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Just in case anyone cares, this gracefully aging guy has found a reliable way to refreshing sleep every night for many years: -- Learn some form of qigong medi
by tatrajim 5y ago
Just in case anyone cares, this gracefully aging guy has found a reliable way to refreshing sleep every night for many years:
-- Learn some form of qigong meditation (not East Asian myself, but lived there many years). Just before bed, it's a huge help to quality sleep.
-- Practice a calorie restricted diet several times a week. On days I eat ~400 kcal., my sleep heart rate dips 5-10%.
-- Listen at bed time via earphones or otherwise to audible recorded books, selected for the sonority of the narrator and the subject matter -- not too boring, not too arousing.
- pkoird 5y agoI'd like to expand on that large bit. I really used to have elevated heart rates / anxiety while sleeping. I used to get up with a startle and be unable to sleep afterwards. What I found worked for me was crowd noises. I think it provided me, at a subconscious level, the reassurance that I was not alone (thus safe from predators). After I married, the startle basically went away :). Turns out, having a human beside you while sleeping works wonder!