An increasing number of people in modern society have trouble sleeping. Because of the accumulated stress of daily life, we tend to have a restless heart, which significantly compromises our sleep quality. In response, the medical community has begun to use relaxation techniques or meditation to help patients improve their sleep. Today we’ll show you why bedtime meditation can have positive effects on health, explain its principles and other benefits, and help you find peace of mind and sound sleep.
Can Bedtime Meditation Help Us Sleep Better?
Bedtime meditation can help us relax, release our anxiety, avoid stress-induced insomnia, and help us fall asleep faster. Meditation has been studied by scientists for years. J. D. Creswell, an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), led a team of researchers to conduct a test. In the test, they randomly separated 35 stressed and unemployed adults into two groups: One group went through intensive meditation practice, and the other was assigned to rest. At the end of the three-day experiment, brain scans showed that for the meditation-trained group, meditation improved their brain’s ability to manage stress and effectively reduced their psychological stress. The study result was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry. [1]
How Does Meditation Improve Sleep?
One of the main causes of insomnia is that when people are depressed or anxious, their brain is forced to stay excited and thus unable to rest. Meditation has a unique effect on relieving mental stress. Modern psychology believes people do not like to accept “impermanence” and are obsessed with getting expected results. When things go wrong, our stress and negative emotions will arise. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD in molecular biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), believes meditation can help people “focus on the present” and “accept the reality [impermanence],” which allows people to gradually recover from negative emotions and stress, calm their mind, and fall asleep more easily. [2]
What Are The Benefits Of Bedtime Meditation?
In addition to helping the body and mind be prepared to sleep, bedtime meditation has many benefits, such as:
Relaxing Your Body
Bedtime meditation can help you relieve mental stress. You can also obtain the energy of Heaven and Earth and release the depressive emotions stuck in the body. Meditation also makes your qi and blood circulate smoothly, relaxes your body and stiff muscles, and keeps you away from the discomfort of tension.
Tackling Negative Emotions
When people are under high stress for a long time, their physical and mental health may be affected, causing common symptoms such as insomnia, hair loss, immunity decline, and so on. Therefore, meditating routinely at bedtime can help us eliminate the negative emotions accumulated during the day, create happiness and satisfaction, and obtain more energy to face the next day more positively and optimistically.
Get Rid Of Your Troubles And Elevate Your Spirituality
Meditation can help us understand natural laws in the external world and our inner spiritual realm. Daily bedtime meditation can improve our cognitive ability. We’ll no longer be triggered by external events to experience worries, fear or pain easily. Through meditating, we learn to adjust ourselves to get rid of trivial troubles in daily life; over the long term, we can gradually break the bondage and shackles in life, finding our true selves and achieving ultimate liberation.
Testimonials: “Meditation Alleviated My Insomnia” Shared By Bodhi Meditation Practitioners
Wei Zhou | Canada
Due to the failure of my investment in China, I suffered from many health issues, such as high blood pressure and severe insomnia. I felt dizzy during the day and had nightmares at night, which made it impossible for me to have a healthy life. As a result, I shut myself in my home completely for two and a half years. Due to a lack of exercise, I gained a huge amount of weight, which made me a completely different person. During that period, I often wondered if I was suffering from depression.
I happened to learn about Bodhi Meditation and then attended a Bodhi Meditation Stress Relief Retreat. After the first day of the retreat, I slept soundly without dreams the whole night. I was so happy! After practicing meditation for three months, my blood pressure returned to normal, and I also lost nine kilograms. I no longer felt dizzy during the day. More importantly, my spirit and vitality were restored, and I found myself once again feeling cheerful and confident.
Zhou Shou | California, USA
I suffered from severe insomnia and hay fever for a long time. For over three years, I needed three or four hours every night to fall asleep, but I would wake up one or two hours later. It made me listless, miserable, physically and mentally damaged, and there was always a “buzzing sound” in my head. My poor condition was compounded by seven years of hay fever. My eyes, nose and ears were constantly itchy, and I had to take allergy pills and eye and nasal drops every day to relieve the pain.
Fortunately, I attended a Bodhi Meditation Stress Relief Retreat. Unexpectedly, my hay fever improved so much that from day 4, I didn’t need nasal drops at all. It gave me great confidence in Bodhi Meditation, so I kept practicing The Meditation of Greater Illumination, Energy Bagua and prostration.
After a month, my dependence on allergy medications was reduced, and after two and a half months of practicing meditation, I even stopped taking any allergy medications at all. (Note: Stopping medication without medical supervision is not encouraged at Bodhi Meditation. Please follow a doctor’s advice.) Not only that, after half a year, I finally experienced the wonderful feeling of sleeping well, and I’ve been able to sleep for 5 to 7 hours every night since!
Bodhi Meditation Stress Relief Retreat Teaches You How To Practice Bedtime Meditation
Suppose you are drowning in daily stress, and you often toss and turn at night. In that case, we recommend you attend the Bodhi Meditation Stress Relief Retreat. Professional teachers can lead you to practice, answer all your questions, and help you learn meditation step by step. We’ll provide a comfortable learning environment, allowing you to regulate emotions and purify your body and mind. You’ll learn to be grateful and respectful through meditation and relaxation. When you relax your heart, you can get energy, calm your body and mind, and free yourself from the stress of your family, work, emotions, and illnesses. You will regain the energy to move forward in life.
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