You Need Sleep Or Rest

How can I increase my hours of sleep

How can I improve my sleep quality?

The body requirement is rest, not asleep; sleep is not a requirement in one’s life. Sleep is just one form of rest.

A lot of people are beginning to think if somebody says, ‘He is resting,’ means they’re sleeping. We need the rest of the brain, muscles, nerves, hormones, and heart.

You can sit and rest, isn’t it? You can stand and also rest.

There are many ways of resting.

The most important thing is rest means you’re changing the energy equation.

Where consumption is lowered, production is going on at the same pace. So after a period of time, you feel rejuvenated because consumption has been lowered. Essentially you’re managing the energy equation.

If you’re on acute activity, the consumption is more; whatever you’re producing it’s not enough, after some time you feel exhausted because the consumption has been heavy.

If you lower the consumption and increase the production, after some time you feel energized. Suppose you’re running, if you run a mile, after that you can’t take another step, let’s say. forty, forty-two kilometers, all right, whenever after a mile or two you can’t take another step, don’t eat anything, don’t drink anything,

just sit down for ten minutes, again you’re fine, rejuvenated, isn’t it? All you have done is lowered the consumption, production is still at the same level.

So now there are ways to lower the consumption and increase productivity also. So if you come to a certain state of ease.

When I say easy, it’s not something that most people will ever understand because most people are not at ease.

If you’re at total ease, if the system is at total ease, everything is at ease; it is well-rested, always it is rested.

Because it’s so rested throughout the day if you sleep in the afternoon, do you see you can’t sleep much in the night? you’re already experimenting?

If you sleep in the afternoon you can’t sleep much in the night unless you’re sick or you’re very tired because of something, because it’s well-rested in the day, it can’t sleep in the night. So you don’t have to necessarily sleep.

If you sit here also, if your body is resting, you will see your sleep quota will naturally shrink.

How to increase the quality of sleep? Don’t try to increase the quality of sleep. The ideal way to live is there is no sleep in my life, but that’s not possible right now, still, the body has some inertia, so it sleeps minimum, the rest of the time it is at ease. If you keep this at ease then sleep does not occur to the body unless it comes to a certain point of exhaustion. So the body is never ever asking for sleep

but it is definitely asking for rest. If you do not know how to sit here in a restful manner, If you can sit here totally at ease, it’ll sit here for hours without falling asleep. Otherwise, this is the only way it knows how to rest.

So do not try to increase the quality of sleep, there’s no such thing. Just learn to keep your body restful and at ease, consciously. If you sit here now, one simple thing you can do is, you sit down, you come and sit down here,

Just move your attention from the top of your head, down to your toes, and see if everything is lost and easy and relaxed and at ease are you sitting like this?

If you sit, just bring this to ease as much as you can.

Not everything is in your conscious level as much as you can, consciously bring it to ease. You will see suddenly if you are the kind who will fall asleep at ten o’clock, if you simply, one hour if you sit here at ease, you will see your sleep will get postponed by half-an-hour, you won’t feel sleepy at ten, naturally you are awake. So instead of trying to increase the sleep quality no, you increase the quality of life. If you increase the quality of life, when I say increasing the quality of life, nothing in your life, whatever you may be doing, from simple breathing to any complex activity that you do in your life, the quality of that will not improve if you cannot do it with ease.

Is that so? Only when you can do something with total ease, Let’s say you’re riding a bicycle,

if you’re riding like this, like this, you can’t say you’re enjoying your cycling. If you can ride it with ease, with so much ease that even if you take off your hands, it’ll go only straight, the way you want it to go, you are at ease.

Because you’re at ease, the quality of your cycling has improved, isn’t it? So these two things are connected.

So if you enhance the quality of your life, naturally sleep quota will go down. If the quality of your life goes bad,

you can’t do anything with ease, then also you cannot sleep. But stressfully you cannot sleep, not because you’re well-rested you cannot sleep, you cannot sleep because you’re stressed out. If you do this, you will not live long.

If you… if your body does not get enough rest, it will die,

it will break something will go. If you’re not at ease, that means you are in dis-ease, you’re heading there.

You are in dis-ease means you’re in a certain state of ill-health. But if we say you’re deceased.

That means you’re dead. So don’t move in the direction of dis-ease, move into the direction of ease. If you become totally ease, sleep quality sleep will come down. Quality of sleep will be good because the

quality of life is good. You want to increase only the quality of your sleep, life does not work like that.

If you wake up well in the morning, you’ll also sleep well in the night.