Non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) protocols, including meditation, yoga nidra, and hypnosis, can support better brain and body function by inducing a state of deeper relaxation.

“non-sleep deep rest, or what I, hereafter, we will refer to as NSDR, not to be confused with EMDR, I don't think I've ever heard NSDR, so I'm planting a flag for NSDR, non-sleep deep rest, as a way to reset one's ability to be awake after you emerge from NSDR, so to get some more wakefulness and ability to attend, some emotional stability, reset, as well as make it better and easier to fall asleep when you wanna go to sleep at night.”

“So I want to spend a moment on that and go back to a theme that I've said many times before, because these tools work what I called NSDR, non-sleep deep rest. So this would be hypnosis, I gave you the link, but I'll say it again, reveriehealth.com for clinically tested, research tested free hypnosis for anxiety but also for sleep. Those are very beneficial people. NSDR protocols, non-sleep deep rest protocols for things like yoga nidra, I provided some links to those in the caption for episode two.”

“NSDR is really about achieving calm quickly, and doing that in a self-directed way, for many reasons, in order to access sleep more readily, in order to de-stress very deeply, in order to replace sleep that you've lost. It also seems to aid neuroplasticity. It can enhance the rearrangements of connections in the brain that occur during learning, there's scientific support for that.”

“And that's hypnosis. And I've become increasingly excited and interested in hypnosis as a tool, and not just a tool of any kind, but a tool that really can be directed toward particular goals and outcomes.”

“Non-sleep deep rest or NSDR is an acronym that I coined as an umbrella term to encompass many protocols that all have been shown, in one form or another, to support better brain and body function.”

“20 or 30 minutes of that has been very beneficial for me to get up from that nap or period of minimal wakefulness, we'll call it and go about my day quite well, and also fall asleep just fine.”

“things like NSDR, non-sleep deep rest, another thing that I've talked about on this podcast. If you haven't heard about this before, non-sleep deep rest is an umbrella term for things like meditation, for Yoga Nidra, a very powerful science supported tool for teaching you how to relax, things like self-hypnosis which might sound a little kooky to some of you, but actually is a clinically based tool for which there's a lot of scientific literature.”

“So these could be 20 minute naps or just lying there quietly with your eyes closed or yoga nidra or NSDR scripts are available on YouTube and various other places free of cost of any kind.”

“And you can find NSDR scripts, these are short behavioral protocols that you do for 10 to 30 minutes at some point throughout the day, maybe even multiple times through your day, that have been shown to accelerate neuroplasticity.”

“NSDR, I always say, can be done first thing in the morning, in the afternoon or any time of day, and in fact, I'll sometimes do that in the middle of the night if I happen to wake up and need to get back to sleep.”

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

“I figured out that non-sleep deep breast or yoga needra has taught me how to fall back asleep really quickly and I can recover some sleep I haven't gotten through non-sleep deep breast”

“I would say that for limiting stress improving sleep and restoring mental and physical Vigor nsdr is perhaps the best tool out there”

“non-sleep deep rest is valuable for restoring mental and physical Vigor it can potentially help offset sleep that you didn't get it can help you fall back asleep at night if you do in the middle of the night it can help you get better at falling asleep if you do do it during the day”

“nsdr sometimes referred to as Yoga Nidra although those things are similar but different is a 10 or 20 minute practice that you can do to restore your mental and physical vigor if you haven't slept enough”