This article explores the physiological changes your body undergoes during intense or exciting activities, and how acknowledging these changes can help you achieve rest even when your mind is racing. It suggests thanking your body for its efforts, like you would thank a child for a gift, and using practices like intention setting and mindful touch to relax and encourage rest.
During intense or exciting activities, and prep for them, your nervous system heightens your mental alertness.Thanking your body, like you'd thank a child who lovingly gave you a gift you don't need, is a starting point.
Let’s say you’ve got an event tomorrow, and it’s one for which you’ve been training for months or years, if not more. You know you need rest. And, yet, your mind is active. You’re running through scenarios or checklists—and/or you’re desperately queuing upapps to get your mind quiet. Or quieter. In the meantime, you can’t stop yourself from thinking about what time it is now and how much closer every sleepless minute is bringing you to the imminent blare of your alarm.
We’ve all been there. During intense or exciting activities—and preparation for intense or exciting activities can be, in and of itself, pretty intense and exciting—your body is pumping out activatingthat create physiological changes in your body, including heightened mental alertness . These are adaptive responses that help us keep prepared to act, because something important is coming, and your body knows it.and it’s trying to help you out —can be an important step toward the rest you need.
So, one way to begin might be to thank your body like you’d thank the child who thought of you with enough love that they wanted to give you something. And then, when you’re ready, you might offer yourself some of the following practices.One practice to explore is intention setting. An intention, different than a goal, is a present moment statement, in which you invite yourself to embody your own intention. So an intention here could be “I am resting.
A consistent yoga practice, a bedtime routine, distance from screens, and an environment that promotes sleep hygiene are of course all helpful. But you may or may not have any control over these factors in the moment you need rest. So returning to what you can control: your intention, your capacity to rest if not to sleep, your acknowledgment of your body and what it’s trying to offer you, and what you can offer back to your body. You may not fall asleep.
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