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If sleep won't come without the old off-switch, rest still counts. Sleep is relearning to arrive on its own. It does relearn.
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GROUND · VII

Lesson 7 of LII · the GROUND course
The idea behind this card — Sleep without the off-switch

If sleep won't come without the old off-switch, rest still counts. Sleep is relearning to arrive on its own. It does relearn.

GROUND — The healing body and the immediate day

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The practice

if sleep won't come after twenty minutes, stop chasing it. Lie in the dark and count breaths to ten, then start over. Announce it: rest counts. The relearning runs on its own schedule, not on will.

Where this idea comes from

  • Behavioral sleep medicine — sleep effort paradox

More in this deck

FEEL · VII  ·  REMEMBER · VII  ·  TEND · VII

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