Even if sometimes you cannot sleep in the night there is no need to be worried. Work it out, use that energy that is coming up; walk up and down, go for a run, go for a long walk, plan what you want to do, what the mind wants to do. Rather than trying to go to sleep, which is not possible at that moment, use the situation in a new way. The situation is simply telling you that the body is ready to fight with the problem; this is no time to relax.
Relaxation can be done later on. In fact if you have lived your stress totally when it arises, you will come to a relaxation automatically; you can go on only so far, then the body automatically relaxes. If you want to relax in the middle you create trouble unnecessarily as the body cannot relax in the middle.
It is almost as if an Olympic runner is getting ready, just waiting for the whistle, the signal, and he will be off, he will go like the wind. He is full of stress; now that is not a time to relax. If he takes a tranquilliser he will never be of any use in the race and s/he will not have used stress creatively.
A new name was given to stress some years ago and it was called Eustress. It is like euphoria; it is a positive stress. . When the runner has run s/he will fall into deep sleep; the problem is solved. Now there is no problem, the stress disappears of its own accord.
So, when there is a stressful situation, don’t worry about it, just go into it and use it to fight with, rather than taking it on yourself. The more energy you use the more you will have. It will be a positive experience rather than a negative one.
Cheers
Chris Borrett
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