Can you make up for lost sleep? Meditation expert says yes

Can you make up for lost sleep? Meditation expert says yes

While waiting for a solution to our physiological reliance on sleep, meditation may just offer a solution. The alleged benefits of meditation are manifold.

In today’s hustle culture time seems to be the most elusive commodity. Successful influencers, writers, and entrepreneurs alike inflate the importance of productive daily routines all for the sake of reaping more time.

One of the most obvious obstacles in our ongoing search for time is an unavoidable necessity of human nature: our need for sleep. Foregoing a night’s sleep would earn the average person an extra eight hours of precious time. Unfortunately, if you’re of human origin, a sleepless lifestyle is physically impossible to sustain.

While waiting for a solution to our physiological reliance on sleep, meditation may just offer a solution. The alleged benefits of meditation are manifold. Celebrities including Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Oprah herself has long talked up the advantages of meditation in promoting restfulness, mental acuity, and overall well being.

But in recent years, research has shed light on meditations ability to recoup the restlessness of sleep in mere minutes. In one 2010 study, researchers looked at the amount of sleep and mental acuity of experienced meditators compared to a group of non-meditators. They found that meditators who slept an average of 5.2 hours per night, tested equally as well on their mental performance as the non-meditator group who clocked in 7.8 hours of sleep.

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