| Your consciousness the night before will determine how you’ll wake up in
the next morning. |
| (Updated on April 5, 2007) |
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Hello, everyone. I’m Fuyo Haruna.
Now, people have started talking about the cherry blossoms blooming in
various part of Japan. In spring, flowers start blooming. This happens
every year but it always gives me a sense of wonder. People say that changes
in season are obvious in Japan. Aren’t we fortunate to have our hearts
bouncing with joy as it gets warmer? Thus, changes in nature give us a
good chance to see ourselves.
Last time, I talked about becoming aware of negative feelings residing
in one’s heart. If you are ashamed or shocked to know that your heart harbors
so many negative feelings, actually, that is a great step forward. The
higher your consciousness gets, the more visible both of your positive
and negative feelings will become. So don’t be worried.
What causes you to have negative feelings? It is because you have to go
through things that pain your or annoy you. This is normal, but most people
don’t know specifically what has caused them to have such feelings or what
has made them feel unhappy.
Even when you wake up in the morning in a bad mood, you usually don’t
know how to cope with it; you simply start your day ― for example ― by
going to work and arriving at your office, with the same negative feelings.
This way, you can’t work in a productively, or you may even attract unwanted
negativities to yourself.
In this regard, consciousness in the morning is critical.
When you have a nice, pleasant morning, why not let yourself rejoice more
and be more grateful for that? If not, ask yourself why and see what’s
in your heart. No doubt there is a reason.
You may have been worried about your work or your relationships with people,
or may still be bothered by what happened to you yesterday. You may have
hundreds of reasons but you are just preoccupied if put simply. Such preoccupation
of your heart has caused it to run short of energy.
So, the first step to releasing yourself from such feelings is to recognize
what is bothering you. Once you become aware of it, you can banish it.
How you wake up in the morning is highly important because it determines
how you start your day. And the amount of energy you have in the morning
will have a direct impact on whether you're going to have a fulfilling
day.
Having said so, however, I believe how you fall asleep the night before
is more important than how you wake up in the morning.
Many of the readers of ‘Lullaby of the Earth’― the books I have written
based on my own experiences ― say that reading the books before going to
bed will help them have a fresh start in the morning because they can forget
all the nasty things that happened during the day. Truly, nothing pleases
me more, but why have they come to have a better morning after they started
reading my books before going to bed? It’s because various negativities
built up during the day are banished.
Your energy level is usually the lowest at night unless you have an extremely
happy experience that day. As your energy diminishes before you know it,
the level of your consciousness goes down. And if you fall asleep with
that consciousness, you’ll wake up in the next morning with the same level
of consciousness. We, humans, have both physical and mental energy replenished
while we are sleeping. However, if you are preoccupied or suffered mentally
and fall asleep with that consciousness, your soul will visit a lower world
while you are sleeping, causing you to have a scary, awful dream; you are
far from having your energy restored.
That’s why you need to raise the level of your consciousness as much as
possible before you go to bed.
Why not take time bathing yourself in warm water and try to relax while
looking back on your day. It would be a good idea to remember a happy experience
and rejoice in that memory once more. Even when a painful memory comes
back to you, just drive it out, believing that someday, you will be able
to cope with it. Why don’t you turn your eyes to yourself and your family
who have been fit and sound for the day and be grateful for that? This
way, you can increase your energy.
And, if possible, try to read my book before going to bed. Only a few
lines will do. Whichever page you are on, you will find lines that move
your heart and touch your soul. You are sure to regain energy.
The consciousness with which you fall asleep is important. Erase negativities
of the day, as many as possible, so that you can fall asleep with heightened
consciousness. If you keep doing this day after day, you are sure to have
a fresh start in the morning.
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