Many empathic souls seem to share a common thread in their lives – the lack of sleep.
In my experience, many of the reasons given to us by others for our lack of sleep makes us wrong for our insomnia – ‘your mind is too busy, you shouldn’t have watched that movie, you were working too late that night, you didn’t calm down enough before bed’ etc.
While these reasons describe what may physically happen whilst being awake, I don’t believe they ought to be used as ‘pointed accusations’ to someone who is only doing the best they can.
What if there are reasons that we are not sleeping that allow us to be and feel on-track and empowered in our own lives?
Just because we are not sleeping, doesn’t make us wrong for not sleeping.
In fact, it makes us uniquely gifted.
For the energetically sensitive, no sleep has its advantages. In my own experience, no sleep actually allows me to focus more on certain activities.
With no sleep, if I feel like I’m getting off-track in a certain area – you better believe I feel it. Therefore, lacking sleep gives me a keen awareness of my emotional stance in the moment and lets me know when I’m focusing myself in a way that is cutting me off from my natural wellbeing.
This perspective feels a lot better to me than making myself wrong or shoulding on myself that I didn’t do something right in the moment or the night before. After all, we’ll live our life by the reasons we adhere to.
Not only does it feel better, but seeing it as a gift actually aligns me with a reality where I’m seeing all the reasons why it’s a gift, and not a hindrance.
Allowing the lack of sleep to be there in your body, making it a welcomed part of your experience – instead of something to be ‘cured’ or ‘fixed’ – is forgiveness for the self you think caused it.
When the feeling arises, instead of making it wrong, make it a gift. It’s okay to be here.
It’s like I’m seeing myself from a greater perspective where, even if I worked late the night before, I now see the me, who performed that action, with a great compassion instead of a wrongdoer who is unable to do what’s best for himself.
We’re always doing something right, even when we’re not sleeping.
I can congratulate myself on completing the task of not sleeping so perfectly. As silly as this sounds, it works! My reality shifts.
Although the experience of no sleep can feel harsh on the body, in my own life, the experience of shifting to a viewpoint where no matter how much sleep has been had ‘it’s a gift and it’s happening for reasons that go beyond my current level of understanding’, seems to allow for the fullest and most easeful reality that I can live in.
It all seems to be perfectly orchestrated, no matter how we are able to feel about it right now.
The moments where I have felt the greatest gratitude are the same moments I’ve intuitively seen all the cooperative components that pieced together to form that moment – be it a lack of sleep, a lack of money, going someplace, feeling down, a chance meeting etc.
Not sleeping, along with infinite other occurrences, will also be a divine component in the intricate tapestry of our lives. Something that without, would not enrich us with the knowledge, experience or wisdom needed to form our greatest expansion.