Hello and welcome back to the practicing human podcast the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life. I'm your host Corey Musgara and I am coming to you from a car.

Yes, that's right. I am recording this episode from a car.

You have to get creative when you're on the road and you don't always have nice quiet places to record, especially when you're running a daily

podcast and the acoustics in a car are surprisingly, well, great.

If you want to see how the studio looked,

just head over to my Instagram

and you can watch the whole progression.

But if you do hear any background,

traffic, or noise, just know that's because I am

literally parked on the side of a street. In today's session we are going to

talk about sleep. Three tips for deep sleep. More to come on that soon. For now let's settle in

together by tuning into the sound of the bells. The Okay, so let's talk sleep. For those of you who listened to episode 2 that talked about my story. You know that sleep was a pain point for me for

about 10 years of my life, mostly through adolescence. I struggled with sleep. I'd wake up many times

throughout the night. Tough for me to fall asleep, stay asleep, and my sleep always

just felt light, light and surface and had taken sleep meds, just made me groggy, didn't like it.

And that sort of meditating and literally within three weeks went from waking up over 30 times a night to only a couple times a night.

And it has been like that since. I have no issues with my sleep. It's easy for me to fall asleep quickly,

stay asleep, and wake up feeling rejuvenated.

And I've heard similar stories of people I've taught over the years, who struggle with sleep,

then engage in a meditation practice and their sleep improved radically.

So the first thing is a big plug for meditation.

It's a great way to simply learn how to settle the mind, calm the mind, not get so pulled around by

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