Does meditation help you with sleep?

[Vonus5591]

Lower your heart rate , relax?

[Hidden]

Hi yes If your allowed and finding the right one

And suitible

Sleep important 😴

For less knock on effects and side effects

If sleep long term issue

Coukd ask

Doc

If your suitible for

Trazadone

[Vonus5591 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you will ask

[ladeda]

If you mean do antidepressants and other meds help you sleep, ALL medications have side effects, that's why good doctors will look at all the symptoms to put you on the best one to help with everything, remember there is never one solution that fits all and perhaps some medications are just to calm the symptoms so that we can try to work on the problem and find a different solution.If the problem is more trying to find something to help for sleep disturbances, tacking medication isn't always a good idea but more of a last result having tried the alternatives.

There are so many different problems, is it a problem falling asleep, as you say, lowering your heart rate and relax, perfect if we could turn a dial and that could happen when your mind has decided to work overtime and thinks bedtime is the ideal time to keep worrying about everything! In which case you need to work on calming thoughts, as the heart slow so does breathing and metabolism and sleep comes. Of course to do this it's a matter of trying different things to see which works, things like breathing exercises, meditative thought exercises, having quiet noise in the background , YouTube has lots of sleep aids like rain storms or white noise. If the problem is waking up after a few hours and not being able to get back to sleep, it sometimes helps having a hot drink like milk and honey as well as going back to all those relaxing techniques.

Your certainty right to bring up the importance of a good sleep and your medical centre might also be able to point out resources that are in your area that might be of help as well.

Don't be alone, just keep finding what helps.

[Vonus5591 in reply to ladeda]

Thank you 🙏

[Just_breathe_1]

Meditation wasn’t effective for me, but I know that it has been for many others.

Mindfulness worked for me (yes, they are different). I am no longer as anxious, or as angry.

[Vonus5591 in reply to Just_breathe_1]

Thank you