Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I would argue a lot of sleep-related issues are fear-based, right? So you might have been safe

physically, but emotionally, things weren't necessarily where you thought they should be or understood they should be.

And that fear can really play a role.

Most of sleep issues that I deal with have an anxiety component to them.

And when I think about anxiety, it's not like, oh, I'm afraid of this or, you know, I've got a phobia about that.

It's there's a level.

My heart rate is up.

There's stuff going on. It's not, it's not working here. And I'm concerned. I'm scared.

That will override just about anything. Really? Yeah. I give you an example. If you were a patient of mine and you walked in and let's say you were taking 10 milligrams of Ambien, I could utter one sentence looking at your medical chart and I could make that

Ambien not work.

I could just turn to you and say, you have cancer.

Boom.

You ain't sleeping that night, right?

It overrides the pharmacy, right?

This is the most powerful drug in the world, is your brain. And if you can figure out how to use that to your advantage, now we're talking.

Right.

So I'm not saying anything against pills.

There are plenty of people out there who use medications.

And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that.

There are certain situations where pharmaceutical intervention makes a ton of sense right yeah if you're a paranoid schizophrenic you get your

ambient okay you know you've been in a motor vehicle accident got terrible pain hey

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