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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.

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Do not merely recharge during meditation; stay charged with self awareness throughout the day.
When obstacles arise, do not brood or blame. Rise above them and forge ahead toward your goal.
In his words lies the essence of every scripture, yet spoken so gently that no one's faith is ever wounded.
The path of Bhakti is the simplest of all. Through devotion, even the intellectually limited and the spiritually weak can reach the ultimate destination.
Let wisdom triumph over ignorance on the battlefield of the intellect.
One day, a single choice appears: is it Him, or the world? What you truly treasure is revealed in that one/decisive moment.
Satsang and meditation are a spiritual spa for the weary soul.
Pay attention to the true Self beyond your thoughts, not the false image you have created and mistaken for yourself.
Eat with gratitude, live with moderation and always remember the purpose of life beyond the body's physical demands.
In obeying the ajna, the disciple is like a lion; but in fearing to displease the Guru, he is timid as a rabbit. Such is the disciple's own paradox.
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