Is It Really A Sleepless Night

Listen to "Is It Really A Sleepless Night" on Spreaker. Every moment of your journey during these Covid-19 days is spent moving things from one place to another. For those who've lost the comfort of a paycheck its become a moment of reinvention. Accepting whatever it takes. From social media to on the street socially distant conversations there's a ton of talk about having sleepless nights. Experts have come out of their corners and labeled the situation serious and with everything else on your shoulders it shouldn't be ignored. On this podcast we could've easily jumped into the subject of getting into meditation but its such a process of personal growth and activation that sharing what might inspire you can easily become a huge turn off because we want to be fixed now. We need sleep. The next day isn't gonna be so forgiving. I've never gotten a sleep filled night. Forty one years of radio and deep into my early years before becoming a teen. I've struggled with my hours. I always thought it was because one day I'd be this really cool morning show host on the radio. I did get to play that game but try doing it when you wake up at 12:15am, 1:30am, then again at 2:30 only to be ready to get up and rock by 3:30 for a 6am Good Morning America shout. Is it really a sleepless night? Only because I've lived with it. I see it as an imagination just trying to do its job. It wants to serve you. It knows its human body and will always be present when called upon. Its when you don't use that thinker and give it some control by way of generating a serious or play filled project that its going to lash out at you in whatever shape you'll label it. Today's hot word is anxiety. Meditation has been my only source of peace. Prayer works too but you end up talking all night and God is like "Hey man I've gotta get some sleep too you know." With meditation your mind doesn't go into REM but rather it begins to unlock your blocks. But it takes time and practice. So many people think you've got to shove an hour of your time into being at peace. Yeah that aint gonna happen in the beginning or for that matter even the experts laugh that off. You learn to respect 30 seconds, a minute, maybe five if you're lucky. I've tried having conversations with my creative self but he's a two year old kid that wants candy and we're standing in the center of a crowded Target store when he belts out a scream for not getting his way. Meditation doesn't have to be about positions you sit in and how you're forced to hear your breathing. Be nice to yourself and stop giving your mind a daily test. During my extremely busy moments in the recording studio I play meditation music rather than broken love songs from the worlds of Country and Top 40. Meditation is what you make of it. Just let your system of choice have some of it. Is it really a sleepless night or an imagination that only wants to serve you greater than it did yesterday?