Building Blocks Toward A Good Night's Sleep Using Meditation

As you may have noticed,

I like to go deeper into the subject.

I make an audio track maybe 15-20 minutes,

25 minutes long at the most usually.

And then we go a little bit deeper and talk more and go more into understanding the mechanics of how not just sleeplessness works but how life works.

Because the deeper we go into it,

The more insight you'll have and the more courage you'll have to deal with whichever situation that you're having to deal with,

Whether it's addictions or sleeplessness or anxiety,

Depression.

All these things can be addressed by going into your spiritual side and diving into meditation and into awareness and learn to overcome these ailments,

These diseases.

You can split disease up into two words,

Dis and ease.

So anything that makes you feel uneasy or causes distress in your life,

There are ways to overcome these things and it comes through understanding.

So let's go deeper into this understanding of how sleep works,

How our bodies function.

And we have to take it all the way back though.

We have to take it all the way down to the first level.

Okay,

So the first level basically is an understanding of energy centers within our bodies and then also what correlates with those energy centers.

Because believe it or not,

Each energy center activates at a certain point in your life,

A certain maturity that comes to you if you develop and mature at a natural rate,

Then the first lower four bodies all happen in seven year cycles.

And every time a seven year cycle is over,

Then it's time to move on to the next energy center.

So the first one is the physical.

The lowest energy center is your physical being.

And it is a dimension to be experienced.

And then you grow into an emotional body or energy center.

And the emotional body needs another seven years to develop.

And it too is a dimension.

Each thing that you discover and you grow in life,

When you meditate,

When you start raising energy,

Then you raise energy through the lower chakras first.

It starts at the root and like they say the Kundalini energy,

The rising of energy up through these energy centers.

And it happens naturally if you live a pretty much normal life without having too many ego trips.

But yeah,

So there's seven years for the physical body to develop a little bit.

And then there's seven years for the emotional body.

And then the intellectual body comes next.

And it too has its own dimension.

Its dimension is that of the understanding and growing in a mental capacity to be able to maybe support you in finding a career path and making intelligent decisions,

Decisions that help keep you alive.

I mean,

That's the function of the brain is basically to help you survive,

To learn,

To cope,

Learn to do this,

Learn not to do that,

You know what to do and what not to do,

You know who to speak to and how to speak to them.

All these things come to you in basically an intellectual dimension.

You didn't have them when you were 14 years old or 13 years old.

You were still developing emotionally.

And now you're focusing on,

Like I said,

Finding a career path.

So you go intellectually.

And I mean,

You have to ask yourself,

What is a dimension?

A dimension is something that you shed light into that is born in you and takes you to the next level.

A dimension could be falling in love and having a relationship.

The first time you experience love,

You're welcoming yourself into a new dimension,

Into a new experience,

A new way to live and you find that this connection with another human being is so sacred and so beautiful.

But it is something that you've never experienced before.

And once you do,

You soon realize that it elevates you up into your heart and to your heart chakra or the next one up in our lineage of energy centers in the body is the heart.

And what brings you up into the heart,

Any energy that focuses upwards into the heart turns into love energy.

It turns into compassion.

It turns into this sensation that all is one.

You experience it up in the spiritual center,

This oneness.

And that's as far as it goes for most people.

Rarely,

Rarely do people ever actually make it up into the spiritual center.

If they've never experienced love,

Then it's really hard to do that.

And human love and divine love are kind of two different things,

But they're also the same because love unites,

Love joins and love brings things together.

It brings people together and it makes two people into one.

So when you're in a deep relationship with another person,

You don't feel a separation from that person.

You feel like you're a part of that person and that person feels the same way about you.

And as I've shared this before in other audio tracks that I've made for Insight Timer,

Okay,

There's a bridge,

The heart is the center.

Okay,

That's the center.

There's three chakras above and three energy centers above,

You could say,

And then three below.

And the heart's right in the middle.

But there's a bridge that goes into something higher,

Something beyond you.

Okay,

The energy center is down below the lower body,

We could call it.

It vibrates and repeats itself.

If the energy is never raised up any higher than the heart,

Then it's destined to keep repeating things in life.

You keep learning the lesson until you get it,

Until you understand it,

And then you can move on past it.

But there's a bridge that exists between the heart and the upper three chakras.

The bridge may be shut down for most people,

But at nighttime—and this is where it gets kind of spooky,

Okay,

So I know you're going to think this is pretty far-fetched—if you fall asleep meditating or consciously,

Just being aware—and I wouldn't even say meditating,

If you just sit and watch and be aware—let the body relax.

And when I say let the body relax,

Relaxation is a total thing.

It's not just the mind relaxes and the body relaxes,

It is a totality.

It's your mind,

Soul,

Spirit,

Body,

Everything relaxes.

And I did not feel that type of relaxation until I was freed from the fear of death and the fear of death and the greed for heaven and all those other things that come along with being pulled off your center.

And you will not know relaxation,

What real relaxation is,

100% total relaxed,

Until you give up those fears and those desires.

And by giving up these things that are pulling you and putting tension on your life,

Like desire,

Desire,

Anxiety,

All these things have a tension that's pulling you off your center,

Off this present moment.

And when you go to sleep and you're able to totally relax and just watch—remember what I was saying,

There's activity and then there's action.

Activity is what the mind keeps doing to keep itself busy,

To take itself off the pull of time,

The pull of anxiety,

The pull of depression.

And action is that watching,

Being aware,

Being conscious,

And diving into the unknown,

Diving into the expanse of the abyss,

But aware.

And if you're aware,

Diving into these things,

It's kind of like maybe facing upwards and you see the sky and it's blue,

But behind you it's dark and scary.

So if you're facing upwards and you're falling down,

You see this blue light and it doesn't seem as scary.

It seems like,

Okay,

It's just slowly easing into the darkness.

So try to catch yourselves and watch and you'll see that when activity is going on—activity means you're doing something,

You're meditating,

You're praying,

You're doing mantras,

Or you're chanting or something.

All these things are activities that you're doing to try to get to a certain point.

And that certain point is action,

Relaxation,

100% total relaxation,

And then watching and just observing.

And you'll find what happens is when the energy goes upwards past the heart,

Up into the next energy center,

The throat chakra,

Then the journey only happens briefly at night.

You pass up into this throat chakra.

And the throat chakra dimension is also,

Believe it or not,

This is going to sound spooky,

But it's also the dimension where spirits rest and spirits kind of just stay there until it's time for them to move on to the next life or maybe stay in that blissful state of oneness that you can only be experienced in the upper chakras,

Into the throat chakra.

So when you go to sleep,

Some people actually become sensitive of these spirits.

And the spirits can also feel you and try to reach out to you and maybe communicate with you in some way.

And this brings a lot of fear into life and into falling asleep because there's this thing you go through as you're drifting off and energy has already been raised up through the lower chakras.

And now it's hitting the fifth.

And as it hits the fifth,

Like I said,

That's the dimension that the spirits are sharing with existence,

With life,

Basically.

It's touching and just touching this dimension.

And you pass through that dimension when you're falling asleep.

That's why a lot of people when they're falling asleep,

They may feel like they hear something or they feel like something is in the room with them.

It's because you're passing through that dimension.

But don't be scared of it.

Just be aware of it and be the watcher.

And when you become the watcher,

Then your energy goes up into the third eye chakra.

And it has its own dimension too.

And what's cool about the third eye chakra is once it's opened,

Once your energy rises up in meditation,

That is,

When you're sleeping you just pass through it briefly within a few seconds.

And that's where dreaming happens.

And your dreams come from your third eye chakras.

You don't have eyes when you die,

But your third eye works at night while you're asleep and gives you these beautiful dreams.

And also the third eye has these visuals that you see if you go into meditation and you actually have raised enough energy up through all the chakras.

You've rebuilt the bridge between the heart chakra and the throat chakra consciously.

And when you do this consciously,

Then much more energy raises up and you're aware of what's going on.

You can actually see what's going on.

OK,

So when the third eye opens up,

It sees the throat chakra and it's like an Alex Grey painting.

It's very psychedelic and beautiful and all these geometric shapes and patterns are just so beautiful.

It's like when I close my eyes to meditate when the sun's out.

When I first close my eyes,

I see all these beautiful,

Like,

They're almost like flowers that have thousands of petals and they just keep vibrating from the center and bringing out more petals and more petals.

And it's so beautiful and just makes you go,

Wow!

And that's the throat chakras that the eye is seeing.

And then if you go past that,

And one day you may get to the point where you've raised enough energy up and you feel that you can sense that your throat chakra is open,

And you can sense it because you'll know that spirits are trying to contact you.

Beings from another dimension are actually touching this dimension in a sense.

But one day,

As I was meditating and I saw this pattern and stuff,

I said,

What's behind it?

And one day while meditating,

I just asked myself that question.

I said,

What is behind this pattern?

What else exists?

And then it was brought to my attention and I saw it.

And my third eye opened up and saw that,

You know,

Not just the throat chakra and the geographical dimension.

Behind it is a layer of energy.

It is energy in its rawest form.

And as I continued to raise energy up into the third eye and being conscious and being aware,

Most of the times you only experience this energy going up into the third eye when you're sleeping.

And then it's only for a few minutes of consciousness,

Or a few seconds of consciousness,

But it allows you to rest and get a good night's sleep by having these beautiful dreams or dreams that help you sleep better through the night.

But that's not the end of the story.

There's one more dimension,

The highest dimension,

The crown dimension.

And Buddha kind of nailed it on the head.

Buddha was kind of the greatest scientist because he took everything to the highest level.

He realized all these dimensions.

I think before Buddha came along they thought that there were five chakras.

Then they realized there were six.

And then Buddha realized that nirvana is basically the extinguishing of a candle or the putting out of a flame.

In nirvana,

The highest dimension that we can experience in this physical realm,

And maybe in the spiritual realm too.

Like I said,

All the spirits are existing and staying in the dimension.

It's above the earth,

Okay?

It's part of heaven.

The heavens come down into you,

And every single one of us is a walking,

Talking persona of godliness.

Most of us don't see it because we never raise our energy up past the spiritual center,

The lower chakras,

The lower body.

But the upper body,

The higher essence about us,

Everybody has it.

Even Buddha has said many times that you are already a Buddha.

So relax.

Buddha says relax.

Just totally relax and forget about attaining,

Forget about becoming.

All those things are activities and we're trying to be in action and not activity.

So we're being aware,

Being conscious of when our activities are going on and you just watch them.

And then just by watching you turn it into action.

Action is beautiful.

Activity is dangerous.

But in the crown chakra,

The highest,

That dimension,

Nothing really can be said about it.

You can experience it when you go into deep sleep and you go through the dreaming phase and then you go into a few moments of deep sleep.

As I said on the other audio track,

There are like five or six seconds of that deep sleep that you get into.

The mind stops and becomes still.

And I proposed and suggested that that's when God comes into you and fills you up for the next day.

It's those five or six seconds that you need to get into.

It's just this touch of God,

This touch of existence filling you of joy and love and energy for the next day.

But these higher levels start basically with the throat chakra.

There's a non-duality that exists when you're raising energy that high.

In the lower chakras,

Basically,

There are two sections to each chakra.

One's male and one's female.

And if you're generally,

Like if you're a male,

Then your first chakra,

Your physical body is male.

Then your second body,

Your emotional body is female.

Your third is male again.

And the fourth is your heart,

Which for most men is a feminine receptivity when it comes to spiritual energy being raised.

Men become more open,

In a sense,

To godliness once they've raised their energy up to the throat chakra.

Excuse me,

Not to the throat,

But to the heart chakra.

Excuse me,

Sorry about that.

So beyond that,

The duality ends.

When you raise energy into the throat chakra,

Then it becomes one.

There's no more split anymore.

And if you can do that,

And you can experience this oneness,

Then you will become enlightened.

But like I said,

You already have it.

You're already enlightened.

You've experienced it,

But you're unconscious.

So now,

If you try to be conscious up into the throat,

You can experience the throat,

You can experience the third eye,

But that's where it ends.

And there's one more dimension,

This nirvanic dimension,

That is godliness.

That is pure godliness.

But you won't be there to experience it.

So like I said,

Falling asleep,

Or trying to fall asleep using awareness is very beautiful,

Because you drift off into unconsciousness while you're still aware and still conscious.

And when you do that,

Then you start to see these things.

The throat chakra opens up,

The third eye opens up,

And then you can actually enter the crown.

Even if it's just for a few minutes of meditation,

It's so beautiful and so blissful and so overwhelming that it just makes you go,

Wow.

And if you get to that level,

If you can meditate and get to that level and experience these three top three levels from the top three chakras,

They also coincide with the three levels of samadhi.

And the highest level of samadhi,

Nirjib samadhi,

Is basically the seedless samadhi.

That's where God's center is.

But you cannot be there to experience it.

You have to just dissolve into it.

Because at the center,

There can only be one.

There's not two hubs to a wheel.

There's one hub to the wheel,

One center,

And it becomes one.

Buddha realized these things many years ago.

A couple,

Twenty-five hundred years ago,

Buddha realized this stuff.

That amazes me that I think people just live differently.

They lived more simple lives back then that allowed them to get into spirituality maybe and grow and become the flowers that we now know today as a Jesus or a Buddha,

A Lao Tzu or a Shang Tzu,

An Alan Watts or an Osho.

All these beautiful flowers.

And when you raise your energy up into the heart chakra,

And at least fifty-one percent of your energy gets up into the heart,

Then the bridge breaks and the dam is open and the floodgates start flowing.

Energy is now levitating up through you.

And at the same time,

Godliness is reaching down into you and basically turning you into a flute,

Into a musical instrument that god can play and help you to help others along the path and understand,

You know,

We have these nights of sleeplessness or we have this anxiety or this depression or this addiction.

All these things can be overcome using awareness and compassion and meditation and basically everything that comes along with being a spiritual person.

I know half of that probably sounds pretty scary,

But when you experience these things consciously,

The upper dimensions consciously,

Then you can share them or comprehend and tell others how it all ties together,

How it all works.

And that's it.

So I thank you very much for joining me today.

I appreciate your time.

I know it's drug on a little bit,

But I like to cover as much ground as I can with each recording.

This will be the fourth recording on helping you get a better night's sleep and understanding how it all ties together and how it works so that one day you can basically lie down and go to sleep and not have this fear of death,

This fear of not waking up the next day.

Yet,

Shedding all those fears comes down to one point,

And that's just awareness and allowing yourself to dissolve into existence.

So anyway,

Thank you again for joining me.

My name is Dov Scrummons,

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To be a dimension that you dive into and understand.

So anyway,

Thank you again.

Namaste and aloha to all my friends.

Take care of yourselves.

Bye.