This is episode 1,559.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

How are you doing?

Are you creating a nice sleep ritual for yourself?

So when you go to bed at night, you look forward to it

and you feel more at peace as you ease into sleep. In yesterday's episode, you discovered how blue light can be so harmful to you if you are exposed to it two to three hours before you go to bed at

night. Well in today's episode I'm going to share with you how sunlight and sleep are interconnected.

So you'll be discovering how to spend time in the sun during the day to help you sleep better at night, and then you'll be guided using a breathing technique to help you

sleep better.

So, sunlight and sleep. Light, according to the National Sleep Foundation, is a powerful guide for your body and through the connections

between the eyes and the brain's biological timekeeper.

Light rays influence chemistry and behavior

and keep us in sync with the ebb and flow of the day.

And when you think about it,

we humans evolved spending a lot of time outside and throughout history humans have been exposed to light with the rising sun and when the sun went down people would go to

sleep especially before electricity.

Well now, where we can make it as bright in our house at night

as it is during the day. Our body can get confused and this can interrupt your sleep.

So when it starts to get dark outside, when it starts to become evening, keep your lights

low in your house, light candles, and try not to use bright lights or television or the computer

all the blue lights we talked about yesterday and this is going to send the signal to your brain to start slowing down.

This is so vital for your organs to repair and replenish themselves.

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