Manage Emotional Stress to Sleep Better

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Manage emotional stress that may be keeping you up at night. Join us in part 4 of this week's sleep series. You'll discover the fourth step of a 7-part sleep FORMULA to help you sleep better at night. Does sleep seem to evade you these days? Some health experts consider a lack of sleep to be an international epidemic. As long as there aren't any health reasons that prevent you from a good night's sleep, sleeping well at night is often attributed to healthy lifestyle habits. Yet, there's an often-overlooked reason you may not be sleeping well at night. It has more to do with how you manage your emotions. In this week's series, you'll explore a special Sleep FORMULA to get to help you get to the root cause of what may be keeping you up at night. This is part 4 of a 7-part Sleep Formula meditation series episodes 2089-2095. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Keep a Sleep Diary. Each morning, record how well you slept. Each evening, record how you feel emotionally. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Affirmation - "I am safe. I am sound." Breathing - Inhale: "I am safe." Exhale: "I am sound." Mudra - Pran Mudra Chakra - 5th - at throat - inner truth Herb - Chamomile - sleep + relaxation Yoga Asana - Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog

This is part 4 of a 7-part Sleep Formula meditation series episodes 2089-2095.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2,82 of The Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down.
0:14.4	That's not always easy to do,
0:16.3	especially when you feel your emotions
0:19.2	going in all different directions,
0:22.3	such as is so common these days and know that we're all
0:27.0	experiencing a similar state managing it in different ways and so people are a little more on edge but also you'll
0:37.1	notice people are also a little more gentle and a little more graceful with their emotions.
0:45.0	So as you get ready to do today's meditation technique,
0:50.0	as you get ready to meditate,
0:52.0	I'll share with you day four of our sleep formula we've
0:58.6	been exploring this week. It's all about sleeping well.
1:03.0	And in this series you are discovering how sleeping well begins with managing your emotions throughout your day. You can have all the great lifestyle habits. You could
1:17.4	go to bed early. You could have a beautiful sleep ritual that you do every night, two hours before you go to bed and you have the
1:25.8	most comfortable mattress and shades that block out any light at your windows. But if you are not able to manage your emotions
1:38.0	throughout the day, you could be experiencing a restless sleep or you wake up in the middle of the night
1:45.6	feeling anxious and you can't go back to sleep or you have trouble falling asleep
1:50.7	because there are certain negative thoughts that you just can't lay to rest.
1:57.0	So you've been exploring a sleep formula where we're actually using the word formula breaking it down, and each strategy with
2:10.4	this formula has to do with a way to manage your emotion. with this
2:15.0	series with a way to manage your emotions. We started this series with F for freedom,
2:21.0	feeling free from these difficult emotions.
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