Qigong for sleep….does it work?

Short answer is yes…it helped me quite a bit.

Does it solve sleep problems like insomnia by itself?

In my experience, no….but that doesn’t mean it will not help your sleep.

Everybody is different and for some people qigong for sleep is the only thing they’ve ever needed to improve their sleep.

For me it took a comprehensive and multilayered approach to heal my insomnia naturally.

Qigong for sleep was definitely a major player.

I didn’t do any double blind placebo controlled sleep studies on myself though. Had I been able to clone myself and my clone would have ONLY done qigong for sleep and my real self did qigong along with all the other things like diet, supplements, nnEMF and fixing my light environment then I’d be able to know the answer to that question.

So for me, I did many other natural remedies for sleep at the same time and qigong was one of them.

Long story short, it’s impossible for me to know that it was only the qigong that fixed my insomnia.

But like I said, qigong played a major part and I still do the qigong exercises today.

What is Qigong?

These are all questions I had when I first learned about this ancient martial art. A lot of people think qigong is Tai Chi, it’s quite different. Qigong is what I like to call a moving meditation. It’s a structured moving meditation where your eyes are closed and you’re keeping a singular focus. I like to focus on a ball of energy and light.

I envision it as a sun the size of a basketball.

Typically you do a series of movements with your eyes closed envisioning this healing ball of sun energy being moved and placed on different areas of your body. You sync up these spiritual movements with breathing techniques while you’re moving your arms and legs to “manipulate qi” (sometimes spelled Chi in the West).

I find it it extremely more helpful for sleep than regular meditation where you’re sitting quietly with your legs folded and your eyes closed.

That is a more passive style of meditation (which I also recommend and practice daily). They both help in different ways.

Qigong for sleep seems to help me “wind down” much easier than a sitting meditation.

I do the sitting meditation for 10 minutes per day in the middle of the day, when it’s the hardest to slow down and calm my mind.

I do it precisely when it’s the hardest on purpose. It’s kind of like putting more weight on the barbell when you’re doing bench press in the gym.

You add the weight because it’s hard and what it will do to you.

I do my sitting meditation in the middle of the day because it’s hard.

I’ll share more about the sitting style of mediation and its benefits for sleep, in another article.

Specifically qigong for sleep has helped me wind down and get into that calm and meditative place I need to be to fall asleep.

The course I recommend and use is from Satori Method and it’s called Good Morning, Good Evening Qigong.

It’s a series of videos that walk you step by step through all of the exercises and movements to do this type of qigong for sleep.

Once you get through all of them, you follow a set of standard movements where you do 10 minutes in the morning to “cultivate qi” or energy for the day.

Morning Qigong

This is where you’re gathering life force energy some people call it qi some people call it prana. Either way you’re invigorating yourself and saturating your tissues with life force energy in the morning.

I recommend doing this outside grounded to the earth while watching the sunrise for added impact and effectiveness.

You’ll feel the energy pulsating through your system as you do it. It’s pretty remarkable and when you’re done with the morning session, you’ll feel calm, refreshed, centered and ready to tackle your day.

Evening Qigong

If you can do this outside without exposing your eyes to moonlight or neighborhood LED lights all the better. Since light is so important, I only recommend doing the 10 minute evening qigong for sleep session indoors, unless you have the right outdoor light environment.

If you do than great.

The idea with the evening qigong for sleep session is to calm and center your life force. To breathe and let the qi energy cultivate and saturate the areas of your body that facilitate energy like the dantian. When you start doing this qigong course for sleep you’ll learn about the dantian, chakras and kundulini energy.

Your movements in the evening session are more measured and calculated. They’re designed to store the qi and cultivate it for healing during the night when you’re sleeping.

I like to do it after I stretch, take my melatonin along with a medicinal healing bath. Then I’ll read for a few minutes using my red light reading lamp and then put my eye mask on and fall asleep.

Conclusion

Like I mentioned above qigong for sleep was one of the many things I did to heal my mitochondria so I could sleep again. I was operating on maybe two or three hours of restless sleep for years. I talk a lot about “stacking the odds in your favor” which is the idea of overwhelming a problem with as many potential solutions as possible.

Let’s say there are 5 herbs that help with sleep, 10 homeopathics, 13 essential oils, along with 20 supplments and other biohacks for sleep. I recommending picking one or two and then keep adding more and more overtime.

You do this until you’re literally doing 30 different things to help with your sleep. This is what I call stacking the odds in your favor.

Try them all and do them all at the same time.

Literally give yourself the best chance of healing your sleep naturally as quickly as possible. If herb #45 is going to be the one that heals your insomnia, why use 1 herb at a time for a month to see if they work? It’s going to take you 44 months to get to herb #45.

I recommend trying them all personally. This will speed up my potential healing.

Only you know what’s right for you. I’d recommend working with a qualified doctor to get you on a protocol for sleep.

Questions:

1. Have you ever tried qigong for sleep?
2. What about tai chi for sleep?
3. Do you like moving meditations better than sitting meditations?
4. Do you meditate at all for sleep?

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