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[michaeltheexceptional]

Today since its world sleep day, I'll like to talk about the challenge of getting a restful sleep. And if you are one of the many millions of people who had sleep challenges; know you are not alone. When we are stressed or sick or experiencing physical painful or discomfort sleep is often hard to come by and lack of sleep impacts us. Sleeping builds our immune systems it strengthens our memory, it balances our hormones and regulates our emotions. So today I'll like to share how meditation can be instrumental in improving sleep. First meditation helps quite our thoughts and relax our body. When we stop and concentrate on an object of attention our over active mind begins to settle so by the time we get to bed our thoughts are generally more still. So to prepare for sleep it can be helpful to meditate right before bed. Body scan practices in particular can be super helpful because they take you out of the mind into sensation. Another benefit is that meditation teaches us nonreactivity, many of us are familiar with the experience of not been able to sleep and then becoming anxious precisely because of our sleeplessness. Often the stress of not been able to sleep is what ends up keeping us awake, we begin to worry about been exhausted the following day. So by learning how to observe our experience in a non reactive way, as we do through meditation we can be more at ease when lying in bed awake. This way we can note we're awake and we don't stress about it and when relaxed we are far more likely to drift off to sleep as the poet Rume said "Put your thoughts to sleep do let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." So on those nights when sleep doesn't come so easily use this practice as a tool, meditate, quite the mind and rest the body. #sleep #sleepdifficulty #howtosleepbetter #howtoimprovememory #strengthenmyimmunity #strengthenmyimmunesystem #meditation #productivity #beenmoreproductive #homebusiness #selfpower #goat #howtoimprovesleep #howtoimprovemysleep #howtodealwithanxiety #relaxation #qualitysleep #restfulsleep https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qt7RGpCYg/?igshid=1jm5jft6z47pq