Sleeping Position

[Guest guest]

Are there any directions given in the ayurvedic texts about the

sleeping position? I am here referring to the direction your head

faces while sleeping. According to the vedic Vaastu science, the head

placement (direction the top of your head points when lying down)

while sleeping has a strong effect on physical and mental well-being.

However, I have read different advice. Some say East and South are

best and North and West are harmful, while others say North is the

best. I have my own repeated and validated experiences with this, but

also some doubts.

[Guest guest]

Because of the North South iron polarity the best positions I have heard is

North South - as the blood flows more easily and smoothly with the head

being in the North - and the Guru Gita has the best positions for meditation

specified, facing East being the most auspicious - different directions and

different seats for different results.

 

Best,

 

Jane

[Guest guest]

You are right. Different people give different advice.Some say it also

depends upon on northern/southern hemisphere, uttarayan/dakshinayan etc.

 

N Bhashyam

[Guest guest]

ayurveda , " alstrup " <alstrup wrote:

>

> Are there any directions given in the ayurvedic texts about the

> sleeping position?

>Some say East and South are

> best and North and West are harmful, while others say North is the

> best. I have my own repeated and validated experiences with this, but

> also some doubts.

>

 

After finding that some patients found positions and directions

opposite to those recommended more beneficial, author feels that here

too, each individual is unique, and prakruti determines what suits each.

 

The best way from the experience is to seek the guidance of breath. In

meditation breath becomes subtle, rate goes down and so the rate of

pulse.

 

Hence author used this technique to find the best sleeping direction

whenever he visited new place. Is not ayurveda a science of living in

harmony with your surroundings. If theer is harmony, one will get

relaxation as if in mothers lap. A person with a calm and quiet mind

will make others also peaceful, if his field is stronger compared to

others. On the other hand, person under anxiety/panic attack shows

rapid breathing, shake, trembling and his vibrations will be pickd up

by others.

 

Secondly, while evaluating Vastu, author determined the drop in

pulse/breathing rate for each of the flats he was suposed to compare.

He asked same trial for the family members to repeat.

 

Based on collective score, the beneficial vastu was selected. The house

which is beneficial health-wise will also be beneficial in every other

way, since health is wealth.

[Guest guest]

dr lad always recommended having your head face either south or west

to get a deeper and more restful sleep. facing north he said would

bring in too much air/either element. i believe also, but dont

remember clearly, that facing east as well was too powerful

energetically for good rest.

[Guest guest]

The yogic method is to sleep east-west. The yogic way to let the

spirit leave the body is to face north south.

 

GB

[Guest guest]

I understood from Mike Maestro, a Vastu specialist here in Seattle, that for

sleeping, head position is best at the south end with feet facing north.

Thanks, Lawren

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the input on this. It would appear that there is a general

view on the benefit of south, west and south and to avoid north.

I found some further details given in the book Vastu: The Origin of Feng

Shui by Marcus Schmiecke of the Veda Academy.

 

General guidelines:

 

* WEST - enhances wealth and fame

* SOUTH - invokes material happiness

* EAST - nurtures spiritual knowledge

* SOUTHEAST - spiritual knowledge and material happiness

* SOUTHWEST - material happiness, wealth and fame

* NORTHEAST - spiritual knowledge and material happiness

* SOUTHWEST - spiritual knwledge, disease, and unrest

* NORTHWEST - wealth, fame, disease and unrest

* NORTH - disease and unrest

 

It would appear that the vastu qualities of the living space can either

promote or diminish these qualities as well as the interaction of the

individual horoscope of the person.