Why you ought to relaxget into your bodysense
The NSDR or Non Sleep Deep Rest practice is resting your body with your mind still awake.
NSDR is a form of yoga nidra – a guided effortless meditation that enables your whole body and nervous system to deeply relax, compensate for the lost sleep and boost your
Championed by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Dr Andrew Huberman, NSDR meditation calms and soothes the nervous system, untangles stress from the body and reduces anxiety.
You can expect to emerge from this yogic sleep feeling relaxed and refreshed. If you’re wondering how to improve your sleep quality or how to get slow wave sleep, this 10 minute nsdr is one way.
Containing a short body scan meditation and the fastest known type of breathwork to relax oneself; physiological sighs this nsdr yoga nidra 10 minute meditation will help you focus on your goals and improve sleep quality.
Relaxation moves you out of the sympathetic; Fright or Freeze, Fight or Flight mechanisms that cause tension through your mind-body, into greater parasympathetic nerve activity. This branch of the nervous system allows healing, resting, rebuilding & restoring your mind-body.
Many physical, and some psycho-emotional, problems can be reduced or eliminated by accessing that potent, sweet feeling parasympathetic state for long enough and often enough.
„Brief (8-10 min) Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest (NSDR) protocols are distinct from meditation & similar but different from Yoga Nidra. Emerging data show they can restore mental & physical vigor, dopamine levels & offset missed hours of sleep.“
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. Tweet
Our body works because it’s moved by Energy. In order to be healthy we need a good energetic & nervous impols and ideally we’re living our internal creative impuls.
4 sources of energy:
BREATH
FOOD AND WATER
SLEEP
RELAXATION
Through relaxation you raise your own awareness about your body . Relaxation bings you into a state fo satisfaction, presence and enhanced vitality ..into a state from which you can (creatively) act, freed of the tensions that hold you back.