1 result for (book:ss AND session:532 AND stemmed:idea)
3/46 (7%)
sleep
hours
periods
inactivity
recuperate
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(10:10. Jane’s trance had been deep, her pace fast throughout. Yet she remembered some of the material, which usually isn’t the case. She hadn’t been reading about sleep recently. “The whole bit is far out to me,” she said. “I haven’t been entertaining any ideas like these, at least consciously.” Resume in the same manner at 10:22.)
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(10:39.) Some cases of strong neurotic behavior result from your present sleeping habits. Sleepwalking to some degree is also connected here. Consciousness wants to return to the body, but it has been hypnotized into the idea that the body must not awaken. Excess nervous energy takes over, and rouses the muscles to activity, because the body knows it has been inactive for too long and otherwise severe muscular cramps would result.
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(Since this session — it is June 1 as I type this — Jane and I have been experimenting somewhat with altered sleep patterns, and we can say that Seth’s ideas seem eminently workable. After a shorter nighttime sleep period, we have no difficulty waking up easily, alert and ready to go. We supplement this pattern with one or two rest periods during the daylight hours. The system adds an unaccustomed sharpness of appreciation to all of our activities.)
