How to Better Close Each Day In Peace
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Prayers are never used in theosophy to ask for personal favours. Instead, they express active decisions and commitments which the individual makes with himself.
An effective prayer consists of clear and well-defined thoughts. It helps organize one’s own will and is based on the philosophical principles of self-knowledge, self-respect and self-responsibility. It is helpful when used to begin something, and also in closing and completing any period of activity.
The way things finish is as important as the manner they start. The end of a week, the close of a month and the last days of a year constitute occasions to evaluate what was done and how. Lessons must be extracted, and the decision renewed to do one’s best.
Everything is cyclic. Life evolves in spirals: the last step of each phase prepares the first step in the phase that follows. The final thoughts before sleeping influence more than just the quality of one’s sleep and dreams. They help determine the substance of the awakening in next morning. It is correct, therefore, to direct them in a conscious and creative way, with a sense of responsibility regarding the effects which they will provoke. A prayer is a way to set a direction for consciousness in the exact moment of transition into rest.
How to Improve the Quality of Sleep
The 24 hours cycle is an indivisible whole: the quality of sleep is determined by one’s consciousness in the waking state. The wider context of one’s daily life must therefore be examined and improved. It is a healthy habit to sleep early. In the hours previous to physical rest, one should avoid stressful activities or thoughts which involve emotional conflict. One must get up in the right time and proper way at the beginning of each journey.
Fulfilling one’s duty during the day makes it easier to sleep involved in a soul-level atmosphere of confidence and relaxation, and correct action naturally tends to occur if one combines noble intentions with personal detachment and a sharp discernment of right and wrong.
The Prayer Before Going to Sleep can be said with contemplative pauses which will have a varying duration. The moments of silence must be as long as they are useful for the practitioner. The right measure must be sensed. Their duration will be potentially different at each new practice: pauses can be made in different points according to the significance of one idea or other in the closing of each particular day.
It is correct to record ideas and commentaries in the margins of the paper where the prayer was printed.
The practice of saying the word AUM (pron. “OM”) is a way to evoke the law of universal harmony.
The “holy word” of the Eastern tradition must be pronounced in a selfless and altruistic state of mind; otherwise; it would harm the practitioner, and perhaps severely so.
The AUM can be pronounced for some four to five seconds. Surprisingly to some, the end of the sound must be quick, not prolonged. Among other effects, the sound of the AUM expands serenity. Those who love each other may want to practice the following prayer together.
A Prayer Before Going to Sleep
1) Om…
2) It’s the time to rest now, and I decide to conclude in peace the small incarnation that I had today. I say thanks to every part of my physical body, for the work faithfully done. I’m grateful to each cell of this body. Free from objective tasks, I accept the presence of happiness in my heart.
3) I now renounce to all desire. Tiredness is welcome. I experience serenity. I know I am a part of the universal law, and the law is my refuge.
4) Here and now, the point of balance in my being consists in the feeling of self-respect and respect for all beings. Love is like the light of the Sun and the stars. It guides each living being. Through universal love one finds the happiness of peace.
5) I call upon my higher self, my guardian angel, the inner master of each day. He made me be born. He guides me every time I can hear his voice. His voice flows above the plane of reality where words exist.
6) The voice of my Master, my soul’s voice, is the voice of the sacred Silence. I am a vehicle of the immortal aura which surrounds and inspires me. In this aura I live. I find peace in it. Its harmony is eternal and it is alive here and now. It protects me.
7) Om… Shanti. Peace.
NOTES:
See the text “How to Start the Day”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline, which can be found at our associated websites.
After a few weeks (or months) of a daily practice in which one reads the text in paper, it is correct to evoke the inner and living spirit of this prayer, that is, the mental state it produces. Even so, it will be necessary to come back to reading the text from time to time.
On the role of the esoteric movement in the ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in 2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist, the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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Every night before going to sleep
let’s pray,
ask for your protection
and your peace to have a good night,
that his angels take care of you
and your entire family.
Good Night Prayer
Before going to Sleep
Lord, thank you
for this new night
that you give us to rest,
in your arms of love
we are going to sleep,
you are our keeper,
Take away any fatigue,
put thoughts
of serenity in our mind,
and help us to have
a good night.
God, we trust in You,
we ask for your protection
and your peace,
that nothing will bring fear
to my family,
Thank you for sending
your angels to take care of us.
Lord, You are our
Hope and castle,
you are our refuge,
we live happy with you.
You protect us
from diseases
that come in the dark,
thank you for our health,
thank you for your strength
we will have tomorrow.
Lord, deliver us
from negative
and harmful thoughts,
that the blood of Christ
cover us tonight,
may we have a relaxed
and quiet night,
clean the air,
rebuke the enemy.
Good night, God,
with your sweet love
we will go to bed
in peace, only you
keep us safe. Amen.
Mery Bracho
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Prayer Before Going to Sleep at night
God, grant us a good night
of good sleep and blessing,
thank you for being with us
as our Lord,
our peace, our light in the darkness.
We adore you.
God, your Word says
that if we are under your protective shade
we can say that you are our refuge
and castle. We trust in you.
We ask you to help us
to be safe tonight.
Lord, vanishes all fear of the night,
of terrors, of dangers or anxiety,
give us your blessed peace,
that this night may be quiet
and that we can enjoy
a deep sleeping time.
Thank you for the night of rest
and for all your love,
you shine in our hearts.
We love you, God. Amen.
Mery Bracho.
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