{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have often referred in other contexts to the nature of that rhythmic alternation that occurs in human life in the course of twenty-four hours: waking and sleeping. What can be said about this from the standpoint of spiritual science has already been mentioned in part in various lectures. Today, I would just like to point out that, in addition to what they experience in their immediate soul mood and can feel directly subjectively, human beings have a very special kind of remedy in sleep. If you listen to modern medical science today, you will find that, insofar as it is intelligent, it is entirely of the opinion that we have a remedy in sleep, in proper, healthy sleep. For sleep is what develops those forces in the whole human being that compensate for a certain daily expenditure of energy. While waking life in a certain way, one might say, weakens the body through states of exhaustion and fatigue, through states of weariness, while ordinary waking life draws from the sources of illness — not always, of course, but it can — in sleep we are primarily dealing with the unfolding of healing forces. One need not go so far as to recommend that people sleep as much as a well-known doctor recently did in Berlin, but the fact remains that healthy forces are at work on people during sleep, and that anyone who can see life from this perspective will say that one of the best remedies for many illnesses is to bring about healthy sleep. Of course, I cannot discuss how to bring about healthy sleep in this lecture. Whether spiritual science has anything special to say about this will be discussed on another occasion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-04-23","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p013"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p013","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Sie brauchen heute nur die äußere ärztliche Wissenschaft zu hören, so wird sie, soweit sie verständig ist, durchaus der Anschauung sein, daß wir im Schlafe, in einem richtigen gesunden Schlafe, ein Heilmittel haben. Denn der Schlaf ist dasjenige, was im ganzen Menschenwesen solche Kräfte entfaltet, die einen gewissen täglich stattfindenden Kräfteverbrauch ausgleichen. Während das Wachleben in einer gewissen Weise, man möchte sagen, aus Erschöpfungs- und Ermüdungszuständen, aus Abarbeitungszuständen heraus den Körper schwächt, während das gewöhnliche Wachleben aus den Quellen des Erkrankens schöpft — selbstverständlich nicht immer, aber schöpfen kann, haben wir es im Schlafe vorzugsweise mit der Entfaltung der Gesundungskräfte zu tun. Man braucht nicht so weit zu gehen, dem Menschen einen so reichlichen Schlaf zu empfehlen, wie es ein ganz bekannter Arzt vor kurzem in Berlin getan hat; aber das bleibt bestehen: daß im Schlafe auf den Menschen gesunde Kräfte wirken, und daß jeder, der das Leben von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus durchschauen kann, sagen wird: Zu den besten Heilmitteln für manches Kranksein gehört die Herbeiführung von gesundem Schlaf. Ich kann natürlich in diesem Vortrage nicht von dieser Herbeiführung eines gesunden Schlafes sprechen. 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