How to Sleep Better, Peacefully & Fast
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 5 January 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 21 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Better, Peacefully & Fast. Edited and Adapted from the book The Victorious Attitude by Orison Swett Marden.
Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: We never awake the same exact being as when we went to sleep. We are either better or worse. We changed while we slept. While our senses were wrapped in slumber, the subjective mind was busily at work. It was either building up or tearing down. If we go to bed holding a grudge against a neighbor, with a resolve to "get back" at somebody who has hurt us; if we have hatred or jealousy in our heart; if we are envious of another's success, and if we go to sleep nursing these feelings, we awake in a depressed, exhausted state, feeling bitter, pessimistic, irritable, and unhappy.
The destructive spirit was at work all night, running amuck among the delicate brain and nerve cells, furiously tearing down what beneficent Nature had taken such pains to upbuild. But, when we take pleasant, kindly, loving thoughts to bed with us, we awake refreshed, in a happy, contented frame of mind. Our sleepless faculties spent the hours in upbuilding, performing friendly functions for us during the night.
Few people ever think of preparing the mind for sleep, yet it is even more necessary than it is to prepare the body. Most of us take great pains to put the latter in order; we undress, maybe take a warm bath, perhaps massage the face with lotion; we make sure that our bedroom is properly heated or cooled, and that our bed is clean and comfortable, but to the matter of preparing our minds, we don’t give it a thought.
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| 1:17.5 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book |
| 1:20.8 | The Victorious Attitude by Dr. Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1916. |
| 1:32.3 | Would you not think yourself fortunate to have an assistant of great ability, |
| 1:36.3 | who is available free of charge, day and night, |
| 1:40.3 | and so susceptible to instructions that even your slightest mental suggestion would be faithly |
| 1:47.0 | carried out. |
| 1:49.0 | If you had such an assistant and knew that in spite of their great ability, they would be able |
| 1:55.0 | to do what you suggested only in proportion to your belief in their power to do so, would you not be careful to entertain no doubts of their ability to carry out your wishes or suggestions? |
| 2:07.6 | Now, just substitute for this personal assistant your subconscious self, |
| 2:13.6 | that part of you which is below the threshold of your consciousness, and try to realize that |
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