--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom T writes: > It is my experience that one can have complete awareness of > surroundings during sleep. The only problemo is that of complete and > utter boredom. It is like watching the old Test Pattern on TV which > used to be on most of the night. After so many nights of the same > bedroom and the same bed it is all the same, all the same. After a > while one just shuts it down. Deep sleep is preferable to total > boredom. Spend weeks, months and years being aware of your intimate > surroundings and see how long before you shut it down. TOm > **** The boredom can be avoided by starting actively in the deep restful meditative state to pay attention to one's energies. You just observe if a tiny little feeling of anxiety or some tension can be recognized somewhere in the body. Almost always it is the case at least for me. Then I let my attention just rest on the felt anxiety or tension. Often gradually the sensation starts to change its character, and finally fear or some other heavy emotion emerges. At that point it is important to draw the attention away from the object of one's fear and instead focus on feeling the fear itself and where it could be located in the body. This way not a minute is boring. The only problem is that sometimes the hullabaloo can get too intense. Deep breathing can be helpful then. If even that doesn't help, I have gradually figured out some other means to control and work through the situation. I need maybe 4 hours deep sleep a night; the rest of the time goes on like this mostly. I spend in bed about 9 hours. Only occasionally I sleep normally the whole night. I feel equally good on the daytime both ways, but I very much prefer the processing because a lot of healing happens that way. When I do this processing during the nights I may feel I'm fully awake, but that's not actually the case. If I go in between the processing to the loo, often only the other eye opens up. The other half feels to be calmly sleeping during the whole loo visit. Irmeli ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
