I don't mean brush your teeth and change into your nice blue pyjamas with the little white sheep on.
I mean what do you do in your head?
Do you think about anything specific? The next day? The day you've just got through?
Or do you tap into an incredibly powerful part of you and set it to work, so that it gets the whole night to work on things for you so when you wake up you have answers to questions you asked?
I bet you'd like to know how to do that wouldn't you?
Well, the good news is, it's simple, so easy, even I can do it!
Ok, I'll tell you ? here's the secret.
When you go to sleep at night, it is only your conscious mind that sleeps. Your sub-conscious mind keeps on working. If it went to sleep, you'd have a few problems as it controls important things like your breathing and heart! So naturally, it keeps working and is ?awake? all night long.
Now your sub-conscious mind just happens to be rather good at processing information and connecting random dots to make works of art.
So when you go to sleep, focus your mind on the things that are bothering you and ask your sub-conscious mind to help.
Naturally, I decided I was going to experiment with this on myself and see what it would do. For a number of weeks I used to say this to myself every single night when I put my head on the pillow, before I went to sleep.
?I ask my sub-conscious mind to work on all of my issues and challenges in life and replace them with positive, empowering programs.?
I did this for a couple of days and to be honest, I didn't really feel much.
I decided to keep it up because I was curious what would happen if I did and if it really would be effective.
Anyway, about day 3 or 4 I started to feel a bit perkier than normal. I found myself feeling a bit more positive, more bouncy and I started to do things that I had been putting off for ages (and by ages, I mean months!).
I didn't really think anything of it, but kept my experiment up. About a week after I started I was feeling really good and very bouncy and full of life.
Again, I thought nothing of it, not connecting my pre-bedtime intention with this change.
Then one day a friend happened to ask me if I'd been taking happy pills because I was annoyingly positive and then it hit me.
Every night for the last ten days or so I had been setting this intention and gradually I had been feeling better and better. It wasn't a massive change all of a sudden, just a series of small changes.
I smiled at my friend and jumped around very excitedly sharing with her what I had been doing and the results it was having for me.
Of course, she was really excited and has been doing exactly the same every night since and is still shocked by how such a little thing is having such a big difference.
So, when you go to sleep at night as you set your alarm clock, set your intention too, and wake up and feel the difference!
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Could the loss of sleep be destroying the endocrine clock that controls weight gain? Could how much you sleep really control your appetite? This may shock you. Yes. The prescription for better health is sleep, and it's free.
"Lights Out: Sleep Sugar and Survival," a popular book by T.S. Wiley, tells us there is simply WAY too much light in our society today. People don't sleep enough anymore. The urgent need to sleep is also the cause of many diseases of aging.
The answer lies in the circadian rhythmicity and evolution. This rhythm is about a 24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of all living beings (animals, plants, fungi and cyanobacteria.). The term "circadian" was coined by Franz Halberg, and it means "around", and dies, "day", meaning literally "about a day." Chronobiology is the formal study of daily, weekly, seasonal and annual rhythms. Circadian rhythms are can be modulated by external cues such as the sun (dawn and dusk) and temperature.
Almost every woman in her 40's has trouble sleeping at night, thanks to hormonal changes. It happens in peri-menopause but the truth is, these women never really sleep well for the rest of their lives.
There are answers. You can take chewable Melatonin tablets that are available at Trader Joe's. Let several of them melt in your mouth an hour prior to bedtime. (Take one for every hour after dark before midnight, with seasonal light changes.You can also try Tylenol PM as a last resort. Or take a walk at dawn and dusk, whihc will help to reset your internal clock to sleep better.
If you can help it, do not let pets or kids wake you up during the middle of the night. Make sure your bedroom is dark. That means lights out. No moonlight or lamp post lights through the window. No computer screens or TVs. All clocks with lights need to face the wall. Plus you won't have to get up and go to the bathroom during the night if you stop drinking liquid beverages at 6PM.
Get a minimum of nine hours of sleep or more every night. Let your bedroom be your anti-aging clinic. Try it, and your family and friends might just ask you who your plastic surgeon is.
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