Ben Greenfield explains how a 10-minute NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) session resets your brain and improves concentration, attention, and sleep quality. The practice also boosts stress resilience and emotional control, leading to better decisions and less impulsivity.
Even a session as short as 10 minutes serves as a sort of reset for the brain. So the subsequent improvement in concentration and attention and cognitive performance has now been fleshed out in literature. You get better sleep quality. Whether you're doing this before sleep, whether you're doing it earlier in the day, it seems to enhance the night of sleep that occurs later on. It's been shown to improve resilience to stress and improvement in emotional self regulation. So that can lead to better decision making, reduced impulsivity, enhanced overall mental health, you being more pleasant to be around at the dinner table after you've gotten up at 4.30am They've even shown for athletes or people who have mental fatigue, right, physical or mental fatigue, that NSDR can support recovery and replenish energy levels in people who are fatigued.
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