Gurdjieff talk on Energy & Sleep 1/30/1923

Summary

この映像のスクリプトでは、私たちの体が毎日一定量のエネルギーを生産し、その多くが不必要な動きや緊張によって浪費されていることが説明されています。特に、日常生活における無意識の緊張はエネルギーの主要な消費源であり、物理的労働よりも多くのエネルギーを消費することが指摘されています。スクリプトはまた、私たちが必要とするエネルギー量は一定であり、体の構造を変えることはできないため、エネルギーの節約が重要であると強調しています。睡眠に関しても触れられており、完全な休息は中枢間の接続が完全に断たれた深い睡眠状態でのみ達成されると説明しています。このスクリプトは、エネルギーの節約と効果的な睡眠の重要性を明らかにし、それらを達成するための方法について考察を提供しています。

Takeaways

• 🔋 私たちの体は24時間ごとに一定量のエネルギーを生産するが、通常必要とされるよりも多くを無駄に使ってしまっている。
• 💡 日常生活における不必要な動きがエネルギーの大きな消費要因の一つである。
• 🏋️‍♂️ 大きな筋肉は運動に適応してエネルギーを少なく消費するが、小さな筋肉はそれができずにより多くのエネルギーを消費する。
• 🛌 体を動かさない時、特に慢性的な緊張がある場合、実際の肉体労働よりも多くのエネルギーを消費する。
• 🔄 行いたい作業には多くのエネルギーが必要であり、私たちの体はそのエネルギーの増加を生み出すことができない。
• ⚡ 不必要な緊張やその他のエネルギーの漏れを減らすことによって、エネルギーを節約し、必要な時に多くのエネルギーを持つことができる。
• 💤 睡眠は中枢間の接続が中断されることであり、感覚器官は決して休まない。
• 🌙 深い睡眠は全ての接続が切断された状態であり、夢を見ることは接続の一部がまだ活動していることを意味する。
• ⏰ 効率的な睡眠は少ない時間で必要な休息を提供するが、多くの人は過剰な時間を無駄に過ごしてしまう。
• 🧘‍♂️ 慢性的な緊張から解放されることはエネルギーを節約し、効率的な睡眠へと導く第一歩である。

Q & A

1923年1月30日について述べられている主題は何ですか？

この日について述べられている主題は、私たちの生活がいかにエネルギーを無駄にしているか、そしてそのエネルギーをどのように節約し、より効率的に使うかについてです。

エネルギーの浪費の主な要因は何ですか？

エネルギーの浪費の主な要因は、日常生活における不必要な動きと慢性的な緊張です。

大きな筋肉と小さな筋肉のエネルギー消費にはどのような違いがありますか？

大きな筋肉は運動により適応しているため、エネルギーを少なく消費しますが、小さな筋肉は運動に対してあまり適応していないため、より多くのエネルギーを消費します。

どのような状況でエネルギーの流れが停止しますか？

エネルギーが初期の推進力を与えた後、繰り返しの動きではエネルギーの流れが停止し、運動量がエネルギーの消費を引き継ぎます。

なぜ慢性的な緊張がエネルギーの大きな消費者なのですか？

慢性的な緊張は、体がリラックスしていても、継続的なエネルギー流を必要とするため、大量のエネルギーを消費します。

なぜ我々はもっとエネルギーを得ることができないのですか？

エネルギーの流入は増加せず、私たちの「機械」はその構造により決められた量のエネルギーを生成するように作られているためです。

エネルギーを節約する唯一の方法は何ですか？

エネルギーを節約する唯一の方法は、持っているエネルギーを経済的に使用することです。

なぜ睡眠は重要ですか？

睡眠は、センター間の接続が断ち切られることによって、機械（私たちの体）が必要とする物質を生成するための完全な休息を提供します。

深い睡眠とはどのような状態ですか？

深い睡眠は、夢や感覚がなく、センター間のすべてのリンクが切断された状態です。

なぜ我々は睡眠への移行に多くの時間を費やすのですか？

我々が自分自身でこれらの接続を断ち切る方法を知らないため、これらの接続は機械的に断ち切られ、再確立されます。これは不必要な時間の浪費につながります。

Outlines

00:00

😴 Energy Expenditure from Unnecessary Movement

Paragraph 1 discusses how our bodies produce a fixed amount of energy daily, but we waste much of it through unnecessary small movements and chronic muscle tension even when at rest. This leakage hampers efforts toward intentional work.

05:02

😴 Degrees of Sleep Based on Brain Connectivity

Paragraph 2 explains that sleep involves disrupted connections between brain centers. There are multiple intermediate stages between deep sleep and full wakefulness based on how many connections are active.

10:05

😴 Achieving Restorative Sleep

Paragraph 3 advises learning to quickly transition in and out of deep sleep when all brain connections are inactive. Chronic tension prevents this, so relaxing muscles consciously when not needed will improve sleep efficiency.

Keywords

💡エネルギー

エネルギーとは、生物が活動するために必要な力のことを指し、ビデオでは人間の体が24時間ごとに一定量のエネルギーを生産すると説明しています。しかし、私たちの生活様式が不適切であるため、このエネルギーの大部分を必要以上に消費し、効率的に使用していないと指摘されています。このコンセプトは、体内のエネルギー管理と無駄遣いの回避に関する議論の中心です。

💡不必要な動き

不必要な動きとは、日常生活での無意識の動作や緊張によってエネルギーを浪費することを指します。ビデオでは、このような動きがエネルギーの主要な消費源であると述べられており、特に活動が少ない時にも多くのエネルギーを消費することが強調されています。

💡緊張

緊張は、筋肉や心理的な状態の不必要な硬直を意味し、エネルギーの大量の無駄遣いに繋がるとビデオで説明されています。リラックスすることなく、常に緊張状態にあることは、エネルギーの大きな漏洩源とされています。

💡エネルギーの経済

エネルギーの経済とは、利用可能なエネルギーを賢く管理し、無駄遣いを減らすことにより、必要な時に多くのエネルギーを確保する方法です。ビデオでは、エネルギーを節約することが、より大きな目標を達成するための鍵であると強調されています。

💡慢性的緊張

慢性的緊張とは、体や心が継続的に無意識の緊張状態にあることを指し、ビデオではこれがエネルギー漏洩の主な原因の一つであると説明されています。この状態は、休息していてもエネルギーの消費を引き起こします。

💡運動の量

運動の量とは、身体活動によって消費されるエネルギーの量を指します。ビデオでは、物理的労働による運動と、静止状態での小さな筋肉の動きとの間でエネルギー消費量が異なることが説明されています。

💡エネルギーの流れ

エネルギーの流れとは、身体内でのエネルギーの動きや分配のことを指し、ビデオでは急な動きをしたときにエネルギーが流入するが、運動の繰り返しによってはその流れが止まることが説明されています。

💡睡眠

睡眠は、体と心が休息し、回復するための自然な状態です。ビデオでは、睡眠が中枢間の接続が途絶えることによって成り立っており、この完全な休息がエネルギーを回復させるために必要であると述べられています。

💡夢

夢とは、睡眠中に経験する視覚的イメージや物語を指します。ビデオでは、夢を見ることが一部の中枢間の接続が維持されていることを意味し、これが深い睡眠ではないことを示すと説明されています。

💡中枢間の接続

中枢間の接続とは、人間の脳内の異なる機能中枢間の通信を意味します。ビデオでは、睡眠はこれらの接続が断たれることで成り立っており、それによって完全な休息が達成されると説明されています。これは、エネルギーの回復と無駄遣いの防止に重要な役割を果たします。

Highlights

We waste energy with unnecessary small muscle tensions even when resting

Chronic muscle tension uses more energy than physical labor

Deep sleep happens when all connections between centers in the organism are broken

Dreams and sensations during sleep means connections are not fully broken

Transcripts

priory January the 30th 1923 energy

sleep you have probably heard at

lectures that in the course of every 24

hours our organism produces a definite

amount of energy for its existence I

repeat a definite amount yet there is

much more of this energy than should be

needed for normal expenditure but since

our life is so wrong we spend the

greater part and sometimes the whole a

bit and we spend it unproductively one

of the chief factors consuming energy is

our unnecessary movements in everyday

life later you will see from certain

experiments that the greater part of

this energy is spent precisely when we

make less active movements for instance

how much energy will a man use up in a

day wholly spent in physical labour a

great deal yet he will spend even more

if he sits still doing nothing our large

muscles consume less energy because

they've become more adapted to momentum

whereas the small muscles consume more

because they are less adapted to

momentum they can be set in motion only

by force for instance as I sit here now

I appear to not to move but this does

not mean I don't spend energy every

moment every movement every tension

whether big or small is possible for me

only by spending this energy now my arm

is tense but I am not moving yet I am

now spending more energy than if I moved

it like this he demonstrates it is a

very interesting thing and you must try

to understand what I am saying about

momentum when I make a sudden movement

energy flows in but when I repeat the

movement the momentum no longer takes

energy at the moment when energy has

given the initial push the flow of

energy stops and momentum takes over

tension needs energy if ten

in his absence less energy spent if my

arm is tense as it is now a continuous

current is required which means that is

it is connected with the accumulators if

I now move my arm nos so long as I do it

with pauses I spent energy if a man

suffers from chronic tension then even

if he does nothing

even if he's lying down he uses more

energy than a man who spends a whole day

in physical labor but a man who does not

have these small chronic tensions

certainly wins wastes no energy when he

does not work or move now we must ask

ourselves are there many among us who

are free from this terrible disease

almost all of us we are not speaking of

people in general but of those present

the rest do not concern us almost all of

us have this delightful habit we must

bear in mind that this energy about

which we now speak so simply and easily

which we waste so unnecessarily and

involuntarily the same energy is needed

for the work we intend to do and without

which we can achieve nothing we cannot

get more energy the inflow of energy

will not increase the machine will

remain such as it is created if the

machine is made to produce ten amps it

will go on producing ten amps the

current can be increased only if all the

wires and coals are changed for instance

one coil represents the nose another a

leg a third a man's complexion or the

size of his stomach so the Machine

cannot be changed its structure will

remain as it is the amount of energy

produced is constant even if the machine

is put right this amount will increase

very little what we intend to do

requires a great deal of energy and much

effort an effort requires much energy

with the kind of efforts we make now

with such lavish expenditure of energy

it is impossible to do what we are now

planning to do in our minds as we have

seen on the one hand we require a great

deal of energy and on the other our

machine is so constructed that it cannot

produce more where is a way out of this

situation the only way out and the only

method and possibility is to economize

the energy we have therefore if we wish

to have a lot of energy when we need it

we must learn to practice economy

wherever we can one thing is definitely

known one of the chief leakages of

energy is due to our involuntary tension

we have many other leakages but they are

all more difficult to repair than the

first so we shall begin with the easiest

to get rid of this leakage and to learn

to be able to deal with the others

a man's sleep is nothing else than

interrupted connections between centers

a man's senses never sleep since

associations are their life their

movement they never cease they never

stop a stoppage of associations means

death the movement of associations never

stops for an instance in any sensor they

flow on even in the deepest sleep if a

man in a waking state sees his senses

his balls in half sleep he also sees

here senses his balls and he calls this

state of sleep even when he thinks that

he absolutely ceases to see or hear

which he also called sleep associations

go on the only difference is in the

strength of connections between one

Center and another memory attention

observation is nothing more than a

observation of one Center by another one

sensor listening to another consequently

the center's themselves do not need to

stop and sleep sleep brings the Centers

neither harm nor profit so sleep as it

is called it's not meant to give centers

a rest as I have said already deep sleep

comes when the connections between

centers are broken and indeed deep sleep

complete rest for the machine is

considered to be that sleep when all

links all connections seeks to function

we have several centers so we have as

many connections five connections what

characterizes our waking state is that

all these connections are intact but if

one of them is broken or ceases to

function we are neither asleep nor awake

one link is disconnected we are no

longer awake neither are we asleep if

two are broken we are still less awake

but again we are not asleep if one more

is disconnected we are not awake and

still not properly asleep and so on

consequently there are

different degrees between our waking

state and sleep speaking of these

degrees we take an average there are

people who have two connections others

have said them we have taken five isn't

it as an example it is not exact

consequently we have not two states one

of sleep and the other of waking as we

think but several states between the

most active and intensive state anyone

can have and the most passive

somnambulistic sleep there are definite

gradations if one of the links breaks it

is not yet evident on the surface and is

unnoticeable to others there are people

whose capacity to move to walk to live

stops only when all the connections are

broken and there are other people in

whom it is enough to break two

connections for them to fall asleep if

we take the range between sleep and

waking with seven connections then there

are people who go on living talking

walking in the third degree of sleep

deep states asleep are same for all but

intermediate degrees are often

subjective there are even prodigies who

are most active when one or several of

their connections are broken if such a

state has become cut from me for a man

by education if he has acquired all he

has in this state his activity is built

upon it and so he cannot be active

unless this stage is there for you

personally the active state is relative

in a certain state you can be active but

there is an objective active state when

all the connections are intact and there

is a subjective activity in an

appropriate state so there are many

degrees of sleep and waking active state

is a state when the thinking faculty and

the senses work at their full capacity

and pressure we must be interested both

in the objective that is the genuine

awake

state and in objective sleep objective

means active or passive in actual effect

it is better not to strive to be but to

understand anyway everyone must

understand that the purpose of sleep is

achieved only when all the connections

between the centers are broken only then

can the machine produce what sleep is

meant to produce so the word sleep

should mean a state when all the links

are disconnected deep sleep is a state

when we have no dreams or sensations if

people have dreams it means that one of

their connections is not broken since

memory observation sensation is nothing

more than one Center observed in another

thus when you see and remember what is

happening in you it means that one

Center observes another and if it can

observe it follows that there is

something through which to dig observe

and if there is something for which to

observe the connection is not broken

consequently if the machine is in good

order it needs very little time to

manufacture that quantity of matter for

which sleep is intended at any rate much

less time than we are accustomed to

sleep what we call sleep when we sleep

for seven to ten hours or god knows how

long is not sleep the greater part of

that time is spent not in sleep but in

these transitional states these

unnecessary half dream states some

people need many hours to go to sleep

and later many hours to come to

themselves if we could fall asleep at

once and is quickly passed from sleep to

waking we would spend on this transition

a third or a quarter of the time we are

wasting now but we don't know how to

break these connections by ourselves

with us they are broken and re-establish

mechanically we're slaves of this

mechanism when it so pleases we can pass

into another state when not we have to

lie and wait till it gives us leave to

rest this mechanical nice this

unnecessary slavery and undesirable

dependence has several causes one of the

causes is the chronic state of tension

we spoke of in the beginning and which

is one of the many causes of the leakage

of our reserve energy so you see how

liberation from this chronic tension

would serve a double purpose first we

would save much energy and second we

would dispense with the useless lying

and waiting to sleep so you see what a

simple thing it is how easy to attain

and how necessary to free oneself from

this tenseness is of tremendous value

later I should give you several

exercises for this purpose I advise you

to pay very serious attention to this

and to try as hard as you can to get

what each of these exercises expected to

give it is necessary to learn all cost

not to be tense when tension is not

needed when you sit doing nothing let

the body sleep when you sleep sleep in

such a way that the whole of you sleeps