Day 76: I Look Like a Bobble Head Thing-A-Ma-Jig

I am happy to say that I am a lot more alive and well today. Last night I was looking more like a bobble-head as I tried my hardest to keep my eyeballs open long enough to put coherent sentences together. Didn't really work all that well though. Apparently I do have limitations.

I received an interesting message yesterday from a reader of mine who has been following my sleep plight and sent me a link to something called a "sleep calculator" (http://sleepyti.me/). Being desperate to get a good night’s sleep these days, I am thinking…what have I got to lose!?

 So I checked it out and apparently our body runs on "sleep cycles" which run in 90 minute intervals...meaning that every 90 minutes we restart a new sleep cycle. And it so happens that this magical sleep timer actually calculates when you should wakeup given the time you go to bed. Brilliant! It also explains why I always have my best sleep at 3, 6 and 9 hours of rest and if I have anything in between I feel like poo.

What’s more is that it takes us approximately 14 minutes to actually fall asleep. So if you are like me and planning your sleep schedule now, remember to tack on that extra little bit. This also explains why cat naps shouldn't be more that 15min either, and why you end up feeling groggy when you do.

I am sure you know by now that I am quite the curious monkey. I like to learn, explore and educate myself on new things, and I usually do so hands on because that’s the way I learn best. So being the curious monkey that I am, I went ahead and tried the sleep calculator suggestion last night. And to my surprise it worked. I actually ended up waking up naturally after only three sleep cycles though, then back to sleep again for the fourth...which still equals my six hours. For optimum sleep results I should be doing 5-6 sleep cycles per night which is either 7.5 or 9 hours of sleep. So now that I got the first six hours under my belt, I am going to try for an hour & a half more which would bring me to five sleep cycles, and then see how I do.

*crossing fingers*

Before I continue sharing with you though, I just want to add this disclaimer: I am not Woo-Woo. I don’t like Woo-Woo, and it creeps me out for reasons I won’t share so as not to offend anyone. With that said though, since I have been doing all this “clearing out” stuff, I have been having some interesting things happen to me over the last while that I just can’t explain. Some of it trippy, some of it down right fascinating.

So here is what I have noticed. It appears as though the more balanced I become in my sleep and nutrition and everything else, the more my clients benefit too. It has become apparent to me that the more I work on me, the more present and clear I become which has translated into a higher volume of client spiritual awakenings or experiences. Personally, this thrills me to no end because this is what I have been looking to create all along and it means that I am on the right track.

Now before you say, “Girrrl, what are you smoking?”…I SWEAR to you that I am not on any sort of illegal drug. I have never actually done them, EVER. Living in BC, I feel like one of the Last Mohicans. I don’t smoke, I rarely drink, and I don’t even take Tylenol or Advil for goodness sakes! The one and only time I ever took a drug was in 2006 when I was prescribed a painkiller for a pretty severe injury I had. I only ever took one pill and tossed the rest out after they made me totally body-numb and vegged out so much I couldn’t get up off the floor, couldn’t move my arms to wipe the drool from my face, and couldn’t even call out to my brother to help me. So I sat there against my bed until the fuzzy brain left and I could move again…which seemed like a really long time. Needless to say I don’t like drugs. And before you ask, no I can’t get you some of those either!  ;o)

So yes, back to my original point - I promise you that I am normal and perfectly sane…whatever that is supposed to mean.