An Insomniac’s Guide to Meditation
By Diana Lang, author of Opening to Meditation
There are times in life where we just cannot sleep. We roll over and toss and turn, coming wide awake hoping to fall back to sleep again. Whether it be for short intermittent periods during stressed and challenging times, or long years of sleeplessness caused by chronic tension, insomnia can be like the quiet beast in the dead of night that slowly drains our energy making us vulnerable and weary, tired and depressed.
If insomnia becomes chronic, we may find ourselves taking natural remedies like melatonin or magnesium, but if those don’t work we could end up reaching for alcohol, or other kinds of drugs, including stronger pharmaceutical medications, in our basic biological need to fall asleep.
Most of what keeps us awake is stress. And meditation can be just the thing to relax your mind to let yourself deeply rest and sleep.
When we worry, we create stress hormones and chemistry that tell the body that something is wrong. It can trigger the sympathetic nervous system which is the part of the ...
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If insomnia becomes chronic, we may find ourselves taking natural remedies like melatonin or magnesium, but if those don’t work we could end up reaching for alcohol, or other kinds of drugs, including stronger pharmaceutical medications, in our basic biological need to fall asleep.
Most of what keeps us awake is stress. And meditation can be just the thing to relax your mind to let yourself deeply rest and sleep.
When we worry, we create stress hormones and chemistry that tell the body that something is wrong. It can trigger the sympathetic nervous system which is the part of the ...
http://kajama.com/an-insomniacs-guide-to-meditation/