Reduce Your Sleep

[tarunjeet singh]

Vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh

Everyone should aim to lower the amount of sleep we have so that more time can be spent doing Naam abyaas and gurmat activities, soem examples of non sikhs who have been abel to reduce there sleep requirments are listed below .... so no excuses Gursikho :-

1. Jay Leno – four hours

"He subsists on four hours' sleep per night. Out of fifty-two weeks, he gets

four weeks off, during which time he is miserable. "I hate those weeks off," he

tells me. "To me, a week's vacation just means you're now a week behind."

http://www.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk2512/article1.htm

2. Madonna – four hours

"Madonna has revealed she only grabs four hours' sleep a night because she

constantly worries about everything that is going on her life."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1420000/1420364.stm

3. Florence Nightingale – four hours

"Florence Nightingale only slept four hours a night"

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/insomnia/insomnia.html

4. Anton Ballard – four hours

"Ballard keeps pushing himself to get better. He averages around four hours of

sleep per night, and works about 12 hours each day between his meat counter and

his studio."

http://www.deep-end.com/bfacts.htm

5. Michelangelo – four hours

"Both aboriginal peoples and highly creative people (such as Thomas Edison and

Michelangelo) rarely sleep for more than four hours at a time."

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Anthrax_Interview.htm

6. Napoleon Bonaparte – four hours

"Napoleon Bonaparte learned to live with the fact that he was only existing on

three or four hours sleep a night and got on with his grand schemes."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A294031

7. Bill Clinton – five to six hours

"President Clinton grabs 5-6 hours"

http://www.powersleep.org/sleepmatters.htm

8. Winston Churchill – six hours

"It was claimed he only spent 6 hours in bed every night. However, he wrote

that one needs to take a complete nap every afternoon, to get fully undressed

and really go to bed. No "halfway measures". He claimed the reward was to "get

two days in one - well, at least one and a half, I'm sure." He claimed this nap

was absolutely neccessary to cope with his responsibilities during the war. His

naps were 1.5 to 2 hours long, for a total of about 8 hours a day!"

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

9. Nikola Tesla – two hours

"He is said, by some of his followers, to only have slept 2 hours a day. He was

definitely a night owl. But his staff has told of him taking many naps during

the day. And it seems he may have been narcoleptic, and able to sleep with his

eyes open."

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

10. Leonardo Da Vinci – 15 mins every four hours (ie. 1.5 hours)

" It was said that he would sleep just 15 minutes of every four hours."

http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html

11. Margaret Thatcher – four hours

"Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister, was famous for getting by on

only four hours a night."

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/15-2-19102-0-37-6.html

12. Martha Stewart – four hours

"“There’s not enough time in the day,” complains the woman who says she needs

no more than four hours’ sleep a night."

http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/marthastewart/

13. Thomas Edison – four hours

"Thomas Edison slept 3-4 hours at night, regarding sleep as a waste of time"

http://www.powersleep.org/sleepmatters.htm

[BhForce]

Thanks for this post.

We're all familiar with the tuks by Bhai Gurdas Ji and Guru Gobind Singh Ji regarding sleeping less, but these tend to be dismissed as poetic flourishes.

The fact is there are many Gurmukh piyare who survive quite well on a 2 or 3 hours of sleep. Some in Amritsar sleep during the Sukhasan period at Darbar Sahib, and they take full advantage of the hours of parkash.