The Art of Napping

I am going to share with you the art of napping, the art of having a nap, sleep, sleeping in, whatever you want to call it.

Now, this is one of the best skills I feel like I have taught my daughter since she was a baby.

She would wake up early in the morning, sometimes 5am.

I'm like, no, this is not on.

I'm not being a sleep deprived mother.

Um, we're going back to bed.

You go back to bed and I'm going to go back to bed.

Now, a lot of the time, like the babies will feed off what you're doing.

And we were both so well rested.

And there are times where when she was little, if we were driving from Wanaka over the Crown Range to Queenstown, it's a windy and hilly road.

She would sometimes get a As soon as we hit the crown range, I'd say, Violet, go to sleep.

And she would be out within a minute.

I just loved it.

She'd wake up 20 minutes later.

We're on the other side of the hill.

And she's like, oh, we're here already.

And she wasn't sick.

She wasn't having the vomits and all that kind of stuff.

So napping is so great.

And I have recorded some podcasts around recurring dreams and nightmares.

And why I'm sharing this is because I see our daytime activities as the masculine energy and our nighttime, restful, sleeping, quiet time activities as the feminine energy.

And ideally, I love to teach people to be able to process their experiences, their emotions in the moment or very soon after.

But the reason I see a lot of people get recurring dreams or recurring nightmares is because during the day, they're so busy with a masculine energy, their push, their do, their physical, which actually doesn't leave a lot of room.

and space for us to be able to process our emotions.

Because why is it that we don't process our emotions? One is we don't know how, two is we don't give ourselves space and time.