Sleepless Nights and Spirituality

I have heard nowadays lot of people complaining about their sleepless nights…!  If I ask them reasons, the answers are Stress, work and thoughts which are ‘on’ continuously in mind.

Have you ever heard the person on spiritual path ever complained about their sleep..! I bet you won’t find so easily.  The reason is only their peaceful mind.   According to the research, the people with sleep deprivation feel more irritable, angry and hostile.  The sleep deprivation enhances the negative mood due to increase in activity of brain experiencing anger and rage and decrease in regulating these emotions…!  so in order for you to activate your brain to increase the positive mood and experience the fresh air outside with all the positive energy.. one need to have a really Good night sleep.  But question is in this world how to get the Good night Sleep?

Let us go to the root cause of these Sleepless nights..?  Those are because of continuously Active MIND.  The thoughts are keep on coming and going and coming and going!  In a one more research it is discovered that the Stress people take in these days and equal to the ‘Life threat’ for a brain to react.  Because brain is structured in a way to react immediately by releasing some chemicals when the person is in Life threat..! So that, those chemicals should pass the signal to other body parts to ‘Run’ in order to save the life.  The day to day stress is doing that work now… and brain is responding accordingly.  But you know that the continuous releasing of these chemical are harmful for the overall health giving sleepless nights!

If one can manage to have thoughtless mind, S/he can achieve the Good night sleep!  This is the real example of ME.  I had gone through the sleepless night with irritations and anger, even crying in the middle of night, begging for sleep!!  But all these scenes are memory now since I started following spiritual path..!  One thing I learned through discourses from our Master which gave me so much peace since then that is to keep watching your mind. 

Our Master always tells us a story.  You are at home and it’s dark.  One thief is entering your home and start stealing things in your house.  You noticed him and slowly switch on the light.  What will happen?  Do you think that the thief will continue to steal even after you are watching him in the light..?  No… right? He will throw all the things and run away…!  Exactly, the same trick can be applied on the Mind.  What is Mind… nothing but the flow of thoughts.  When thoughts are coming and giving you tension… just focus your complete attention on those thoughts…! Just keep watching them without getting involved with those thoughts..!  You will experience, within few minutes, you are feeling so better that suddenly something stopped which was terribly noisy.  You will notice that the so called Mind Chattering is stopped.  This moment will give you something good and positive feeling which is nothing but the Energy called PEACE OF MIND.  Now more often you will do above exercise, you will accumulate more Good energy… and it will become your habit and routine.  And who will not got Good night Sleep in PEACE…?  This is the practical solution to be applied.  Me and many of our fellow friends have applied and living happy peaceful life.  Apply them and experience. Good Sleep is like the Daily Tonic for your Health! 

Spirituality is not the ‘ritual’, it has the ‘SPI’ in the beginning which means ‘S’ for Science, ‘P’ for Psychology and ‘I’ for Intelligence… It’s a perfect combination of these 3 powers which one should apply in a life like a ‘Ritual’… which will make you SPIRITUAL.