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  • Sadhguru: You can incubate a lot of either  negative things or positive things in sleep.  

  • This is getting too easy, just sleeping sadhana.  

  • So, coming awake to an alarm bell with a sudden  start is not the best way to do your life

  • How many of you find that one day morning  when you get up without any reason,  

  • you're just feeling uglyfor no reason?

  • If it is happening even at least two, three times a year,   

  • if it is then you must do certain things  before you go to bed; it's very, very important.  

  • Because unconsciously, you need to understand this,

  • you can incubate a lot of either negative things or positive things in sleep.

  • Either pleasantness or unpleasantnessyou can incubate very effectively uninterrupted in sleep.

  • You can also incubate it in the daybut there are so many interruptions, it doesn't happen very efficiently.

  • But if you have a tendency to go to bed in a certain way and wake up in the morning really nasty,  

  • for simply no reason, that means you're incubating  things in the night very efficientlybad eggs.  

  • This is not just about psychological disturbancesit can cause major physiological problems over a period of time.

  • This is important that you eliminate these things from your life

  • So, before you go to bed in the night, there are certain things that you need to take care of.  

  • It's best if you're eating meat and other kinds of meals, you eat at least three to four hours before you go to bed.

  • The digestion is over before going to bed. Drink a certain amount of water and go to bed.

  • You will see it gets taken care of just like this.

  • One simple thing can be, just a showeralways to shower before go to bed; it will make a lot of difference.  

  • In this weather, maybe cold showers are difficultso you go for lukewarm showers.

  • Don't go for hot showers in the night; go for lukewarm showers

  • It makes you alert, so you will think, “Oh, I cannot sleep.”

  • It doesn't matter, you will sleep fifteen, twenty minutes or half an hour later,  

  • but you will sleep better because it will  take away certain things.

  • When you shower it is not just the dirt on the skin that you're taking away.

  • Have you noticedif you're very tense and anxious, whateverjust a shower

  • you came out and feels like almost a burden has been taken away from you?

  • Have you not noticed this?

  • So, it's not just about washing the skin; a whole lot of things happen when water flows over your body.

  • This shower is a very rudimentary Bhuta Shuddhi.  

  • Because over seventy percent of your body is actually water.

  • If you run water over it, a certain purification happens, which is beyond cleaning the skin.

  • One more thing if you want to do, you just light an organic oil lamp, a cotton wick, some oil, anything.

  • What do you use hereNormal cooking oil, linseed oil, rice bran oil or sesame oil, what do you have

  • Participants: Olive oil. Sadhguru: Olive oil, fine.

  • Any organic oil with the cotton wick, just burn one little lamp somewhere in the room where you sleep,  

  • you will see these things will completely disappear.

  • If you can bring in a chant or there are nightly practicesyogic practices before you go to bed,

  • sit on your bed and do this practice.

  • Do you know in aboutif you live for about sixty years, you're

  • on an average most human beings are eating anywhere between 1100 to 1400 tons of food?

  • So that means even what you think is my body is not this.

  • It's changing every day; new input is happening and old things are going away.  

  • So 1400 tons, you don't have... carry that much of weight right now.

  • So obviously what you have as a body right now, is just a transient amount of food and soil isn't it? Hello

  • Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, what you think is mine also is not it?

  • It is just all the time changing.

  • Tonightbefore you go to bed, spend at least twelvefifteen minutes reminding yourself:

  • you're neither this body, nor this mind.

  • Just lie down and just remind yourself, this body is not really you.

  • It is mine right now for use, but it's not really me.

  • Justif you're not able to do it, just link it to your breath:

  • inhalation, I'm not the body; exhalation, I'm not even the mind.

  • Just lie down for twelve minutes and do it till the last moment, till you fall asleep.

  • This is something you must notice.

Sadhguru: You can incubate a lot of either  negative things or positive things in sleep.  

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