Sleeping: How to Promote good Sleep
15
To Promote Good Sound Sleep for Your Child:
- Eat mainly organic/biodynamic foods and a balanced diet. Avoid processed foods and pharmaceutical drugs. Eat healthy fats, such as coconut, olive oil and butter from grass fed animals.
- Provide a beautiful environment, natural materials and simplicity.
- Avoid electronics when you can and too many modern devices. Turn out the lights.
- Spend time outdoors, enjoying Nature.
- Practice positive values, thankfulness, reverence, awe and wonder.
- Cultivate your Spiritual life with prayers, blessings, contemplation, arts and meditation. Acting as a Role Model is the best teacher for young children.
- Provide protection. Choose outings in the world carefully.
- Keep your child warm with natural fibers.
- Touch and hug a great deal.
- Rock, sing and soothe on a regular basis.
- Give images of angels who guide and protect, soothe and nurture.
- Discover the essentials and discard/ avoid the rest.
- Review the day, simply forwards or backwards. Tell meaningful stories.
- Create a ritual which honors sleep as a holy activity spent in our Spiritual homeland receiving rejuvenation and inspiration.
- Value the threshold times of sleeping and waking as holy times when you can deeply connect with your child.
- Create an inner picture of the next day for your child every evening. Angels will then give you input in your sleep.
- Cultivate quiet listening.
- Allow your child to imitate what you want them to do rather than give them instructions. This is called non- verbal education. Take care not to overintellectualize with your child.
- Observe your child, reflect on this and ask the Angels for guidance.
- Establish a rhythmic daily practice of sleeping, eating and daily. This supports the organs and the production of hormones and melatonin which promotes sleep and health.
Things Which Act Against Good Sound Sleep:
- Poor quality of food. It does not support the Life Force and Sense of Life necessary for sleep.
- Media such as television, movies, computers, pads, etc. creates doubt, worry and fear through characterizations which are untruthful, ugly and fabrications. The quality of the tones are not life enhancing.
- Movement deprivation has a damaging effect on the nervous system.
- Pollution negatively impacts the body and sensory experience.
- Negative thoughts alienate the self from the Spiritual World.
- Overintellectualization overstimulates the nervous system in a negative way.
- Hardened overly materialistic thoughts incarnates the human being too deeply into the body.
- An arrhythmic life does not guide the organs into a healthy function.
- Overstimulation locks the self into the physical body and does not promote the soul and spirit entering the spiritual realities of the night.
- An overly electric and technological environment overstimulates the nerves which interferes with sleep.