To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/01/04 01:24
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: Surging energy
From: Magdalene Meretrix
On 2002/01/04 01:24, Magdalene Meretrix posted thus to the K-list:
At 06:09 AM 1/4/02 -0000, antoinecarre wrote:
>There is also this rush to go to sleep that is been programmed in
>one. Why is it important to fall asleep?
I never ended up getting that programming and it was terribly difficult to
live in a society that runs on a regular schedule with a 24-hour day when
my body's natural circadian rhythm is much longer than 24 hours. Speaking
as someone whose body has lived on a "swing shift" since early childhood,
it is important to fall asleep because most people have regular jobs on a
regular schedule and cannot function on their job if their body won't let
them sleep during the time they have scheduled to sleep.
I got around that problem by constructing a life where I am able to allow
my body to set the rhythms, but it took years of dedication to that end and
willingness to spend extended portions of my life living with an income
that was below the official poverty line. Even though I now have a
lifestyle where I can sleep and wake when my body tells me it's time to
sleep and wake, I've not forgotten how difficult life can be when you have
to be at work at eight a.m. and your body still hasn't allowed you to sleep
when six a.m. rolls around.
Children can play and sing and do whatever they want instead of sleeping
because they are living in the moment. That child that lies in bed, singing
to herself all night, may be filled with spiritual bliss, but it won't be a
pretty moment when morning comes and she has to get up because it's time
for school or mother has to run errands. As adults, living in the moment
and spending our nights singing and playing means that we will either miss
work or drag ourselves in to work feeling crummy and exhausted.
This is something I've wondered about the philosophy of living in the
moment and "Be Here Now." While I treasure the times when I'm able to truly
live just in the moment, I don't treasure the times when I'm working twice
as hard to survive because living in the moment borrowed from the future to
pay the present. This has been my effort: to find a balance between living
only in the moment and living only in the future. In this sort of balance,
falling asleep the night before I must do something of value in the morning
becomes a matter of knowing that sleep is what I must do but also knowing
that fretting about the coming day will be one of the least likely actions
to induce slumber.
For me, the balance is achieved through spending the night meditiating. Lay
in the bed in corpse pose and meditate. You'll either end up falling asleep
in the middle of meditation or you'll spend the night meditating and the
morning after won't be quite so exhausting and anxious as it would have if
you'd spent the night putting together puzzles or playing or worrying or
reading.
Agape,
Magdalene
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