23/01/2026
A recent review found that mindfulness improves sleep quality in successful but stressed adults.
I was reading the study where the people participating experienced much longer sleep and binned their sleep medication!
When life feels demanding, sleep is often the first thing to suffer. Many of my clients assumed the answer was in forcing better habits or trying harder to switch off.
Instead we calm the nervous system and reduce mental load, creating conditions where sleep is able to settle naturally.
This is huge because it moves the body out of constant alert.
When mindfulness is applied with an understanding of sleep, stress and how the nervous system works, the benefits go far beyond feeling calm in the moment. It supports deeper rest, better recovery and drastically improved performance even when life becomes busy.