Trouble Sleeping? Try a bit of Meditation!
Posted by Karen in health, tags: health, insomnia, meditation, sleepingA few days ago, I had serious problems trying to sleep and those following my Twitter will know that I went for 72 hours without any sleep, a real bad case of insomnia so what was the problem? I mainly think it was my mind working overtime, so I decided to use a method of meditation that I used to do from the book “Meditation for Inner Peace”
Yes I know it does sound very New Age, but there is a method in the book that has helped me sleep in the past, so I gave it a go.
It’s sounds very strange, but it does work!
Get yourself into bed and lie flat on your back and place your arms by your side.
Close your eye and start to concentrate on your breathing take big controlled breaths and do this for a few minutes until you feel quite comfortable.
Now this may sound weired but it does work!
When you are completely comfortable with your breathing, breath in, now when your strat to breath out strat to imagine that you can send your breathing to the tip of your toes, yes it sounds strange but you’ll see what I mean! Do this a couple of times, then do this as if you are moving up your body with each breath, up your legs etc. You will know when your are doing it right, as you will have a strange sensation on the part of the body you are working, I can’t explain it, but you will know what I mean!
When you get to the chest area start working from your finger tips and start working up your arms, doing the same as above and make your way to your head. I usually fall asleep when I get to the chest point and several of my friends that have tried this have also done the same.
This all takes a bit of practice and I’m not saying it will work for everyone, but it certainly works for me and I hope anyone that tries it, works for them also 
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(14 comments) says:
I guess for anyone having problem sleeping, it is worth a try. I am grateful that I can fall asleep almost instantly every time I hit the bed. There were a few cases whereby I struggled to fall asleep and it was definitely not an experience I wanted; I basically laid in bed the whole night and even when I closed my eyes, I did not feel a bit of sleepiness.
This meditation method may really help as I have tried meditation previously and meditation has never failed to help me calm down and be more focused.
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May 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Hi BK, thanks for taking the time to comment, I do hope that if you do need to try this method then it is successful
Hopefully you won’t need it..
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I think to a point meditation can help with anything in life. Quieting the mind is never a bad thing. I am one of the lucky ones that falls asleep almost instantly, although I use meditation daily and I always feel more at peace. I used to try to meditate at night before going to sleep, but of course I would fall asleep before ever meditating! Just sitting in your car and quieting your mind for a few minutes will help, though.
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