 When it comes to my daily routine Often I find the most difficult part for me right now is the evening Going to sleep Shutting everything down in a way that that works and it gets me ready for the next day because Every part of our day Except sleeping it seems like we have some kind of control over it. We can choose what to do now Of course, it's not to say it's easy to just make ourselves do whatever we Should do and don't feel like doing and not do the things we feel like doing but shouldn't do That's of course those are their own challenges and not to minimize those but there's something special about sleeping because We can't make ourselves go to sleep. We can't Apply discipline and say I'm just gonna like make myself do it even though I don't feel like it going to sleep is something that happens passively to us so we can we can take actions to prepare for sleep and You know shut down shut down the bright lights shut down the intense stimulation control what and when we eat dinner and The conditions of the bedroom the temperature the light the sound All these things we can do to prepare for Good sleep, but in the end we have to kind of let it happen to us and That I find that I find harder because often I don't feel like going to sleep in the evening It takes the day Throughout the day, you know, I'm warming up My head is filling with all the new things happening in the day and I have lots circulating in my mind and then Before I know it. It's the evening and oh, it's time to go to sleep so I can start again tomorrow And well, I don't feel like it. I you know, I've just gone gone gone rolling Why is the day so short? Now maybe working harder during the day and you know, there's all there's ways maybe as I learn to make better use of my days Then I'll become more used to this cycle and just Be ready to say okay, I've done everything I can do in that day and I'm ready to sleep so There's all kinds of factors involved but one thing that I find is helpful for this is to remind myself That when I'm going to sleep when I'm ending the day I'm not really Just stopping everything. It's not like all the progress. I do during the day You know, I go through the day progress do things useful things and then I stop and Then start up again the next day in some way. It's like this and when it comes to active directed activity. I am stopping all activity and We'll be picking it up the next day but it's not like everything stops because Some part of our mind and some part of ourselves is continuing to work at all times Could call it the subconscious whatever that means. We know whatever parts of ourselves that are not Directly consciously Controlled and we're not directly aware of but you know our emotional states our sense of who we are These sort of foundations of our habits and our behavior There's something going on even when we're not working It's like we we work all day and do useful things and Somehow advance whatever we're working on but then it's like overnight. It's like this It's like something is setting in it's like we make we sort of mold ourselves. We make a new shape of ourselves and then It sets it It solidifies every whatever we do in that day Overnight it it's like almost like it sinks in it becomes more part of who we are Whether good or bad we Spend the day whatever we spend the day doing that's something that we're kind of adding to our identity to our way of being and When we wake up the next day a Little bit of that yesterday is Baked in or settled in or Solidified into ourselves so we spend a day doing useful things and Getting closer to what we want then we'll find we wake up the next day. We are a little bit closer and If we do bad things and get further away from a good result. Well, that's what we'll wake up into So I like to think about this and think that When I go to sleep when I shut things down in the evening there's This necessary kind of work going on in the background like a digestion Settling that is happening Out of everything I did that day and that work is going on all the time This is not something that ever stops I think So Whatever we do It needs time to settle in become built into ourselves and That seems to be what's happening overnight so one thing I like it's one thing to look forward to as as I'm sleeping while I'm going to wake up as a slightly different person and that Action of that happening is going to happen as I sleep overnight so I find this an interesting way of looking at sleep and non-action and as usual I'd love to hear what you think about this