[D-G] Straight-Bereshit Diffracted-Concentrate Meditate Create

[Bruno]

perhaps an interesting  conference for those near NL

http://thinkingbody.janvaneyck.nl/

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From: "hwenk" <hwenk at web.de>
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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [D-G] Straight-Bereshit Diffracted-Concentrate Meditate Create


> Hello,
>
> Personally I was very dissatisfied with
> the attempt to cure sleeplessness with drugs.
> Therefore beside my beloved yoga
> I bight a medical book on sleep,
> which has become a branch of medicine.
> Trouble with sleeping maybe due to very different reasons,
> but may what it want, stress in any form
> makes the problem more severe.
> Now this book
> "Sleeping medicine - Foundations and praxis"
> (in German) (Steinberg et. al)
> there is also advised to take drugs for sleeping only for a short time, 
> but
> instead to ponder about the struggle of the day,
> become calm, drinking milk with honey or some tea,
> very little alcohol.  Alcohol reduces the deepness of the sleep
> also it relaxes at first and may seem to make to sleep in easier.
>
>
> Indeed the are several phases of sleep,
> most prominent is the REM(rapid eye movement) sleep, which is very deep
> and the more superficial NonREM.
>
> As sleep in general is something for relaxation of the body,
> the need for deep sleep is especially when the brain is functioning a lot,
> as in learning situations or in a new situations - or by some brain 
> changes
> or activities from itself.
> The relaxation of the physical body is mostly not so problematic, for
> most people exhaust their physical body very much.
> If the physical body is exhausted,
> the probability to sleep increases very much.
> This seems to be a more stable sleep mechanism.
>
> So a good trick  if  the brain is
> very active is to do some sports,
> as 2 or more hours of bicycle riding.
> Then the physical body will demand and produce
> more deep REM sleep, so that the brain,
> which profits most from the deep sleep, can also deeply relax.
>
>
> It is  also a way to reduce the stress neurotransmitters as
> by muscular activity also they are consumed - not only in the muscles.
>
> A further requirement is to sleep in the dark and
> at best with little noises.
>
> Of course a lot of yoga practices, asanas,   make also tired and
> harmonize the brain and the body.
> So it is good to do it if you cannot sleep too.
> Maybe a nightly bicycle riding is not so appropriate.
>
> There are a lot of hormones and neurotransmitters produced during sleep.
>
> As you know, the practice of staying 40 days and nights without sleep is
> ascribed to Jesus, also to Buddha and seems to be
> some common practice - theoretical -
> in monastery or mythical practices.
>
>
> Hope this is a little bit helpful
>
> Dr. Harald Wenk
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> From: deleuze-guattari-bounces at lists.driftline.org
> [mailto:deleuze-guattari-bounces at lists.driftline.org]On Behalf Of
> .+oot7AM martini
> Sent: Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 00:37
> To: deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org
> Subject: Re: [D-G] Straight-Bereshit Diffracted-Concentrate Meditate
> Create
>
>
> at night with drugs
> it is best to take the dose
> but before you sleep
> you must set your alarm clock
> to ring in one hour
> then sleep for an hour, your head will spin
> suddenly
> chronos will wake you in the middle of your rotation
> you will still dream, but you will not sleep
> from here you will begin to see the difference
> between the spinning world
> and the spinning brain
> (this works best with ambien narcotics)
>
>
> I have been told that In ancient greek times most people did not
> choose to sleep only once a day. Instead the had two sleeps, the first
> begins at 8pm and lasts until 12 or 1am, from there they do work for
> several hours before falling into the second sleep at around 4 or 5am.
> This sounds interestesting to me but I do not know if it is true.
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