Improved Sleep Quality: Surprisingly, non-sleep deep rest can even improve your nighttime sleep. By reducing stress and anxiety during the day, it can make it easier to fall asleep and experience deeper, more restorative sleep at night. It can also enable you to remain calm and rested whilst trying to fall asleep, thus making it […]
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I’m fascinated by the many ways that practicing ‘yogic sleep’ works on virtually all aspects of your being to improve the body and mind. Easily and effortlessly. As there are so many ways this practise works, I am will split this into a few blog posts. Part 1 below… Non-sleep deep rest is
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There can be some confusion and misunderstanding about what exactly meditation is and what someone is doing when they are meditating. It might be useful to examine what it is not before we focus on what it is. Meditation is not thinking with your eyes closed. If that is what happens for you – it
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TRE stands for Tension and Trauma Release Exercises. It is a set of simple yet innovative exercises that enable the body to release deep-seated stress, pain, tension and trauma. It does this through enabling the body to access a form of tension release characterized as trembling/ tremoring or vibrating. Some have described it as similar to
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New thinking on the relationship between trauma, the body, mind, and brain Throughout my studies of TRE, I have started to understand some new ideas regarding the relationship between the different parts of ourselves, and why it might sometimes seem that the body and mind appear to be in conflict, how the body might have
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A white paper prepared for the John Templeton Foundation by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, May 2018. “Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude” David Hume The science of gratitude is a relatively new field and covers disciplines as varied as psychology,
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This book is about the way that the majority of humanity has become alienated, from ourselves and our true essence. We have allowed ourselves to become consumed by particular thought patterns and habits, these have disconnected us from experiencing reality in its fullness. The consequences of this folly can be seen all around, including in the degradation
It’s been a few years since I regularly started practicing meditation. Over the years, I have learnt a few different styles and techniques, to enhance the depth and experience of meditation. The deep rest practices that I discuss on this site are designed essentially to enhance and enable a level of deep rest which is
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This excellent book highlights two differing mindsets – or thought practices – which can ultimately affect your outcomes and perceptions of yourself and others.Dweck argues one is more conducive to developing a healthy approach to learning, whilst the other, which has been commonly accepted throughout modern times, can lead to stagnation and errors in thinking
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Did you know it is estimated that the mind thinks over 60,000 thoughts per day? Although we might assume that those thoughts are varied and different, probably a lot are repeated thoughts that we muse over and hold on to. In fact, it might be that certain thoughts are ones we repeat daily and ever
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