QUESTION
How does one cure the problem of nervousness, of nerves?
ANSWER
Many people come to me with nervousness and I tell them, “You know what the cause of your nervousness is? Are you sleeping?” They don’t sleep enough. Number one, to sleep eight hours a night; that is the first medicine. And most people don’t want to take that medicine. You have to sleep eight hours. If you’re nervous, sleep eight hours every night for a long time. Little by little, it will go away. You get sick right away but you won’t get well right away; so sleep eight hours every night for a long time and you’ll see it will change.
And so you don’t have to go to any specialists in psychology, people who have tricks and ways of making money from you. You come again and again, each time they collect big fees for giving nothing at all to you except words and words. Better to start sleeping eight hours a night.
Now it doesn’t mean that by sleeping once you are going to be healed. It’s easy to get sick; it takes a long time to become healed. But if you sleep for a long time, eight hours every night, I guarantee you that your nervousness will decrease and maybe disappear entirely. It is of the utmost importance to get enough sleep.
August 13, 1998
