The possibility to rest well is essential to carry out all our activities with serenity. Those who suffer from insomnia know that this balance takes a moment to fall: the missed rest worsens the quality of our actions and, conversely, arriving at the end of the day with tasks performed badly or left out does not make us sleep peacefully.
Meditation acts at the cerebral level if practiced with constancy and regularity and seconded with a form of breath control that should not be understood as obsessive control, but conscious and conscious in the two phases of inhalation and exhalation. Imaging techniques have demonstrated the way in which meditation practice leaves obvious traces on the density of brain matter and therefore regulates vital functions such as sleep.
3 techniques against insomnia
One cannot think of learning techniques and using them as an occasional palliative; meditation is a real journey towards oneself.
However, there are some small strategies that can open this path . Let's see them together.
Tune your breath on your stomach and heart
A first technique can be to tune the breath on two diverese areas of the chest. Leave one hand on the heart and the other on the belly and observe only the internal movement.
This simple technique is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the vigilance of one's internal progress. You will fall asleep in a natural and pleasant way.
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Relaxing display
There is certainly a place where you are fond of, a part of the world you love, a view that you have in mind and that you can recall, or a relaxing situation in the company of trees or animals.
This meditation therefore, after a brief connection with one's breath, implies an inner look at something that deeply relaxes us, that soothes us.
Gratitude
It is not a question of thanking in the listless and heartless form. What we are talking about when we speak of gratitude is a silent listening to what the heart feels come to light in a joyful way .
It can be really just having taken a certain number of steps throughout the day or having had a chance to surprise someone.
If you do not find anything that moves this feeling, you can return to your body, to the reality of having one, even with all the limitations of an existence. In reality our carnal experience opens the doors to our immense heart, has an energy that extends beyond the hands and extends beyond the boundaries of the body. We put it into practice with actions, every day.
The consequences of insomnia on weight
If the episodes of insomnia are multiple in consecutive phases, the aesthetic aspect is affected as a direct repercussion of the well-being of the internal organs.
A first visible effect regards weight gain: the two hormones that regulate appetite are ghrelin, responsible for appetite, and leptin, a hormone that is secreted by fat cells, when their fat content is high, is responsible for the sense of satiety .
Sleep is directly linked to this hormonal mechanism, as it has been shown that in the absence of sleep leptin levels are reduced, while those of gerlina increase. Conversely, sleeping well and abundantly produces high quantities of leptin.
