Thursday, September 10, 2020

Get Better Sleep Before and After Plastic Surgery with Guided Meditation

 Get Better Sleep Before and After Plastic Surgery with Guided Meditation





I am a MMI Certified Meditation Teacher and a lymphatic massage therapist. My clients experience anxiety and sleeplessness before their plastic surgery because they are worried about their upcoming procedure. I provide them with a free guided body scan meditation to help them sleep. 


Hubbling et al. (2014) found that in subjects with chronic insomnia, "the body scan was identified as an effective tool to enable falling asleep faster" and "eliminate the “chatter” or mind-racing that previously impeded falling asleep at night."


Why is this important? Su & Wang (2018) state that “sleep disturbances frequently occur in patients after surgery, and its occurrence is harmful for postoperative recovery” and that “development of sleep disturbances produces harmful effects on postoperative patients ... increased sensitivity to pain ... and poorer recovery.”



Read the study ‘How mindfulness changed my sleep: focus groups with chronic insomnia patients’ here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927626/


Read the study ‘Improve postoperative sleep: what can we do?’ here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768217/


Guided Meditation before Surgery https://youtu.be/r_TAnv_grkI





Listen to all the Free Guided Meditations for before and after plastic surgery here: https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/guided-meditations 


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