Coaching practices for The Relaxation Body Mind Before Bed

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• It’s not really my thoughts keeping me up, it’s my body
• I get into bed and my body is still humming
• By bedtime I’m still buzzing from the day and I get into bed wired
• I climb into bed exhausted but my body hasn’t gotten the message
• Every time I try to relax I end up trying so hard at it that I get more tense

Practices that may help

1. Progressive muscle relaxation to lower physical arousal
   Systematically tense and release muscle groups from feet to head to lower the physiological arousal that blocks sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
2. Use PMR to wind down for sleep
   Run the sequence lying in bed to lower physical arousal and ease the transition to sleep.
   Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Made Practical
3. Evening yoga routine for sleep
   A gentle 15-minute yoga sequence 30–60 minutes before bed lowers cortisol and core temperature to accelerate sleep onset.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
4. Use relaxation training before bed
   Practice a structured relaxation technique to lower physiological arousal before sleep.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
5. Guided body scan into deep rest
   Follow attention slowly through the body to drop into a relaxed, conscious state.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
6. Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
   A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
7. Savasana and the relaxation response
   Lying completely still at the end of a yoga practice triggers the relaxation response — the physiological counterpart to the stress response.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
8. Settling into restful alertness
   Allow the body to reach deep rest while the mind stays quietly awake.
   Transcendental Meditation (TM)
9. The Relaxation Body-Mind, Made Practical
   Meditation produces measurable physiological changes through the autonomic nervous system: shifting toward parasympathetic dominance, increasing heart rate variability (HRV), and reducing markers of stress arousal. The most evidence-grounded practices are coherent breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and extended-exhale breathing — each with a clear physiological mechanism. These are stress-management tools for healthy adults, not treatments for clinical conditions.
10. Pre-sleep trataka for insomnia and mind-calming
    A ten-minute trataka session in low light before bed draws scattered thoughts into a single point.
    Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation

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