In this episode we review the week on the channel and expand on an insight for this weeks Talking insomnia episode. We see that awareness of the insomnia process is more available when we are in a celebratory mood, and that this awareness changes everything.
In this episode Coach Alina from BedTyme shares how her own rollercoaster experience ended. You'll learn that our reaction to sleeping more, paradoxically, is key to peaceful sleep.
In this episode we look at a question from ToroB. They stopped taking melatonin and experienced more insomnia. We also look at a question from Libby about sleep envy, she envies her sleeping husband. Nathan asks about exercise before sleep and Catharina shares a magical moment.
In this video we look at a common CBTi idea to answer the question of whether we are sleepy enough to go to bed. Spoiler alert - listening to the "experts" is likely to lead us exactly where we don't want to be.
In this edition of the weekly roundup we learn from a comment by James Moore how magic happens. We see also how truly understanding where it comes from is how we can have it with us forever.
In this edition of Talking insomnia we get to know how BedTyme client Spyros, who not so long ago struggled with insomnia.
We learn how an intense struggle started after a stressful event and after trying to optimize sleep using trackers. We hear how the struggle ended, including an unlikely source of relief: getting back on the very trackers that triggered insomnia.
Agnes asks if palpitations and hypnic jerks themselves can keep us awake. Libby has found herself in a Success Regress pattern. Peace has questions that we answer with out teachings around Anticipatory Insomnia. Suleiman knows that thinking attention towards sleep creates insomnia, and wonders how we can stop thinking so much about sleep. Kevin has sleep maintenance insomnia and doesn't know how the break the cycle.
Jenny tries to reassure herself, but her heart keeps racing. Daisy has noted that her thoughts become weird when she is about to fall asleep. Anete understands the idea of befriending wakefulness, but doesn't have much space where she lives.
Salvador has no problem falling asleep but wakes up the exact same time every day. Mackenzie is doing much better after reading Set it & Forget it but wonders if not napping and staying up later would help further? DT is super sensitive to noise. How to meet this?
In this rundown we look at a remarkable comment from Lucy, and we take a look at the first thing we do to a newborn human - attach numbers, measure and monitor. We ask ourselves if perhaps it isn't strange that we as a society struggle with things we cannot control.
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