I feel I should point out that mindfulness meditation is not something you want to be doing if you’re trying to get to sleep. For many people, myself included, doing it before bed can ruin a night’s sleep. You want to do something like autogenics if you’re trying to nod off, although if you can’t, mindfulness meditation might help mitigate the effects of sleep deprivation.
I feel I should point out that mindfulness meditation is not something you want to be doing if you’re trying to get to sleep. For many people, myself included, doing it before bed can ruin a night’s sleep. You want to do something like autogenics if you’re trying to nod off, although if you can’t, mindfulness meditation might help mitigate the effects of sleep deprivation.
I agree with you—I even tried to develop a variant on MM that would be more conducive to allowing sleep to happen if it could, while still being a useful state to just chill in if it couldn’t: http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2008/09/29/cant-fall-asleep-for-a-nap-try-this/
Maybe I hit that balance, maybe I didn’t; but I do think that the point is well made that MM itself isn’t necessarily the best thing for this purpose.
Interesting. I’ll try it for a few nights and see how it works.