Step Three ~ The Kjrsos Wakening Practice
The Threshold
Just know what comes next won't work if you haven't followed the steps already given.
No alarm clock. No telling your brain you need to get up at 6 am. We need to allow the brain the time it needs to rest, to connect, to clean, to experience without the endless chatter that is us when we are awake.
Now that doesn't mean if Fido wakes you up, or your own restless bladder says it needs a trip to the bathroom, that you can't try to go back to bed afterwards and find the mind that drifts as if it is still half asleep.
A little tip: often the best way is to allow yourself to drift back to sleep, if only for half a minute, and wake up gently once again.
The key here is gentle. We want to be in that place where we drift. That place where we are still half asleep. The place where we daydream. The place we can sometimes find ourselves when we gently wake up, and our mind is still half-dreaming. Our thoughts jumble, and in some ways, what comes next makes no sense. That place where it is easy to drift back to sleep.
This is about waking, and there is no waking if there is no sleep. Sleep has to always be on the edge of this.
And at this stage, if all that your brain wants is to drift back in and out of sleep, then that is a wonderful place to be. A wonderful place to start. A wonderful place to train your mind and experience this practice.
A moment to sit with
Have you ever caught yourself at that threshold — half asleep, half awake, thoughts going strange and soft? What was there, in that place?
There is no rush. Come back when you are ready — tomorrow is a good word for it.
