A summer state of mind
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by Headspace
3y ago
It’s summertime, and the living is meant to be easy. For some, it’s about sun-kissed vacations filled with fun adventures. For others, it might simply involve taking time off at home. Wherever you are, it’s time to kick back, relax, recharge, and feel a little bit lighter. Sunnier skies. Sunnier minds. We at Headspace understand more than most that regardless of the weather and location, the mind has a lot of carry-on luggage — baggage that’s not so easy to off-load just because we happen to be taking a well-earned break. So we want to help you put down that baggage, freeing you to be fully ..read more
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Getting goal-ready: how mindfulness can help you tackle anything
The Orange Dot | The official Headspace blog
by Headspace
3y ago
When we’re striving to excel at something, how we show up is everything. You could be an employee looking to nail a key presentation. Or running onto the field for a must-win match. Or debuting a piece of work as an artist. Whatever our pursuit of excellence, we each need to show up mentally, not just physically. That’s why this month’s featured collection of exercises has one overarching theme: being at the top of your game in your chosen field. We can train the body day in, day out, but if we’re not also looking after the mind, then we are not maximizing our highest potential; if we’re not ..read more
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Engaging with life: mindfulness in May
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by Headspace
3y ago
How easily distracted are you? To what extent does your mind wander while working, cooking, watching a film, driving, or even when in conversation with others? The bad news is that, for most of us, the mind wanders like this a good bit of the time. The good news, however, is that it doesn’t have to be this way. By training in mindfulness, we can learn to be less distracted, more present, and more connected with the people and the world around us. So instead of thinking about life, we are actually living and experiencing life to the fullest.   There are many ways to learn to be more mind ..read more
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How to build a perfect wind-down routine
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by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
Sleep thrives on a regular routine. Building a great, consistent wind-down routine for the end of your day is the very best way to train your body to know that it’s time for bed. This will increase your chance of sleepiness, and make drifting off so much easier. As always, consistency is key. You can set up a reminder that will give you a gentle nudge, letting you know it’s time to start winding down. Ideally, this should begin sometime before you get into bed and be your signal that it’s time to stop working and let go of the day. Now comes the fun part: set aside an hour or so for you ..read more
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Relaxing our grip on sleep
The Orange Dot | The official Headspace blog
by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
This post by sleep scientist Dr. Jason C. Ong is part of our Sleep Health course. You can experience the full 14-day course with a subscription to the Headspace app. If you’re doing the Headspace Sleep Health course, that’s a pretty good indication that you’re interested in better sleep. However, it’s important that we approach that goal in the right way. Having a very specific outcome in mind when it comes to sleep, can sometimes be counterproductive. After all, sleep isn’t something that you can just decide to do. It’s a natural process that depends on the body and mind, not just a switch ..read more
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Consistent wake-up time: sleep’s surprising MVP
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by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
This post by sleep scientist Dr. Jason C. Ong is part of our Sleep Health course. You can experience the full 14-day course with a subscription to the Headspace app. People are often surprised when I tell them this, but if you want to sleep well on a regular basis, the single most important thing you can do is to have a consistent wake-up time. This is because your circadian rhythm, also known as your body clock, is guided by your wake-up time rather than your bedtime. The circadian rhythm doesn’t respond instantly, it adjusts gradually over several days, and this adjustment is exactly what ..read more
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Why sleep is like a seesaw
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by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
This post by sleep scientist Dr. Jason C. Ong is part of our Sleep Health course. You can experience the full 14-day course with a subscription to the Headspace app. If you want to improve your sleep health, sleep more, and sleep better, it’s helpful to start with the science behind sleep regulation. Plus, if you know a bit about the theory, then the practice of meditation for sleep becomes a little easier to stick to. One way to think about the systems in the brain that regulate sleep and waking is a seesaw: on one side, there’s alertness and on the other, sleepiness. When you have a good ..read more
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Sleep Health: what we’ve learned … so far
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by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
This post by sleep scientist Dr. Jason C. Ong is part of our Sleep Health course. You can experience the full 14-day course with a subscription to the Headspace app. Well done on making it all the way to the end of the Headspace Sleep Health course. I really hope that it’s helped you to reframe your approach to sleep. Let’s take a moment just to recap all that we have learned: Awareness is everything Looking for that sleepy feeling, just like we do in the body scan, is so helpful for sleep. If it’s not there, don’t force it. Let it go and wait for sleepiness to occur. Can’t sleep? Don’t. Whe ..read more
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Nurturing vs. depleting activities: getting your ratio right
The Orange Dot | The official Headspace blog
by Dr. Jason Ong
3y ago
This post by sleep scientist Dr. Jason C. Ong is part of our Sleep Health course. You can experience the full 14-day course with a subscription to the Headspace app. If you’ve been having trouble with sleep for a while, it’s very easy for life to start to feel like a struggle. This is a little exercise that you can use to help you get a better picture of how you’re expending energy during the day. It can come in really handy when you’re exhausted after a rough night, and even simple tasks start to feel overwhelming. It only takes a few minutes, and it can help you to make more mindful decisi ..read more
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Money on the mind: easing the strain of financial stress
The Orange Dot | The official Headspace blog
by Headspace
3y ago
In this month’s Headspace featured collection, Money on the Mind, we’re highlighting recommended meditations and exercises to help you better cope with financial stress and have a healthier relationship with money. At one time or another, most of us will have felt stressed about money, whether it’s struggling to make ends meet, feeling burdened by debt, fretting about family expenses, or worrying whether there’ll be enough left in the pot to retire. The stress could also be from making a certain financial decision, worrying about losing hard-earned savings, or simply being money-phobic, due ..read more
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