“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)
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God Bless us, everyone
Amen, sister!
great. I wake up every nigth to pee. I choose a new way of sleep
I practically fell out of my chair when I heard this.
Every two hours for me! It’s a good night when I actually sleep 3 – 3 and a half hours without getting up once. I miss sleeping through the night.
Start tonight!!
TMI = BNT (Best News Today!) Rock on with your bad self and TYN (THANK YOU, NEXT!!) 🤗
LY!!! TY!
Tom and I say, “Hooray!” I continue to love sleeping through the night now that we are back on dry land. I’m glad you posted this because I think I need to embrace this idea in some other aspects of life lately. Love!
Yep! That’s the point. Examining all we believe is impossible.
Love this, Pam! Reminds me of inspiring stories shared by Dr. David Hawkins in his books on consciousness. In Healing And Recovery he talked how his family shared a belief they were all susceptible to allergies; it was like, “This is just what happens in our family” kind of thing. So he suffered with many allergies. But later in life he did a lot of inner work (and was a student of The Course in Miracles) and questioned whether the allergy belief was even true. As a psychiatrist and medical doctor he studied cases where people with multiple personality disorders had an allergy in one personality but not in the other: The only difference was the belief held in the mind. “What’s held in mind expresses in the body,” he wrote. His incredible personal story of healing allergies & a myriad of diseases using techniques from inner discovery of the Presence of God is very inspiring. But as you note, curiosity — “is this even true?” — can be applied to any belief that limits our fullest experience and highest expression of life. And btw, loved your post earlier today about the daily intention to erase anything that blocks the energy of God. I’ve always struggled with the notion — widespread in spiritual communities — of intentional manifesting because the mind has limited ideas about how great things could get whereas God most definitely knows, so why not skip the “middle mind” and go directly to Source?! Anyway, it’s been a day of inspiration from your writings and I deeply appreciate it XXOO
LOVE David Hawkins! His work is profound!
I love this! I’ve started getting up twice a night 😜 and it’s annoying. I will now decide that doesn’t have to be true. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Please do!
I love this! Twice a night for me. I’m embracing that it no longer needs to be true. I’ll let you know how it goes. 😊
Thanks!!
If I sleep until 2am I’m lucky – then lie awake until 6 am, ready to stumble out of bed and slug through the day. I have all your books dear Pam – I think it is time for me to reread them! I love you and all you wonderful friends out there. Diane in SC.
It’s a prevailing story, like many stories we fail to examine if really true.
Oh, I can relate to Diane in SC. And I love your words too! Here’s to achieving whatever we want in life, sleep and all! 🙏
Sleep or lack thereof is only one of many beliefs we’ve fallen for. I love we can rewrite.
Love this and love you! Thanks for all of the inspiration you share, Pam. How to do this successfully? Simply say, “Maybe I’m not someone who needs to get up to pee during the night.” Or, “I’m done getting up to pee during the night.” Would love a little coaching here – do I need to fully suspend disbelief for this to work? I remember Wayne Dyer saying that when you believe it, you’ll see it. I’m not convinced (yet) that I could sleep through the night after all of the liquid I drink while awake during the day and evening. Thoughts? Advice? thanks!
For me, it was a belief I had never questioned. I took it for a fact. Turns out, it wasn’t true. First step is being open to the possibility.
Hi Pam. How right you are. I did the same thing without any of the purposeful intention. Ever since I was a kid, I had to get up in the middle of the night. Now I sleep the night through. For me, it just happened. I am not sure why. But I did recognize the wonder of it and I celebrate it every day! or night! I am now focusing on changing other lifelong beliefs that do not necessarily serve me – they are just old beliefs which created habits. It is an exciting time to be alive.
Celebrating this every day!
Pam, this is such a helpful reminder that we don’t need to accept the “normal’ way life is supposed to work. I hereby decide that as I gain in years, I also grow stronger and healthier. Also, sleep through the night with amazing dreams!
Enjoy your amazing dreams!!!
I , too, used to get up at night and pee until I decided I wasn’t going to do that anymore. I sleep through the night also. What a great example of using our thoughts for change.
HI Pam. Do you just ignore the urge to go when you awake at night and continue to sleep?
I’m no sleep expert. Just using that as one tiny example of how our beliefs sometimes lock in a “truth” that may not be true.
Woohoo!!! This is so cool!! I hardly ever have to get up to pee but I wake up numerous times a night, and I have just come to accept that this is my reality these days!! Why have I not questioned this?? Ooooohhhh it’s so exciting to think about all the many, many other things I have come to accept as normal or fact but are just what I have decided is true. Oh yeah! Sleeping through the night – here it comes! Yeah!!! Thank you Pamela Sue! I am very grateful for YOU! 😄💃🥳😴😉
That’s the point—questioning all our beliefs. Thank you, my friend!!
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Lol dumb question but…How do you make yourself believe this!?
Dumb question….but HOW do you make yourself believe this!?
It’s not about making yourself believe. It’s about recognizing that maybe there is a different possibility.
Thank you Pam for inspiring me to furthermore believe I can be a morning person@ 73 after struggling with this for years💝
So funny, a few years ago we were invited on a sailboat trip with friends. I was horrified to think I may wake everyone up every time I had to pee at night; typically 3-4 times a night. So, for months before the trip I worked so hard, waiting as long as I could… holding it. In 3 months or so later I got to the point I didn’t have to go, if so only once. 5 years later I still rarely go to the bathroom at night. Mind over matter.
Thank you Peggy. As always another amazingly, awesome post. Love the advise and will put it to work all day and night with all those limiting beliefs 🙂 To the moon and beyond.
An excellent observation, I’ve come to the conclusion that we never have to do anything. I’m quite certain that we don’t actually need to sleep, eat or even pee. I’m equally convinced that everything that we believe we need to do is simply borne out of fear.
I do eat, sleep, poop and pee. I haven’t reached a level of understanding where I can get past those things. I do however live free of sickness, pain or sacrifice of any kind. I let go of these things because I see no value in them.
Maybe I eat, sleep and poop because I do like these things. Either way everything we experience here is simply our choice.
I love going back every morning and reading 10 or so of these posts you do, it remind me of the magic of the Universe, the magic available to me in my life. Some years ago, I was in a very bad place, I had lost everything, my home, my job, my animals. I kept my kindle with me and constantly read things out of Thank and Grow Rich, E Squared and E Cubed, any free moment I had I opened one of your books and they saved my life. Thank you Pam, you are a miracle worker for others, for me, and you have changed my life.
I can relate to this completely in the sleep department 😆
When I was younger, I used to be too scared to wake up to pee. Why I don’t know as we lived in a tiny one bed flat so the toilet was not far. Nevertheless, when I woke up to pee, I would pull the blanket over my head and will the pee away. I was just so scared😂 now that I’m an adult and I hear other people complain, I always say, I never get up and I sleep a deep sleep 😂 I didn’t realised it is because I trained myself when I was so young but it did come back to me eventually as to why I don’t get up in the night 😂
I have been trying this for a while but it doesn’t work. For example, last night I was having a dream that my late dad was playing loud music in my ear to wake me up. it was because I really had to use the bathroom.
I just love watching how the universe provides answers! I, too, have believed I am incapable of sleeping through the night. Just this morning I was researching supplements that could help, then I read this and thought “duh!”. Well, of course, I get up each night . . . because that’s the story I’ve been telling myself. Thank you for the timely reminder that I truly can do anything. Now to start telling myself a new story. Thanks, Pam!
Waking up several times during the night to pee has been my story for a couple of years too. Thanks ladies, thanks Pam, I’m gonna try this!!