The Strange Thing About Going To Sleep

One of the challenges is to achieve a conscious state that makes sleep inevitable, while at the same time avoiding having awareness of it happening.

My BLIS™ technique turns taking sleep into an active process. A simple active process that takes attention way from drifting off, while at the same time making it inevitable. It’s a bit like the observation that Woody Allen made about dying. He said he didn’t mind it happening as long as he wasn’t there at the time.

Think of the problem this way: if we did have an infallible sleep switch available to us, would we use it?

Would we really want to flip a switch that turned us from being aware and in control, to a state of having no awareness and a total loss of control? This would be like being aware of all the sensations during fainting - a very scary prospect!

The technique I’ve created for you does two things: It makes it much more likely that you will go to sleep by employing an active process (i.e. it's something you do rather than passively waiting for sleep to come), and at the same time it distracts you from the sensation of going to sleep, which would keep you awake!

After some practice you'll develop the confidence that sleep will happen while you're not ‘there’ (i.e. when you're not concentrating on getting to sleep). That's worth the price of admission alone! I've shown that an active mental state is not a barrier to sleep, and paradoxically, such an active process can lead to the ‘gaps’ between thoughts that Buddhists spend years trying to achieve. If this sounds intriguing, then buy the e-book now, or if you prefer a hard copy you can buy the Paperback edition here.

 

 

ISBN: 978-0-473-77013-6

US$19.95 (PDF eBook) - 107 pages

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