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Why nighttime anxiety undoes daytime equanimity

I feel completely peaceful during my evening yoga practice but I wake up at 4am with my heart racing about things that felt manageable the night before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sleep-wake transitions can activate unconscious worry patterns that bypass the calm established through evening contemplative practices.

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