Living Reiki by Melissa Tipton

Author:Melissa Tipton
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: CVR04022018;living reiki;reiki;what is reiki;using reiki;energy healing;personal healing;healing with reiki;how to heal with reiki;how to use reiki;using reiki for healing;melissa tipton;energy work;energy healing;how to heal yourself
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-11-28T14:42:40+00:00

Restorative Sleep

When I first discovered the ten divine powers, I wondered why there were two forms of sleep but none of the other powers are so obviously paired. A couple days after posing this question, the following passage from The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington stopped me in my tracks:

Pre-industrial sleep differed from our own not just in the reverence attached to it but in the nature of sleep itself. In most cultures, sleep wasn’t the uninterrupted stretch of time it is now. Throughout most of human history, night was divided into two separate periods of sleep, known as segmented sleep. One of the earliest references to this practice of segmented sleep is in The Odyssey, where Homer wrote about “first sleep.” Between the two sleep stages was a period of wakefulness, which would last up to several hours … [and] was a prized and valuable time … ‘No other period afforded such a secluded interval of darkness in which to absorb fresh visions of solace, spirituality, and self-revelation.’ The quiet relaxation of these special hours, without the distractions of daily activities, allowed people to become aware of subtler things and digest the unique insights that so often occur in that transition state between waking and sleeping (Huffington 2016, 72).

I have a strong sense that these two sleep-related powers are directly tied to our ancestral sleep stages, and by comparing and contrasting gestational and restorative sleep we can deepen our understanding. Both powers are clearly a form of rest; they are activated when we are disconnected from the faster pace of wakefulness and the distractions of the outer environment. While their form is similar, however, their purpose is somewhat different. Gestational sleep is a state of containment. Here we have all that we need in order to create, and the process simply requires time and stillness to unfold. Restorative sleep is a state of refilling our inner stores. If we look at the receptive and active qualities of these two powers, we see that gestational sleep relates to the receptive state’s ability to create new life given the time and support to do so. In contrast, restorative sleep is a time when the outward-reaching active energy takes a break and reconnects with its source, the receptive wellspring within.

Restorative sleep’s active energy takes a much-needed pause to retreat from the outer realm of doing and reconnects with a deeper state of being. During this fallow time, stores can be replenished, wounds healed, and baggage released. There’s a fascinating corollary in our biology. A Scientific American article explains:

Every day the brain eliminates a quarter of an ounce of used proteins that must be replaced with new ones. The waste-disposal process traffics half a pound of detritus a month and three pounds a year, equivalent to the brain’s own weight. The glymphatic system, [a pathway in the brain for … cleansing fluids to effectively sweep away waste products], may become a critical target for treatment of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s

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