403: How to Get Better Sleep
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? Is it better to skip a late-night workout, if it's going to shortchange our sleep? Do melatonin supplements work? Devin Burke, the author of The Sleep Advantage, coaches high achievers and exhausted insomniacs all over the world to get better sleep. Today he coaches us, answering the questions above and offering his insights on how to improve our sleep quality.
Devin tells us why sleep is essential for improved energy, performance, and good health, and he offers practical tips for getting deeper, more restorative sleep (even if the time in bed doesn't change). Devin shares his 3-2-1 sleep method--a simple approach that has helped countless people sleep more profoundly. Finally, he reviews the relationship between our sleep quality and stress levels during the day. And he warns us of the risk we take with our health when we don't prioritize sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | What is creating the most stress in your life? |
| 0:02.9 | Most people go through their day. It's like a blur. |
| 0:05.3 | They go from one thing to the next to the next. |
| 0:08.0 | And this is a form of stress. |
| 0:09.7 | Even if you're going from one thing that you love to the next thing that you love, |
| 0:13.3 | there needs to be space. |
| 0:14.9 | And what I found was when people don't have space |
| 0:18.1 | throughout their day, intentional space, just to rest, |
| 0:22.1 | to allow their mind to rest, to allow their bodies to rest, |
| 0:25.2 | then the body builds up this tension and pressure. |
| 0:29.2 | And a lot of times it's not even conscious. |
| 0:31.6 | People are not aware that this tension is building. |
| 0:33.9 | And then it takes so much at the end of the day to discharge that tension. |
| 0:38.4 | Whereas if people just focused on creating some more space |
| 0:41.9 | and prioritizing some time for rest, |
| 0:45.1 | mental rest, emotional rest, physical rest throughout the day, |
| 0:48.1 | it would be so much easier for their body to then rest at night. |
| 0:52.1 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, |
| 1:00.0 | welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 1:03.3 | in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 1:05.9 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom |
| 1:09.2 | to help you achieve optimal health. |
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