This article is extracted from 2015 edition of “Life Journey” magazine
The human body is said to contain about 100trillion cells; but the brain alone is said to be made up of some 100billion nerve cells that transmit information to other organs of the body- Courtesy: The Origin of Life.
This write up is concerned only with the activities of the brain at night. At night, all other organs of the human body take their rest but the brain and the heart remain active and busy. While the heart remain active, supplying blood and oxygen to sustain the brain, the brain itself on the other end, writes, edit, collate, analyze, filter and trashes the unwanted or negative actions and activities that took place during the day.
This is what is responsible for the brighter idea you develop early in the morning that results in better opinion, judgment, decisions and performance. That is why, when wise and intellectual people are confronted with difficult questions and challenges, they say: “let me sleep over it”. Inspiration and ideas however occurs any time of the day and night but it does not involve long engagement; it lasts only seconds, and you can lose it if you are not smart enough to take a grab hold of it. That is why it said that “ideas rule the world”
If your brain and heart have not been seriously damaged by a disease or through negative habits you ignorantly inflicted on them in the name of socials and treatment, you certainly must be able to wake up with brighter idea each day about how best to do things than the previous day.
Sleep is like a miniature death – sample of how death seems like. But in actual death, one is completely unconscious – knowing nothing at all. At sleep however, one is in a subconscious state because, the brain – the central control room of all other body organs is working; but you are not aware of these activities.
Some of those subconscious activities you engage in at sleep are referred to as dream and are in most cases have no bearing or relationship in your real world. They are just mere transient of the activities of the heart and brain. When it is time to wake up in the morning, the brain sends signal to the other organs of the body to start working. Please check details in page 5 of this edition titled:“How to slow down ageing process”. It is at this waking hour you remembered again that you have a wife, children, relatives and friends. It is then too you remembered that you have ten billions in your bank account, your ten storey building, your latest car or jeep, chain of businesses, creditors and debtors.
Nature puts it that way in order to teach us a vital lesson of life that: we are as nothing as nothingness. (1Timothy 6: 7) We can neither help ourselves nor anyone else. Those melodious and ridiculous jingles you hear from radio, television and print media adverts such as: call to glory, celebration of life, home call and bosom of Abraham are all consolations to cushion the effect of the losse. Two organs that doesn’t rest at night are the heart and the brain. It is when these two organs take their rest and stop working, that the victim is said to be clinically dead. This requires that you take care to avoid habits that harm those vital organs of the body.
I am not a religionist neither am I interested to be one; otherwise, I would have cited and quoted many Bible chapters and verses to support my claim. Moreover, this article is directed at the general public irrespective of one’s beliefs. A religionist is rigid and dogmatic in his opinion and beliefs, not flexible and sensitive to the truth and the reality of matters. No wonder that Jesus pronounced woes on them. I am a Bible student and more of a realist; open to any information of proven value. I am a man of three parts. In one part I am a journalist, on the other, an author, in yet another, I am a Bible student. Which either part that presents itself when writing takes the better part of me without losing my major identity as a Bible student.
You are created to add value to human existence by your talent and the way you treat and relate with fellow humans. The material things you greedily acquire and accumulate at the expense of others convenience are the product of those who lives selfless life in order to bring development to mankind.
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