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good sleep management

There are many factors which contribute to good sleep. They include the following:

1. Be a good-hearted person. Only a good-hearted person is blessed with sound sleep. Those, who lead a morally loose and dishonest life, gets the first, quick punishment in the form of lack of inner peace and lack of sound sleep.
2. Always maintain a positive attitude. The more positive our attitude is, the better the quality of our life becomes and also, the more sound our sleep becomes. A negative attitude reduces not only our inner peace, energy and motivation level, but it also reduces the quality of our sleep.
3. Work hard. Work hard during waking time so that your body and mind are fully exhausted when you go to sleep. The harder you work, the deeper and more relaxing sleep you get. This is one of many sweet rewards of labor – playing hard during play time is included in the notion of labor.
4. Sleep only when you can fall asleep within 5 minutes of lying on bed. This is indispensable for a good quality sleep. Going to bed before we feel real sleepiness (5-minutes at max on bed before one falls asleep is the real test for knowing the time when one feels real sleepiness), is a direct route to unsound and shallow sleep. If one can’t fall asleep even after 5 minutes of sleep, know well that you have gone to bed before you should go: in such case, make sure, you go to bed later next-day.
5. Don’t over-sleep for even a single day. Over-sleeping on one night reduces the quality of freshness and energy-level of body-mind on next day: apart from that, it also reduces the quality of sleep next night. So, ensure to neither over-sleep nor under-sleep. How to find out your optimum amount of daily sleep need is given in next section titled “When and how much to sleep?”. Not even in the worst possible attack of laziness, over-sleep by more than 30-45 minutes extra over your optimum amount of daily sleep need, otherwise your day (and next night’s sleep) will get ruined due to lack of freshness and high-energy in body and mind.
6. Avoid watching movies & other videos within few hours before sleep. lots of dream will occur to you due to effect of movies & other videos, which will make your sleep shallow and disturbed. Otherwise
7. Avoid watching images & reading anything on emotionally sensitive issues: likewise, avoid emotionally sensitive debates within few hours before sleep. Otherwise lots of subconscious thinking on these matters will happen throughout that night’s sleep and will make your sleep shallow and disturbed.
8. Avoid having nerve-exciting foods & drinks within few hours before sleep. Such foods & drinks include coffee, tea, etc. They make it harder to fall asleep and even if you fall asleep, the nervous and mental excitation produced by these foods makes it hard for our nervous system and mind to repose in full rest during sleep.
9. Doing thoughtless awareness exercises, reading emotionally soothing and inspiring literature and listening to soothing instrumental and other soft-music before going to sleep are always helpful in inducing sound sleep. Due to this reason, if you are not able to fall asleep within 5 minutes of lying on bed, just get out of the bed and get involved in these activities for few minutes to induce drowsiness – and of course, remember to go to bed next night later than when you went tonight
10. Sleep after putting off light or using a very dim light, because bright light stimulates our body-mind system and makes our sleep shallow.

11. Sleep on left side preferably. The main reason behind this is: when we sleep on left side, breath-flow becomes nt in right nostril, which, in turn, helps in digestion process. The other reason is: for entire body and particularly for organs like heart and digestive system, sleeping on left-side is more comfortable and more suitable for proper functioning.
    

12. Sleep with head in East or South direction. Since in general, our bed is aligned either along East-West or North-South direction, this rule is very simple to follow. Sleeping with head in East is better than sleeping with head in West due to 2 factors: (a)the earth rotates on its axis from West to East. This induces subtle advantage by giving more rest and vitality to inner energy-field of body. (b) Since the earth rotates on its axis from West to East, the sun (source of vital energy for all life-forms) rises in the East – so, there is more vitality in East direction at night, with which our entire inner energy-field gets recharged. Sleeping with head in South is better than sleeping with head in North. This is because there is a magnetic field along our spine whose North Pole is in head and South Pole is in the lowermost part of spine. So, if we sleep with head in South, the North Pole of our spine’s magnetic field is attracted towards the South Pole of Earth and South Pole of our spine’s magnetic field is attracted towards the North Pole of Earth, thus increasing the vital energy in our body-mind. But, if we sleep with head in North, the repulsion between magnetic field in our spine and Earth’s magnetic field will make our sleep shallow and disturbed. These things are part of yoga-literature: modern science is yet to verify them. So, please forget this rule if you find these reasoning scientifically not convincing enough. I am including this because yoga has known many secrets about body and mind thousands of years before modern science could grasp them: but, feel free to accept or reject this rule

time management

To avoid huge ups and huge downs in life, we have only once choice: combine goal-driven self-discipline with self-discipline driven by firm habit of good time-management. Once we do so, we will find that when the goals that we pursue are interesting and inspiring enough for us, we will produce excellent or exceptional results and when the goals are not that interesting and inspiring enough, even then we will be able to produce good or excellent results by sheer power of firm habit of good time-management. Thus, we will be able to realize our true potential to a satisfactory extent.

mark twain said..........

Dance like nobody`s watching; love like you`ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody`s listening; live like it`s heaven on earth.

Since beginning, I have been a worshipper of heroism, a lover of valor, the worshipper of courage, the worshipper of a love, which can meet any challenge head-on without hesitation or fear, the worshipper of that martial spirit which knows not how to bow to cowardice and fear, to tyranny and injustice, whatever price it has to pay.

In this journey of heroism, I got inspired by many heroes starting from Bhagat Singh, Azad, Bismil, Khudiram, Subhas Chandra Bose to Vivekananda, Gandhi & Osho. Every hero taught me something which was unique and uplifting. A synthesis of their collective influences is present in me to an exceptionally deep extent.

Of late, Rajneesh’s teachings guided much of my thinking and insights, much of my own values & principles. My first interaction with Rajneesh’s teachings was in class 11, when I read one of his books ‘Bharat – Kucch Jalte Prasna” (India – Some burning questions), in which he talked with exceptional clarity about the shortcomings of Indian culture, like deeply ingrained political unconsciousness and selfishness in Indians – a stupid conditioning that politics is something which is not for good people and a stupid conditioning of each one for him/herself, either for his/her salvation or his/her materialistic desires – an utter lack of collective consciousness, unity and organization among Indians for millenium. A culture of cowardice and fatalism.

These words may not be relished by many people, who might think otherwise about Indian culture. But, I do agree with him on these points.

By reading his first book itself, I realized his words were fire, which will alter the thinking of many people permanently. In 10 pages of that book, he described that political unconsciousness is part of India’s heritage. India was never a nation in true sense, but a crowd of people living just for themselves and their families. Of course, eventually, in other books, he talked about a world without any nation and described the barbarous insanity of humanity, using sometimes the mask of nationalism, sometimes the mask of religion, sometimes the mask of communism and all kind of ideologies, to hide the blood-thirsty wolves present in them, to find ideological rationalizations to mask their bloody, barbaric behaviour.

He consistently asked people to cultivate awareness (pragya) and compassion (karuna), to become a light unto yourself. He has tremendous insights into the human psychology and prescribed that meditation (thoughtless awareness) only can save the humanity from misery and agonies created by its own habitual barbarism and madness.

He talked about respecting and promoting individual’s freedom by recognizing that every individual is unique (nature never does produce exactly same two individuals) and needs sufficient freedom and space to flower in a way which suits him/her the most and allows him/her to contribute to existence in his/her own unique way.

He talked about bringing a revolution which will promote political consciousness across the globe so that people with high consciousness feel encouraged to join the political stream, in order to use the vast powers of politics for upliftment of humanity.

He talked about destroying caste-system from India – to undo the foolishness of old generations who practised & perpetuated caste-system as if it is something which is divine, instead of being ugly – the blood-sucking parasites and barbarians of India, the priests and kings who were most cunning, mean and crooked, became so-called high caste and common man was deprived of all avenues for religious and secular education, reduced to the status of animals and eventually India lost all her shine and vitality, becoming a slave of all and sundry for thousands of years.

The women have always been treated as second-class citizens not only in other parts of the world, but in this country of Sitas and Madalasa also, in this country of Buddhas and Mahaviras also. The religious of women through sati and religious prostitution through dev-dasi, have been promoted in India by these parasite priests for thousands of years: what a barbarism! And yet, these parasites, who were worse than animals on plane of consciousness, dared to call themselves brahmins, which means, one who is established in the highest level of consciousness. A day will come when caste will get totally uprooted from India – that will be the most proper justice to those who were suppressed under the tyranny of caste-system and the most proper respect to true brahmins (enlightened sages) of India.

Rajneesh’s vision is a world where one is first and foremost a human being, where humanity is our first and foremost identity and no other identity, which degrades our humanity and stands as walls between us, will be allowed to exist in this world. He gave a clarion call to reject all labels, which divides us.

He called upon us to undo the injustices of past meted to women. His first sannyasin was a woman and he did it deliberately, as a redressal of huge injustices meted to womankind. To undo the dark heritage of humanity, where women were mere property of husband rather an individual being, deserving all respect and freedom that every individual being deserves. To undo the dark culture of this country, where females were burnt alive on funeral pyres after their husbands’ and husbands were allowed to marry again after their wives’ . To redress the wrongs of this country, where a widow’s life was a curse for even their so-called own family members, their own brothers and sister-in-laws and widowers used to merrily marry again with gleeful consent of families. To remove the dark, barbarism of female foeticide. To remove that barbarism, which makes people dance, sing and beat drums when a male child is born and make them depressed and frustrated when a female child is born. To destroy the cultural and religious disease among mentally retarded people which make them feel that their progeny can be sustained only through a male child and not through a female child, which make them think, that only by begetting a male child, they are going to get salvation and happiness in the hereafter. To create a world where there is such a gender equality that no sister feels it a curse to be born as a female. To create a world, where everyone, whether male or female, develops both positive masculine qualities of firmness, decisiveness, determination, courage and assertiveness as well as develop positive feminine qualities of softness, patience, compassion and lovingness and thus become a complete human being.

His vision is to unite East and West, Male and Female qualities in both individuals and institutions. His vision is to unite Science and Spirituality, to unite Sannyasin with the world.

Many parts of his vision will be carried out by Sarvodaya Mission and Sarvodaya Sannyasa.

Let us read his thoughts and learn from them. We may reject whatever our own intelligence and moral principles, born out of our own awareness, commands us to reject in his/her teachings and accept whatever own intelligence and moral principles, born out of our own awareness, commands us to accept. He himself believed and practised this with respect to all thinkers and sages of the past and he himself promoted this spirit of independent thinking. And this is what everyone must do – follow one’s own intelligence and awareness, wherever it leads ourselves to, with full readiness to learn from one’s own and others’ experiences as well as readiness to gladly accept the challenges and sacrifices that this courageous way of living would entail upon us.

I am glad that in the long and arduous journey of this movement, many of us will be able to find highly uplifting and accurate guidance and inspiration from Rajneesh.

Warm regards,

Anil

said dalai lama

The more we truly desire to benefit others, the more strength and confidence we develop and the deeper the peace and happiness we experience