Meditation is both a pain-killer and a vitamin! But you start taking Vitamin only if you ever have/had to take a pain-killer for some problem. Meditation can help in managing lot of issues like Stress, Anxiety etc. Its been almost 500 days since i have been meditating regularly and still miss out on few days. Surprisingly, the improvement starts immediately but what takes time is the habit of meditating every night/day. Instead of 20–30mins, I could see deep sleep of at least 60mins!! Whenever I did meditation before sleeping, I felt relaxed and noticed a good improvement in deep sleep.
My deep sleep was mostly affected whenever I thought of work or any other matter which was running(in the mind) throughout the day. Hence, my first goal was just to increase deep sleep after realising how it affected me the very next day. Even if I had 5 cycles but bad deep sleep, I felt little stressed or sleepy next day. I found out that my deep sleep was very bad(almost 20–30 mins last year) and I could also notice how stressed or anxious I felt the very next day. Number of cycles affecting the duration of sleep.Consistency in sleeping and wake up times - related to the Ineffectiveness.Also, its good to wake up at the end of one of the cycles(preferably 4th or 5th cycle) as a cycle completed is much better than an incomplete cycle. Now what happens if you don’t sleep regularly or wake up at irregular times! Your brain is tested again and again for different time cycles.
For ex., If you sleep regularly around 11pm, you will start feeling sleepy from 10:30PM(approx.) and if you usually wake up at 6AM, you should get up by 6 or 6:30AM without any alarm. Our brain is tuned to feel sleepy and get awake around fixed time. Combat rough nights and bad days with this natural, calming experience.Man is the only mammal that willingly delays sleep! Feel your stress and anxiety melt away as your mind enters a relaxed state of deep sleep.Breathe in all the positive affirmations, and breathe out all negative thoughts.Focus on your breathing and the encouraging instructions you hear.