These days, with so many ‘doom and gloom’ predictions and constant information coming at us, it can be difficult for us to fall asleep easily as our brain can be chronically overloaded, having to update its database just a bit too often and with too much undigested new content to process.
Unless one has lived in a cave these last 20 years, one has definitely felt the mounting pressure from outside information including new rules of behavior we have to take heed of in order to protect ourselves, especially in cities; more new rules to fill the government’s pockets, so that it can begin desperately to diminish the deficit incurred by having given huge funds to save the banks; the disagreement that may well occur in us regarding these measures; the trouble we have understanding how it all works – although we never really will, not being given all the ‘nitty-gritty’ facts etc…
Not to mention organizing and solving our own family issues so that we can be a functioning unit.
Or any other personal problems…
OK, in take a deep breath after all of this and release the tension!
In fact take several deep breaths.
So, if we’re feeling any of these kind of pressure, we’d be well advised to do an activity to break the link between the input and concerns of our outer daily life, the concerns of the world, and our own need of going inwards to reach rest and sleep, otherwise it can become a kind of losing battle inside of us.
Of course, a solution that might help is taking up drinking every night in order to cope. This helps us to let go, sure – but with a real danger of adverse effects on our health. If we’d like to become more self-sufficient, able to live a less dependent, healthier life, we’d better consider something else that we have right within our reach.
So, a solution I’d recommend that we can implement in our daily life is to take up some easy exercise that releases our tension and nourishes our vital energy, not to become dynamic but rather to calm our system.
Such exercise is – ideally and very appropriately – slow movements accompanied by deep, long and slow breathing.
This helps our system – and particularly our brain – to slow down, to become settled within.
Simple and easy qigong exercise steps are ideal to help us for this purpose.