrations of countless human beings with diverse and conflicting desires and interests - all of these conspire to produce tension.
The countryside, by contrast, with its spiritual environment of harmonious people is a powerful influencer for peace.
5. If one cannot live full-time in a wholesome environment, every effort should be made to surround oneself with spiritually magnetic influences: spiritual music, spiritual books, spiritual thoughts. Shun the company of people who would pull you down from your state of peace.
Do not waste too much time on what guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, used to call “fillers”: television, magazines, radio, etc.
There is no person, no matter how nervous or tense, who cannot overcome this condition to a large extent, even perfectly, with time and patience. The most restless person on earth can become a shining example of peace.
Above all, therefore, try meditating before you go to sleep. Sow in the fertile soil of your sleepland the nourishing seeds of God’s peace.
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