I Don’t Use Beds
One interesting fact about is me that I don’t sleep on beds. Since 2003, I haven’t slept on a bed. I started this practice while studying spider monkeys in the yucatan jungle of Mexico. Obviously, we slept in tents in the yucatan and there were no mattress beds in the tents — just the refreshingly simple jungle floor. I continued this. Sleeping on the floor is better for:
My back. Mattresses encourage odd vertebral curvature, the floor does not and my spine has been noticeably more aligned and even spinal elongation has occurred since I started this practice.
My energy. I got groggy sleeping in beds, but I feel refreshed and clear sleeping on the floor.
My simplicity. As part of my productivity and organizational coachign, I’m an anti-clutter freak and while it may seem overly-meticulous to focus on not having bedding clutter to worry about, having to make a bed, deal with undersheets, comforter, mattress sheets, versus just one blanket that I use to cover me while sleeping on the floor, greatly makes my life easier, simpler, and more clutter-free, when you add up all your belongings (and they do add up!).
My Time. I know that because that small part of my mind, energy, and life that would go toward “dealing with bedding and sheets” no longer has to worry about that, I’m better off and have more freedom and energy and time than the person who has to worry about, wash, buy, and keep track of their bedding. Now, this sounds incredibly overly-detailed focus and the time saved is probably only a minute each day (at most), but on the most fundamental level time is all you have in life, and even if we live to be a hundred, we only have 876,000 hours in our life, so eliminating things that I don’t want to spend time on is important! I don’t want to spend time on dealing with sheets, bedding, and “beddery” junk each day! So I don’t! Think about that. You mathematically have more time in your life by not having a mattress. This sparks the idea of “what other things could we eliminate to make temporal space for more valuable things?”!
My wallet. The floor is free. Beds, box strings, futon, foam, and/or spring mattresses, combined with the 2-3 layers of sheets, mattress covers, and bedding can really add up and become costly!
Conclusively, out of my choice that I started practicing many years ago to sleep on the floor as opposed to the bed, I’m nicer to my wallet, more aligned in my skeleton, simpler in regards to my belongings, more abundant in energy, and I mathemtically factually have MORE TIME than you, a person who sleeps on a mattress! It was a good move! 
One interesting fact about is me that I don’t sleep on beds. Since 2003, I haven’t slept on a bed. I started this practice while studying spider monkeys in the yucatan jungle of Mexico. Obviously, we slept in tents in the yucatan and there were no mattress beds in the tents — just the refreshingly simple jungle floor. I continued this. Sleeping on the floor is better for:
- My back. Mattresses encourage odd vertebral curvature, the floor does not and my spine has been noticeably more aligned and even spinal elongation has occurred since I started this practice.
- My energy. I got groggy sleeping in beds, but I feel refreshed and clear sleeping on the floor.
- My simplicity. As part of my productivity and organizational coachign, I’m an anti-clutter freak and while it may seem overly-meticulous to focus on not having bedding clutter to worry about, having to make a bed, deal with undersheets, comforter, mattress sheets, versus just one blanket that I use to cover me while sleeping on the floor, greatly makes my life easier, simpler, and more clutter-free, when you add up all your belongings (and they do add up!).
- My Time. I know that because that small part of my mind, energy, and life that would go toward “dealing with bedding and sheets” no longer has to worry about that, I’m better off and have more freedom and energy and time than the person who has to worry about, wash, buy, and keep track of their bedding. Now, this sounds incredibly overly-detailed focus and the time saved is probably only a minute each day (at most), but on the most fundamental level time is all you have in life, and even if we live to be a hundred, we only have 876,000 hours in our life, so eliminating things that I don’t want to spend time on is important! I don’t want to spend time on dealing with sheets, bedding, and “beddery” junk each day! So I don’t! Think about that. You mathematically have more time in your life by not having a mattress. This sparks the idea of “what other things could we eliminate to make temporal space for more valuable things?”!
- My wallet. The floor is free. Beds, box strings, futon, foam, and/or spring mattresses, combined with the 2-3 layers of sheets, mattress covers, and bedding can really add up and become costly!
Conclusively, out of my choice that I started practicing many years ago to sleep on the floor as opposed to the bed, I’m nicer to my wallet, more aligned in my skeleton, simpler in regards to my belongings, more abundant in energy, and I mathemtically factually have MORE TIME than you, a person who sleeps on a mattress! It was a good move!
2009/06/13 at 3:58 AM
