Meditation For Insomnia
May 25, 2010
Insomnia or sleeplessness is a common urban phenomenon. You see so many people struggling to get quality sleep. They twist and turn in their beds, trying to catch twenty two winks in eight hours, and end up waking up murky and just like on the previous day.
Insomnia affects more than forty percent women than men. This statistic is interesting to know, given the fact that conventional beliefs tend to categorize men as the ‘stressed and overworked’ drones. An alarming statistic also reveals that almost more than half-a-million Americans suffer from this disorder.
Many are of the contention that insomnia is a disease. Well, actually insomnia is a symptom of a lurking disorder.
So what are the symptoms of this symptom…or in other words signs of insomnia?
People affected with insomnia have great difficulty falling asleep. Often they use forceful methods like taking sedatives to fall asleep.
Insomniac people sleep in short bursts. Once they are awake, mostly during odd hours at night, they don’t sleep again
Somnambulism or sleepwalking
How meditation can help
Meditation helps you settle your anxiety and stress at manageable levels. This in turn lets you sleep without any provoking thoughts. Ultimately anxious and stressful thoughts should never invade into your sleep
Meditation calms the storm in your mind. It elevates you to a state of self-realization, and awareness by helping you concentrate within.
Meditation utilizes the concept of distracting your conscious and subconscious mind into focusing on an internal bodily mechanism (your breath). This if done for prolonged periods of time regularly will give rich dividends, in that it will help you focus on positive emotions.
Meditation is a natural way to address the issue of sleeplessness or disturbed sleep. You don’t use medicines to meditate, just some willpower and lots of self-control.
Start of with a simple breathing meditation beginner-type program.
Sit in an environment (it could be indoors or outdoors) that offers you a serene and noiseless setting.
Sit with folded legs, and place your hands on your knees, and maintain an erect torso. Now with closed eyes, breathe in deeply, and breathe out deeply. Focus only on your breath. Do this with utmost concentration initially for short periods of time. Later you can extend this up to hours or even days!
You will soon realize your enemy is your thoughts, and taming them will pave the way to a great life.
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