Using meditation to improve the quality of your sleep.

​Dear All,

If you're ever feeling a bit jangly and stressed out after a busy day, then it's likely that you're going to take some of this to bed with you. This could affect the quality of your sleep; and that is why 10 minutes of meditation before bed-time is highly recommended.

In her new book, The Sleep Revolution, Arianna Huffington draws attention to the fact that many people, due to the busyness of their lives, are not getting sufficient, good quality shut-eye, which may be impacting their  health and productivity in an alarming way (see below: digested read)

While it may be possible to decide to get your recommended 8 hours sleep daily by going to bed a little earlier, it may not be so easy to ensure that you get good quality sleep. You could, after all, be counting many sheep while being kept awake by a replay of what happened during the day.  Unless, of course, you meditate and do a  footspa.

After a busy day the first thing I do when I get home is get out the footspa bowl; put cool/cold water in it and some salt and just rest my feet in it for about 10 minutes in front of the meditation photo. The whole stress of the day seems to just drain out of my feet.

Later on at bedtime, I raise my kundalini put on a bandhan and go into thoughtless awareness for a few minutes before my head hits the pillow.  The combination of the footspa and the meditation really does make a difference to the quality of your sleep. You wake up the next morning with a lot more energy and feeling of 'get-up-and-go'.

This weeks 5 minute video clip is a piece of prophetic poetry about you called Pasayadan, written by a 13th century philospher-poet-yogi called Gyaneshwara, who was the first to reveal the formerly secret knowledge of kundalini yoga.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington - digested read

How to do footspa detox

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