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

Let kindness extend beyond humans to every creature that shares this world with us.
Surrender of the intellect means: use your mind to carry out the ajna, not to argue against it — even when the ajna defies all logic
Gandhiji never raised his fist nor his voice—he raised a nation. He showed that true strength does not shout; it simply keeps moving forward.
Places of solitude, pilgrimage, and worship are meant to encourage you to seek the divinity within.
As delusion fades, ‘I am the body’ softens into ‘The body is mine’, then into ‘It is only an association’, and finally the body is seen simply as an object of knowledge.
A healthy heart is free from the blockages of ego, insistence, hurt and hate.
Every now and then, check the purpose of your spiritual practices. Losing sight of the goal leaves you weak and less alert on the path.
Dharma means staying calm and cheerful in all circumstances - good and bad.
Ageless and awakened, abundant in grace,This Enlightened Existence no era can erase.Celebrate, with love and reverence,This pure and boundless luminescence
He came for us—the Timeless for the bound, the Free to liberate the lost. With deepest gratitude, celebrate this Enlightened Existence that walks the earth to take us beyond.
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