Aging Gracefully – Why It Is Imperative To Get Enough Sleep!

Sleep is absolutely important if you want to age gracefully and live long as this is the period the body can heal and repair itself while maintaining a strict repair and restructuring program during the course of your lifetime.

After the day’s work and you retire to bed at night, the body goes into a state of calm and rest and before you know it, you start to feel drowsy as a calm settles over you and you start to drift off to sleep.

The Human Body!

At this point, the entire body system enters a sleep state and the body’s metabolism slows down and the heartbeat and breathing pattern maintains their routine as endocrine system and immune system starts to do their thing.

During deep sleep, the body produces greater quantities of estrogen and progesterone," says Dr. Pinski. These boost your skin’s natural repair mechanisms, so you look more radiant when you wake up.

"The hormones also help prevent acne," he says. 

Sometimes the body is too tensed because of the events of the day and at night you find that you can’t seem to be able to sleep no matter how hard you try to calm yourself enough to fall asleep.

How To Relax!

You can try a number of things to help the body relax and function optimally.

One, you can try some soothing bedtime rituals that help you unwind mentally, like drink a mug of hot milk and honey. This is refreshing so it can bring the senses to a calm state.

Two, maybe you are worked up because of stress at the office and the mounting workload that you have been subjected to, you have to leave office affairs at work and come home to home affairs.

In order to create a balance, you must learn to put each in their place and not mix them up, create time for each and do not let one infringe on the other.

Three, maybe some pressing life issues and challenges are bothering you, or have been bothering you for a while now, it will definitely seep into your mental and emotional life and health and create an imbalance.

 

The Mind!

The mind is such a powerful tool that you have been blessed with from the divine source to aid your growth and development in the world.

The mind as indulgent as it usually is has the habit of getting into mental grooves and where it stays like an indulgent child not wanting to let go of a favourite toy.

Theses mental grooves creates the eventual narratives and play that you are so quick to belief and play out as your life’s experiences, without realizing that it’s the work of your mental and emotional grooves.

The mind is so powerful and vast that most people cannot even begin to understand or comprehend the magnificence or the scope of what it can and cannot do or the power structure it wields over the body.

The Play Of The Mind!

Most people begin to identify with their thoughts thinking it’s them and acting out the part like they are the ones doing the deed not realizing that they are just a part in the game of life.

They have played this game and played out the narratives for so long that it has virtually become a habit and a part of you so much so that is ingrained in your subconscious mind and can be changed whenever you want to.  

So many think they are their own thoughts not realizing that there is a power structure which has already been set in place and has always been in control of their actions acting out as them and for which they are held responsible.

Sometimes when certain thoughts come to your mind, are you able to catch yourself in the nick of time to actually query yourself if that is really what you want or intend to do before actually doing the deed.

How It All Ties In!

During sleep and relaxation, the body repairs and restructures and old cells and tissues are destroyed while new ones are built and you have a new system every few years and are able to meet the wind and grind of life.’

When you cannot sleep and relax due to worry, anxiety and stress, then the stress hormones over produces flooding the system and creating an imbalance in the normal functioning of the system and over time, this can lead to ill health, fatal diseases and disorders and even eventually aging so badly and death in the long run.

The sleep mechanism is a very important part of the human system and functioning and shouldn’t be taken lightly.

Remember when you are at peace and have joy and happiness because you bare in your true essence, then sleep and relaxation comes to you easily and you age gracefully.

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In closing, i believe the wisdom below will serve you in life:

“Thank you God, for this beautiful day today. Help me to always see your love reflected in each and every moment, no matter how challenging life may be. Remind me to always look to my heart for the LESSONS and BLESSINGS in life”.

Jean Voice Dart!

 

These words of Inspirations from the enlightened ones will serve you even more:

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”.

Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns, within you is unimaginable beauty”.

Robert Adam

“Don’t you know it yet, it is your light that illuminates the worlds”.

Rumi

“I am the light of the world. You are the light of the world”.

Jesus

“Your heart is the light of the world, don’t cover it with your mind”.

Mooji

 

Taking responsibility and recognizing that we cause all of our core issues is not a reality for most people.

Taking responsibility to see life differently without justification, judgement and blame, rejection or anxiety, fear or anger would really help you in the long run.

Every condition, disease or disorder is a spiritual condition that has come up for review and to be dealt with and taken care of. Once the lesson is truly learnt and absorbed, the conditions or situation reverses itself and clears out and that’s when we say a healing has occurred and a miracle has happened.

Every problem preludes a negative thought and mindset so watch your thoughts and emotions carefully and guard them jealously.

Nothing can stop you if you have the courage, commitment and the discipline to move through your limitations.

‘Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love’

The purpose of life is to discover who you really are, know and create yourself and experience yourself as who you really are (not the body that houses you) as a part of the divine source to give and receive love and serve all creatures of the divine.

As long as you don’t or you refuse to see yourself as a victim then life becomes a challenge that you can overcome with commitment and consistent work and it will pay you back handsomely.

A lesson you avoided in a past life will be forwarded to the current life until you get the lesson right or understood the reason for it. Each time the lesson is more intense, than the last experience until you recognize it.

This is an interactive universe where we all work together in each other’s lessons and life whether we want it or not or whether we are aware of it or not.

Our fears always surface when we least expect it and when it does, its better to face the lesson and conquer it.

You can take back control of your life and drive it the way you would rather want it to be and have things and have things the way you want it to be.

It takes taking responsibility for all the wrongs that have happened in your life because whether you agree or not, you are held responsible for all your:

1. THOUGHTS

2. WORDS

3. ACTION

Nobody wants to listen to your cry of wolf or denial or victim mentality and it won’t take you far except you sit still, take stock of your life and determine and desire to turn it around and that’s where and when the answers or solutions come in.

If and when you are now truly ready to take back control and look out for the patterns and lessons in your life to understand the mind aberrations that are causing your problems and have taken control of your life.

That’s when the creative centers open within and you can finally have the tools to help you change the course of your life and manifest your destiny.

To succeed in life, you must refuse to see yourself as a loser no matter what the prevailing situation or condition might be and you evaluate what you can do to succeed.

The most important qualities are self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence and that you understand that you are entitled to abundance in your life.

You can do anything you want to and be anything you want to, provided you believe that it is possible.

Victims do not hold that belief!

So ask yourself – are you a victim?

Sometimes a little help from a Therapist or Mental Health Consultant like myself and a host of others can help guide you on this journey into an amazing life that is yours and yours only.

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