Morning, evening, during the day or some practical observations
The main ideas from the chapter are:
Evening routine: falling asleep peacefully is key. The author tries to go to sleep peacefully, replaying positive experiences of the day and using mental techniques such as imagining a pleasant movie to fall asleep.
Morning routine: In the morning, it is important to maintain the inner well-being from the evening. The author tries to open not only the eyes, but also the mind, and expect positive things, because expectation affects reality.
Daily Affirmations: During the day, the author uses affirmations that resonate with his feelings and create well-being. An example is the idea that he lives in a friendly and loving universe.
Approach to work: The author tries to approach work with a calm and relaxed attitude, much like a vacation, in order to enjoy it.
Reality vs. Ideal: The author describes his challenging work situation and emphasizes that his advice is not divorced from reality. Still, he tries to apply his insights for a happier life.
Daydreaming: the author warns against daydreaming during the day because it distracts from reality. The important thing is to quickly return to the present by using affirmations.
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They say that tomorrow will be better, but when I wake up in the morning, it’s already today again 🙂 To avoid this disillusionment, I use a few tricks. Would you like to hear or read them? 😉
I dare to say that everything starts in the evening. I see the morning only as a consequence of the evening „programming“. So I try to go to sleep as quietly as possible (I know, it’s hard sometimes – that’s why I write that I’m trying :D). I lie down in a slightly different position (I like to be more under my head initially) than I will subsequently sleep. I try to go through my day and even though I don’t like this kind of pushing myself into the positive etc., I remind myself and realize all the good things I experienced (of course evaluated by my eyes…which other eyes, right? :D) and also what I „accomplished“, what I „did“.
The final trick to falling asleep is to put on a „movie“ in my mind that I find enjoyable. Either I literally play some „saved“, remembered one (see chapter above) or I imagine my own – with emphasis on positive feelings. It is indifferent that now, when I share it with you, it will seem a bit embarrassing…I am simply attracted by telekinesis, i.e. moving objects only with my mind, and so I quite often imagine that I have this ability and tell about it and prove it, for example, on the Jan Kraus Show (childish, I know – but it works…i.e. falling asleep…telekinesis no and no : D)…and suddenly some nonsense starts to come in and I find myself falling asleep. So I move to the lying position, in which I will sleep and immediately fall asleep. I have noticed that if I „think“ and even more so in the falling asleep position, it will be difficult to change anything = this is what I call it (to the amusement of those around me), that first I „sit“ and then I lie down…although an unbiased observer would find it difficult to look for the proverbial ten differences, I admit it 😀
Morning is often and also for many people more complicated to „practice“ anything, because at least for me it looks more like exhumation than getting up 😀 and so I personally would not bet much on the morning, in the sense that I can get a lot done and so on. So it’s more about not spoiling that well set and tuned inner well-being from the evening with some morning ritual, I mean I try to open my eyes in the morning (who would expect that, right? :D), but also in a spiritual sense. That is, to be ready to observe the new things that await me that day. Because when we wake up, somehow deep down we expect it to be worth the price of admission, or at least that it will be as useless as yesterday = we create our own day. So I try to expect amazing things, because in truth = NOTHING IS the EXACT SAME, NOTHING IS REPEATED = these are just SIMILAR situations and we spoil them by expecting the same. Even brushing your teeth is not 2x exactly the same, just very similar – don’t you agree? So, sometimes, when I remember, I accompany the opening of my eyes and deep inner peace with a movement of my hand and fingers…a kind of emphasizing gesture…
Well, during the day – when the „software is fully up and running“ I try to find and especially several times a day to say words that resonate in me, that create comfort (okay, so affirmations, but I don’t see it that way = I don’t think about it, I feel it, so I don’t really focus on words, but on the feelings that „bubble up“ in me). For me, for example, it’s the aforementioned = I live in the arms of a friendly, loving and cherished Universe. And then maybe also „vacation“ or success and abundance. You know, that vacation is actually a strange thing. Maybe almost all of us have good feelings about it (at least beforehand :D). For myself, I have observed, and of course I am not forcing it on you, that what is so pleasant and beneficial is just that peace, quiet, no rush – yet we get an admirable amount of activities done on vacation and even experience fatigue at times, but we describe it as pleasant. So I call myself „holiday“ even when I go to work = it’s also an activity, but I want to enjoy it in peace and quiet…
And for the benefit of any wanderers = I am definitely not living in a fairy tale and out of reality at the moment. So in my case, the objection of = you’re bullshitting, but I have to work! I am writing this book at a time when, due to the situation on the labour market and due to my specialisation and financial commitments etc. (no need, at least I think, to elaborate more), I work as a public transport driver, so I get up quite often at three in the morning, sometimes I drive until 02:30. And I am in a stressful and frustrating environment of public transport (traffic jams, anger, rudeness, roughness and thanks to TPCA the density as in rush hour in Prague but in our smaller city, people don’t know how to drive in it)… In short – the idyll looks different 😉 And speaking of pikers = I’m definitely not complaining, I’m just describing a situation in which I’m trying to apply my observations in order to live an ideally happy life… Believe me or not – your decision…
It’s been quite a long time since I wrote these lines, and since I’ve been „working on myself“ for years, I’ve made quite a bit of progress – hence this expanded version in the end… So I’ll add a few more insights, as is my habit, and since I want to address affirmations in a separate chapter, I’ll put it right after this one…
What I describe above can also be described, albeit just before falling asleep, as „daydreaming“. When falling asleep and during sleep it is an important part of psychohygiene but during the day it is not good, it takes us out of reality or distracts us from reality.
For me, coming back from a dream is terribly important. I’d be living it for an awfully long time otherwise, and that’s why I need the affirmations – so not so much to override the negations as to turn off the dream and get into the present as quickly as possible.
The ideal state is to fall asleep slowly as well as wake up slowly…to roll over and slowly get rid of that connection to some other world. The shock of the alarm clock threatens daydreaming…but as I say – it’s an ideal state, not normal or common, unfortunately…