Sleep

From Health direct – When you are asleep, your eyes are closed, most of your muscles are relaxed and your consciousness is practically suspended. While your body is mostly still, your brain is quite active. Your body’s circadian rhythm (or, internal biological ‘clock’) control when you feel sleepy and when you’re typically awake. If this system is disrupted — such as due to shift work or  jet lag — you can experience sleep problems.

Sleep has 2 main phases: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep

When you are in non-REM sleep, you go through 4 stages. During stage 1, you are transitioning between being awake and asleep, and wake easily. During stages 2, 3 and 4, your eye movements stop, your body temperature drops and you are deeply asleep.

That is the clinical description of sleep. If you have ever slept, you may think that is a little simplistic while sounding complex. We do need to sleep – we know that. The Ascended Masters also say that 2 hours of sleep before midnight is equivalent to 4 hours of sleep after midnight. As Shakespeare says  “Sleep also perchance to dream”. When you are sleeping your dreams seem real and if you get wounded in a dream you feel the pain when you wake up. I remember when I was younger and it was the morning I was serving as an altar boy at the local church.

I remember being chased by someone , not sure who or what but i was hit with a knife in the lower part of my leg. I woke – the feeling in that part of my leg was sort of hurting but looking at it there was nothing there. Reading various books, I discovered that there was a whole world during sleep that we were unaware of. We now know that we can go to the retreats of the Ascended Masters while we sleep. In my earlier years in the Teachings, I remembered attending classes of some sort while I slept.

So there is obviously something going on while we are sleeping and nowadays I don’t tend to remember much after I have awoken. Still, it is good to seep as a newborn child. A similar rest can occur if you relax enough in a yoga posture known as yoga nidra. It is a deep relaxation. At yoga class I fell asleep.

Some times you are so tired that it is hard to stay awake, well that probably means you should go to sleep. You can try this if you wish – turn to your I AM Presence and say “Father/Mighty I AM Presence, give me your perfect sleep”. I used to take some melatonin to help me sleep but lately I have been saying that every now and again about 1/2 an hour before sleep and sometimes as I’m reading and it works.

Sanat Kumara Discourse : Your conscious action and determination to sit in darkness for meditation or for manifestation is your choice. God, Nature, has provided the condition of night in order to give the bodies of mankind quiet and rest, so that the Reality of the individual could go out from the body, gather the energy and bring it back in the morning, to give the necessary strength and activity to the body to go on for the natural span of Life. That is a provision by Nature to maintain the balance of energy in the physical body.”