0Many people complain that they are unable to sleep in the night and the doctor says it as insomnia problem. They depend on sleeping drugs and becomes an addiction which further complicates their health.
Sleep is supposed to happen automatically when the body energy is exhausted due to our actions (physical work) in the outer world and not because of our will. Every day we go through three states, and they are Waking state, Dream state and Deep sleep. The more the time we spend in deep sleep state greater will be our physical health.
In a deep sleep state, there are no thoughts but in waking state and dream state thoughts are there. In the dream state, we cannot convert the idea into thinking (logical), meaning the dream is not in our control, and we go along with the vision and experience as it happens.
Thoughts are not a problem for our sleep. Thinking alone is the enemy, makes the ideas powerful and will delay our rest. We need not worry about the thoughts (whether wanted or unwanted, good or bad) occurring to us when we are lying down in the bed, and they will get balanced on their own.
Avoid thinking while lying down in the bed. Whatever happened in the past may arise again in the form of thoughts. Thinking results in giving life to past incidents and creates conflicts within us.
We can make use of thoughts about past incidents into thinking during actions to be performed in the outer world but not in bed. Action related thinking helps us, as an experience to perform our future actions in a better way.
As an example, someone cheated money from us, and when we see that person, the thought raises which can be converted into thinking so that we can become cautious now.
But we should not run our office in bed and must dismiss all our external activities. Then, sleep will be natural.
When in bed, if any new or good (positive thought) idea comes and if you make it as thinking, then your sleep will be disturbed.
Some people get unwanted negative thoughts like
“Will my business fail?
“Will, my family members, suddenly fall sick?” etc.
No need to convert them into positive thoughts; It is enough if we consider these thoughts as natural.
Positive thought and negative thought are required for us to perform any action. Both accelerator and brake are needed for driving a car properly. Accelerator is equivalent to positive thoughts, and Brake is equal to negative thoughts. Imagine if you drive the car without a brake.
If a businessman has only positive thoughts such as his business will fetch only profits and not losses, then he will be investing colossal amount, and any unexpected loss will destroy the whole carrier. Any company has its ups and downs, and the external world is not under our control.
If he had a negative thought, a small suspicion about possible losses in his business, he would have been more careful. He would have invested whatever is necessary with appropriate precautions. All our thoughts are psychological. There is no need to classify them as positive and negative. Thoughts about possible losses in business is indeed not a negative thought. In reality, it is a positive thought because it helps to regulate
the investments in our business in a positive way.
Thoughts such as – “How to get rid of negative thoughts? How do you have only positive thoughts?” are negative.
These thinking instead of focusing on external actions forces us to look back within ourselves where we have no work at all.
While walking the torch (thoughts) should be used to focus on the path (external) and not on our eyes (internal).
We can examine a thought, whether it is required for an external action or not during other times but not in the bed. As far as our psychological system is concerned, all thoughts are just thoughts. There is no need to classify them as positive or negative, good or bad, and take responsibility to refine them. By categorising the idea, you are not choosing to suffer, Choosing is suffering. So there is no need to either hold on or drive away any thought.
We can classify thinking as good or bad and superior or inferior and necessary or unnecessary, beneficial or non-beneficial etc. according to their use in the external world depends on the actions, they are being used for.
Thoughts are natural, so trying to take them under our control is ignorance. We should give complete freedom to all kinds of ideas and allow them to appear and disappear on their own.
Have you watched the children that they do not hold any thought and convert them into thinking and they are pleased? Remember, we were also children once upon a time.
Choosing these thoughts by allowing some ideas and rejecting some others alone is wrong. We should understand this simple difference between what is thought and what is thinking.
Note: Please read my article "Stop WORRYing and Start Living" for better understanding.
Conclusion
If you free the thoughts, YOU are also free and LIBERATED.
