FINDING SLEEP THROUGH FULFILLMENT
Article by Derek Lacey
Finding Sleep Through Fulfillment
Fulfillment is a sleep concept that you knowingly or unknowingly practice that involves balancing the objective reality of biology with the subjective reality of experience.
Biologically, as your biological clock counts down to sleep, your hypothalamus is overwhelmed with adenosine and the bottom of your hourglass filled with sand. But that’s not always enough, somehow. When human, sometimes being full but not filled isn’t enough, and vice versa.
Full is a measurement. Filled is a state of being. Together they create a concept felt as fulfillment.
I can be full while feeling empty. And I can be empty in a state of feeling filled.
When you are full and you are filled, you embody a sense of truth and your energy enters a state of flow.
When you sleep, that truth is experienced as a feeling and not a number. Your sleep doesn’t feel deep or good, like 5 hours or like 8, you just feel fulfilled. Numbers don’t have the capacity to measure fulfillment. Only you do.
This balance is the complex nature underneath transcendence, of integrating the dual experience of mind and body as a unified spiritual one. This is why there is more to healing than meets the eye, because healing is activated in concept as much as the body.
Fulfillment is one of my favorite words. I get to determine what being fulfilled means. I get to set that intention with kindness and understanding. I can challenge myself but still set myself up to win the day, the month, the year…
Perspective makes it pliable while integrity keeps it honest.
It’s a dance. You apply self-compassion but you don’t fool yourself. When you don’t let the fire burn too hot or too cold, you experience a regulated nervous system. You experience presence, then you experience fulfillment.
What is your measurement for fulfillment? In this life, in this day? How can you be fair to yourself while still pushing yourself to be great? What is the frequency underneath your definition of great?
If you were the only person on earth and lost access to comparison and judgment, how would that change your concept of fulfillment? The answer I’m left with is the sleep concept that liberates me.
