How Meditation Can Put You to Sleep
You can’t choose to fall asleep, but you can choose to do things that will put you to sleep. When you meditate deeply, you naturally enter a “tired state” of mind. This state is ESSENTIAL to sleep.
You might be thinking, “I AM TIRED… I need help actually falling asleep”. You might FEEL tired, but that doesn’t mean your brain is in a tired STATE. It’s possible to be wired all night long just by *trying* to fall asleep, which is why you can’t choose to fall asleep.
By getting into meditation, you’ll allow your brain to fall asleep on it’s own while your focus is on something OTHER THAN trying to fall asleep. The KEY is in focusing on a “tired” kind of thing.
Now, you might be confused about the tired and wired state idea, and that’s a very bad thing. Most people will never even hear about this concept, and it’s ESSENTIAL to sleep, so if you haven’t read it yet, click here to take the Advanced Sleep Course.
Remember how I said “The KEY is in focusing on a “tired” kind of thing?”
Meditating can get boring, and it’s easy for the mind to run off. After I explain “How to Meditate”, you should consider listening to a meditation that will literally guide you into sleep by focusing your attention on an audio file that is designed to put you to sleep fast. There are 3 effective ways to do this: the “Fall Asleep” brainwave entrainment from Sleep Tracks, listening to deep, guided meditation, or listening to self hypnosis.
Try This - Meditate to Brainwave Entrainment
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How to Meditate
Remember that the key to making this work is enjoy it and to get into it. You’ve really got to enjoy meditation. You CANNOT be meditating as a way to fall asleep - you’ve got to be mediating just to meditate. Accept the fact that you may not sleep at all FIRST. Then enjoy whatever it is you are meditating to.
Mediation is about being completely clear of distractions. It’s very simple to do, though it takes practice “getting into it”:
1. Sit in a way that makes you relaxed.
2. Clear your mind of all thoughts.
3. Focus on an “object of placement” - meaning, some object, thing, emotion, thought, or some other variable. Focusing on your breathing is how most mediation starts: simply breath normally and start getting into / enjoying the sensations of your breath, completely focusing on only your breath.
When using a CD, the AUDIO becomes the object of placement.
4. Keep your line of thought on the object of placement. Your brain is likely to go wandering off, thinking about something other than the object of placement. Mediation is about clearing this, or allowing your thoughts to settle. For example, when you first start mediating with harsh anxiety your brain may be frantic. DO NOT worry about *trying to stop it* (your unconscious can’t “not do something”, so don’t even bother trying to stop anything you are doing ever… just do something else instead and don’t worry about it.)
Just always go back to the object, so that even if you forgot and have been distracted for 30 minutes, as soon as you realize it, you instantly go back to the object of placement and continue meditating.
If it’s challenging for you to stay focused on the audio, try asking yourself, “Without thinking about it, what does it sound like?” Focus on the sensation.
5. The longer you do it, the more developed the state and skill become.
6. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Although it doesn’t require effort other than your time and focus, this is a skill that your mind will develop more and more with time.
Powerful Tools
These are meditation devices that are guaranteed to work - or your money back. Just concentrate any of these CDs to enter a deep meditative sleep. If you actually stay awake through the full CD, you can either restart it, as it will now be even more nullifying, or you can just enjoy the deep relaxation until you go to sleep.
Here are ways of shutting off the wrong kind of thinking right before bed:
- Mediate on Brain Entrainment CDs.
This isn’t guided meditation, but it’s the most powerful way to mediate if you want to fall asleep because it uses brain entrainment technology to put you to sleep. Combine this powerful sleep remedy with the “How to Meditate” guide below and you are guaranteed to fall asleep. This program also comes with a sleep optimization program to teach you how to use the tracks most effectively and other things you can do to improve your sleep and the performance of these tracks. Click here to check it out.
- Guided Meditation: “Deep Zen Meditation”
This is by far the most effective mediation CD on the market because it causes you to focus and think about the meditation, causing “tired thoughts” while your body and mind are greatly relaxed by strong meditation techniques used within. The CD isn’t cheap, but it’s an excellent way of shutting off anxiety-prone thinking and getting to sleep FAST. Click here to check it out.
- Guided Hypnosis: “Relaxation”
This is the CD I used originally. It worked for me. Dr. Montague, a hypnosis expert and psychologist, made this CD for her own patients and started putting it on the internet about a year ago. Like the Buddhist CD, this will focus you on tired things, while greatly relaxing you hypnotically, for a very affordable cost. Hypnosis, in this case, is just another way of saying intense meditation. Click here to check out Dr. Montague’s website.
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