Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening

Taking twenty or thirty minutes to gradually slip into sleep after the lights go out is perfectly natural and healthy.

Sleep is not a place that we can intentionally access.

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

But the fact that millions of people become anxious about falling asleep at night too easily obscures the fact that they were probably anxious to begin with.

Too often we believe we are obtaining deep and restorative sleep when, in fact, we are simply knocked out by medications, substances, or the backlash of sleep deprivation.

Common methods of rest include meditation, prayer, and yoga. Or just sitting.

Just as light and darkness peacefully coexist in the form of dusk, sleepiness and wakefulness can peacefully coexist in our dusky consciousness.

when Edison said, “Let there be even more light,” he appropriated it from night.

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.