Most of is never truly relax, even when we sleep! This bedtime routine will enable you to deeply relax and enter deep sleep at your will.
1. Eat your final meal at least four hours before going to bed. An early dinner gives your digestive system a chance to rest over night.
2. Begin your restful routine one-half hour before sleeping, smoothly gearing down from the day's activities.
3. While brushing your teeth, clear your monkey glands so that mucous may not go into your stomach. Do this by gently massaging the back of the tongue with your toothbrush to induce gagging until the mucous plug is released. The most healing toothpowder for brushing, gargling and eliminating toxins is powdered Potassium Alum and sea salt in a 3:1 ratio. The gargling solution's high astringency will relieve congestion caused by bronchitis and can clear the sinuses when inhaled through each nostril.
4. Clean your nose and oil it with almond oil.
5. If you want a deep sleep, you must splash your eyes with cold water.
6. Wash your feet in cold water while giving them a good massage. This is essential! As you massage the feet, detach from the world and tune-in to the cosmos. Rub your feet with a coarse towel to dry.
7. Drink a glass of water. You should never go to bed thirsty.
8. It is best to have your bed aligned east west so as to preserve your electro-magnetic field from being drained by the earth's north south polarities.
9. To release excess tension from the body, bend forward from the waist at a right angle and let the arms hang loosely. Imagine tension dripping out your fingertips into the earth.
10. Lie in bed on your belly and do Long Deep Breathing, relaxing your body. If you are feeling particularly restless, you can eliminate anxiety and induce sleepiness by lying with a fist of your two hands directly beneath the navel. The pressure should hurt a little but feel good. Allow your body to relax around it.
11. When you gain a little stage of sleep from lying on your belly, roll over onto your right side and continue to breathe deeply. Laying on your right side puts pressure on your ribcage that triggers left nostril breathing. Left nostril breathing puts you into your brain's right hemisphere and feels soothing and expansive. Once you are in your left nostril you will avoid REM sleep and restless tossing and dreaming, making deep sleep effortless.
12. Come lying on your back. Feel that your head is upon God's lap and softly enter a blissful deep sleep to regain your health.
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