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Meditation before sleep...
Q: I
have started practising meditation after reading your book (which I
found it most useful and interesting, and I have been reading it
repeatedly). After each meditation, I found difficulty in falling
asleep ( I usually meditate at night )and when I do fall asleep, it
would be for about 3 to 4 hours only and will not be able to go back
to sleep again after. Is something wrong? Perhaps, my meditation
technique is not right. Please advice.
A: Don't meditate before you go to sleep. Try and meditate
at least 3 - 4 hours before you go to bed. Not being able to sleep
after meditating is quite normal. One research paper says people get
more 'rest' in the 20 minutes meditation than they do in 6 hours
sleep and many long term meditators don't need as much sleep as
other people.
In contradiction to this, we always recommend to people who have
difficulty in sleeping to meditate themselves to sleep. When people
who have difficulty sleeping, meditating themselves to sleep does
work....but the difficulty in sleeping is anxiety related. It may
not work if you meditate first then go to sleep.
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