The Zen of Sleeping

Well, it’s been a long time since my last post. These past months are great and tough to me, but I discovered new concepts that often makes my heart jumps.

First of all, is what I call, The Zen of Sleeping.

If you read my post “ How to go to sleep easily ? “, I said that sleep is very similar to ocean waves, one passes, other will come. It’s just the matter of time before you can go to sleep effortlessly.

But, what will you do between these waves ?

As I often stated in that post, normally people will try as hard to sleep. But the paradoxical effect takes place, and final result is the sleepless night.

Some days you will notice that it’s hard to go to sleep, other days things turn out like a bliss.

But it’s good to know that whether the sleep comes fast or slow, it’s the matter of your body. You know, the body will decide if it wants to sleep or not.

These days people try hard to accomplish in life, they force the body to function against its will. For example, stay up late, drink too much, or have fast food. Today is the era of “Quick Fix”, of “Band Aid”. People want fast result, and they don’t want to spend months to form new habits.

Even with sleeping, if knowing that good habits play an important role in a good, peaceful sleep, then those sleeping pills can be left alone.

What I want to tell you is, let your body decide whether it wants to sleep or not.

What is your role ? Isn’t the body yours ?

Yes, it’s yours. But stop treating it like some mechanical tool, for God’s sake, treat it like a partner, a close friend, respect it like you did with VIP like US. President or Pope.

Your body is loyal to you. It’ll do whatever you tell it to do. But when you abuse the body, it becomes tired, and started to malfunction.

OK, enough words. Here’s what I suggest you to do when you go to sleep ?

4 things to do for a good sleep

First, turn the lights off. It’s a good idea to stay in the dark. Because lights will stimulate the optical nerves, makes it hard to go to sleep.

Second, no smartphone, laptop or PC in your bedroom. The lights from the screen will irritate the eyes so much.

Third, adjust the temperature in your room, make it comfortable.

Now, I want you to lay on your back, close your eyes, and take slow, deep breath. In this moment, you put the body at rest, and do nothing else but stand aside and watch the body.

Take nice, slow, deep breath. Relax yourself, you just let the body what is is, and behave in its own way.

Now, in your mind, imagine that you’re sitting next to yourself, and watch it breathing.

The most important thing to remember is : Let the body do what it wants, don’t force, but follow the flow.

Just breathe, the most important thing for you to do is breathing, just breathe.

The Zen of Eating: Four Feasts for a healthy life

Take off

Can we practice Zen while eating ? The answer is “ Absolutely yes !”. It might sound really weird doing something like a spiritual ceremony and chewing at the same time. Somebody can see Zen an act of sitting still, closing eyes and try to concentrate. In fact, it’s the basic form of Zen. 

But don’t let the term confuse you, since the ultimate goal of practicing Zen is to achieve the inner peace. So, with that goal in mind, we can have so many kinds of so-called Zen. Aikido, for example, is sometimes called “ The Zen of Moving”.

7 tips of highly effective reader

Readers love quality books. And choosing quality ones is like playing hidden object games since it needs concentration and strategy to pick the appropriate title among the rest. I hereby provide 7 tips which can help you to select your favorite title.

2+ hours a day to improve your English listening skill

This technique can be used for any language, as long as it’s spoken.

I was inspired to write this post after reading The 4-Hour Workweek

Listening skill is often mistakenly considered the hardest skill among speaking, writing and reading. It’s no doubt the most essential skills because languages mean communication. You can’t speak well unless your listening is well.

But, is listening skill that difficult ?

Truth be told. It’s a fun thing to learn, and easy to master. The question is : How ?

How to go to sleep easily ?

( For those are suffering from insomnia, who deserve a good, nice sleep. And for you, Vi, be strong my friend )
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This post has 2 parts :

First, how to fall asleep naturally

Second, I'll provide one technique to cure insomnia. Yes,  no big deal, just one. You might doubt its effectiveness since you’ve been trying countless remedies but none of them seems useful. It's natural.

Believe me, once you try, you'll love it.