How to Sleep Deep & Well
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 940 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Deep & Well. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is a great art to be able to shut the gates of the mind on retiring to bed, to control oneself, to put oneself in tune with the Infinite, in sympathy with those about you, and in harmony with the world; to expel from the mind everything which jars or irritates (all malice, envy, and jealousy, the enemies of our peace and happiness) before you go to sleep.
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| 0:45.4 | Today's inspirational podcast has been edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1909. |
| 1:00.8 | However troubled you have been during the day, do not go to sleep until you have restored your mental harmony, |
| 1:09.5 | until your faculties are poised and your mind serene. |
| 1:15.6 | Scientists tell us that our mental activity when going to bed continues far into the night. |
| 1:22.6 | These mental impressions just before going to sleep, the thoughts that dominate the mind, |
| 1:29.8 | continue to exercise influence long after we become unconscious. |
| 1:34.9 | We are told, too, that wrinkles and other signs of age are formed as readily during sleep as when |
| 1:41.3 | awake, indicating that the way the mind is set when falling asleep |
| 1:46.0 | has a powerful influence on the body. Many people cut off the best years of their lives |
| 1:53.5 | by the continuation in their sleep of the wearing and tearing influences that have been operating |
| 2:00.1 | upon them during the day. |
| 2:03.6 | Millions of professional men and women are so active during the day |
| 2:07.6 | live such strenuous unnatural lives that they cannot stop thinking after they retire for the night |
| 2:14.6 | and sleep is thus driven away, or only induced after complete mental |
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