It's not always the noise that wakes you up, it's your reaction to the noise.
Snoring, neighbors, traffic? Reduce your sound reactivity and learn to fall back asleep despite the noise with natural strategies.
Problem description:
In reality, it is not the noise that prevents you from sleeping, but your reaction to the noises. Indeed, some people manage to fall asleep on the plane, on the train, others at work...
Snoring noises are not necessarily disturbing in themselves, but the irritation they cause you prevents you from sleeping. This reaction to noises triggers a physiological response that results in the secretion of neurotransmitters stimulating your arousal and alertness center, which keeps you awake.
Objectives:
The goal is simply to make you less reactive to noises like snoring. For that, there are two ways:
1. Distract yourself to occupy your brain with something much less annoying than the ambient noises.
2. Become less attentive, less reactive, so that you are barely aware of external noises. At a concert, the goal would be to move you from the front row to the back row: the speakers are farther away, the sound is less audible.
How Dodow helps you:
By focusing on the light signal to synchronize your breathing with its rhythm, you will occupy a large part of your attention with a much less annoying activity than the noise you were focusing on. Thus, you will ignore the snoring next to you.
By breathing long enough at Dodow's pace (6 breaths per minute), you stimulate the baroreflex, a small physiological mechanism that helps restore the balance of the autonomic nervous system. Thus, you will quickly shift from the alert state (activation of the sympathetic nervous system) to the resting state (activation of the parasympathetic nervous system). In this state, you will be much less sensitive to stimuli, whether external: noises, light, or internal: thoughts.
Other situations: neighborhood parties, neighbors who just had a baby, neighbors trying to have another one, neighbors watching the latest action movie on their home cinema, basically all types of noisy neighbors and other external stimuli like the light from the bar across the street.
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Types of insomnia:
• Stress
• Thoughts racing in your head
• Worries
