Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) is an effective protocol for accessing better sleep and managing stress.

“If you want to get better at falling and staying asleep or falling back asleep if you wake up in the middle of the night or if you are generally challenged with sleep issues, an excellent behavioral practice for which there are terrific data, meaning data that show that a stress hormone, cortisol, can be significantly reduced as well as certain neurotransmitters can be replenished as well as, and this is key and covered in this paper that I've mentioned a few moments ago on yoga nidra, that the total amount of sleep that you need can be reduced, at least somewhat, well, then yoga nidra or an NSDR practice done, frankly, any time of day is going to be beneficial.”

“In all seriousness, it's very clear that replacing sleep that we've lost is an area of research that's still active and ongoing, but NSDR and yoga nidra are very promising, if not downright useful, for replacing”

“But this practice as a zero cost practice that doesn't require any pharmacology does seem to really enhance people's ability to fall asleep more quickly and to fall back asleep if they wake up in the middle of the night.”

“there's excellent scientific data to show that yoganidra and something similar to it called non-sleep deep rest or nsdr can greatly restore levels of cognitive and physical energy even with just a short 10-minute session”

“there's excellent scientific data to show that yoganidra and something similar to it called non-sleep deep rest or nsdr can greatly restore levels of cognitive and physical energy even with just a short 10-minute session”

“there's excellent scientific data to show that yoganidra and something similar to it called non-sleep deep rest or nsdr can greatly restore levels of cognitive and physical energy even with just a short 10-minute session”

“the other thing and this is something is completely zero cost and I can't encourage it enough is that you get into a regular practice of nonsleep deep rest nsdr or Yoga Nidra and that you do that during the daytime there's a 10-minute nsdr that I did which is available on YouTube you just put nsdr huberman it's available completely zero cost it will teach you how to self-direct your own relaxation and you can also use in the middle of the night if you wake up many people fall asleep during ndrs that's fine or yoga nras many of which are available on the internet free okay completely free”

“There's a daily for me non-sleep deep rest or yoga nidra protocol. By the way, you may be familiar with non-sleep deep rest and yoga nidra. Terrific zero cost practice for reducing stress, replacing or replenishing dopamine and mental and physical vigor.”

“so nsdr and yoga Nedra are terrific for both restoring mental and physical Vigor and potentially for restoring sleep that you otherwise would have missed if you'd been tossing and turning and worrying about not getting sleep”

“this non-sleep deep rest which by the way is indeed a renaming or a partial renaming of Yoga Nidra which stands for yoga sleep and again I have tremendous reverence for the yogic Traditions it's just that I had to make a decision a few years ago when I'd been introduced to yoga Nedra in 2015 I was down at a trauma Treatment Center an addiction treatment Center in Florida run by a friend of mine essentially observing what they were doing with these addicts That Couldn't recover no matter what their effort and they were able to recover to get sober and stay sober and people were getting over other sorts of traumas through the use of many Protocols of course talk therapy Etc but they would start their day with 30 minutes to an hour of yoga NRA and I thought what's Yoga Nidra ex learned its yoga sleep you lie down you do a self-directed relaxation it also involves intentions Etc and I thought this is really powerful and I spent a lot of time in my laboratory working on it and understanding it and there are other studies as well that now explain how these states of keeping the Mind active while the body is still as a self-directed practice is immensely powerful for a number of reasons”

“But the number one thing to recover sleep that you didn't get is this non-sleep deep rest aka yoga nidra practice. Yoga nidra is the thousands of year old uh practice of doing long exhale breathing. Uh it's a 10 to 30 minute practice.”

“I think if ever there was a protocol that is useful for people to explore given that it's safe at zero cost and that sleep is so important and mental and physical Vigor are so important”