We’ve been using the Headspace app for the past couple of months for morning meditation, and started using it before sleep about a month ago. Really liking it!
You can use the app, the yoga poses are really good @ realaxing the muscles and the effort it takes to do them will make u sleepy. I recommended the sun salutations one!
Meditation helps your relaxation, so use any type of meditation, which helps you get that. Particular type of meditation depends on your experience with meditation. Real beginners would be stressed by the meditation and it wont help them. Otherwise I would recommend body scan - you are scanning your body from within, muscle by muscle, trying to ease them.
Traditionally the purpose of meditation is to let go and be silent. While a meditation practice is likely to improve your ability to rest, meditating “in order to sleep” may be counterproductive. Meditate to allow the peace within you to express 😊
The easiest way is to follow a guided meditation for sleeping - you can find one online or you can use the one provided by the Fabulous. Once you find the guided meditation you like, you get in your comfy sleeping clothes, switch off all the lights, get in the bed under a warm blanket, and listen. With your eyes closed, follow the instructions but don’t strive for perfection. Allow the mind to wander too (however, try to avoid thinking about actual problems in your life) while your body relaxes. As you relax, the feeling of sleepiness will slowly engulf you. You should allow it. Allow yourself to drift to sleep.
Hey, I lie in bed imagining that healing light is flooding my body, it comes in through my head and my feet and it flows out through my heart so that I am giving and receiving simultaneously. I do it for 5 mins and forget I have done it as I have fallen asleep already! 😄👍
I’ve been using the Calm App for years. Its affordable and theres no advertising. They never up there prices and you get access to so much great content. That app alone has helped me meditate every single day. They have sleep stories on the app as well as meditations specifically for sleep!
Who knows man, if you figure that out, tell me. I’ve tried some of the apps where they have a voice talk to you with some peaceful background music playing. But I find it often times distracting. At first it’s good because the voice tells you how to relax, and they’re usually very good at it (I used Pzizz by the way), but after a while, the voice doesn’t stop and it becomes annoying. Focus on your breathing and keep it steady. Google: the breathing GIF. Go along with that GIF and follows its pace. Don’t cross your legs or your arms. Let your body fall naturally. Focus on nothing but the way your bed and blanket feels. Soft right? The problems of tomorrow are exactly just that: the problems of TOMORROW. You can relax now, but this moment is all about you - and your really soft blanket.
Use meditation apps. Set the temperature in the room to cool and comfortable. Get in a quiet space and comfortable posture even lying down. Shut off technology and tune out distraction. I’d mind wanders during meditation just label it as thinking and bring attention back to practice. If do regularly it gets easier.
Why would you want to meditate and fall asleep during it? I would consider binaural beats for relaxation and changing mind state and if you’re older then using a melatonin supplement is very natural and beneficial.
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