Introduced as a TED talk from a professional drummer.
Today the sleep deprivation becomes a worldwide epidemic, and it looks so that the smartphone is one cause of it!
In the USA we have:
1.) 35% of adults are sleep deprived.
2.) 85% of teenagers are chronicle sleep deprived.
Why do we need to sleep sound and long enough?
Sleep deprivation causes:
1.) Heart attack.
2.) Stroke.
3.) Put up weight.
4.) Premature death.
5.) Stress and stress-related diseases.
The problem why we can’t sleep in is that we can’t stop our thinking.
90% of our thinking is caused by fear… Because our mind wants to protect us and looks for danger, worries, problems,… Even, we usually don’t face any life threats the mind is taking our problems too seriously!
How to get our mind to stop thinking when we want to sleep?
The brain loves pattern, and if the brain discovers one, it follows that pattern.
Like to nick with your head in rhythmic of the music.
When the brain follows this rhythmic, then we slow down the rhythmic to slow down the mind…
And this exercise also works for meditation when we are aggregated …
This procedure needs 3 to 5 minutes and has 3 phases.
I will introduce here two variations. One without counting, one with counting.
Method A without counting:
1.) For at least 30 seconds bring down your hand to your lap and tap your tights with alternating left and right-hand strokes with the tempo of 60 to 90 beats/minute. Try your best to beat your unique tempo evenly!
2.) With the taping, you breathe slowly deeply in and out. 90seconds to 180seconds.
3.) You decrease slowly the taping rhythmic to the half-speed, while you breathe deep in and out. 60 to 90 seconds.
Method B with counting
1.) For at least 30 seconds bring down your hand to your lap and tap your tights with alternating left and right-hand strokes with the tempo of 60 to 90 beats/minute. Try your best to beat your unique tempo evenly! You count loud or remote with every beat 1, 2, 3, 4 and start again with 1, 2, 3, 4 like you have learned in making music. Or you can use 4 different syllables like Tick, tack, tock, tuck…for counting or a sacred mantra,…
2.) With the taping, you breathe slowly deep in and out. You use the counting from 1 to 4 for breathing in, and you count from 1 to 4 for breathing out. 90seconds to 180seconds.
3.) You decrease slowly the taping rhythmic to the half-speed, while you breathe deeply in and out. 60 to 90 seconds.
My Video: New Sleep in method with Taping https://youtu.be/vHbUCRWcQBQ
My Audio on Podcast: RELAX WITH MEDITATION or see link in the end.
My Audio: https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/rudizimmerer/5/New+Sleep+in+method+with+Taping.mp3