The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In other words, they're always good for you because it's a training mechanism by which you self train your nervous system to go from a state of heightened alertness, that you don't want to heighten, relaxation that you do want.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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They involve taking a few minutes, 10 to 30 minutes or so, just like you would for a nap and just listening to a script almost passively, and it has do some particular patterns of breathing and some other kind of body scan things that can really help people learn to relax, not just in that moment, but get better at relaxing and turning off thinking in order to fall asleep when they want to do that at night.
That is sort of like napping but isn't napping. It's a thing that they call yoga nidra. Yoga nidra actually means yoga sleep. And it's a sort of meditation that you listen to.