Spirituality and Meditation
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Spirituality and Meditation

Spirituality and Meditation

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Improve Your Quality of Sleep With Meditation

Submitted by Sonia Gallagher on March 26, 2009 – 11:27 pm13 Comments

If you are having trouble sleeping, one  of the best and easiest ways to improve this is by following guided meditations that are specifically created for inducing a sleep state.  Go ahead and check out The Big List of Free Guided Meditations which I update regularly with free guided meditations in both audio and video formats. Also, let me know what you think of them and any suggestions for new ones. I love to hear from you guys!

You should also take a look at using binaural beats specifically created for inducing sleep like those from mind shift, unexplainable store, and hypnosis products and the new method of slow breathing for sleep inducement and lowering blood pressure.

Get a Good Night of Sleep With Auto Circadian Meditation
By Michael Summer

Auto circadian meditation can help if you have problems sleeping. Many people use auto circadian meditation to get a better night of sleep, and also to curb bad habits like smoking and overeating. This is a more advanced form of meditation, and requires practice in order to fully master it. However, anyone can use auto circadian meditation to have more control over their daily lives.

Meditation Improves Sleep

Meditation Improves Sleep

Why You Can’t Sleep

Auto circadian meditation is based on the study of the 24 hour internal cycle of the body. The word ‘circadian’ comes from two different Latin words meaning ‘around’ and ‘day’. So circadian refers to the 24 hour internal clock that everyone has.

This clock is responsible for telling your body simple things like when it should be hungry or tired, so when this clock can’t function properly, your whole body gets thrown off track. This usually happens when you make big changes to your regular schedule.

For example, if you stay up all night, your internal clock doesn’t understand why. Changing your schedule like this once in a while is okay, because your internal clock will eventually reset itself. However, if you keep your internal clock is off its natural schedule for any extended period of time, your biorhythms won’t go back to normal so easily. This can ultimately cause sleep problems like the inability to fall asleep right away and even insomnia.

Some people don’t have a choice about when they sleep. If you work the night shift, or if your job has you traveling across time zones, your biorhythms will constantly be out of whack. Even working long hours and staying awake with caffeine will upset your biological clock to some degree. If these are circumstances that you can’t change, then auto circadian meditation may help.

How Auto Circadian Meditation Can Help

Now that you understand what circadian means, you may also now understand that meditation can be used to reset your internal clock so that you can get a good night of sleep. Since most of us take our biorhythm system or internal clock for granted, it takes meditation to really dig deep and become aware of what our body is telling us. On a regular schedule, most of us know when we are tired or hungry, but if you are using external prompts like an alarm clock to wake up and caffeine to stay awake longer, then your biorhythms will never function right.

Since you probably can’t stop working or raising a family, your internal clock and natural biorhythms will be constantly overruled by your unpredictable schedule. Auto circadian meditation will get you in touch with your internal clock so that you communicate with your subconscious and in turn, manage your internal clock. This is a meditation technique that connects all aspects of your being – including the body, the mind and the soul.

Auto circadian meditation works by keeping you in the present moment. Staying in the present lets you focus on your breathing and other subconscious bodily functions like your biorhythms or your internal clock. As odd as it sounds, auto circadian meditation will let you get in touch with the biorhythms that make you sleepy and hungry, so that that you can reprogram them.

Want to calm your mind & super-charge your energy level? We’ve created a FREE audio e-course to get you started with auto circadian meditation. You’ll get guided meditations to help you transform your life from the inside-out. If your happiness is important click here.

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If you enjoyed this article and could identify with the thousands of people that have trouble getting to sleep at night, check out binaural beats specifically created for inducing sleep like those from mind shift, unexplainable store, and hypnosis products and the new method of slow breathing for sleep inducement and lowering blood pressure.

Remember, check out The Big List of Free Guided Meditations including free guided meditations for different goals in both audio and video formats. Also, let me know what you think of them and any suggestions for new ones. I love to hear from you guys!

Are you like the hundreds of us who have trouble getting to sleep at night? or do you go to sleep easily but wake up at the smallest sound?
What have you tried to improve the quality of your sleep? Have you done auto circadian meditation? What do you like about it?

Sonia Gallagher, JD, Integrated Executive and Life CoachThanks for visiting! Make sure to check out our recommended Spiritual Resources Page and get a free binaural beats sample!

Meditation has had an incredible impact on my emotional, professional, and spiritual growth. It has benefited me so much that I created this site to share information about meditation with other busy, stressed out parents, professionals, college students, and business owners in a straightforward way.

Meditation led me to my life path as an Integrated Executive Life Coach. If you'd like to work with me as a coach, schedule a free 15 minute coaching session today! Make sure to let me know you came from My Meditation Garden!

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  • Hi Brad,

    Isn’t it funny how our body reacts to new stressors in our life? Whether the change is a positive one or a negative one, there is a tendency in our physical bodies to resist the change. The most common type of resistance of this sort shows up as problems sleeping.

    If you’ve been having trouble getting to sleep or getting a full night’s rest, you might want to try binaural beats products that specialize specifically in slowing down your brain activity to put you into theta brainwave state. I’ve done a few reviews on these types of binaural beats. You can see my reviews if you are interested. I hope they are helpful to you!

  • Brad West says:

    Recently I started an evening job, many days like yesterday I won’t go to bed or even get tired until 5 or 6 am. Even though I don’t feel sleepy my body dosn’t feel right at all.

    Strange stuff happens when i am like this. I am going to try a few of your tips. Or just start drinking when I get home, LOL.

    Thanks for the post.
    Brad West ~ onomoney

  • Great post. Thank’s for taking the time to share.

  • You are most welcome Thom. Binaural beats have worked out great for me and have really made my experience of meditating much deeper. The ones I’ve used are from the unexplainable store and mind shift. They’ve both worked out great and unexplainable store gives a free sample of them.

  • Thom Homassen says:

    Really good article. I’ve been suffering from insomnia for over the past 35 years.

    I can’t remember when the last time was that I was able to sleep a full night or more than 4 hours for that matter. I am curious about binaural beats and am going to give them a try.

    Thank you for this information and this site.

  • Awesome. I’m glad to hear it!

  • Sara Wilson says:

    I bought the binaural beats from http://www.binauralbeatsmp3.com that you suggested to me and have been sleeping full nights for the past 2 weeks. Thank you for recommending it and sharing your own experience with me about it. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll continue to be able to get full nights of sleep from now on! By the way, there are also really good binaural beats on http://www.meditation-downloads.com for sleeping better and other types of stuff.

  • John,
    Thanks for the info. The links are to an outside, non-related site which is apparently undergoing construction. If you are looking for meditation products that help you sleep, I suggest you check out the binaural beats located at http://www.binauralbeatsmp3.com I’ve been using them for a while and have really seen great results so far.

    I look forward to hearing from you at the Garden again!

  • john mazura says:

    I can not access any of the info offered at end of your article due to MalWare Warning???

  • Angela says:

    I have had trouble getting to sleep for years, decades but I find if I play relaxtion meditation music its so soothing and relaxing I’m off in Dreamland in no time. I usually play a CD like Jeff Clarkson or Ken Davis.

    Its also good to play this sort of music to get the children off to sleep too.

  • Kathy,
    Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I agree that meditation helps in sleep. Since I started meditating, I now sleep a lot deeper and more soundly. I generally don’t wake up during the night and tend to have more dreams. Lately though I haven’t been able to remember my dreams. This frustrates me because I used to be able to remember my dreams perfectly a few weeks ago. I think the spiritual experience I had last week affected me in not being able to recall the dreams now. I hope this improves so that I can again.

    I look forward to hearing more from you at My Meditation Garden. I love to read comments, feedback, advice, and questions from the readers!

  • Kathy says:

    Meditation before sleep for me is necessary. I have been an insomniac for many years and took medication to help me sleep. I started meditating with Holosync over two years ago and now sleep peacefully. Some nights I think I’m so tired I’ll fall asleep but always end up lying there for the hour it would have taken me to do my meditation. Now all I need to take is an occasional valerian tablet, a vast improvement!

    Kathy’s last blog post..Creating A Safe Environment for Your Cat

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