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Calm down and release stress
Cultivate mindfulness in just 10 minutes
Relax and know you are rewiring your brain at the same time

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⏰ How to relax in 3 Min 👇 1. Head to YouTube

⏰ How to relax in 3 Min 👇

1. Head to YouTube
2. Search " Loren Runion 3 minutes"
3. Click on " 3 minute yoga nidra meditation"
4. Get comfy in any position and press play.

In 3 minutes you can:

- feel better and calmer
- reset your nervous system
- gain a quick boost of energy
- turn down the activity of your brain so your thoughts feel like they aren't barraging you.

Be sure to follow along if you are into using or learning how to use yoga nidra meditation to help you go from not being able to relax, to feeling better when you need it.

#yoganidra
#meditation
#selfhealers
#stressrelief

You have approx. 4 seconds 💀 #meditation #yog

You have approx. 4 seconds 💀

#meditation
#yoganidra

If your mind doesn't slow down ever ⬇️ I just

If your mind doesn't slow down ever ⬇️

I just want to say I see you. It's not your fault that the world we live in today rewards us for being busy, always being available, always on.

It's not your fault that screens, schedules, demands of life, meal planning, grocery shopping, kid shuttling, house cleaning, appointment making, pet caring, making time for your health, getting in your steps, figuring out what to eat for u and those you care for 21+ times a week, the demands of a job, a boss, bills to be paid are all piled in a normal 24 hour day. It's what you're supposed to do right????

But it is exhausting. It is hard to slow your mind down, hard to shut off the thoughts. Impossible to sit down and just relax without picking up your phone or getting back up to do something you forgot about.

It's also not making you happy. The stress and overwhelm leaks into the parts of you that used to be joyful, playful, and fun.

I wish I could show you a before and after of my brain. Like fun before and after bikini photos but of my brain. If I could the before would look like a tight wound up brain that felt irritable, always made noise, and the thoughts it had I always believed. Leaving me constantly anxious. But I can't.

So you'll have to trust me when I say you don't have to feel this way. You can have a busy life and demands and stressors of this world but not be swayed with each turn of the tide in your day. There can be an underlying sense of peace despite a dick boss, kid tantrums and all the bills.

I teach people who are stressed out to the max how to release mental tension and physical tension With mindfulness and a meditation style called yoga nidra.

If that sounds amazing to you I hope you follow along and drop a ❤️ if you feel ready to finally feel calmer, joyful and way more at peace in your mind and body.

But, how? 😭⬇️⬇️ Hi! I'm Loren, and I h

But, how? 😭⬇️⬇️

Hi! I'm Loren, and I help stressed out people find peace and calm with a meditation practice called yoga nidra. So be sure to follow me if you're ready to learn a type of meditation that's easy, gives you energy like you took a nap and feel chill like you had a glass of wine.

3 ways yoga nidra meditation helps you find peace in your mind so you can stop thinking about the past and the worrying about the future.

1) you learn how to dis-identify from your thoughts.
Dis- identification is when you learn that you are not your thoughts but rather the consciousness witnessing the thoughts. Your brain thinks. You can't turn it off. So in order to feel at peace with thoughts you have to learn to dis-identify from the thousands of thoughts you have a day.

2) with time it helps you recognize in the moment unhelpful mental patterns and tension causing you more stress. Things like resistance, controlling, ego driven thoughts, assumptions and expectations. All these things keep us from being in our present moment so we can actually make the best decision for what we truly want to create and feel.

3)yoga nidra helps you build the capacity to hold and feel all the things (peace/turmoil, joy/sad, pissed off/chill etc) and while feeling any of those emotions you still have a deep sense of peace or access to that peace because you know it's there.

If this sounds like exactly what you need I recommend practicing yoga nidra 3-5 days a week for atleast 10 minutes.

You can find my free yoga nidra meditations on YouTube or

Comment - thoughts - and I'll send you a link for 7 days free in Intentionology, an online membership designed with busy people in mind. 100s of yoga nidras to help you finally change your thoughts and release the mental tension you have been carrying.

Worry keeping you up at night? 👇 Have you ever

Worry keeping you up at night? 👇

Have you ever heard yourself say to someone who asks how you are doing " I'm tired, but I think that's just my new normal".

Someone just said this to me the other day.

And I want you to know it's NOT normal for everyday life. Seasons of life where sleep is disrupted like new babies, illness, grief it's to be expected.

But chronic fatigue can be from chronic stress.

Studies show that the longer we are exposed to stress the more likely we are to develop problems with sleep like a 2018 review published in the Journal of Sleep Research found that “stress-related worry and rumination” can lead to disrupted sleep and eventually the risk of developing insomnia.

Worry and rumination can cause chronic stress because the body's stress response is generic. It doesn't matter if you're worrying about whether you will have enough money for retirement or running from a tiger. The same exact response happens in your body.

Here's how I learned to turn off my worry and stress so I can fall asleep faster 👇🏻

1) 3-7 days a week practice yoga nidra meditation. Yoga nidra increases your alpha brain wave activity. When you can't fall asleep at night it's because your brain is having a hard time going from a beta brainwave state to alpha. Yoga nidra helps you practice this.

2) Deep breathing when I lay down- deep diaphragmatic breathing activates your vagus nerve, slows down your heart rate and helps you move towards relaxation.

3) Tension Release- I realized that I never actually let my full body weight sink into my mattress. It was like stress and worry kept me in a "clenched" position. Yoga nidra taught me how to be very aware of holding tension so when I go to sleep I can now feel this.

Comment "sleep" and I'll send you a link to a yoga nidra meditation for getting better sleep. So you can learn to worry off and relaxation on.

✴️Game changer for keeping the light out! Wh

✴️Game changer for keeping the light out!

Why do we use eye pillows for yoga nidra?

It helps calm the mind, and withdraw the senses inward.

Sometimes eye pillows can be too heavy during the practice. The more energy starts to flow in your body during yoga nidra the more sensitive your body can become.

This washcloth yoga prop hack is a perfect light weight alternative and when you fold it like I show you it keeps the nose free, and the light blocked.

Share with a yogi/meditation friend who will love this 🩷

#yoganidra
#yogaprops
#meditation
#savasana
#stressless

Drop a ❤️ if you feel this too ✴️This is

Drop a ❤️ if you feel this too

✴️This is your reminder that even though we can't always control the things that happen in our lives, we can control how we react to it. And that super power happens in the pause.

✈️ Share this with someone who needs to hear this reminder.

Follow @loren.runion for more tips on how to use meditation and mindfulness to change your relationship with stress so you can feel more peace, joy and intention in your life.

Thank you for the quote @octaviaraheem 🙏❤️

#mentalload #overwhelm
#stress
#yoganidra
#restorativeyoga
#yogaforbalance
#medition
#restmore

Feel guilty resting? Try adding in shorter practi

Feel guilty resting?

Try adding in shorter practices that offer maximum benefits of relaxation and nervous system wellness in a short amount of time like this restorative yoga sequence.

🔖 Save this sequence to practice later

How long to hold each pose:

Pose 1- Restorative Twist side one- 2 minutes
Pose 2- Restorative Twist side two- 2 minutes
Pose 3- Supported Childs Pose- 3 minutes
Pose 4- Restorative Upavishta (wide leg forward fold) 3 minutes

Practice this restorative yoga sequence any time of day to help you calm down your nervous system. Rebalance the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems and for calming mental agitation.

Did you know that in my online membership Intentionology I offer monthly on-demand restorative yoga classes that help you align with nature through the moon. Each restorative yoga class is choreographed around a specific theme and are designed to calm your nervous system.

Comment "rest" and I'll send you a link to get 7 days free!

#yoganidra
#restoraticeyoga
#restorativeyogapose
#yogaforeveryone
#yogaforbalance
#nervoussystemhealing

Drop a ❤️ if you can relate 🤲🫶 Share w

Drop a ❤️ if you can relate

🤲🫶 Share with someone who gets it.

#relaxtime
#relaxation
#stressrelief
#rest

5 Best Tips to Start Yoga Nidra 👇 First follow

5 Best Tips to Start Yoga Nidra 👇

First follow along with me if you feel inspired to learn how to use yoga nidra meditation to learn how to transform your life into one that feels calm, joyful and peaceful.

Practicing yoga nidra meditation is the easiest type of meditation to practice because your body already knows how to do it!

Yoga nidra uses the biological process of sleep to take you into very deep states of relaxation by slowing your brain waves down into states similar to sleep.

✅ 5 Tips to start your practice:

✨ 1. Yoga nidra is a practice of non-doing. So it's best when you start out to practice this as a guided meditation. YouTube has an amazing selection, and if you comment "dopamine" I can send you a free yoga nidra meditation to keep forever.

✨ 2. The most important thing to do for this practice is to get into a position where you are really comfortable. Traditionally it is done lying down, but you need to find the position that works best for you and one that you can be relatively still in.

✨ 3. Use as many props like pillows, blankets, eye mask etc to support you in achieving comfort. Pay special attention to supporting your head and neck, as this is the gateway to allowing your body to relax.

✨4. Use a blanket to cover up or have one nearby. Your body temperature will start to drop during the progress, just like it does in sleep. You will find it more comfortable to have a blanket for the practice.

✨5. It's okay if you fall asleep. Many coming to the practice for the first time will fall asleep. Your body is in a sleep deficit so let it rest. You will still gain many benefits from the practice if you fall asleep. Your subconscious mind still hears everything the guided meditation is telling you. Eventually you will learn to stay awake for the entire practice.

‼️comment "dopamine" for a free 10-minute yoga nidra meditation to keep forever.

Got questions on how to get started? Drop them below.

#meditation
#stressrelief
#dopamine
#yoganidra

👇 This will change how you deal with stress for

👇 This will change how you deal with stress forever

When stress feels overwhelming it can feel like no matter what you do, the grip you try to have on controlling your life is as tight as the grip stress has on you.

A vice squeezing out the joy and peace you so desperately want to feel again.

The number one thing that's keeping you stressed isn't what you were taught.

It isn't the yoga class you missed, the dishes in your sink, the demands of life that never seem to end, the boss who seems to have no idea what they are doing.

The number one thing keeping you stressed is how you THINK about the situation causing you stress.

When I realized this 5 years ago, it changed everything.

The thoughts you are having about your stressful situation are distorting and increasing the amount of stress you feel.

This happens based on three things, your negative automatic thoughts, your core beliefs about the situation and your assumptions.

The great news is, though we often can't remove the stressors in our lives (hello, needing a job for income), we can change our stress-producing thoughts about those stressors. Changing your experience entirely.

Follow along to learn ways to change your stress producing thoughts, and learn ways to use tools like yoga nidra meditation, restorative yoga and mindfulness to transform your life into one that feels calm, joyful and peaceful.

⬇️This one question changed everything for me

⬇️This one question changed everything for me

First, follow along if you want to finally learn how to change how stressed out you feel. 5 years ago stress controlled everything I did, and today my life is happier, calmer because of what I now teach others.

Then when you have time to sit with this question or journal it out, think about the thing that stresses you out the most. Then ask yourself this:

"What thoughts and beliefs do I have about the thing causing me stress and are these thoughts absolute facts?"

If you do this objectively, this is what you will learn from this question:

- Your thoughts and beliefs are making the situation worse
- The thoughts and beliefs you have about the reason you are stressed aren't true (they are based on something else like a rule, belief, expectation)
- If you change how you think about this situation, you can change how you feel about this situation.

Here's an example:

You come home from working to a sink full of dishes. While the person in your life that you share a home with worked from home.

You are freaking pissed that you come home and now on top of everything else you have to do you have to be the one to clean the kitchen because you are always the one that has to clean the kitchen.

So you ask yourself:

What thoughts and beliefs do I have about this situation of having to do the dishes when I come home from work?

It might sound like this...

I feel like no one cares about how tired I am and they just left these for me. I am the only one that does anything around the house and it is so frustrating. I can't stand that they don't respect me enough to help with this when I have been at work all day. Now I have to do these dishes before anything.

Then you ask yourself:

Are these things I believe an absolute fact?

What you will find is that while it might feel true, and might be easy to assume no one cares about you, that isn't the truth at all. Maybe the other person in your house had a really bad day, maybe they had plans to do it in the evening, maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

Follow along for more help.

#stressreduction
#yogaforstress

A 1 minute quick reset to drift you into the calmi

A 1 minute quick reset to drift you into the calming part of your nervous system using the breath. 🫁

This full yoga nidra meditation is available for free for you to practice on YouTube, and to make things easy comment "relax" and I'll send you the link to the video.

#yoganidra
#yoganidrameditation
#nervousystemregulation
#breathinbreathout
#meditationpractice
#selfhealers
#yogaismytherapy
#nonsleepdeeprest

Join me for a LIVE Zoom Yoga Nidra experience Marc

I'm not sad Dr. Huberman talks about this so much

I'm not sad Dr. Huberman talks about this so much and the yoga nidra practice. But I do think there is confusion.

Yoga nidra is a NSDR practice but not all NSDR practices are yoga nidra.

It might all sound the same when you are practicing. Because using body, brain and breath awareness techniques to induce relaxation is powerful. But that doesn't mean it is the same.

NSDR will most certainly help you reduce stress, anxiety, boost energy, improve well-being, improve mindfulness and more, just like yoga nidra.

Drop a 🩷 if you love yoga nidra or nsdr in the comments below!

What to do when you can't control your stress: F

What to do when you can't control your stress:

First follow along so you keep getting more tips in your feed on how to handle stress so it doesn't become chronic stress.

Daily habit # 1

Ask myself this question:

Is what I am currently stressed out about happening because of my resistance to the present moment?

Yoga teaches us that stress and unhappiness arises when we are not aligned with the moment we are in.

What creates this misalignment and emotional stress is often deeply held beliefs that are no longer serving our present moment.

Keeping in a cycle of stress and and the inability to be with and handle your response to your external circumstances.

Daily habit # 2

Yoga Nidra Meditation for 10 minutes. Yoga Nidra combines many relaxation techniques into one powerful meditation. It also helps me release unhelpful thoughts patterns by working with the subconscious mind and deeply held beliefs.

Daily habit # 3

Focus on relaxation so that I bring a balance of tension and relaxation ⚖️.

This means I focus on activities that bring a balance of my sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is activated when you are in a stress response.

To bring balance to this you must activate the Vagus nerve to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

Feeling like you can't handle stress?

Follow along for more tips.

I have a story, I think it will help you. A few

I have a story, I think it will help you.

A few weeks ago I was waiting to get my hair done and my hairdresser asked the person before me "Do you need anything else?"

The woman responded as she laughed, "Yeah more time to relax, and more time to sleep! ".

Here is why this story will help you.

You don't need more time to relax, or more time to sleep.

What you need to do more of is learning how to STOP.

Stop going. Stop adding to your to-do list. Stop staying up late and scrolling your phone thinking it's stress relief but your nervous system will be more f*cked the next day from it, making your stress worse.

Stop doing more. Start doing less.

Your brain will hate it. It will kick, scream and beg you to pick up your phone, clean the house, do the laundry, text a friend, anything it can think of to make you stay in the pattern of being busy.

Why?
Because your body has been conditioned to stay in this space of constant stress and overwhelm and anything else will feel like garbage.

How to fix this?
Start practicing yoga nidra. Try to give yourself 5 minutes just 3-4 times a week to practice.

This will help you learn how to relax. This will teach you how to manage your stress on your own. As your self-awareness increases your ability to become more resilient increases.

I have two ways to help you practice: For free on YouTube or in my online studio and membership Intentionology. You get 7 days free.

#selfcaregoals #selfunderstanding #@purposedrivenlife #stressmanagement #yoganidrameditation

🆘"I don't feel comfortable relaxing" 3 reasons

🆘"I don't feel comfortable relaxing"

3 reasons why:

First:
Follow if you want more tips on learning how to relax so you can feel less stressed out.

➡️ #1 The Part of Your Brain that is responsible for emotional stress is in overdrive:

Your amygdala works a lot like a muscle. The more you let this reactive part of your brain run amuck doing what it does (reacting and freaking out) the stronger it gets.

It has become a brain thought pattern that you are stuck in.

➡️ #2 Your stuck in the sympathetic nervous system

It's like your foot is stuck on the gas pedal and you can't get the car to slow down. Your sympathetic nervous system has good benefits. But the problem in today's world is we keep it way too activated from staring at our phones, jam packed schedules, never making time for relaxation etc.

This becomes chronic stress. Chronic stress leads to disease, insomnia, lower immune system and more.

➡️ #3 You stress out about relaxation and the fact you can't do it

Similar to when you try to fall asleep at night. If you think about how you aren't falling asleep the worse trying to fall asleep becomes.

Relaxation is a conscious thing we learn to do. Using tools that help relax that also help retrain the brain to let you let go will help you the most. (Hello yoga nidra!!)

If you feel inspired to learn more ways to relax so you can feel less stress and more joy hit follow so you never miss a thing.

#relaxation
#stressrelief
#stressless
#yoganidra
#nsdr
#nonsleepdeeprest

3 ways to practice yoga nidra with me so you can i

3 ways to practice yoga nidra with me so you can intentionally create a fulfilling and joyful month:

1. YouTube - new meditations released weekly. Yoga nidras get released here before the podcast.
2. Podcast- new meditations released weekly found on Spotify or Apple
3. Intentionology Membership - my new online studio with on demand and live classes. All meditations go here first! And you get exclusive studio meditations only found here.

This month's schedule for YouTube is gonna be blissful ❤️

Which are you most excited for?

Do I have to twist my self into 🥨 shapes for yo

Do I have to twist my self into 🥨 shapes for yoga nidra?

The exact opposite actually.

You get to lay down and do absolutely nothing. Except be comfortable.

Yoga nidra, also known as yogic sleep is an effortless style of meditation. It's transformative, scientifically proven, and will bring well-being and nervous system wellness into your life.

✅ It's perfect for:
- beginners
- people who can't relax
- people who can't turn off their brain
- people who are tired and sleep deprived
- people who are sick of how their life feels and ready for transformation
- absolutely anyone

✅ Benefits include:
Reduce Anxiety & stress
Improved Sleep
Increased Energy
Mental and emotional relaxation
A greater sense of tranquility

✅ How to start:

1. Find a quiet, comfy spot to practice.
2. Gather props like blankets, pillows, cushions etc to help you feel supported and comfortable.
3. Lay down (or find a position that works for your boys) cover up.
4. Head to YouTube or Google and search "Loren Runion Yoga Nidra"
5. Put in headphones
6. Find a meditation that calls to you.
7. Press play and do nothing else but recieve the sound of my voice.

You might have even heard about yoga nidra being referred to NSDR or non sleep deep rest. Yoga Nidra is a form of NSDR!

Ready to give it a try? Comment "READY" I'll send you a 🔗 link for a 7 day free trial to my online studio and membership community filled with yoga nidra meditations and more!

#yoganidrameditation
#yoganidra
#meditationspace
#beginnermeditation
#stressreduction
#nervoussystem
#yogaforwellness

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