This is probably more than you need to know

“Nirvana is where you are, provided you don’t object to it.” — Alan Watts

My favorite aspect of infinite potentiality is that it’s, well infinite—meaning that it continues to expand. Love, light, joy—there’s no end point, no finish line.

What’s possible in our lives is limited only by our beliefs.

So here’s a belief I carried for probably 40 years. I believed I was a person incapable of sleeping through the night.

I didn’t deem this a problem, per se. I just thought it was my constitution, how it was. My “story” was further cemented into my consciousness by consensus reality that tells us that as we age, getting up to pee (That, by the way, is the bit that’s more than you really need to know) is par for the course.

So a couple years ago, my old college roommate, who lived on a yacht with her husband for three years, told me she started sleeping through the night. I was dumfounded.

Really?

“Yes,” she explained, “Our bedroom on the yacht is so tiny, that, if I need to go the head (boatspeak for bathroom), I have to crawl over Tom (her Mister).” So she decided to quit getting up to pee.

Just like that.

Her words, said in passing, inspired me to consider that as a possibility. What if it’s not true that I’m person who can’t sleep through the night?

Certainly, I had stacked up a lot of evidence. Even when I was 16, working at a camp in Colorado, I got up every night around 3 or 4 a.m. to stumble to the camp bathroom, often passing bears rifling through the trash.

But what if the reality “I don’t sleep through the night” only plays out in my life because I believed it for so long. Because I read some article somewhere about biorhythms and melatonin levels changing as we age.

I’m sure you can guess why I’ve chosen to let you in on my bedtime activities.  Because it demonstrates a profound truth. That simply opening to possibilities never before considered can change everything.

And, yes, I now regularly sleep through the night!

Have the best Friday of your life, my comrades in ever-expanding possibilities!

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)