As I delve deeper and deeper into understanding and figuring out all the significant elements necessary for self control (and my book on it), certain things seem to be more significant than originally thought, while other things proposed in the books prove to be ineffectual and/or mostly theory.
Though we all want to be "strong" (per our evolutionary inclinations), sometimes the easy way is the better way (of course!).
What is easier than sleeping?
And hardly anything else is as effective at body repair for full functioning AND emotional settling down and resolving AND consolidating that which we want to learn/remember. (We'll discuss how to use the latter in a way to affect the second item, in a way that not only affects how we feel during the day, but in a way that makes us "stronger" and more able to exert effective self control (= self mastery) to get more of what we want out of life.
As in the Farnam Street article The Science Of Sleep: Regulating Emotions And The Twenty Four Hour Mind, we can passively let the mind do its own reconciliation and consolidation of emotionally upsetting events during the day. This function allows us to down regulate negative mood overnight and prepare to have more positive emotions during the day.
"What we experience as a dream is the result of our brain’s effort to match recent, emotion-evoking events to other similar experiences already stored in long-term memory. One purpose of this sleep-related matching process, this putting of similar memory experiences together, is to defuse the impact of those feelings that might otherwise linger and disrupt our moods and behaviors the next day."
"Dreaming modulates disturbances in emotion, regulating those that are troublesome."
We could leave off the discussion right now and you, hopefully, would get the idea, and then follow the practice of getting good sleep, that a full night's sleep is necessary to be more emotionally healthy.
THE ROLE OF SLEEP IN LEARNING
If one truly wants to learn something, then it will pay to utilize sleeping to assure that something is better learned (and that means "retained for recall and use when needed").
As the author of The Twenty Four Hour Mind writes:
"Want to improve your golf stroke? Concentrate on it before sleeping. An interval of sleep has been proven to bestow a real benefit.
Most researchers agree “with the overall conclusion that one of the ways sleep works is by enhancing the memory of important bits of new information and clearing out unnecessary or competing bits, and then passing the good bits on to be integrated into existing memory circuits.”
In REM sleep, these new bits of information are then matched to older related memories already stored in long-term memory networks. This causes the new learning to stick (to be consolidated) and to remain accessible for when we need it later in waking."
Surely, we want to learn things in the most efficient way, so that we are more effective and/or save learning time.
But it would seem first that we might look at what is most important to learn - and that should, of course, be what affects life the most, certainly!
WHAT AFFECTS US MOST?
In answering the question, if one looks at life from on high, the clear winner, by a wide margin, is "beliefs"!!!!!!
Beliefs guide our actions in life and are the causers of emotions and how we feel about life.
What could be more important than that?
If you follow what I am about to propose, it will most likely affect your life more than any other practice you engage in - ever!
I suggest that you read, and do, Using Sleep To Consolidate And Learn Corrected Beliefs - For A Much Greater Life!
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