REMEMBER TO SET YOUTUBE'S SLEEP TIMER FOR 60 MINUTES OR LESS. This is a process for reducing stress and increasing parasympathetic regulation. This process uses a variety of techniques to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and with prolonged and frequent use, it can help to reduce stress and activate parasympathetic activity in the vagus nerve, lowering heart rate, blood pressure and other arousal processes, as well as triggering a return to internal wellbeing processes, like immune functioning and cellular repairs. The parasympathetic nervous system controls the rest-and-digest response. Shifting your body to parasympathetic dominance signals to the brain that there are no longer any threats, reducing worry and focusing the mind on the present. Frequent use of deep rest can improve metabilic markers. It can take as little as a couple of months of frequent practice to create a system reset where blood pressure and inflammation reduce, self-reported levels of stress reduce and increased energy levels. Deep rest does more than stimulate relaxation, it triggers many physiological changes. Techniques used here include: - Bilateral stimulation for reduce autonomic arousal and increased parasympathetic activity, - Affective touch for activating CT-afferent fibres for stimulating parasympathetic activity, - A mantra - omra - to give something to focus on to reduce mind-wandering allowing space for parasympathetic activity to develop, - Slow, deep breathing at a rate of about 5 breaths per minute to activate pulmonary stretch receptors in the chest which activate parasympathetic activity in the vagus nerve. This frequency creates a resonance within the cardiorespiratory system, which maximizes baroreflex and vagal effects, leading to an enhanced "rest-and-digest" response, - 4hz theta binaural beats to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and deep relaxation, - spatial vocalisations to trigger the orientation response, to reduce mind-wandering and re-anchoring to the present moment, deepening the experience.
This is best listened to seated in a room at a comfortable temperature, at a time when your attention isn't required on anything else and you have time set aside specifically to listen and engage with this. It is best to use headphones to benefit from the binaural and bilateral techniques and the spatial vocalisations.
