Great, even; wonderful, sometimes, when a hammock or a seascape is involved.
People say, I took a three-hour nap… Well, thats not a nap.
A nap happens when you fall under.
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The term itself was coined byAndrew Huberman, a neuroscientist and Stanford professor.
Huberman has evangelized NSDR far and wide.
Huberman calls optimization techniques like NSDR protocols, shading his speech with a militant flavor of masculinity.
Holiday-Bell likes to pair the two: She may doa guided meditationor short yoga nidra practice to fall asleep.
It can improve stress and anxiety, cognitive functioning, mood, she adds.
What kind of people, I wonder?
The earliest yoga sessions in human history would regularly end with short intervals of rest.
At a [yoga] studio, if the floor is uncomfortable, people get restless, Mittra says.
Its merging rest with intention, she says.
Dr. Holliday-Bell maintains a simpler practice.
If given 30 minutes and the choice of a nap or NSDR session, shell take the former.
But my favorite protocol was the state of concentration Mittra described instead.
Lets compare our body to a telescope.
During the first step, the first level, we are repairing the telescope, he explains.
It takes a tremendous effort, Mittra says, not to disappear completely.
A tremendous effort begs the question: Why not take a nap?
Dr. Holiday-Bell, for her part, is a power napper.
But I do think there are more benefits to going through at least some of the sleep stages.
All you need is between 20 and 45 minutes and a dark room.
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