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It’s happening again.Despite feeling exhausted after a long day, when you crawl into bed, you just can’t seem to fall asleep.
What gives? According to Oliver Niño — a spiritual coach and energy healer to celebs like Tony Robbins and Jessica Alba — the problem is that you haven’t had a chance to de-stress.“Anxiety tends to build up because people carry it on from their day, and they sleep with it, and then they wake up the next day and they really weren’t able to get enough sleep, and the anxieties of the day before follow them over the next day, and it kind of snowballs,” he told The Post.And the busier you are, the more you need to practice — as he calls it — the “nighttime anxiety detox.” “A lot of times, people say, ‘I don’t have time to do much,'” he said.“To me, it’s reversed.
The harder it is, the more you have to do it.”Because he works with some pretty busy clients, Niño focuses on techniques that can be done in five minutes or less.He shared his strategies in his new book, “Do This Before Bed: Simple 5-Minute Practices That Will Change Your Life” — and revealed a few favorites to The Post.“Color therapy is when you’re going to bed or when you’re meditating and you’re imagining different colors coming down and filling you up,” he said.It’s been practiced since the days of ancient Egypt, based on the belief that colors have different energies and contain healing properties.
Next time you’re in bed, Niño recommends imagining “white coming down from the sky, filling you up,” and then experimenting with different colors until you find one that brings you peace.Practitioners of yoga are probably already familiar with the magical effects of breathwork — consciously inhaling and exhaling for a set amount of time, letting in the good and letting go of the bad.Niño likes “geometric breathing” because it “uses patterns” — inhaling for five seconds, holding the breath for five and exhali...