Strengthen Release Unwind
End your day with intention and prepare your body and mind for sleep
Strengthen Release Unwind
End your day with intention and prepare your body and mind for sleep
The Power of sleep
"Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime"
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
From Scientific American:
In making an argument for the necessity of mental downtime, we can now add an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence to intuition and anecdote. Why giving our brains a break now and then is so important has become increasingly clear in a diverse collection of new studies investigating: the habits of office workers and the daily routines of extraordinary musicians and athletes; the benefits of vacation, meditation and time spent in parks, gardens and other peaceful outdoor spaces; and how napping, unwinding while awake and perhaps the mere act of blinking can sharpen the mind.
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
From Psychology Today:
When they are stressed or anxious, or their mind is very active, people try to force their mind into submission to be quiet, but that usually just creates more struggle which makes the mind even more active. Thoughts and emotions don’t have physical form, so trying to calm them can be a difficult undertaking. [In this state] the heart often beats more quickly or feels more “activated” than when a person is calm. This shows the fundamental connection between the heart, thoughts, and emotions. Your heart is one of the key “switches” in your nervous system that influences the relationship between the body and mind.
"Is your overactive mind keeping you up at night?"
"Trying to Quiet Your Mind to Get to Sleep? Try quieting your nervous system instead"
"Is your overactive mind keeping you up at night?"
From Insomnia Help (Canada)
We’re not distracted by working, playing, reading, watching TV, or having a conversation. And annoyingly, those thoughts can come bursting to the surface, like a beach ball held under water. When this happens frequently, the brain can actually become conditioned (trained) to do its worst-case scenario thinking at the worst possible time: the middle of the night. It’s as though it has become an automatic habit. If you find your overactive mind is sabotaging your ability to get fall asleep or get back to sleep, you’re not alone.