00:07 Dada speaks about himself and his forthcoming videos 03:53 How sleeping affects on our nerve system and immune system 15:09 What time should we go to sleep and get up? 21:07 Immune system needs dark nighttime to maintain hormonal balance 23:27 Diseases and bad habits 26:10 Balance between sleep and meditation
I hate baba's in India because most of them whom i know are fake.. but now my mindset change after looking this channel very informative very knowledgeable people are there on this channel .glad to found this channel.. thanks
I don’t know if it is appropriate to tell a yogi they are adorable but you are. I have learned so much from your videos and have become so motivated to act on my knowledge. I have been a vegan for about 15 years. But am now about 85 percent raw.
Namaskar Dada, Firstly, thank you for this really nice and instructive video. I have been living this dilemma of bad sleeping habits since I'm 16 years old, now I'm 32 years old, it means I have been sleeping badly since half of my life now. Even having a strong spiritual practice and commitment, this is the number 1 issue that put me down in life, all the effort i do in life are often affected by my bad sleep. I don't understand why I keep having this bad habits knowing that every morning when i wake up, i feel really bad because i went to sleep after midnight and i feel tired already... I cumulate fatigue and i feel angry and grumpy all day, but when night come i feel better and want to enjoy this moment of peace around 10pm and 12pm. Just sometimes when i feel so tired i go to sleep before 11pm and once a week I don't put alarm clock and sleep in the morning to recover of lack of sleep. In September 2019 i went in an ashram, i succeed for 2 weeks to go to sleep at 9:45pm and wake up at 5am, it was amazing and i thought i was over my bad habits, but it was still hiding somewhere and it came back. And even still leaving in the ashram i struggle with my sleep so much. Your video inspired me, it's not new information for me though. Maybe I need to find what's behind this inability to change my habits, what do you think ? Thank you for reading 🙏🏼 Banke Bihari Das
Its possible that the problem is profound. But i doubt that. I believe for you it is just a matter of habit. And the more you follow the good habit of sleeping early, the easier it will be for you to sleep early. I suggest you keep a written log of your sleeping time. And go on competing with yourself to chalk up longer and longer strings of continuous nights that you slept in good time. After some time it will become your way of life. And even when after that you are occasionally forced by circumstances to remain awake longer than you prefer, you will ASAP go back to your good well established habit. This habit comes gradually, but it is so very much worth it!
I have stopped working night shifts for the last 9 years. And that it self makes me feel so much better. Thank you very much to the video and look forward to the next one.
Thank you so much for sharing such precious knowledge. I do take sleeping pills for more than a decade and also need to drink a lot of coffee to be productive. It s such a vicious circle that I don't know how to break (I do feel really awful if drinking less coffee than usual). Hope to hear more about sleeping habits ❤️ Greetings from Brazil
i'm not qualified or anything but i guess you'll just have to power through some days reducing or stopping coffee until the dependency goes away. also even though you will definitely not feel like doing it while feeling awful, some exercise does a pretty good job of pulling the body out of the groggy state
@@aesonone tks for ur idea and I ll definitely start trying it ASAP - just struggled to exercise without the caffeine "motivation", but we ll keep trying. Lots of love and keep safe ❤
Aeson's approach has a good chance of working if you not only add good cardio-vascular exercise, but also drink plenty of water all day long, including lemon water with a dash of salt. That will help so caffeine-related toxins causing addiction are minimized. Plus you need very regular bowel movements, especially early morning after waking. If bowel movements not regular, you can take some Triphala just before sleeping to assist in that. Otherwise toxins being released from avoiding the caffeine feel terrible. Better to get the toxins out through your urine, sweat and stool -- instead of them not coming out and circulating in your body making you feel awful.
Sarvagasana, old man searching reflection qi gong, and halasana helped me about 7years ago to get sleep, i had about 5years problems with sleep, nowdays i instruct yoga cause it helped me lot. Sarvagasana, and halasana are tho not first asanas you should do, of session, but last. and needs to be done right. There is also some no:s, high blood pressure etc etc, study practices thruly if you want to try.
Amazing! After watching this video, I shifted my sleeping time more earlier ar 10pm so this morning i wake up at 4:30am effortlessly. I was able to do pancajanya . Thanks dada!. Your instruction gave me a motivation so i was able to restart my practice routine. I am so looking forward to your upcoming videos. Another thanks to you, I visited natural yogic treatment center in Anandanagar at last January. Thanks for establishing such a benefit place!
throughout all my life I have two major problems: 1. to make myself sleep at night, 2. and to make myself wake up in the morning. Medidation practice doesn't help it (at least for now). In general, I have a tendency to sleep as much as I could (to hide away from this cruel and punishing reality where nothing is possible to do, to make life less stressfull). Is it some sort of a disease? ... Well, it defenetly a mental disease... I vote for discussing connections between mental-psychological problems and sleep, if it possible. Thank you. Namaskar.
Namaskar Dadaji I am Dharmaviira from Valencia. You initiate mi in 1981. Now I am a Nurse. I am working in a Psychiatric ward. my work schedule is twelve hours night twelve hours day and so always
Dharmaviira -- I remember you! How are you and your family?? As to your question, it seems like it got cut off while you were writing it. Do i dare suggest that you fell asleep while writing it? No, never! Anyway as to what you can do -- when one must stay awake in the nights, its most important for every other element of your life to get as much regularity as possible. This includes water drinking, exercise, kiirtan and meditation, asanas. And very important that food be very easy to digest, and as far as possible never heavy. Plus get some exposure to sunlight on your skin. If you do your best in these other spheres, and if truly you have no choice but to work in the night, then Life will adjust itself for you. In any case, i suggest you put in a request to the hospital that you only work in the daytime, and keep politely repeating that request until it finally gets granted.
Namaskar🙏🏻 Dada I am very very happy to see you here. Thank you so much for such a wonderful video. And I realized what you said about the benefits of sleeping early and waking early is true because I had the experience of both. And again thank u. I missed you. I love to be around you. Namaskar🙏🏻
Namaskar dada.. Yes i believe your wellness capabilities... Let's follow what he suggested... I am doing meditation and sleep combination and it cures my insomnia... It changes my life..
Thank you, very informative video! Im currently trying to convince my night owl sister to sleep better, im definitley going to show her this video. I also try to sleep earlier, curious about the positive effects. Waiting for the future videos, greetings from Hungary!
Namaskar Dada! For me, I think, the night is something so much comfortable than the day time, seems more beautiful and poetic, with less pressure.. what you have to say about? Thanks for the inspiring video
That certainly has some truth to it. For meditation and contemplation it is a beautiful time. So best to go to bed very early, and get up while it is still dark. That's the best time!!
Your name is so very familiar. Can you remind me something about yourself? If so, i request you make a completely new comment, not just "reply", or else i may not easily see it. That means i see comments easier than replies.
Thank you Dada for this great video. I dream regularly, most of them are unpleasant and I after watching your video I think that not having proper gap between dinner and sleep is the main reason behind it. My wife grumbles a lot in her sleep maybe it's because of the same reason. We will definitely try to change our eating and sleeping habits. Love from Bharat 😊🙏
I really loved this video. During this lockdown, my intention is to place more ayurvedic practises into my daily routine. Please do share more of your knowledge on heightening our physical health. I have joined the FB group "Natural and Yogic Treatment". Looking forward to your insights and stories. Namaskar
Namaskar dadajii! I so love this video! It was beautifully explained! I learned a lot! I already shared this with my friends and students whom I know always sleep late. I think this will help them understand that they really have to change their sleeping pattern, especially in this lockdown season. Ever since this lockdown, most of the people are on social media. Some even don't sleep at night and will instead sleep in the morning. This video at least will help them understand what they are actually doing with their bodies. Yes, they might be staying at home but they aren't taking care of themselves really well (through lack of sleep) and that will still make them prone to the virus and any diseases. Thank you very much for this video dadaji! Hope in your next video, you will talk about how to get rid of insomnia because a lot of my friends are struggling with that especially during this time that they somehow adapted a really weird sleeping pattern... Sending you my love from Davao, Maharlika! BNK!
Your wish has been fulfilled. My video about insomnia was just posted. By the way, you are very nearby to Cebu, there in Davao. Do you have a spiritual name?
@@dadadharmavedananda2225 Yes da, I'm Krishnapriya. You already met my sister Iishvarii in Cebu retreat before. She's with our acharya Didi Radhika that time. 😁
Very fine, Krishnapriya! Let me know whenever you come to Cebu. Best to write me in advance to see if i will be in Cebu at the time you are thinking to come.
I go to bed at 22:00 for several years. I fall asleep quickly. In the beginning, I could get up for morning practice at 5-6 in the morning without any problems. Now I can’t get up before 7-8 from the bed. I sleep for 10 hours. There are a lot of dreams that I remember in the morning. Why did this start to happen to me?
Namaskare dada, thanks for the knowledge and information! Please can you explain why is so important to be vegetarian? And what is the best food to stay strong and healthy! 🙏🏻
Regarding the best food to stay healthy, i will be explaining in coming videos. As to the main reasons to be vegetarian a) because healthy vegetarian (not heavy fried, sugary, or refined grains) is much easier to digest than meat/fish/eggs b) the essence of goodness is to act in such a way that consciousness is increased in ourselves and in others. But animal eating means destroying highly developed consciousness, as opposed to vegetable eating in which lower consciousness is taken. c) Animal raising is nowadays very harmful to the society. d) Highly developed minds cannot stand to unnecessarily kill or even harm others.
Thank you, Dada! I agree and feel all the benefits that have you shared. I am wondering how to support people who says that their body work better changing day per night. Thank you! Namaskar!
It is mostly a matter of habit that leads people to believe they function better in the night than in the day. Leaving aside all the science I expressed during the video, it is clear that essentially 100% of yogiis get up early in the morning, enjoy deep meditation, and mostly avoid sleep in the daytime. The time for the yogiis to sleep is always in the night, not in the day. The fact that this is the consensus of yogiis, who are the people who have made endless experiments with their bodies and minds, suggests that exchanging day and night is not the best way.
Thanks for precise information, I want to meditate in the early morning but I feel sleepy, after some times i have to sleep. How can change this? Regards from Afghanistan
If you are going to fall sleep late, then the best thing would be to arrange your sleeping time to shift to an earlier time, as you clearly need more sleep. Please go to bed earlier in the evening, still maintaining a sufficient gap after your dinner.
Thank you very much for this video. I would like to hear more about liver -- how can we improve our health when the liver is struggling with pesticides and heavy metals in our food. i can not afford organic food unfortunately.
I really appreciate the advice. However, from much experience I know that if I go to sleep at 930 or 10 I wake in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back asleep. I’m a morning person and love being awake at 530 or 6 but my system seems to function best if I delay sleep until 11 or midnight. It’s probably not ideal but an early bedtime ends up with me feeling wretched because of broken sleep.
If you go to bed at 11am, sleep deeply, and you get up at 530 or 6am and feel completely rested, no problem, its also good. Some individual qualities are also relevant.
Namaskar, It is a very nice video. I have been suffering from Insomnia for last few months and due to this I have been suffering from stress and depression. I am also under antidepressants for helping me sleep. Still it becomes difficult for me to get sleep at night. I try to sleep by 10:30 but I am still awake after 12. I some how wake up at 5 in the morning for meditation but by 7am I start feeling sleepy and go back sleep for another couple of hours. How can I change my sleep pattern?
Your comment is the sort that i was expecting might come if any of you were suffering from insomnia. My response to this requires an entire video, and i will do it.
Namaskar Dada! I really enjoyed your video. Very helpful specially at this time. I live in the Philippines, I wish I could visit your center in Cebu one day. Do you know any breathing exercise that could strengthen the respiratory system?
Generally it is better to use something under the head so that the neck does not get stretched in the wrong way. For most people that means a pillow, even a thick firm one. For me and other renunciants, however -- we are not to use pillows. So i use a yoga block (as you can see in the photo leading into the video)!
Thank you. Very helpful. Where in Cebu are you? I know Philippines well. Cebu if such a busy town and not very green but Cebu island hosts a lot of green and beautiful places.
In Pagsabungan, Manduae. Yes, not far to green scenes, but being over 65 i am not supposed to go out. Even though my immune system is younger than my age!
Dear Dada, I have a problem. I became addicted to the coffee. I don't like it really, but I am from Greece and in Greece and Turkey coffee is a part of the culture. Socially, nothing is better than summer conversation with friends with nicely made cold coffee. I don't enjoy it anymore, but even at work, I take one coffee after another, from the machine, because it reminds me nice conversations with friends. I tried so many times to stop it. May be you could advise me, how to trick my mind and body stopping to be a coffee drinker... Thank you....When I do not have access to coffee I don't drink it, and it seems I do not have any need for a long period, but if I have an access to the coffee - I can't control it..I do not understand...
I suggest you drink something else in the place of the coffee. At that moment that you cannot resist the coffee, you need something to drink to replace it, maybe other than water. I suggest you try a variety of possible replacements. In order of best: 1) lemon water with a little salt 2) herbal tea 3) coconut water 4) grain coffee or other coffee substitutes like coconut coffee 5) 100% fruit or vegetable juice with no added sugar. If you usually drink your coffee with sugar, then you may need to have something sweet for the time being to substitute. In that case you can add some stevia. If no stevia or any low-glycemic sweetener available, then use good quality honey.
Namaskar dada . Glad to see you.respected dada I want to know if someone is in such profession which timing is work in night how he can manage this . I work in shift which disturb my life life style how can I manage.
Good video but I am unsure about the advice to start sleep at a specific time guided by the clock. I live in the UK. In the summer at 9pm the sun is shining and it may not be dark until 11pm. In the winter it is dark by 4pm. We also put the clocks back or forward by an hour every six months. Thus going to sleep at a specific clock time throughout the year does not seem to make much sense.
@@MeditationSteps I am in Devon, SW England. In mid-Summer it does not get fully dark until 10pm. I used to live on the west coast of Ireland and sometimes even at 11pm the sky would still be dark blue. Officially it was night time but instinctively it did not feel as though night had arrived. The point that I was trying to make in my clumsy way is that I was surprised that you said that the best time to sleep is linked to a specific time on the clock when the that time might represent very different parts of the day depending on the location in the world and the season. In the winter it is dark at 4pm, I am in my pyjamas by 5 and feeling ready for bed by 9. In summer I may still be working in the garden at 9 with no thoughts of going to bed. In winter I naturally feel like going to bed earlier and getting up later since the night is so long and the temperature so cold. Should I be guided by my feelings or by the clock?
By any means get up latest by 6am, and go outside. If you are careful with your awakening and arising time every morning, the night sleeping time will adjust. Because you are asking the question so you must know that too much sleep also has its negative effects.
What about Moon walkers? Namaskar Dada. I love daylight, and I miss it so much, but I struggle the whole my life to keep good schedule. I did an experiment, while working creatively at home. I was going to sleep when feeling tired and sleeping until I rested well. I need 9 hours of sleep since I remember. And there is no chance after good rest to fall sleep at the same time the day before. So my sleeping hours were rolling forward almost every day. After some time I noticed, that I wake up at Moon rise. It is problem for me, because I prefer to wake up at 3-4 a.m. I try to keep the schedule, but soon or later I fall with the flow and my sleeping hours are lost. Have you ever encountered a similar problem?
I appreciate you were trying to follow your normal sense of tiredness. But "working creatively" sounds like it is using the computer. When we use computer within 90 minutes of appropriate sleeping time, it tends to stimulate us and change our normal sense of tiredness. Some systematic effort is not unnatural, rather it is a human innovation, i.e. system is natural for humans to help themselves to be healthy and productive. So in my experience best to have clear idea of when it is good to sleep, and make no creative efforts for 90 minutes before sleeping. Then if you wake very early, as you say at 3-4am, after doing some early meditation, then let that period be your most creative time. There's a good change!
Yes, this is true what you are saying Dada. I can see clearly now, what I am facing. I have a tendency to hiperfocus. I am working on something I would like to share with you, but is not finished yet. And I can feel the breath of the time on my neck. But I think, it is natural for us too, because that technology is a part of our nature. Thank you for that insight.
As you are falling asleep, make every effort to continue with your mantra in coordination with your breath. Lie in the position which is most helpful for you to do this. For many people this position is on the back. You may also keep your tongue curled back in your mouth while falling asleep to help you stay with the mantra as the mind is drifting off. In this way, you may experience that each time you wake up, that the mantra is still there.
Dear Dada, at current I'm at 6,5 hours of sleep. I sleep around 10 and get up at 4:30. I do this bacause I want to meditate more. I eat twice a day and I exercise. I try not to overeat and have my last meal around 6. I practice in the lineage of Paramahamsa Harahirinanda. Can you advice me on how to reduce my sleeping time to meditate more.
At 10pm do long meditation trying to sit very straight, and trying to remain very alert. When the mind really gets sleepy, then lie down and sleep. And then still get up at 430am
@@MeditationSteps Dear Dada, thank you for this advice. I will go for the Hong Sau technique from Paramahamsa Yogananda. This gives stilness and alertness. Thank you again.
You are so kindly asking if you can translate the video into Russian. Thank you so much for that! I suggest you directly contact the Russian admin of this website to get clarification for that purpose.
Namaste, I dont have inmsonia but generally a light sleep. If not disturbet I will sleep tight all night. but lately I have crumming noise sometime during the night and I wake up and day after day now i feel my heart heavy and feel tachicardia when the noise happen at night and that prevent me to sleep again quickly again or even cant sleep again . I know the solution should be to go away from this location but cant at the moment.
With the help of the Meditation Steps team, i produced a video how to deal with insomnia. And it was just posted last night. I believe it will help you. For example, you can use the Yoga Nidra audio whenever you wake up. And other techniques are also given in that video.
In most cases there definitely is a way. The first step is detoxification, and i will be explaining practical ways to do that in a coming video. In some cases detox is not enough, but it is at least the most crucially important part of the method.
Thank you Sir for the useful information. I have a question. I have a friend who dreamed about ghost in a house. Same house, same corner and same ghost. What does that mean?
What about if you wake up too early, before sunrise, even though you go to sleep at 10 or 11 pm - you wake at 4 am and get only 4 or 5 hours sleep? How to fix this?
If that is not enough sleep for you, and i guess it is not enough because you are expressing it as a problem, then how about going to bed a little earlier, like 9pm or latest by 930pm? There are many who have the natural tendency to wake at 4am, including me. This can be a good thing for many people, including me. So if we need more sleep, then we need to sleep earlier. So i too am particular to sleep sufficiently early!
In the long-term, stopping benzodiazepines is better for your physical and mental health. And even in the short term if natural means can be used it is always much preferable.
Are you sure it is in the genes? More likely it is a very long habit. That can also be changed. And probably better to change it if you can. However, if it is impossible to change, we adjust the best we can with established regularity.
Yes, thank you for your concern. As it is being expressed more and more that many of you need help with insomnia, so i edge closer to making a video on that.
On which side of the world does your head lie better? I heard a lot of controversy about this. One thing is getting better in the north, but worse in the west, etc.
Dada, what about intolerance to cold? What about Chronic Dehydration? Why do I always feel like I’m starving even after eating. What about low dopamine? -Namaskar
1) What is your cardio-vascular exercise routine? 2) How much water do you drink between meals? The water also relates to the feeling of hunger even when full. 3) Dopamine is a result of many things which combine together for a good lifestyle, so to know the answer of this for you it would be needed to know much more of what conditions you have and the details of how your lifestyle is.
@@dadadharmavedananda2225 Thank You Dada. My nose is always blocked I feel like laying down all the time since October. I live like an American. Feeling very insane because I cannot breathe. I feel like I have a fever all the time.
Namaskar dada . Glad to see you.respected dada I want to know if someone is in such profession which timing is work in night how he can manage this . I work in shift which disturb my life life style how can I manage.
Definitely the best would be if you can change to a daytime job, even if it means you will earn less money. But if for some reason it is impossible to change to daytime, by that i mean totally 100% impractical to change -- then please do not worry about it. Rather do your best to adjust with the appropriate number of hours of sleep in a completely dark room. Be sure that your last meal before your sleep is at least about 2 hours before you go to sleep, or your sleep time will mostly be spent in digestion. The key is to maintain the same proportions in all lifestyle elements as you would do in the daytime, but shift them to your reality. And in general eat less heavy food.
00:07 Dada speaks about himself and his forthcoming videos
03:53 How sleeping affects on our nerve system and immune system
15:09 What time should we go to sleep and get up?
21:07 Immune system needs dark nighttime to maintain hormonal balance
23:27 Diseases and bad habits
26:10 Balance between sleep and meditation
Wow, Dada Dharmavedananda finally! Great to have you in the team🙏
Looking forward to seeing more content from you
Glad to be with you all!
I hate baba's in India because most of them whom i know are fake.. but now my mindset change after looking this channel very informative very knowledgeable people are there on this channel .glad to found this channel.. thanks
I love Dada Dharmavedananda!!!!!
I am speechless.
I don’t know if it is appropriate to tell a yogi they are adorable but you are. I have learned so much from your videos and have become so motivated to act on my knowledge. I have been a vegan for about 15 years. But am now about 85 percent raw.
Namaskar Dada,
Firstly, thank you for this really nice and instructive video.
I have been living this dilemma of bad sleeping habits since I'm 16 years old, now I'm 32 years old, it means I have been sleeping badly since half of my life now. Even having a strong spiritual practice and commitment, this is the number 1 issue that put me down in life, all the effort i do in life are often affected by my bad sleep.
I don't understand why I keep having this bad habits knowing that every morning when i wake up, i feel really bad because i went to sleep after midnight and i feel tired already... I cumulate fatigue and i feel angry and grumpy all day, but when night come i feel better and want to enjoy this moment of peace around 10pm and 12pm. Just sometimes when i feel so tired i go to sleep before 11pm and once a week I don't put alarm clock and sleep in the morning to recover of lack of sleep.
In September 2019 i went in an ashram, i succeed for 2 weeks to go to sleep at 9:45pm and wake up at 5am, it was amazing and i thought i was over my bad habits, but it was still hiding somewhere and it came back. And even still leaving in the ashram i struggle with my sleep so much.
Your video inspired me, it's not new information for me though. Maybe I need to find what's behind this inability to change my habits, what do you think ?
Thank you for reading 🙏🏼
Banke Bihari Das
Its possible that the problem is profound. But i doubt that. I believe for you it is just a matter of habit. And the more you follow the good habit of sleeping early, the easier it will be for you to sleep early. I suggest you keep a written log of your sleeping time. And go on competing with yourself to chalk up longer and longer strings of continuous nights that you slept in good time. After some time it will become your way of life. And even when after that you are occasionally forced by circumstances to remain awake longer than you prefer, you will ASAP go back to your good well established habit. This habit comes gradually, but it is so very much worth it!
I have stopped working night shifts for the last 9 years. And that it self makes me feel so much better. Thank you very much to the video and look forward to the next one.
Very good move away from night work! Even if you earn a bit less, but good health is even more important.
Thank you Dada
Very welcome, Kalonji.
Thank you for this video! Please, keep sharing your wisdom!
I don't know if it is wisdom, but thank you!
This channel is really great:) thank you again!
Thank you for your preciose advices.
Thank you! I hope its useful in your life.
Thank You Dada 🙏🙏🙏
You are more than welcome. It is both my duty and my pleasure!
Namaska Dada
happy to see you.
And I too am so happy for your presence and comment
Thank you so much for sharing such precious knowledge. I do take sleeping pills for more than a decade and also need to drink a lot of coffee to be productive. It s such a vicious circle that I don't know how to break (I do feel really awful if drinking less coffee than usual). Hope to hear more about sleeping habits
❤️ Greetings from Brazil
i'm not qualified or anything but i guess you'll just have to power through some days reducing or stopping coffee until the dependency goes away. also even though you will definitely not feel like doing it while feeling awful, some exercise does a pretty good job of pulling the body out of the groggy state
@@aesonone tks for ur idea and I ll definitely start trying it ASAP - just struggled to exercise without the caffeine "motivation", but we ll keep trying. Lots of love and keep safe ❤
Aeson's approach has a good chance of working if you not only add good cardio-vascular exercise, but also drink plenty of water all day long, including lemon water with a dash of salt. That will help so caffeine-related toxins causing addiction are minimized. Plus you need very regular bowel movements, especially early morning after waking. If bowel movements not regular, you can take some Triphala just before sleeping to assist in that. Otherwise toxins being released from avoiding the caffeine feel terrible. Better to get the toxins out through your urine, sweat and stool -- instead of them not coming out and circulating in your body making you feel awful.
Sarvagasana, old man searching reflection qi gong, and halasana helped me about 7years ago to get sleep, i had about 5years problems with sleep, nowdays i instruct yoga cause it helped me lot. Sarvagasana, and halasana are tho not first asanas you should do, of session, but last. and needs to be done right. There is also some no:s, high blood pressure etc etc, study practices thruly if you want to try.
Namaskar! Great energy from your room! Thank you!
It is our collective meditation and yoga-asanas room. Yes, we love this room! (It is a dome building.)
Really good video Dada. Thanks
You're super welcome!
Thank you! Namaskar.
Namaskar and very welcome!
Thank you, Dadaji. This is very helpful for me.
So good to hear from you, my dear brother!
Fantastic first video, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 🙏
Thank you for your encouragement!
One of the most informative videos about maintaining health I have watched. I am looking forward to hearing more! Thank you
Thank you so much. I will try to keep up the quality, rather increase it.
Amazing!
After watching this video,
I shifted my sleeping time more earlier ar 10pm so this morning i wake up at 4:30am effortlessly.
I was able to do pancajanya .
Thanks dada!.
Your instruction gave me a motivation so i was able to restart my practice routine.
I am so looking forward to your upcoming videos.
Another thanks to you,
I visited natural yogic treatment center in Anandanagar at last January.
Thanks for establishing such a benefit place!
Namaskar. That's fantastic!!
thank you so much for your wisdom , I look forward to seeing more of your presentations
Thank you for your encouragement, Tracy!
I loved this video very much, thank you sir.
looking forward to the coming videos
Thank you for the encouragement, Alan. We will try to meet your expectations.
Namaskar Dada. I'm reading your book now it's very good.
Namaskar and thank you!
throughout all my life I have two major problems: 1. to make myself sleep at night, 2. and to make myself wake up in the morning.
Medidation practice doesn't help it (at least for now).
In general, I have a tendency to sleep as much as I could (to hide away from this cruel and punishing reality where nothing is possible to do, to make life less stressfull).
Is it some sort of a disease? ... Well, it defenetly a mental disease...
I vote for discussing connections between mental-psychological problems and sleep, if it possible.
Thank you.
Namaskar.
Your problems are important, and I will do my best to offer systems you can use to solve them. In a coming video.
@@MeditationSteps Let the sun will shine on you!
Namaskar
good video i ever seen, namaskar
Namaskar. Really? that's quite a compliment!
Namaskar Dadaji I am Dharmaviira from Valencia. You initiate mi in 1981. Now I am a Nurse. I am working in a Psychiatric ward. my work schedule is twelve hours night twelve hours day and so always
Dharmaviira -- I remember you! How are you and your family?? As to your question, it seems like it got cut off while you were writing it. Do i dare suggest that you fell asleep while writing it? No, never! Anyway as to what you can do -- when one must stay awake in the nights, its most important for every other element of your life to get as much regularity as possible. This includes water drinking, exercise, kiirtan and meditation, asanas. And very important that food be very easy to digest, and as far as possible never heavy. Plus get some exposure to sunlight on your skin. If you do your best in these other spheres, and if truly you have no choice but to work in the night, then Life will adjust itself for you. In any case, i suggest you put in a request to the hospital that you only work in the daytime, and keep politely repeating that request until it finally gets granted.
Very good talk Dadajii, looking forward ti hear more priceless advices... Namaskar
Thank you for the encouragement!
Namaskar🙏🏻 Dada
I am very very happy to see you here.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful video. And I realized what you said about the benefits of sleeping early and waking early is true because I had the experience of both. And again thank u. I missed you. I love to be around you. Namaskar🙏🏻
Namaskar. I also miss being there surrounded by such beautiful sincere people.
Namaskar ,Dada Shri !...Very Important video, giving tips for the current situation in the world. Thank You !!!
Namaskar and thank you for your encouragement!
Namaskar dadaji. Very nice to see you. Thanks for sharing.
Ganesh (brazil)
So glad to hear from you, Ganesh!!
Really important and inspiring video :-) Hope to hear more from Dada Dharma!
Thank you! More is on the way.
Namaskar dada.. Yes i believe your wellness capabilities... Let's follow what he suggested... I am doing meditation and sleep combination and it cures my insomnia... It changes my life..
Very good to hear!!!
Thank you, very informative video! Im currently trying to convince my night owl sister to sleep better, im definitley going to show her this video. I also try to sleep earlier, curious about the positive effects. Waiting for the future videos, greetings from Hungary!
I am inspired you are watching from there!
Namaskar Dada! For me, I think, the night is something so much comfortable than the day time, seems more beautiful and poetic, with less pressure.. what you have to say about? Thanks for the inspiring video
That certainly has some truth to it. For meditation and contemplation it is a beautiful time. So best to go to bed very early, and get up while it is still dark. That's the best time!!
Namaskar Dada... good to see and listen to your talk again.... in youtube. Hope to join you or see you again some time in person... 😊
Your name is so very familiar. Can you remind me something about yourself? If so, i request you make a completely new comment, not just "reply", or else i may not easily see it. That means i see comments easier than replies.
Namaskar dada, I am Rupanjan also from Kolkata. Immensely enriching to hear from you.
Namaskar. Happy to hear that!
Thank you Dada for this great video. I dream regularly, most of them are unpleasant and I after watching your video I think that not having proper gap between dinner and sleep is the main reason behind it. My wife grumbles a lot in her sleep maybe it's because of the same reason. We will definitely try to change our eating and sleeping habits. Love from Bharat 😊🙏
Perfect! Let us know the good results when you experience them and your wife also enjoys your presence more.
I really loved this video. During this lockdown, my intention is to place more ayurvedic practises into my daily routine. Please do share more of your knowledge on heightening our physical health. I have joined the FB group "Natural and Yogic Treatment". Looking forward to your insights and stories.
Namaskar
Thank you for your comment and keen interest and involvement. And yes, we are step by step making more material.
Thanks Dada for sharing the video. its very informative and as well helpful. and would very much love to hear more from you. Namaskar. Shivam.
Good to hear from you, Shivam!
tks! how about the impact of full moon and new moon in our system and emotions?
please post a video discussing about how to increase our immune system... thanks from Brazil!
Omg dada dharma! :)
Aum!
Namaskar dadajii! I so love this video! It was beautifully explained! I learned a lot! I already shared this with my friends and students whom I know always sleep late. I think this will help them understand that they really have to change their sleeping pattern, especially in this lockdown season. Ever since this lockdown, most of the people are on social media. Some even don't sleep at night and will instead sleep in the morning. This video at least will help them understand what they are actually doing with their bodies. Yes, they might be staying at home but they aren't taking care of themselves really well (through lack of sleep) and that will still make them prone to the virus and any diseases. Thank you very much for this video dadaji! Hope in your next video, you will talk about how to get rid of insomnia because a lot of my friends are struggling with that especially during this time that they somehow adapted a really weird sleeping pattern... Sending you my love from Davao, Maharlika! BNK!
Your wish has been fulfilled. My video about insomnia was just posted. By the way, you are very nearby to Cebu, there in Davao. Do you have a spiritual name?
@@dadadharmavedananda2225 Yes da, I'm Krishnapriya. You already met my sister Iishvarii in Cebu retreat before. She's with our acharya Didi Radhika that time. 😁
Very fine, Krishnapriya! Let me know whenever you come to Cebu. Best to write me in advance to see if i will be in Cebu at the time you are thinking to come.
Yes dadajii! I will! 😊 Thank you very much and hope to see you soon. 🙏
Thank you ! I was just wondering about healthy sleep , can you please suggest more practical tools for good sleep.
Thanks for your question. I will definitely make a video soon with such tools.
I go to bed at 22:00 for several years. I fall asleep quickly. In the beginning, I could get up for morning practice at 5-6 in the morning without any problems. Now I can’t get up before 7-8 from the bed. I sleep for 10 hours. There are a lot of dreams that I remember in the morning. Why did this start to happen to me?
Namaskare dada, thanks for the knowledge and information! Please can you explain why is so important to be vegetarian? And what is the best food to stay strong and healthy! 🙏🏻
Regarding the best food to stay healthy, i will be explaining in coming videos. As to the main reasons to be vegetarian a) because healthy vegetarian (not heavy fried, sugary, or refined grains) is much easier to digest than meat/fish/eggs b) the essence of goodness is to act in such a way that consciousness is increased in ourselves and in others. But animal eating means destroying highly developed consciousness, as opposed to vegetable eating in which lower consciousness is taken. c) Animal raising is nowadays very harmful to the society. d) Highly developed minds cannot stand to unnecessarily kill or even harm others.
Thank you, Dada! I agree and feel all the benefits that have you shared. I am wondering how to support people who says that their body work better changing day per night. Thank you! Namaskar!
It is mostly a matter of habit that leads people to believe they function better in the night than in the day. Leaving aside all the science I expressed during the video, it is clear that essentially 100% of yogiis get up early in the morning, enjoy deep meditation, and mostly avoid sleep in the daytime. The time for the yogiis to sleep is always in the night, not in the day. The fact that this is the consensus of yogiis, who are the people who have made endless experiments with their bodies and minds, suggests that exchanging day and night is not the best way.
Thanks for precise information, I want to meditate in the early morning but I feel sleepy, after some times i have to sleep. How can change this?
Regards from Afghanistan
If you are going to fall sleep late, then the best thing would be to arrange your sleeping time to shift to an earlier time, as you clearly need more sleep. Please go to bed earlier in the evening, still maintaining a sufficient gap after your dinner.
Thank you very much for this video. I would like to hear more about liver -- how can we improve our health when the liver is struggling with pesticides and heavy metals in our food. i can not afford organic food unfortunately.
People in Maharlika (Philippines) can also in many cases not afford organic. There are ways, and i will present them in a coming video.
I really appreciate the advice. However, from much experience I know that if I go to sleep at 930 or 10 I wake in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back asleep. I’m a morning person and love being awake at 530 or 6 but my system seems to function best if I delay sleep until 11 or midnight. It’s probably not ideal but an early bedtime ends up with me feeling wretched because of broken sleep.
If you go to bed at 11am, sleep deeply, and you get up at 530 or 6am and feel completely rested, no problem, its also good. Some individual qualities are also relevant.
Namaskar,
It is a very nice video. I have been suffering from Insomnia for last few months and due to this I have been suffering from stress and depression. I am also under antidepressants for helping me sleep. Still it becomes difficult for me to get sleep at night. I try to sleep by 10:30 but I am still awake after 12. I some how wake up at 5 in the morning for meditation but by 7am I start feeling sleepy and go back sleep for another couple of hours. How can I change my sleep pattern?
Your comment is the sort that i was expecting might come if any of you were suffering from insomnia. My response to this requires an entire video, and i will do it.
Namaskar Dada! I really enjoyed your video. Very helpful specially at this time.
I live in the Philippines, I wish I could visit your center in Cebu one day.
Do you know any breathing exercise that could strengthen the respiratory system?
Where are you living in Maharlika? For breathing exercise, look up Brahmana Pranayama. Its very helpful.
@@MeditationSteps I live in Quezon City in Metro Manila. Hope to meet you soon Dada! Looking forward to your next video 🙏
Do you have any suggestions for what to do to get back to sleep after waking up in the night?
I have just recorded a video on dealing with insomnia. It will likely be posted in Meditation Steps within this week.
Thanks for information, dadaji! is it necessary to use pillow or something like it or no?
Generally it is better to use something under the head so that the neck does not get stretched in the wrong way. For most people that means a pillow, even a thick firm one. For me and other renunciants, however -- we are not to use pillows. So i use a yoga block (as you can see in the photo leading into the video)!
Thank you. Very helpful. Where in Cebu are you? I know Philippines well. Cebu if such a busy town and not very green but Cebu island hosts a lot of green and beautiful places.
In Pagsabungan, Manduae. Yes, not far to green scenes, but being over 65 i am not supposed to go out. Even though my immune system is younger than my age!
Dear Dada, I have a problem. I became addicted to the coffee. I don't like it really, but I am from Greece and in Greece and Turkey coffee is a part of the culture. Socially, nothing is better than summer conversation with friends with nicely made cold coffee. I don't enjoy it anymore, but even at work, I take one coffee after another, from the machine, because it reminds me nice conversations with friends. I tried so many times to stop it. May be you could advise me, how to trick my mind and body stopping to be a coffee drinker... Thank you....When I do not have access to coffee I don't drink it, and it seems I do not have any need for a long period, but if I have an access to the coffee - I can't control it..I do not understand...
I suggest you drink something else in the place of the coffee. At that moment that you cannot resist the coffee, you need something to drink to replace it, maybe other than water. I suggest you try a variety of possible replacements. In order of best: 1) lemon water with a little salt 2) herbal tea 3) coconut water 4) grain coffee or other coffee substitutes like coconut coffee 5) 100% fruit or vegetable juice with no added sugar. If you usually drink your coffee with sugar, then you may need to have something sweet for the time being to substitute. In that case you can add some stevia. If no stevia or any low-glycemic sweetener available, then use good quality honey.
Dear Dada, what would you recommend someone who works permanent in the night time. Thank you very much.
Please see the answer i gave to Amlan Ranjan Sutar, as his question was the same.
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Namaskar dada . Glad to see you.respected dada I want to know if someone is in such profession which timing is work in night how he can manage this . I work in shift which disturb my life life style how can I manage.
Replied to the same question in another part of the comments. Please check and see.
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Namaskar and thank you
Good video but I am unsure about the advice to start sleep at a specific time guided by the clock.
I live in the UK. In the summer at 9pm the sun is shining and it may not be dark until 11pm. In the winter it is dark by 4pm. We also put the clocks back or forward by an hour every six months. Thus going to sleep at a specific clock time throughout the year does not seem to make much sense.
Yes you can adjust your sleeping time slightly by the sun. But i never saw in UK that darkness only came at 11pm. What part of UK is that?
@@MeditationSteps I am in Devon, SW England. In mid-Summer it does not get fully dark until 10pm. I used to live on the west coast of Ireland and sometimes even at 11pm the sky would still be dark blue. Officially it was night time but instinctively it did not feel as though night had arrived.
The point that I was trying to make in my clumsy way is that I was surprised that you said that the best time to sleep is linked to a specific time on the clock when the that time might represent very different parts of the day depending on the location in the world and the season.
In the winter it is dark at 4pm, I am in my pyjamas by 5 and feeling ready for bed by 9. In summer I may still be working in the garden at 9 with no thoughts of going to bed.
In winter I naturally feel like going to bed earlier and getting up later since the night is so long and the temperature so cold. Should I be guided by my feelings or by the clock?
Any advise for those who sleeping to much (10-11 hours)?
By any means get up latest by 6am, and go outside. If you are careful with your awakening and arising time every morning, the night sleeping time will adjust. Because you are asking the question so you must know that too much sleep also has its negative effects.
Dada really i dont get in sleep, i effort so much but cant help myself into sleep
What about Moon walkers? Namaskar Dada. I love daylight, and I miss it so much, but I struggle the whole my life to keep good schedule. I did an experiment, while working creatively at home. I was going to sleep when feeling tired and sleeping until I rested well. I need 9 hours of sleep since I remember. And there is no chance after good rest to fall sleep at the same time the day before. So my sleeping hours were rolling forward almost every day. After some time I noticed, that I wake up at Moon rise.
It is problem for me, because I prefer to wake up at 3-4 a.m. I try to keep the schedule, but soon or later I fall with the flow and my sleeping hours are lost. Have you ever encountered a similar problem?
I appreciate you were trying to follow your normal sense of tiredness. But "working creatively" sounds like it is using the computer. When we use computer within 90 minutes of appropriate sleeping time, it tends to stimulate us and change our normal sense of tiredness. Some systematic effort is not unnatural, rather it is a human innovation, i.e. system is natural for humans to help themselves to be healthy and productive. So in my experience best to have clear idea of when it is good to sleep, and make no creative efforts for 90 minutes before sleeping. Then if you wake very early, as you say at 3-4am, after doing some early meditation, then let that period be your most creative time. There's a good change!
Yes, this is true what you are saying Dada. I can see clearly now, what I am facing. I have a tendency to hiperfocus. I am working on something I would like to share with you, but is not finished yet. And I can feel the breath of the time on my neck. But I think, it is natural for us too, because that technology is a part of our nature. Thank you for that insight.
Dear Dada, is there a way to stay conscious while the body goes to sleep? I always fall asleep.
As you are falling asleep, make every effort to continue with your mantra in coordination with your breath. Lie in the position which is most helpful for you to do this. For many people this position is on the back. You may also keep your tongue curled back in your mouth while falling asleep to help you stay with the mantra as the mind is drifting off. In this way, you may experience that each time you wake up, that the mantra is still there.
@@MeditationSteps Om Sat Chit Ananada, thank you so much. I will try this tonight.
Dear Dada, at current I'm at 6,5 hours of sleep. I sleep around 10 and get up at 4:30. I do this bacause I want to meditate more. I eat twice a day and I exercise. I try not to overeat and have my last meal around 6. I practice in the lineage of Paramahamsa Harahirinanda. Can you advice me on how to reduce my sleeping time to meditate more.
At 10pm do long meditation trying to sit very straight, and trying to remain very alert. When the mind really gets sleepy, then lie down and sleep. And then still get up at 430am
@@MeditationSteps Dear Dada, thank you for this advice. I will go for the Hong Sau technique from Paramahamsa Yogananda. This gives stilness and alertness. Thank you again.
Можно сделать перевод этой лекции на русский? Было бы очень хорошо! Спасибо.
You are so kindly asking if you can translate the video into Russian. Thank you so much for that! I suggest you directly contact the Russian admin of this website to get clarification for that purpose.
Meditation steps Thank you!
Namaste, I dont have inmsonia but generally a light sleep. If not disturbet I will sleep tight all night. but lately I have crumming noise sometime during the night and I wake up and day after day now i feel my heart heavy and feel tachicardia when the noise happen at night and that prevent me to sleep again quickly again or even cant sleep again .
I know the solution should be to go away from this location but cant at the moment.
With the help of the Meditation Steps team, i produced a video how to deal with insomnia. And it was just posted last night. I believe it will help you. For example, you can use the Yoga Nidra audio whenever you wake up. And other techniques are also given in that video.
Dear Dada, could you talk about allergies? Is there a natural way to cure them other then taking antihistamine drugs?
In most cases there definitely is a way. The first step is detoxification, and i will be explaining practical ways to do that in a coming video. In some cases detox is not enough, but it is at least the most crucially important part of the method.
I follow a vegetarian diet and also dry fast once a week but that doesn't seem to help. Looking forward for your new video!
Thank you Sir for the useful information. I have a question. I have a friend who dreamed about ghost in a house. Same house, same corner and same ghost. What does that mean?
Same ghost? What does that mean? And which house?
@@MeditationSteps He dreamt of a ghost in a house which he doesn't know of. And it's always the same scenario and the same dream for a few times.
What about if you wake up too early, before sunrise, even though you go to sleep at 10 or 11 pm - you wake at 4 am and get only 4 or 5 hours sleep? How to fix this?
If that is not enough sleep for you, and i guess it is not enough because you are expressing it as a problem, then how about going to bed a little earlier, like 9pm or latest by 930pm? There are many who have the natural tendency to wake at 4am, including me. This can be a good thing for many people, including me. So if we need more sleep, then we need to sleep earlier. So i too am particular to sleep sufficiently early!
Benjodizapines😊....???
In the long-term, stopping benzodiazepines is better for your physical and mental health. And even in the short term if natural means can be used it is always much preferable.
What about being a genetic nightowl
Are you sure it is in the genes? More likely it is a very long habit. That can also be changed. And probably better to change it if you can. However, if it is impossible to change, we adjust the best we can with established regularity.
What about insomnia....????
Yes, thank you for your concern. As it is being expressed more and more that many of you need help with insomnia, so i edge closer to making a video on that.
On which side of the world does your head lie better? I heard a lot of controversy about this. One thing is getting better in the north, but worse in the west, etc.
Dada, what about intolerance to cold? What about Chronic Dehydration? Why do I always feel like I’m starving even after eating. What about low dopamine?
-Namaskar
1) What is your cardio-vascular exercise routine? 2) How much water do you drink between meals? The water also relates to the feeling of hunger even when full. 3) Dopamine is a result of many things which combine together for a good lifestyle, so to know the answer of this for you it would be needed to know much more of what conditions you have and the details of how your lifestyle is.
@@dadadharmavedananda2225 Thank You Dada. My nose is always blocked I feel like laying down all the time since October. I live like an American. Feeling very insane because I cannot breathe. I feel like I have a fever all the time.
Namaskar dada . Glad to see you.respected dada I want to know if someone is in such profession which timing is work in night how he can manage this . I work in shift which disturb my life life style how can I manage.
Definitely the best would be if you can change to a daytime job, even if it means you will earn less money. But if for some reason it is impossible to change to daytime, by that i mean totally 100% impractical to change -- then please do not worry about it. Rather do your best to adjust with the appropriate number of hours of sleep in a completely dark room. Be sure that your last meal before your sleep is at least about 2 hours before you go to sleep, or your sleep time will mostly be spent in digestion. The key is to maintain the same proportions in all lifestyle elements as you would do in the daytime, but shift them to your reality. And in general eat less heavy food.
@@MeditationSteps Namaskar Dada.Thankyou dada