Insomnia - Causes and Cures

Some people may feel they are insomniacs even though they are actually getting enough sleep. This talk was recorded live.

Transcript

Questioner 1 Could you please say something about insomnia?

I've been suffering from insomnia for nearly six years,

So could you give me some feasible instructions?

Insomnia may be occurring for various reasons.

There are some people who are sleeping well but they don't know that they're sleeping well.

There are some people who are not able to sleep well because maybe their body needs a certain amount of rest and they believe it needs more.

So they're just working themselves up.

I've met so many people who are quite okay but they think they're not sleeping enough because doctor's prescription of eight hours they're not sleeping.

They're sleeping only four hours.

They're well,

It's okay.

If you're well,

You're not sleep deprived and you're sleeping three,

Four hours a day,

It's perfectly fine.

That's a good condition to be in.

Or there are people who are unable to sleep because of their psychological situations.

There are certain people who are not able to sleep because of their cellular or genetic situation.

Only if you're like that,

It's a… it's a hard thing to fix,

Which you are not,

Okay?

You are not genetically in that state or in a cellular way.

Your body cells will not allow you to sleep for some reason.

There are many reasons as to why.

So if you're not able to sleep,

I think you should join our garden department.

Entire day,

Ten hours a day you work outside,

You'll fall asleep,

Very.

If that doesn't work,

The simpler ways,

If you get initiated into Shunya meditation,

The Shambhavi should do it.

For most people,

Shambhavi does this.

If it did not work for you,

If you're initiated into Shunya meditation,

You will see it'll correct the sleep disorder if there is a sleep disorder.

You're looking quite fine and happy.

And if you're happy not sleeping,

It's great.

Yes,

Because sleep is death.

Every day people are dying for six hours or eight hours or four hours.

What's your choice?

Less death or more death per day?

Less death is good,

Isn't it?

Only if it's causing health problems,

You're distressed,

Then… See,

If you're going like this at work time,

That your machine is not smooth,

Sleep is a kind of lubrication too for the system.

Not enough sleep means everything becomes friccious within you.

So if such friccious situations are happening,

There are things to do.

One thing is there's Chandra Kund here,

Stay there fifteen,

Twenty minutes every day,

You will see the body will cool down,

It'll be well lubricated and you will see the friccious nature of your mind and body will go.

If that is gone,

How long you sleep is not an issue,

Not at all.

Not every human being needs to sleep for the same period of time,

It's a very wrong notion.

Different people need different levels of sleep.

And one aspect of yoga or one focus of yoga is to how to reduce sleep because sleep is skipping life,

Isn't it?

People say,

I enjoy sleep.

Nobody can enjoy sleep.

You enjoy the restfulness that sleep gives you.

There is no way to enjoy life because in sleep both you and the world are obliterated.

That is if you're really sleeping.

So early morning,

Five-thirty,

You're pretending to sleep,

That may be joy,

That may be a pleasure,

I understand that.

When the bell is ringing,

You are just pretending to sleep,

That's a pleasure.

I cannot deny that.

But when you're really sleeping,

You don't know what it is,

You're not even there.

So you cannot enjoy sleep.

But the result of sleep is something we enjoy.

What sleep does to us in terms of relaxation,

In terms of restfulness,

In terms of regeneration of the system,

That we enjoy.

So if your regeneration is really good,

It may so happen the volume of sleep that you need will come down dramatically.

There is one aspect,

I think the other day somebody was asking me about the pineal gland.

If the pineal secretions increase,

These are.

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This is generally in India is called amruta or the elixir of life.

If amruta begins to flow,

One thing that will happen is sleep will go down because sleep is death.

If on a certain day it flows too much,

You can't sleep at all,

This is a normal thing.

So for whatever reason you're sleeping or not sleeping or not sleeping enough,

If that's a issue,

You check in the morning how you are.

If you're feeling wonderful and you're active through the day,

Forget about sleep.

If you can go without sleep and you're very well,

What's the problem?

Well,

That won't happen right now,

But if it happens,

What is the issue,

I'm asking.

Only if you don't know how to handle life,

You want to sleep twelve hours a day,

Isn't it?

It's a way of escaping.

If you're intending to sleep long without purpose,

In a way it's a suicide.

You need the rest and you sleep,

That's fine,

Body needs rest.

So,

Either garden department or shunya meditation,

One of these things will find solution for you.

Thank you.

Reviews

Thank you 🙏🏼

Very interesting a a different perspective which makes sense

Very informative. Now I have some tools ti help me

As a person who has had insomnia for as long as I can remember this was very helpful. Thank you 😊

Paraphrasing, “We’re not all the same—Not everyone needs 8 hours.” simple. True.

So here we r, worrying about 8 hrs, when we may not even need that much. Staying active, along side meditation, is all u need to get to a restful state. So simple, why didn't I think of that?

Made a lot of sense.

Thank you!

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Informative! Thank you!!

Like his point of view sleep needs.

Thank you. I am okay. I am happy

Many thanks 🙏🏻

Unexpected good news

Funny! So true, I've never thought about it that way. I sleep A LOT!

He amazes me always!!
Thank you Isha.....🙏

Wonderful, helpful, a new perspective Thankyou namaste🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😊😀😀

Thank you very much

Helps release the stress of not sleeping. Thank you.

Awesome perspective. The more I meditate the less hours I have slept lately. Perhaps it is the flow of Amrita that is released is giving me more energy and happiness so don't need this 8 hours so much anymore. Namaste and thank you

Enlightening view on sleep, nice to have a different vantage point.