If you do not understand racism (white supremacy) and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you. - Neely Fuller

We need something to clarify everything for us, because we get confused...but if we use the concept of Asili, we will understand that whatever it is they are doing, whatever terms they use, however they come at you, you need to be thinking about what? How is this going to facilitate their power and help them to dominate me? -Marimba Ani

Monday, January 5, 2015

Overcome Insomnia | Write Things Down Before Laying Down
Unity Consciousness #81

The waking mind operates best when using short-term memory to its maximum capacity. Short-term memory in the brain is the same as a computer cache. This cache contains information pertaining to what is currently going on and for what is frequently used. Short-term memory provides quicker access to information needed for current activities.

When we are awake, we put as much as possible into short-term memory to carry out tasks and thoughts. Once we go to sleep, this information in short-term memory is no longer being used because our activity level is greatly reduced.

The sleeping mind operates best when using long-term memory to its maximum capacity.

However, when the body ecosystem is not operating efficiently, the brain's processors in each cell will still be trying to process information in short-term memory as long as there is information in short-term memory.

This is not normal. The inability to sleep is not normal. Insomnia is not normal. We must return to the fundamentals in order to overcome insomnia.

Sleep Mode & Waking Mode Contradiction

When a mind that is supposed to be in sleep mode (using long-term memory) is processing information from waking mode (short-term memory), this has much to do with why we can't sleep. The body has switched over and is trying to get rest but the mind has not switched over and is still processing information from waking mode.

What we experienced today or what we need to do tomorrow is not supposed to interfere with what we need to do right now – sleep.

Restless sleep is the mind trying to get the body to do waking activity when the body is trying to do sleeping activity. Movements are being imposed upon the body trying to sleep by a mind that can't sleep. The mind is forcing the body to do what the mind is thinking about. The body is resisting. Mind and body are out of sync and fighting each other. This is unhealthy because body-mind rhythm is way off.

Temporary Fix: Write Things Down

If we are having trouble sleeping due to having too much on our minds, the first thing we can do is write things down before laying down. Writing things down cleans out the cache of short-term memory. Once the short-term memory is cleaned out, the mind will look into short-term memory but won't find anything. As a result, the mind will then switch to using long-term memory. This is a manual way to get our minds to switch into sleep mode if this is not happening automatically.

Writing things down safely removes information from short-term memory and transfers it to paper. The paper becomes the memory where the information is safely stored. We don't have to “worry” about losing it or forgetting it. The information is readily and easily available the next day and can once again be uploaded into short-term memory by reading the list and referring to it throughout the day.

In order to overcome insomnia we should completely clean out short-term memory. We should write down anything and everything on our minds, not just in brief, but at length until we have run out of thoughts and questions to write down. Organize thoughts in a notebook with one topic per several pages. This way, there won't be as much to write the next day, just updates.

Writing things down is a temporary fix. In a healthy functioning bodily ecosystem, the mind automatically switches over from waking mode to sleep mode. The mind automatically stops processing information in short-term memory and starts processing information in long-term memory. This occurs without the need to clear out short-term memory.

Permanent Fix: The Body's Ecosystem

In order to get the body's ecosystem functioning properly, we must not only get sufficient rest. We must get sufficient nutrition and avoid toxins in order to overcome insomnia naturally, thus permanenty.

Sufficient Rest

Sufficient rest is determined by the body ecosystem's daily guidance on how much is needed. The body ecosystem always lets us know when to rest, sleep and wake up.

Sufficient rest allows the body ecosystem to rejuvenate itself. The rejuvenation process includes daily system maintenance and repairs. Deeper and more sufficient sleep allows for deeper and more thorough system maintenance.

What Else Happens During Sleep

During sleep, growth occurs. Not getting enough sleep stunts growth in every way.

During sleep, deeper processing of information occurs. Information in long-term memory can be used to help us with what we are currently doing and thinking about. During sleep is when additional information is communicated by our Ancestors and through dreams.

During waking hours, all the bits and pieces of information used can become separated into fragments. Sleep is when defragmentation occurs.* Related information is moved around and grouped appropriately. This helps minimize contradictions in the short-term and eliminate contradictions in the long-term because all the information is right there and easier to compare. Without a doubt, if we have long-term contradictions, we do not have a properly functioning body ecosystem. We are not getting sufficient rest, sleep and/or nutrition and way too much toxins. This is a recipe for contradictions and insomnia. In fact, insomnia is the result of a contradiction as explained above.

An Additional Way To Switch To Sleep Mode

Do not believe the falsehoods about eating late or before going to bed.** Eating automatically causes the body to divert energy to the digestion process which induces a lethargic sleepy feeling. Resting or sleeping after eating is natural, normal, healthy and suggested.

As a result, a possible sequence to overcome insomnia could be: eat, write things down, lay down, sleep, wake up naturally, read what has been written down.

Without sleep we are predisposed to self-defeat.

Brain-Mind-Spirit Computer Comparisons

*Sleep is for maintenance and repair of the body and defragmentation of the genetic material in every cell. If you have a sleep problem you will have a health problem and a logic problem. If you are one of those people who proudly believes you don't need that much sleep, you will have a health problem and a logic problem.
An individual example from a society perspective: Just as it was with 911, America had all the information but was not able to put it together to make necessary decisions. The society functions using fragmented logic because the society never rests from all of its devious behaviors worldwide. So also, a person can have all the information needed but can't put it together due to the lack of sleep and rest as aggravating factors preventing the coming together and proper sequencing of logic.

**This doesn't mean eat more than the body ecosystem requires. It does not mean eat anything. It means adjust eating to a later time and eat what is nutritious. It means eating lighter earlier and heavier later or half earlier and half later. The net effect on weight gain is not negatively impacted by eating closer to bedtime. Health is positively impacted when sleep improves.