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Sleep
A brain consists of ganglia, which are groupings of neurons. A neuron is a nerve cell. It looks like a hot dog (a frankfurter), wiith a spider-web filament going up the middle like the inner wire of a coaxial cable, emerging at both ends, and resolving into a small network of filaments in each case. For example, let us say 5 branchlets are resulted, at each end.
The end of one of these branchlets meets but does not touch, the end of a branchlet from the next neuron. The space between these branchlet-ends is called the “synaptic cleft”. It is the synapse, where a nervous impulse, flowing along the axon and emerging, is passed on to the next neuron by means of chemical neurotransmitters.
A neuron is said to “fire” an impulse, and after it does, it must rest until it is capable of firing again. Rest is essential -- it is empowering. The brain as a whole has the same nature as a neuron.
The power of the sabbath -- one day a week you shall do no work, not your menservants, nor your maidservants, nor your oxes, nor your asses. God himself is said to have rested on the seventh “day” of creation.
At night we sleep. If we cannot sleep, we rest the neurons in a disciplined manner; that is, we do not permit the brain to think, we cause the body to relax completely, and we consciously take pleasure in just relaxing, and in the knowledge that by so doing, we are getting 90% of the value of sleep.
Above all, do not worry. Worry is very bad, and never does any good. Think the matter through once, thoroughly, and then put it out of the conscious mind, in the confidence that the unconscious mind will be working on it.
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