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If sleep won't come, rest still counts. The night watch is an old station — you are not the first to keep it.
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GROUND · VII

Lesson 7 of LII · the GROUND course
The idea behind this card — The night watch

If sleep won't come, rest still counts. The night watch is an old station — you are not the first to keep it.

GROUND — The sacred ordinary — the body and the day as holy ground

…people sat with this card this month
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The practice

if sleep won't come after twenty minutes, stop chasing it. Lie in the dark and count breaths to ten, then start over. You're not failing at sleep. You're keeping a watch people have kept forever.

Where this idea comes from

  • Vigil traditions; behavioral sleep medicine — sleep effort paradox

More in this deck

FEEL · VII  ·  REMEMBER · VII  ·  TEND · VII

This room doesn't expire. Come back for whatever is coming up — tonight, the anniversary, years from now.

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