Dear Insomnia, Go to Bed!

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Insomnia. It's the ‘not so sleeping giant in the room’. Exhausted, we climb into bed knowing we'll crash as our head hits the pillow until we don't. We just lay there. One thought racing after the other. How do we stop the cycle? We all know the norms like avoiding caffeine, exercise, etc, etc. But, I’m gonna share two major techniques that have recently come to light during some groundbreaking research in the field. Join me today and every Tuesday as we Calm it Down.

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0:00.0	Sleep. It's magical. Dreamy. No pun. Mystical even. But for a lot of us, it is deceitfully evasive.
0:13.2	Getting a solid night's sleep is like finding the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow or spotting a four-leaf clover, and why am I craving lucky
0:23.4	charms all of a sudden? Anyway, a recent Harvard survey said one in four adults suffer mild
0:31.3	insomnia, one in four. Not to mention 2020 has only increased our stress levels, which affects our ability, or lack
0:39.5	thereof, to downshift and get what we need the most.
0:45.1	Sleep.
0:46.4	Nearly 40% of Americans say that they often feel tired or fatigue because of stress.
0:54.3	It's no surprise with everything we're going through, we find ourselves staring at the ceiling
0:59.1	until the sun comes up, while our minds gorge an endless buffet of what ifs and what thens.
1:07.3	We all know the usual tips, reduce caffeine, exercise every day, stop mindlessly scrolling
1:13.9	through Instagram, but today I'm going to share two incredibly interesting tips that actually
1:20.5	work, and you've probably never heard of before. So put on your PJs, find your favorite blanket, and listen in as we stop searching for
1:31.6	fairy dust and crashed Mr. Sandman's sleeping party.
1:36.6	I'm Chad Lawson, and let's comment down in three, two, one.
1:47.0	Sleep is a must, but it's always the first thing we give up when it comes to everything that we're carrying.
1:54.0	So today I'm going to get straight to the point in sharing these two techniques.
2:00.0	Number one, give the remote to Tony. point in sharing these two techniques. Numero
2:01.0	Give the remote to Tony.
2:05.3	We've all been there.
2:06.9	We're dozing off during another episode of The Crown or whatever it is you're watching right now.
2:12.9	Fine, you say, turning off the TV and walking to bed.
2:18.1	Cozy socks.
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