It saves them from having to unlearn this habit and helps them sleep naturally and peacefully. Tip: If you have young children, then let them sleep without a head pillow from the start. Due to decades of endless conditioning, we do not always know and feel what natural movement is to our body and what it actually needs. ‘Listening to your body’ means that you sometimes have to do something different than what you think is a natural need. I could sleep well everywhere – without a pillow. I even started to experience the huge advantage: the quality of my sleep was no longer determined by the quality of my pillow. The entire process eventually took me four months. If I woke up with a slightly stiff neck – this happened once – I had downsized too quickly. When I woke up, I would always feel whether I was downsizing my pillow size at a healthy speed or whether I was moving too quickly. You really do not want to deal with your ‘addiction’ when you are tired and ready to sleep. I immediately noticed that I did not have the will power to change the pillow size at night and that it was better to do so in the morning. Finally a folded towel and then an unfolded towel do the job. You then sleep on your new pillow for a few weeks and exchange it for an even thinner version. The first step is the hardest: saying good-bye to your old friend and replacing it with a thinner version. It is important that the body adapts to the new sleeping position very slowly in order for the neck muscles and tissue to gradually adapt, otherwise they might be damaged. Bowman also warns that you should not quit cold turkey. Slowly Adapt to Sleeping Without a PillowĮven though I understood the benefits within a few minutes, it consequently took me lots of discipline to put it into practice. So we use the pillow to compensate what we have untrained our body to do naturally. As a result, the muscles and tissue in the neck and shoulders no longer fulfill their task. She explained that a pillow is an attribute that limits the natural movement needs of the body, which also wants to move at night. Your head would be in such a weird position when sleeping on your side, instead of being aligned with your spine – the general recommendation.īut I was strongly motivated to try, due to this blog by Katy Bowman, an expert in the area of natural movement. This will add some support for your head and neck and decrease the. If you sleep on your stomach and you sleep without a pillow, try using a very thin pillow instead.
This will take the strain off of your low back by keeping your lumbar spine in neutral. Sleeping without a pillow? The idea did not appeal to me at all! I even thought that it would be mission impossible. A good way to add support to this sleeping position is to put a pillow under your knees. Gosh, I had no idea it would be such a hard nut to crack. “But tomorrow I will really do it!” Eventually it took me a month of sacred resolutions before I dared to take the first step to saying good-bye to my pillow. And then I once more rested my head on an ergonomically shaped pillow at bedtime. “I will start tomorrow,” I would say every night.
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