2210: Numbing vs Relaxing: Are You Disconnecting from Life AND Sleep Your Way To Greater Connection by Kristine Klussman

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

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Dr. Kristine Klussman shares two short posts covering whether or not you're disconnecting from life, and how to sleep your way to greater connection Episode 2210: Numbing vs Relaxing: Are You Disconnecting from Life AND Sleep Your Way To Greater Connection by Kristine Klussman Kristine Klussman specialized in Health Psychology (Behavioral Medicine) at Harvard Medical School, then founded and ran the Health Psychology program and post-doctoral training programs at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She found her work with cancer and cardiac patients inspiring, uplifiting, and humbling. She found so many of those going through life-threatening illness were - sometimes for the first time in their lives - absolutely clear what truly mattered to them: authenticity and connection. In 2016, she founded a non-profit to focus full-time on trying to understand, explain and teach what she now believes is the single most meaningful and rewarding aspect of our existence. The original post is located here: https://www.kristineklussman.com/numbing-vs-relaxing/ & https://www.kristineklussman.com/sleep-your-way-to-greater-connection/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 2210. Numbing vs. Relaxing. Are you disconnecting
1:06.4	from life? And sleep your way to greater connection, both by ChristineCluisman.com. And
1:14.4	I'm Justin Mollick. I have two articles that I'm sharing today, a rare treat. So let's
1:19.5	get right to them and continue optimizing your life. Numbing vs. Relaxing. Are you disconnecting
1:29.5	from life? By ChristineCluisman.com. At times and especially lately, most of us will
1:38.0	use technology to zone out, decompress or avoid feeling our feelings. But it's important
1:44.7	to be compassionate and realize this isn't entirely a negative thing. Zoning out and decompressing
1:51.4	are very reasonable byproducts of screen time if we're intentional about it and if that
1:57.0	is indeed the outcome. It's when we use technology to numb ourselves, however, that it can become
2:02.4	problematic and block us from leading a truly fulfilling life. When we are engaged in
2:08.2	numbing behaviors, we are disconnected from ourselves emotionally, unaware of and unable
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