AlwaysTired
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I put a question mark cause it's only been 2 days I've been doing it but it seems to be helping a lot. My insomnia had (has?) been getting out of control as of late, as my cortisol seems to suddenly be perpetually high. Thus, I couldn't fall asleep, stay asleep or get enough total hours of sleep. And things that helped before weren't helping any more, the only thing that did help was trazadone, but it stuffed up my nose so bad that it was hard falling back asleep (I'm not a mouth breather) and then I'd have a migraine from the pressure on my sinuses the next day.
I'd heard of transcendental meditation and decided to research it because I couldn't do zen meditation (just got more tense and aggravated trying to empty my mind etc)
So TM is totally different but you have to take a course to be assigned a mantra (because they are tailored to the individual). Well I can't do that right now cause I'm moving out of state in less than two weeks, so I made up my own mantra and basically followed the guidelines of TM with it and the last 2 nights I have fallen asleep before 11pm, only woke up once, got back to sleep in less than 2 hours (usually take 3-5 hours) and getting 7 and 8 total hours sleep (whereas before it was 5 total hours)
I really enjoy doing it too, it's not work like other forms of meditation, and I have also had a greater sense of well being and relaxation in general from it. It must be releasing endorphins cause when I'm doing it I feel like morphine is being released into my body. No joke.
In TM people just think the mantra but I find chanting to be really powerful for me. Anyway, I am signed up to attend a course intro for the city I'm moving to next month. Here is the link for anyone interested:
http://www.tm.org
(And no I don't work for them even though my post sounds like it. I'm just so freaking happy I am getting decent sleep cause I was on the verge of insanity from my insomnia)
I'd heard of transcendental meditation and decided to research it because I couldn't do zen meditation (just got more tense and aggravated trying to empty my mind etc)
So TM is totally different but you have to take a course to be assigned a mantra (because they are tailored to the individual). Well I can't do that right now cause I'm moving out of state in less than two weeks, so I made up my own mantra and basically followed the guidelines of TM with it and the last 2 nights I have fallen asleep before 11pm, only woke up once, got back to sleep in less than 2 hours (usually take 3-5 hours) and getting 7 and 8 total hours sleep (whereas before it was 5 total hours)
I really enjoy doing it too, it's not work like other forms of meditation, and I have also had a greater sense of well being and relaxation in general from it. It must be releasing endorphins cause when I'm doing it I feel like morphine is being released into my body. No joke.
In TM people just think the mantra but I find chanting to be really powerful for me. Anyway, I am signed up to attend a course intro for the city I'm moving to next month. Here is the link for anyone interested:
http://www.tm.org
(And no I don't work for them even though my post sounds like it. I'm just so freaking happy I am getting decent sleep cause I was on the verge of insanity from my insomnia)
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