How Meditating Helps in Dealing with Insomnia

• The period of time needed to fall asleep becomes shorter.
  One of the studies done by Dr. Miskiman of the University of Alberta, Canada, entitled "The treatment of insomnia by means of meditation" (Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers. Volume 1, 1976) demonstrates that Mediation makes the period of time needed for people to fall asleep much shorter. The average time-period for the people examined to fall asleep (they were examined for thirty days) was about 70 minutes. When these people had started to meditate, 70 minutes became about 10 minutes. Also, other sleeping disorders became noticeably less severe. Meditation is easy to apply. It helps immediately and constantly against insomnia, and it has no side effects.


• Meditation helps you in dealing with your breathing problems during your sleep.
  People who snore a lot sometimes suffer from breathing problems during their sleep. It happens that when they are fast asleep, the air passage is blocked. This may lead to a prolonged period during which they do not breathe at all. Meditation teaches you to breathe better and to be more aware of your breathing and this can help you to snore less or to stop snoring altogether. And this may result in a situation in which you (and your partner) sleep better and more quietly.


• Meditation improves the quality of your sleep.
  Meditation is not only a good remedy for insomnia, it also helps people without sleeping problems to feel more refreshed and more awake. It also appears that many people who start meditating can do with much less sleep. William Hague, the party chairman of the British Conservatives even said: "Meditation helps me to be able to function well with only a few hours of sleep. Five minutes of meditating refreshes me more than a whole night's sleep."