Sleep

Welcome to Headspace on sleep into day one of part one. Now these first 10 days we're gonna look at how you can change your relationship with sleep. How you can find a new approach to sleep. Now it's a little different from many of the other packs in the Headspace collection and this particular exercise isn't designed to send you to sleep. That's really important. Most of the science, most of the research has shown that when we're using mindfulness specifically to change our sleeping patterns, to improve the rest that we get at night, it's actually more effective if we do it during the day ahead of time. It seems to change the thinking process throughout the day so that when we do go to bed at night we find it easier to drop off. So that's the first thing to say, don't worry or don't expect to actually fall asleep during this exercise. It's fine if you do, but that's not the intention. Now the idea of this exercise as I say, is to change the relationship to sleep. The way that we think about sleep so that it doesn't become such an issue. There's a little exercise that you can use alongside this pack and you'll find it in the Headspace singles collection. And that exercise is specifically designed to actually help you get to sleep at night. So you can use these two things together. One where you're training your mind, sort of for a long-term sustainable change in approach to sleep. And the other one to actually help you go to sleep at night. So over the next 10 days or so we're gonna start to develop this skill and we'll build on that in part two and part three. Sort of changing the technique as we go. Now, these first 10 days is very much based on you already having done the Headspace foundation. So some of this will feel familiar, but some of it will feel a little new and I'll obviously talk you through that process. Right now, though all you need to do is to get yourself comfortable, make sure you're in a place where you're not gonna be disturbed and just set yourself up in the usual way, eyes open, nice soft focus. And when you're ready, you can just begin with some nice, big deep breaths. Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And with the next out-breath, just gently closing the eyes, allowing the breath to return to its natural rhythm. As you just settle down into the chair or on the floor you're starting to become more aware of the different physical sensations and even the different sounds as well as you just settle in to the space around you. Just bringing the attention back to the body now, just starting at the top of the head, just gently scanning down in the usual way. Not trying to change anything, but just becoming...