Early to Bed, Early to Rise
I haven’t been going to sleep quite as early as I would like. I’ve been getting up extra early, nurturing my new baby habit of doing yoga AND meditation when I first wake up.
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I haven’t been going to sleep quite as early as I would like. I’ve been getting up extra early, nurturing my new baby habit of doing yoga AND meditation when I first wake up.
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I spent most of the last two days at Dak-Kon, a local games convention that my husband helped organize. Needless to say, I am exhausted after being up for 20 hours on Saturday! Here’s a video I created this summer about some sleep myths.
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Last week was particularly busy for my family. It seems the theater bug has bitten my whole family. My husband and I declared this Sunday a day of rest.
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It’s been a week of making an effort to get more sleep. At first, I felt like the sleep mafia had come and demanded payment for all the sleep I had ever missed.
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For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been falling behind on my sleep. And now I am starting to notice the effects it is having on my meditation.
My eldest son was having nightmares and could not get to sleep. A few of Walks Within’s guided meditations helped him have sweet dreams.
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I’ve been home for a week now, after leading two retreats back to back. They were spiritually exhilarating and fulfilling, and physically exhausting.
My recommendation for this week: Project Meditation’s free LifeFlow sample. LifeFlow is a product designed by Michael Mackenzie to increase relaxation and help you move into a meditative state faster and easier.
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While it may always seem easier to follow an excuse and not get up for yoga, or short myself on meditation time so I can get back into whatever book I am reading, I almost always end up regretting the decision. Discipline is much more challenging to maintain, but it is so much easier to live with than the regret of not following the discipline.
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Many people cannot sleep at night. They try wearing socks, drink relaxing herbal teas or take tryptophan or melatonin, read a book, keep a stress journal, and try all sorts of other expedients to help them fall asleep and get a good nights rest. What if I were to tell you that you could use this downtime as a chance to practice meditation?
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