Unwinding the Mind Before You Sleep

Unwinding the Mind Before You Sleep

Here’s a way to unload your mind off the day’s events and associations, and relax before you sleep

When you are ready to sleep at night, go backwards through the memories of your day. Don’t start from the morning, start from where you are now, just on the bed. Start with the last thing, and then go back, step by step – right back to the first experience of the morning. Go back and remember continuously, that you are not getting involved.

For example, if someone offended you, see yourself being insulted but remain just a witness. Don’t get involved, don’t get angry. If you do then you are identified, you have missed the point of meditation. That person is not insulting you but the form that was in the incident – and that form has gone. You are just like the river flowing: the forms are flowing. In childhood you had one form, you don’t have that form anymore – that form has gone. You are continuously changing, like the river.

When you get back to the morning as you were just waking up on your bed, you will again have the same fresh mind that you had in the morning. And then you can fall asleep like a small child.

Quotes

Check: Have you learned to see the bigger picture of any event? Or do you react according to your keyhole perception?
The spiritually mature one is sweet within and without. The immature one appears sweet outside but carries bitterness within.
Deepest gratitude to the Guru, for His boundless love, to hold my hand and draw me out of confusion, into the clarity, peace and protection of His grace.
Through the Guru’s wisdom, ignorance is dispelled, the heart is purified and the seeker rises from limitation to liberation.
The Guru is the alchemist of the soul, transforming the base metal of ego into the pure gold of Self-realisation.
Devotion to the Divine keeps your heart free from the disease of desires.
I am the witnessing consciousness, silently observing the ever-changing parade of personalities.
As you enjoy assorted chocolates of varied tastes - from bitter to sweet, enjoy the different people life brings, valuing each one as they are.
In the race for recognition and relevance, many unknowingly trade their peace for pressure.
Just as the nature of sugar is sweetness and of a lemon is sourness, the nature of the world is to be ever-changing—full of dualities.
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Unwinding the Mind Before You Sleep - Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur