Insomnia: The Different Kinds & A Few Solutions

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Insomnia: The Different Kinds & A Few Solutions

Could you please say something about insomnia? I’ve been suffering insomnia for nearly 6 years, so could you give me some feasible instructions?

Insomnia may be occurring for various reasons. I see … okay. There are some people who are sleeping well, but they don’t know that they’re sleeping well. There’s some people who are not able to sleep well because maybe they’re body needs a certain amount of rest and they believe it needs more. They’re just working themselves up. I’ve met so many people who are quite okay, but they think they’re not sleeping enough because doctor’s prescription of 8 hours they’re not sleeping. They’re sleeping only four hours. They’re well. It’s okay. If you are well, you’re not sleep deprived and you’re sleeping 3, 4 hours a day, it’s perfectly fine. That’s a good condition to be in. Or there are people who are unable to sleep because of their psychological situations. There are certain people who are not able to sleep because of their cellular or genetic situation. Only if you’re like that, it’s a hard thing to fix, which you are not. Okay. You are not genetically in that state or in a cellular way. You’re body cells will not allow you to sleep for some reason. There are many reasons as to why, so if you’re not able to sleep I think you should join our garden department.

Entire day, 10 hours a day you work outside. You’ll fall asleep. Very. If that doesn’t work, the simpler way is if you get initiated into some form of meditation, the person should do it. For most people, he does this. If it did not work for you, if you’re initiated into some form of meditation, you will see it correct the sleep disorder if there is a sleep disorder. You’re looking quite fine and happy. If you’re happy not sleeping, it’s great. Yes because sleep is death. Everyday people are dying for six hours or eight hours or four hours. What’s your choice? Less death or more death per day? Less death is good, isn’t it? Only if it’s causing health problems, you’re distressed then … If you’re going like this at work time. That you’re machine is not smooth. Sleep is kind of lubrication to for the system, not enough sleep means everything becomes frictious with you. If you’ve had frictious situations that are happening, there things to do. One thing is the Chadrakund here. Stay there 15, 20 minutes everyday. You will see the body will cool down.

It’ll be well lubricated and you will see the frictious nature of your mind and body will do. If that is gone, how long you sleep is not a issue. Not at all. Not every human beings needs to sleep for the same period of time. Its a very wrong notion. Different people need different levels of sleep. One aspect of yoga or one focus of yoga is how to reduce sleep because sleep is skipping life, isn’t it? People say, “I enjoy sleep.” Nobody can enjoy sleep. You enjoy the restfulness that sleep gives you. There’s no way to enjoy life because in sleep both you and the world are obliterated. That is if you’re really sleeping. Early morning, 5:30 you’re pretending to sleep. That may be joy. That might be a pleasure. I understand that. When the bell is ringing, you are just pretending to sleep. That’s a pleasure. I cannot deny that, but when you’re really sleeping you don’t know what it is. You’re not even there. You cannot enjoy sleep, but the result of sleep is something we enjoy. What sleep does to us, in terms of relaxation. In terms of restfulness. In terms of regeneration of the system.

That we enjoy. If you’re regeneration is really good, it may so happen the volume of sleep that you need will come down dramatically. That is one aspect. I think the other day somebody was asking me about the pineal gland. If the pineal secretions increase, these is generally in India is called the Elixir of Life. If it begins to flow, one thing that’ll happen is sleep will go down because sleep is death. If on a certain day it flows too much, you can’t sleep at all. This is a normal thing. For whatever reason you’re sleeping or not sleeping enough, if that’s an issue. You check in the morning how you are. If you’re feeling wonderful and you’re active through the day, forget about sleep. If you can go without sleep and you’re very well what’s the problem? Well, that won’t happen right now, but if it happens what is the issue I’m asking? Only if you don’t know how to handle life, you want to sleep 12 hours a day. It’s a way of escaping. If you’re intending to sleep long without purpose, in a way it’s a suicide. You need the rest and your sleep. That’s fine.

Body needs rest, so either garden department seeks meditation. One of these things will find solution for you.