I stepped outside for a walk at 5:00am after morning meditation and found it was about 70 degrees. \u00a0The air felt nice and chilly, a relief from the humid 90 degree days we’ve been having. \u00a0l took a walk around the property and then an hour’s nap in the chaise out under the oaks. I love sleeping outside in nature, it really regenerates my body. \u00a0Then I raced inside to go to bed for another couple of hours before it became fully daylight.\u00a06:00-8:00am is the best sleep I get.<\/p>\n
If I can keep myself in an alpha state after meditation and trick the cells of my body into thinking it’s still dark, I get\u00a0a better sleep. \u00a0If I get up and turn lights on and music or tv or eat or start checking email and voice mail, I can forget about that extra 2 hours’ sleep. \u00a0I’ve been working on my sleep schedule to allow myself more social time with friends. \u00a0The last 20 years, my sleeping time has been between the hours of \u00a04:00 and 9:00pm. \u00a0From 10:00pm until 2-3:00am I do\u00a0my phone sessions for my psychic reading practice<\/a>. \u00a0During the day, I do the Horizons Magazine<\/a> work. \u00a0In my free time, I work on several projects with friends.<\/p>\n For the most part, social events fall during the time I have to be sleeping in order to work overnight. \u00a0I’ve learned I can occasionally skip that sleep segment, but not often. \u00a0When I get off my sleep schedule, that’s when I enter that tired and wired stage. \u00a0Body tired and mind wound up with thoughts. \u00a0Usually 20 minutes of a conscious wind down routine: yoga, breathing,\u00a0decompression in the silence, will relax me into sleep. \u00a0But if I’ve allowed myself to get to the tired and wired stage, I don’t always let that work. \u00a0My unconscious resistance keeps me teetering on the tightrope of here and there, awake yet not alert, body tired but restless and wanting to move.<\/p>\n If I can lose the head trip that usually accompanies the tired and wired stage, the I-know-better-I-should-just-sleep-and-stop-whining loop of thoughts, the I-need-to-walk-my-talk thoughts, if I\u00a0can become the observer of the One who is tired and wired, who is head tripping, then I can relax into the Now and remember what I know and sleep always instantly follows.<\/p>\n So when I get that under control, I find myself with more time for friends. \u00a0When I make more time for friends, I find I need less decompression at the end of each day.<\/p>\n Restful sleep and increasing melatonin levels naturally<\/a> LISTEN FREE<\/span>: Sleepytime Recharge<\/a><\/p>\n
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