Practice simply being more aware of your inner reactions—both thoughts and feelings—to your need for rest.

sleep itself is a spiritual path, dreaming a means of walking this path, and awakening its gracious gift.

sit with your eyes closed and allow whatever emotions you discover to simply wash over you.

think about the basic energetic tempo of people you affiliate with and how that affects the tempo of your life.

Your aim is to get a sampling of your thoughts, which, like a blood sample, is not meant to collect it all. Next, read what you have written, looking for any emotion embedded in these thoughts.

Never check the time when you are unable to sleep.

looked upon as disordered sleep.

our reluctance to deal directly with our essential fear of darkness is the major impediment to our rapprochement with night, sleep, and dreams. Accessing the healing power of night requires that we engage in shadow work. And we will get dirty. Healing

when emotions are not adequately processed, they become a source of psychological heat.