Acupuncture / Marnie Chan

By Marnie Chan

Like a persistent drug habit perhaps, my body is compelled to awaken and to sit upright during what has been termed throughout millennia as the "witching hour." Not excruciatingly. I don't have to drag myself into it. In fact, my very being longs for this moment. To me, it may very well be the greatest time of the day. Three o'clock in the morning. This is when I first start my day, everyday.

Powerful spells are said to have been cast during this hour. In some culture, they call 3am "The Creator's Hour". Prophets were said to have been awoken at this time of the night.

Those steep in superstition place religious significance to this hour and assign meanings like awakening one's divinity.

Modern psychology says that 3am is the time you shift from your deep sleep into a lighter sleep, known as REM [rapid eye movement].

Even Chinese medicine has its take on this hour. It teaches that the liver works at 3am.

And maybe, just maybe, you simply translate waking up repeatedly at 3am as having insomnia.

3am is when earth's consciousness and vibrations are at their most calm states. [At least in that time zone.] I elect to train my brainwaves right where they just emerged from - the theta brain frequency.

I'd rather not call it meditation. That's like placing label to this wondrous practice. Fact: some tend to shy away from it due to religious prejudice. Fact: some do not even know the difference between meditating and praying.

So at 3am I observe my thoughts. I sit still. Very still. So still that I won't even attempt to scratch an itch. I sit erect. I keep all 33 vertebrae erect. [Oh my, 33! Yeshua died at 33... Okay, that's Jesus for you, uninitiates. The masonic 33rd degrees... Jacob's ladder having 33 steps... etc.] I then dissolve into the void. Only to reappear again into this third dimensional reality.

Oh the joys of basking in varying energies, frequencies, and vibrations. What did Tesla and Einstein said again about energy, frequency, and vibration in relation to the universe? Go Google search. So there.

By the time I realize, it's already 4 in the morning. Impeccable time just to go back to sleep and enter the world of lucid dreaming - - you know, that thing when you wake up in the middle of the dream and realize that you are in a dream. Keep a dream journal. You'll start remembering them. This is my second order of the day [or night].

4 am, claims a published article in the Wall Street Journal, is the most productive time of day for several billionaires and millionaires they have interviewed. For me, it is my time to go back to sleep and induce lucid dreams. These are my millions and billions and trillions. For woe to anyone whose only riches is money.

I then rise and shine between 5 and 6. But your attention span is only limited to a 3-minute read.

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Marnie Chan

Jeepney Press