sleep architecture is actually less a structure and more a process.

We cannot heal our sleep and dream disorders without first healing our relationship with night.

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

Buddhist philosophy teaches that depression results from excessive activation that is not properly balanced by rest.

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

Half-awake in our sleep and half-asleep in our waking, we are never completely at rest and seldom fully conscious.

insomnia is also a major cause of depression.

This practice is most useful when done about thirty minutes before bed.

rest is an essential prerequisite to healthy sleep and dreams, to natural night consciousness.