Sleeping with Pleasant Thoughts

Many people lie down to sleep as the camels lie down in the desert, with their packs still on their backs. They do not know how to lay down their burdens, and their minds go on working a large part of the night. If you are linked to worry during the night, it would be a good plan to have a reminder that you would unstring your mind so that it will not lose its springing power upon waking up.

The Indian knows enough to unstring his bow just as soon as he uses it so that it will not lose is resilience. If an individual who works hard all day long uses his brain a large part of the time, and in doing his work over and over again, he gets up in the morning weary, jaded. Instead of having a clear, vigorous brain capable of powerfully focusing his mind, he approaches his work with all standards low and down.

Is it the up most importance to stop the grinding process in the brain at night and to keep from wearing life away and wasting one's precious vitality? Many people become slaves to night worry. People get into a chronic habit of thinking especially at bedtime of contemplating their troubles and trials, making it a very difficult habit to break.

It is fundamental to sound health to make a rule never to discuss business troubles and things that vex and irritate at night, especially just before going to bed, for whatever is dominant in the mind when we fall asleep. This continues on the nervous structure long into the night as e sleep. Some people age more at night than during the daytime, when, it would appear, if they must worry at all, the reverse ought to be true. When hard at work during the day we don't have much time to think of our ailments, business troubles or misfortunes. But when we go to bed, the whole brood of troubling thoughts and wry ghosts fills our mind with horrors. We grow older instead of younger, as we would under the influence of a sound, refreshing sleep.

It does not pay to indulge in violent temper, corroding thoughts, mental discord in any form. Life is too short and too precious to spend any part of it in such unprofitable, soul-racking business. The imagination is particularly active at night, and all unpleasant, disagreeable things seem a great deal worse then than in the day, because in the silence and darkness our imagination magnifies everything. We all are guilty of dreaming of the days events on into evening experiences, thus making the imagination a terrible thing to waste.