Dear JMG, You thoughts, if you would be so kind, on an odd use of the Middle Pillar Exercise. I'm a lifelong insomniac, and with age have begun to wake in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep again. (I could write a book on clever ideas to counter insomnia, by the way.) One night, in desperation, I tried mentally doing the MP Exercise, lying in bed and just repeating the names of the spheres and trying to move the energy up and down, and soon found myself apparently dozing for a few seconds, or at least forgetting where I had got to. After a while, it became clear that a lot of time had passed, without being sure that I had actually slept. I've continued doing this from time to time: at the very least it's better that being consciously awake. From your knowledge of the MP Exercise, what do you think is going on here? And is it the sort of thing you can do for long periods of time without risk? Thank you.
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You thoughts, if you would be so kind, on an odd use of the Middle Pillar Exercise.
I'm a lifelong insomniac, and with age have begun to wake in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep again. (I could write a book on clever ideas to counter insomnia, by the way.) One night, in desperation, I tried mentally doing the MP Exercise, lying in bed and just repeating the names of the spheres and trying to move the energy up and down, and soon found myself apparently dozing for a few seconds, or at least forgetting where I had got to. After a while, it became clear that a lot of time had passed, without being sure that I had actually slept. I've continued doing this from time to time: at the very least it's better that being consciously awake. From your knowledge of the MP Exercise, what do you think is going on here? And is it the sort of thing you can do for long periods of time without risk?
Thank you.