Connect with your body
Rolling before bed can be a type of movement meditation — you are focusing on your body, breathing into tension, and listening to what your body is telling you. Connecting with your body before bed is powerful for increasing relaxation and subsequently a higher quality of sleep. This practice will release tension, and bring you back to your breath.
Wind down and relax
Shawn Stevenson, author of Sleep Smarter, explains that rolling can “unlock your sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system and activate your parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system” and has “clinically proven benefits on serotonin production, oxytocin, and reduction of cortisol.”
Foam rolling can greatly improve your levels of relaxation and help you wind down after a busy day. Switching off your stress response will allow you to fall asleep faster, have a more restful sleep, and subsequently achieve greater quality sleep.
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