What Your Insomnia Is Trying To Tell You

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“In smaller doses, insomnia does not need a cure. It is there for a reason, it is doing work for us, and we should let it take its course. Crucial things we need to think about are seeking their chance to bubble into consciousness. This insomnia is a form of revenge, for the many ideas we pushed away, or could not entertain in the day, but that matter intensely to our self-understanding and development. At night, we can return to a bigger duty – ourselves. What we think about then may sound weird to many people… these people need us to be a certain way, we don’t want to let them down. But their expectations choke off certain aspects of who we are. But now, it is just us, and the Universe. And for a time, we can take on a little of its boundlessness…”

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