use your sleep…. to improve your life

Friends, how many times has it happened that you went to bed in the night feeling sick of your life, broken, tired, and woke up the next day feeling the same, or worse, worse than before. If this has never happened to you, you are among the lucky few and can use this information to help others, if you have felt it happening in your life, well you can use it to see the magic of life.
Sleep, is a beautiful creation, period. I am not going to go into details of who created it- lord almighty or some smart gene during the period of evolution through which living organisms have been passing for millions of years now- because it can lead us astray into a totally different direction than we intend to. What i want to tell here is that how you can utilize it to obtain results that have been eluding you, and improve your life, and be happy.
Just to clarify a point, there is no happier or happiest in the type of happiness i am talking about. It is not comparative like the difference of winning a 1000$  or winning a 1000000$.  It should not involve moving forward because we hate where we are and what we have currently, and it certainly should not be seen as equivalent to being lulled into a state where you slip into a self-induced coma and become ignorant of your surroundings. The happiness i am talking about involves you, reaching your goals without furrowing your brows over your circumstances. For if the goal is really desirable, the journey should be too.
So, coming back to our discussion. How exactly can we use our sleep? And to what purpose? After all it is just meant to be a transition period from one day to another, right? Wrong!! Sleep is the time when a person’s body tries to heal all the breakage it has undergone during the period of the day. I know you knew that. But the wealth lies in knowing, how does it do it? Who tells it what to do and how? Who tells it what steps to take so that the body is ready to face another day of work…. It’s your inner brain, your sub-conscious mind. What is this subconscious mind? It is the same part of your brain that helps you in eating without thinking about how food will move through your intestines, breathing without having worry to circulate oxygen to your various body parts, and sweating when you see a beautiful girl. It is this mind that we will try to explore.
What we really need is to control the thoughts that enter this mind. During sleep your primary brain, from which you think, is at rest, so your sub-conscious, is directly approachable. You need to use this time in your benefit. Make sure that just before going to sleep, you chalk out what you want to do the next day. Start with simple things, it always helps. Next, you must monitor what you are thinking, the thoughts you have just before going to sleep are going to be there all night, cause no new thinking is to be done in the meanwhile. So if you are angry, frustrated, sad, depressed, dejected, broken-hearted or in any other negative mood, just stop thinking about it and think of one thing that makes you happy. It could be anything, your girlfriend, your friends, a trip you recently took with your friends, your parents, but it should lift your mood. Now focus on this memory and this is what you should be thinking when you sleep. You will feel the difference the very next day. You would have enjoyed your sleep after a long time, you will be invigorated, and most of all, you will be ready to meet out challenges of the day with a warm smile.
Why am i writing this? Two reasons, i have been pretty depressed for a large part of my life and now when i turn back and look, i see soooo many opprtunities that i missed due to it, so much more i could have done. Retrospection is a useful turn if we do not want history to repeat itself.