Amrit vela

[S1ngh]

Arghhhhh i tried and tried soooo00000ooooo hard to make my routine to wake up during amritvela.. (at least 5am) but i couldn't do it... :umm: (even having three alarm clock around me) :umm: ..

Is it only me who is having sooo hard time to wake up @ amritvela? Rite now my bani time is like.. Nitneem before 12 pm (most of tha time i do it in the skool library) and rehraas before 12am ..

Any tips/tricks for this lazy singh will be appreciated :St:

[Pheena]

you are definetly not alone.....i have tried and tried, but Laziness yet pervailes again. I used to work in the morning and i had to leave at like 4:30am which was an hour drive to work.. Truthfully speaking those were the best time of my life. That hour of driving was so blissfulll listening to kirtan. I wish i could find a job that made me get up so early.

Waheguru.

[Akaali]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

Waheguroooo!!! Man I'm having the same problems!!!

Its tough waking up amritvela, when starting out...Here are some tips, that I got from some chardi kalaa Gursikhs, since I'm a lazy bugger myself :umm:

FIRST AND FOREMOST: This is the one that works for me alllllll the time. Do 'Sohila' paath, then do an ardaas, with love asking for strength to wake up in the morning. I don't need an alarm clock or anything, and you'll be amazed at how it works!!!

- If you need lots of sleep(like me), try to goto sleep before 9, that way you get your sleep and wake up amritvela as well. Try to avoid watching tv, or jumping on the computer, because one clip leads to another, and a clip leads to watchin the show, same on the computer. So keep it in mind, I wanna put like a small note on my TV, saying in big letters "MAYA" that way you don't get hooked on watchin cuz you see the sign, :umm: a small little trick I thought of.

- Drink lotttts of water when you goto sleep, like 2-3 glasses. FACT: Its better to drink water before sleeping, because it helps you digest the food as you sleep.

- Try

not to use a blanket, like a cozy blanket, or a "rajaee". Use either a 'chadar' or a 'kambal' which doesn't have fur, because that makes you lazy, and in amritvela, you don't feel like waking up because your bed is all warm! :D

- Put the alarm clock moderately loud, and NEVER put it beside your bed, put it further away from you so, you have to walk to turn it off. If its nearby you usually close the alarm, and go back to sleep.

I hope that helps, if you follow one or any of these steps you'll have no problem getting up. Bhul chuk maaf!

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[Pheena]

good points veer ji,

Waheguru

[Guest mehtab]

man now that its winter, its gonna be worse to try to get up during amritvela :umm: ...i sleep at 3 am or 4 am and feel really guilty for going to bed during amritvela :'( , but i think one's body shud be rested before doing nitnem hana? :umm: daljeet your tips are really good, especially the alarm one, coz i keep punching my snooze and dozing off...lol...and also the rajaai one...yaar tu thand ch maarna lokkaan nu? ...nah juz kidding...i know it does help...i wear thick clothes n take rajaai so that i dont feel cold, neither do i feel warm enuff to make me lazy to get up.

may Gurujee bless us all with amritvelle da nitnem

[Mkhalsa]

Rochak veer jee, who cares about rest? try doing nitnem first :umm: haha.. it doesnt feel the same but its better than nothing, and theres nothing like the feeling of falling asleep doing waheguroo.. waheguroo.. thats what i do if ive gotten wayyyy too late.. i try to do amritvela sitting in my bed, so if i fall asleep im doing naam jap while asleep haha.. :nihungsmile:

and vicky singh, talk to jagdish singh about this.. ask him to tell you what hes told me.. its a long speech but worth it :umm:

[Guest mehtab]

this is for mkhalsa --->>>

u r so right veer...why care bout rest...i m gonna try my best...i yawn like anything thruout nitnem even if i have slept properly or not slept at all :umm: ...but u r still right...

oye koi mennu we bhai jagdish singh di speech bhejjo :umm:

[me moorakh mugadh]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

manu bhe and well said veer mkhalsa jee

[Guest balwinderkaur]

oh gosh YESSSS YES YES i admit ive got problems waking up during amritvela..o ive got problems waking up at all times cuz i juz dun wanna get up .

well what i used to do is that i will schedule my study time from 11pm all the way to 4am......study all the way till i'm really bushed,,then take a nice shower and sit down to do amritvela.....alt. i'll be yawning like anything but still bottomline is that i'll be doing bani *lol* Sorry Gurujee im such a paapee. :umm:

k some tips for sleepyheads out there like me who can never get up for amritvela.

1) NO LATE NIGHT TV

2)Do not consume beverages like milk/milo before u go to sleep..cuz these make u sleepier and u have more difficulty

waking up

3) As far as possible, avoid having supper(if you love eating liek i do... )

4) Rest u can refer to daljeet veerjees ideas...their quite good and they work...but i honestly think they oughta invent an alarm clock with a built it 'hathori'(hammer).....so that the moment it rings it can also give us a good knock on our heads to jolt us....then i think w

e wont have much problem waking up cuz each morning we get a shock with that hammer. :umm: or we each oughta have a pet like"Thing" from the Addams Family so it gives a good wake up slap to prevent us from snoozing back again.

P.S.: Juz to share with y'all....Nowadays my pet dog wakes me up for amritvela by climbing on my bed and giving me one good scratch on the arm with her sharp nails(when i don't move and go back to sleep) and a high pitched bark at 230am SHARP every morning. And I'm not joking..she really does that.....shes now chowkeedar in charge of waking a lazy pig liek me up for amritvela.

[Guest balwinderkaur]

o yea i forgot....plz share jagdish singh jee's speech with me too. :umm: wanna hear what he has to say.