Why You Want To Implement Meditation To Regain Dreamsleep
Exolutions of bad sleep: #3 The reasons why meditation can help you sleep better
“Meditation can be your best natural tool to sleep better.”
Exolutions are examples of possible solutions extracted from real-life situations.
Not meant as direct medical advice and not meant for copy-paste behavior.
Merely to line out possible directions and gain insight into how similar problems could be fixed or where to look.
The approach for better sleep often deceives people onto the wrong path.
Many tend to direct their focus too much toward the sleep phase and the bedroom itself. Something I learned during my long search for dream sleep is that, in order to sleep well again, you’ll need to have a couple of sleep-inducing habits in place.
“Dream sleep is the sum of your daily habits.”
When you need to start undertaking strange approaches and rare methods around sleep time, most likely you’re too late and you’ll have a hard time acquiring sleep.
On my quest to regain dream sleep, I noticed that a narrow zoomed-in situation won’t tell you much. Let stand to bring you a significant improvement.
Once arriving at your preferred sleep spot (your bedroom I may hope) You’ll benefit most when your mind is set up for sleep.
What’s meant by mind setup for sleep?
Sleep is the after-effect of your day.
Think in terms of human energy to sketch yourself a wider picture.
You’ll benefit most from a daily approach entirely set up in function to become ready for sleep around “18h00” (On average that is, depending on your personal needs, some might want to shift this an hour later or so.)
Sleep is prepped throughout your day. All actions you undertake could be set in place entirely with the idea to wind down.
Stress levels can interfere with that winding down the system. That’s why you might want to consider implementing meditation.
For example,
Although it’s widespread throughout the internet that working out is one of the best things to do for sleep, I found, as an “introvert” that late-evening workouts (intensive powerlifting) also inhibit your ability to sleep in.
Besides of the unwanted late stress, this makes you phase shift and triggers inconsistent rhythms.
How meditation helps you sleep
High unhealthy stress peaks, which often unfold in chronic stress, overall your natural ability to sleep.
Print this in your mind:
Introverted persons could benefit from performing their most mentally-taxing work first, and perform easier things later.
Extraverted persons tend to take a slower start and fuel energy levels as they gain momentum. Yet both hold their kryptonite. Both are subjected to stress.
Introverts are often called “higher sensitive,” although this doesn’t tell everything, introverted persons tend to experience stress levels from their environment intenser than the extroverted type. Therefore, introverts who step out of their comfort zone too much could benefit more from meditation, than those who consistently stay in their comfort zone.
Extraverts, feed themselves with energy from their environment.
Because of their rather outgoing, and social behavior, they tend to increase momentum throughout the day into their evenings. This too can lead to an inhibiting effect on the winding down time, which your body needs to trigger the sleep process.
Eventually, all types of people can benefit from meditation. Although, people who work long(er) hours, or high-level athletes will gain a lot from meditation.
Theo Compernolle, in his book “Brain Chains,” explains much of the usefulness of regular brain breaks. Ever since I try to implement more daily brain breaks which I found very helpful to survive a busy day. Today, I consider meditation a mutant form of those beneficial brain breaks.
There are much top performing athletes who meditate as a tool. Most of it assists in an indirect way to achieve better sleep and overall recovery.
A simple way to get started:
- Find a place alone, preferably outside, in contact with nature (There is more tell here, you’ll find out later)
2. Close your eyes, listen to your surroundings, and focus on nasal breathing
Take this
Implementing meditation helps you to relax throughout your day.
Meditation can help you with choosing tasks carefully, not letting yourself become overwhelmed, and structuring your daily actions.
Get in touch with yourself and gain control. Once in control, you’ll become more resilient against sudden stress peaks and therefore you’ll set yourself up to control your sleep switch.
When you are in search to acquire better sleep, dream sleep if you will, it’s still possible, I don’t care what age you are.
- A personality trait is an important factor when it boils down to a sleep schedule
- Your personality trait is pre-set from birth, yet, not fixed!
- Dream sleep is the math of your daily actions
- Stress inhibits most of your ability to sleep
Additionally, One more myth I would like to share with you:
“Meditation is sedentary behavior”
“Meditation, but my lifestyle is already quite sedentary.”
Look, meditative states can also be achieved during long walks for instance. That’s where personality traits kick in. Extraverted persons might want to consider sitting down approaches, whereas more sedentary behavior personalities “often more introverts” might want to consider long walks.
Walking in nature is meditative!
-Martin Vidal-
A high(er) daily activity level matters a lot to set yourself set for sleep by the end of the day. In a way our brain consumes much energy too, that’s correct, yet, for sleep, your body will benefit better from moving around throughout the day.
Movement is life, and movement increases your conductivity. Therefore meditation can be achieved by moving and claims a logical spot in most people’s sleep approach.
Quiz questions to make it stick better:
- What are the key ideas of this post?
- How would you define those ideas?
- What terms or ideas are new to you?
- How do the ideas relate to what you already know?
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“Never do anything without premeditation.” -Pythagoras -
Absorb, Read, Write, Sleep, Exercise, Thrive!
I’m no M.D. This post has no intention of giving medical advice.
I’m an observer of life. Mental recovery approaches and sleep tactics became some of my interests. I want to point out some interesting facts that could trigger your awareness of how you could fix your specific sleep problem or help others address pinch points.
Thanks for reading this post!
P.S.:
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