A member of the Blog Chicks team read a very cool article on Meg Reynolds website on Deep rest. Meg has allowed us to publish it for our readers and happy to help anyone who needs help or further advice. Visit their website here: https://megreynolds.com/
The Centers for Disease Control have indicated that adults who sleep for at least 7 hours per night are lucky if they experience deep sleep for about 25% of those 7 hours. Uh, that’s 1 hour and 45 minutes of deep sleep. When my students first come to me, the regularly share that they have trouble sleeping. Some are up in the middle of the night every night for an hour or two, and some report falling asleep & then are RUDELY AWAKENED by their brains worrying about things that seem pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things.
Accumulated stress is stored in the nervous system, and when the body gets into a restful state, the nervous system starts trying to get rid of it. However, the nervous system also experiences vulnerability during sleep because you are essentially unconscious. This vulnerability can make the process of burning off stress alarming, causing the brain and the body to wake up.
Can Vedic Meditation be a deeper rest than sleep?
In Vedic Meditation, you are not unconscious.
Instead, you experience a profoundly restful state while still being alert. This unique state allows the mind and the body to unwind from a lifetime of stress while remaining capable of responding quickly if necessary (think about the primal fight-or-flight response to a threat).
With Vedic Meditation, you achieve deep rest and effective, potent stress release.
When practiced daily, the unprecedented levels of mental rest you will experience in Vedic Meditation will allow your body to experience deep physical rest, deeper even than your most restful sleep at night. Your body will be able to begin burning off the stress stored in it for decades—the stress that has been aging us rapidly, deteriorating our physical health, and making us not too sharp.
If sleeping were an Olympic Sport, I’d earn a medal!
Maybe not Gold, maybe not even Silver, but Bronze is all me, baby! Those of you who sleep like the dead, like me, know that you feel like you should be supercharged with energy that lasts all day. But we don’t. Usually, I’m out of the shoot like a rocket, and by about 10 am, maybe noon, my brain starts getting sluggish, and then my manic behavior starts slowing down. I try to keep up the pace and keep my spirits up, but my tank is running low and burning fuel like nobody’s business.
Then I sit down for 20 minutes of unprecedented rest in Vedic Meditation, and voila, stress elimination—not stress management!
I’m refreshed, recharged, and feeling good.
Every day feels like two days for the price of one.
The Benefits of Vedic Meditation
From the Ancient Body of Knowledge Known as the Veda, Vedic Meditation is unique from other meditation practices. Your mind goes beyond the level of thought and settles into its least excited state—the state of simply being. As the mind settles into this deep stillness, it paves the way for the release of accumulated stress and fatigue, simultaneously nurturing overall well-being.
Vedic meditation is a catalyst for personal transformation, allowing you to unfurl your boundless potential, nurture clarity, foster creativity, and ignite a profound sense of fulfillment.
Are you curious about the transformative power of Vedic Meditation?
Vedic meditation is a catalyst for personal transformation, allowing you the means to unfurl your boundless potential, nurture clarity, foster creativity, and ignite a profound sense of fulfillment.
Join one of Meg’s Vedic Meditation Courses or feel free to reach out to learn more about how you can incorporate this practice into your daily life via the website here: https://megreynolds.com/
