Feeling stressed or disconnected from your body?
Find Deep Relaxation with this Non-Sleep Deep Rest Body Scan Meditation

It’s a powerful tool for promoting relaxation, improving mindfulness, and enhancing your overall well-being. Not only that, but scientific research has proven it’s effective for both physical and mental improvements.

What is a Body Scan Meditation - NOn Sleep Deep REst?

A body scan meditation involves slowly directing your attention to different parts of your body, noticing any sensations without judgment. This practice helps to cultivate awareness of physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions. Body scan meditations come in different forms and names, including non sleep deep rest , yoga nidra, qigong meditation, etc. They’ve been practiced for thousands of years and has been used by people in Asia, China, India and many cultures.

Benefits of a Body Scan Meditation:

• Reduced stress and anxiety
• Improved sleep quality
• Increased body awareness
• Enhanced mindfulness
• Reduced pain perception

The science behind body scan meditation and non sleep deep rest

Non Sleep Deep Rest body meditations have been associated with improvements in both physical and cognitive performance. Things such as physical readiness, recovery and improved mood states show that it’s an effective strategy to lower stress and increase performance even in athletes.¹

Such body scan meditations are used at the core of somatics and somatic education.

This Guided Body Scan Meditation:

• Focuses on deep relaxation using NSDR techniques.
• Includes playful awareness to make the experience engaging.
• Guides you through a detailed scan of your entire body, from your feet to your head.
• Encourages self-inquiry to improve body awareness.

How to Prepare for Your Body Scan Meditation:

• Find a quiet and comfortable place to lie down.
• Wear loose-fitting clothing.
• Dim the lights, avoid distractions in any form such as music, lights,
• close your eyes
• Take a few slow, deep breaths to relax your body and mind.

It;s worth reading about your responsibilities when practicing somatics even if this lesson has no movement

Ready to Begin?

This blog post provides an overview of the guided body scan meditation offered for FREE in the audio lesson available at journey.linsublim.com.

Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect during the body scan meditation:

• The Exploration Begins: You’ll start by focusing on your breath and how your body feels resting on the floor.
• Sensing Your Body: The meditation will then guide you through a systematic exploration of your entire body, from your feet to your head. You’ll pay attention to sensations in each body part, such as tension, relaxation, chosen position .
• Self-inquiry: As you scan your body, you’ll be encouraged to ask yourself questions about your sensations and posture. This self-inquiry helps you become more aware of your body’s unique signals.
• Finding Comfort: Throughout the meditation, there will be opportunities to make small adjustments to your posture to find a more comfortable position.
• Deep Breathing: Deep, slow breaths will be used throughout the practice to further promote relaxation and focus but we also explore how breathing impacts certain body parts. There are other more powerful lessons which do this.
• The Power of Play: The playful awareness approach used in this meditation makes the experience engaging and enjoyable.

After Your Meditation:

• Take a few moments to gently wiggle your fingers and toes, then slowly open your eyes.
• Notice how your body feels more relaxed and grounded.
• Carry this sense of calm with you throughout your day.

Explore More:

This detailed body scan meditation is just one example of the many resources available at https://journey.linsublim.com. The website offers a variety of somatic movement lessons and shorter body scans to help you deepen your body awareness and improve your overall well-being. All lessons include movement as it’s been scientifically shown that movement integrates better and fosters better neuroplastic changes, so before, during and after each somatic movement lesson we do a short mindfull body scan meditation.

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