Meditation To Fall Asleep #26

Here is some meditation to help you fall asleep at bedtime.

1. Release all negative thoughts. Stop thinking about your past, present and future.
2. As you don’t keep negative energies, those harmful energies from your surroundings won’t be attracted to you. Negativity makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure will rise. With increased heart beat and probably adrenalin flowing, your body is all pumped up for action. You won’t relax to fall asleep.
3. Its essential to feel calm and let go of fear, anxiety, worries and other negativity. Almost immediately, you’ll feel better; calm will prevail. You’ll feel neutral or even good.
4. Close your eyes and try to sleep.
5. If you can’t relax and your mind keeps thinking, try another method. Count backwards from 500 down to 1. You need concentration and this will tire your brain, little by little. By the time you reach 100, you’ll find yourself struggling to focus on counting backwards. Try to complete this backward count until you reach 1. savor the success of your effort. Yawn or stretch your jaws even for a fake yawn. You’ll fall sleep.
6. If you have difficulty falling asleep, try to store positive energy to replace any bad negative energy. You need to do this during your day. Try using a “singing bowl”. It is explained at the link Meditation using hearing #18. Please be patient while you’re trying to absorb the benefits of using sound as a meditation. It is rare to feel instant results on the every day you start. After a fortnight, you may feel better at falling asleep.

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Everyone has their own requirement of quantity of sleep (number of hours), bedtime rituals and other habits. Some people need more hours of sleep than others. There is no one absolute, correct strategy to fall sleep.

Sleep is a state of unconsciousness of your body. Your brain does not receive stimuli from your senses as your body is asleep, so it can rest. In this restful state, your brain is focused on stimulations from your internal organs.

At bedtime, switch off the bright light. Leave a night light on, if you must have it. In darkness, your body’s sleep hormone, called melatonin, can work to prepare you for sleep. Melatonin brings you to feel drowsy/ sleepy. Your pineal gland, somewhere in your head, produces melatonin after 9 pm, until around 1 am. Thereafter, the level of melatonin slowly diminishes.

People or stimulators who want to disturb your sleep would be causing you stress. This makes your adrenal glands produce cortisol, which works against relaxing your body for sleep. The stimulations that encourage anxiety, fear, worries, restlessness cause stress, which sets off the production of cortisol, consequently making the body unable to fall asleep. To encourage sleep, it is necessary to avoid stress and thus discourage production of cortisol.

Sleeplessness, poor quality of sleep, and disturbance of sleeping patterns can bring on subsequent symptoms like:

1. Anxiety
2. Depression
3. Higher metabolic rate throughout the sleepless night
4. Changes in the sleep pattern
5. It takes longer to fall asleep during the day because your sleep pattern was disrupted at night.

How would your professional medical care expert treat you for stress that affects your sleep?

1. Consultation and counseling
2. Breathing therapy
3. Relaxation therapy
4. Exercise

To be continued later.

Related posts:

— https://artmater.com/category/psychology/meditation/

— https://artmater.com/category/psychology/sleep/

— https://artmater.com/category/psychology/dreams/