--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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 >
Or just ask in - an innocent way to MahaLaksmi - to experience bliss instead of boredom. I can guarentee it will work. OffWORLD. ------------------------ 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/
