Sleep as Spiritual Necessity

Sleep as Spiritual Necessity August 3, 2013
Sleep. Sleep. Sleeep.
Sleep is the best meditation – Dalai Lama
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep – E. Joseph Cossman
I.
Sleeping is like hitting the reset button. People die without sleep.
It can make us maniacal and cut off our connection to spirit to be without sleep.
Are you afraid of missing something—if you sleep…? Is it something you are afraid you didn’t do or didn’t get to do? And yet…what part of our spiritual practice is suffering as a result of not sleeping…?
There is a billboard that states, you can sleep when you’re dead. Yet, the truth is you might die a lot faster if you don’t sleep. 
This blog topic will be coming to you in two parts. This month I want to present some research gleaned rather informally from the web on why sleep is important.
II.
A few facts to get us going:
Sleep is a spiritual practice. Not getting it will disrupt any other spiritual practices—including prayer—that you attempt.
The Society for Women’s Health Research, details how women are 1.4 times more likely to report insomnia than men, and that, in general, sleep problems plague women more than men. Not getting sleep is one more thing women don’t get enough of. We can add it to equal pay, equal representation and now…equal sleep—things we want from Women’s Liberation.
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