Do you ever think about what actually happens when we sleep?

Why do we need to sleep? Why do we automatically want to do it? Why do we get tired as our day reaches the end? Why do we get tired earlier or later than normal sometimes?

When you're awake, chances are that after stretching your body and taking a shower, you feel clear headed, and more energized than you do late in the day, as the anxiety often is at its worst, even if you're just sitting by yourself, feeling overwhelmed. If you're like me, you browse random websites and eat extra meals, you're trying to quench some deeply unsettling feeling in your entire body, and can hardly go to sleep.

When you sleep, your body recharges. It recharges because it switches off for a while. Switches off.

When we meditate, we're emulating the same thing. Trying to switch off, because when you switch off your anxiety buildup goes backwards.

In a long anxious day sleep might have been the only 5-8 hours where your body didn't feel its own pain.

Remember to sleep, remember to break. Find moments of complete *nothingness* in your mind, in order to put the anxiety to sleep.