The other day at Qigong there was talk of the problems around sleep hygiene, like it is the hardest issue to fix in a few different ways. Like you have your guard down in sleep and shit can get at you from a number of different angles. There is a key issue that we discussed but I won’t go into it deeply.

Say you get the Qi energy and the upkeep but because of the world we are in you just keep falling back. Sleep hygiene can be the main reason because your desires can get at you in that down time. It isn’t just desire but that’s a key issue, but wait there is more. A lot of people can’t unwind and sleep.

We can normally deal with gluttony for example by just using some will power but in sleep you have almost zero will power to muster up. Also you might be in and out of sleep, life dramas and your mind ticking over. When things are quiet you just drop into reflection. Most people can’t deal with it.

I am not going to use language that might come across as spiritual because people think you are on some evangelical mission and on that indoctrination grind. But in our class we use spiritual terms which in Chinese culture are not spiritual matters but practical matters of the human condition.

If you get kind of meta about it, all language is part of the human condition, it is not just categories of cultural heritage. Lets just say that the western Christian tradition which mostly is rejected for having state power in the past has meant that certain words are instantly rejected as magical thinking.

This position also allows first nations cultures to be rejected for a cosmology that was replaced by either Christianity or scientific thinking (closed systems). Nobody focused on the human condition which can be mapped through various languages and cultures. So to not scare anyone away I use the term sleep hygiene.

But fundamentally you can describe all sorts of practical things in a number of different ways like having a nine chamber grid and applying data to it. The grid is not only a grid it can also be a circle and turn cyclically. This logic comes from seasonal processes and agricultural systems. You can also stack contexts so no stone is left unturned and most importantly you can be fully human.