5 Tips For Better Sleep

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Welcome back to The becoming the big knee podcast. I'm your host

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Djemilah Birnie and you are tuning into minute madness a

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Birnie, Birnie here, and today I want to talk to you about sleep

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and getting a better night's rest. Before 2020. The average

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amount of people suffering from clinical insomnia was about 10%.

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over this past year, however, it has increased significantly, the

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anxiety and the stress causes our brain to go over active and

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crazy and many more people are suffering with insomnia. In

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fact, a study in China by Lin and his associates suggested at

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37% increase in clinical insomnia, that would be almost

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50% of the population suffering from clinical insomnia. Due to

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the stresses of this year. That's absolutely insane. So I

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wanted to go over a couple of quick little sleep hacks a

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couple of quick little sleep tips to help you fall asleep

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faster, get a better night's rest and become more energized

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for the next day by giving your body what it needs to survive.

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So my first tip is, I've been talking about this one for a

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while, no tech before bed, one hour before bed, giving yourself

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that space for your mind to decompress, for you to think

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about your day process things without extra stimulus. And

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also, the blue light from the technology affects your body to

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be able to produce melatonin, which is necessary for you to

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fall asleep. The second suggestion would be something

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warm before bed. So whether that's a nice decaffeinated tea,

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or a nice warm shower or something to just get your body

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a little bit warmer, starting to feel a little bit cozier helps

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to relax your body after a highly stimulating day. And then

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my third tip, I would suggest to some light stretching, just

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moving the stagnant energy you get, whenever anything weird

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happens, you kind of hold on to that energy in your body. So I

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suggest just doing some light movement, some light stretching

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to help release those energetic blockages, so that your energy

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flows freely while you sleep. So you can actually wake up feeling

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much more rested. And then obviously, I would have to

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suggest either sleep meditation or sleep hypnosis. I use the I

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use my own every single night, if you would like the sleep, get

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to sleep sleepy time hypnosis to shoot me over a message and I'll

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send you that it basically just something to connect your mind

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to your body and start to relax. So you can focus on some other

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words besides the mind chatter inside of your own head that's

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causing you to go down a doubt unrolled, stressed out spiral.

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And then my fifth tip would be routine, our bodies thrive on

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routine. So maybe it's going to take a couple nights before you

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can actually fall asleep faster. But if you start implementing

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these tricks, no tack an hour before bed, something warm,

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light stretching, and then a sleep hypnosis or a sleep

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meditation before bed. And then you put that into a routine

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where you do it consistently the same time every night. 10

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o'clock, my phone goes off, no more phone, you know, after I

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turn my phone off, then I'm going to do a little bit of

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stretching, maybe some journaling. And then at

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1011 is when I put on my hypnosis, whatever that might be

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for you. So just getting the consistency showing up for

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yourself. Every single night, your body will set into that

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routine. These different tasks are going to become anchors and

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trigger points for your body to start shutting down into the

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rest zone. So try out these tips. Do it consistently for at

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least a week and let me know how you feel.

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