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| Without the proper
sleep, you would literally go insane. This friends, is
a proven fact. In order for the critical core of the mind
to sort, filter, assimilate and then vent the unusable
or outdated information that we encounter in our daily
lives, sleep is necessary. For more information on how
the mind works, click the logo at the top left of this
page and take a guided tour of how your mind works. In
this section available to you, tools for coping with and
analyzing your dreams, helping
you with getting to sleep and resting peacefully. |
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| If you are anything
like me, and I am a very busy person; when I finally lay
down to sleep at night, I sometimes find my mind running
the lists of things that still have to be accomplished.
I am sure you have heard the old adage to "count
sheep." Well that is not actually a bad idea. The
concept is to take your mind off the daily chores of life
and to focus on letting go. |
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| First, make yourself
very comfortable, take several deep breaths and let them
out audibly. Then starting at your toes, tense the muscles
and hold the tension for 5 seconds counting to yourself.
Then release the tension in the muscles and move up the
body tightening, holding, and releasing each group. |
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| Many times,
we are not aware of the tension that we are holding
in our bodies so it is important to notice and learn
when you are tense and where. |
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| The critical
core of the mind opens as we drift into sleep and
the sounds, words or suggestions that we hear can
become a belief in our minds even if we don't want
them to. Have you ever went to sleep in front of
the television and awoke the next morning singing
a commercial? |
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Dreams occur in 3 stages of
the night; the first stage is the sorting stage and produces
wishful thinking dreams. The second stage occurs in the
middle of the night and produces precognitive dreams.
This is when the subconscious is trying to predict all
the things that could happen in the future. The subconscious
mind does this based on the information it has received
in the last 24 hours, your past, and your beliefs. The
third stage of sleep occurs just as we are waking up in
the morning, or at the end of the sleep cycle. This stage
is called the venting stage; during this stage, the critical
core is finished sorting, and attaching beliefs to already
existing similar beliefs and it is disposing of the information
that is of no use to you. |
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