How To Sleep
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ben aka 'Sleepless in San Francisco' hasn't been able to get a good night's rest for over a decade. He's tried noise machines, medication, vodka, even eating cheese -- but nothing has worked. It's harming his health, his career and his dating life. In this episode of How To!, we bring in Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and co-founder of the meditation app Headspace, to help Ben hit the hay. Andy's first tip to get more sleep at night? Start with ten minutes of meditation in the morning.
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| 0:30.6 | Ben, you mentioned that you've been eating cheese because you had heard the cheese helps people fall asleep. |
| 0:35.0 | Is that right? |
| 0:36.0 | The funny thing is that things become part of your ritual because you'll have a successful night of sleep and you'll think, |
| 0:40.0 | what did I exit? What did I do? Oh, I ate a piece of cheese and then I had an onion and then I I don't know I spun around in circles three times and talked to my neighbor for 15 minutes. I better do that again tonight. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to how to I'm Charles Doohick. |
| 0:55.0 | Each week on this show we help folks confront some of life's toughest challenges. |
| 1:00.0 | And in a bunch of episodes, experts have given us this one piece of advice again and again. |
| 1:06.0 | Get more sleep. |
| 1:08.0 | But what do you do if you can't fall asleep in the first place? |
| 1:11.0 | I've had sleep problems for about most of my life. It's like trying to push a |
| 1:16.1 | balloon full of air underwater and hold it there and that's the sense I get |
| 1:20.4 | when I'm trying to fall asleep and the only time I feel like I can really fall |
| 1:23.9 | asleep is when I've missed a night of sleep like a night before and then I'm like |
| 1:27.2 | really really exhausted so I can sleep. This is Ben. He lives in San Francisco and he's a super busy guy. In addition to working as a therapist, he's a published author, and he exercises a lot, he's a black belt and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. But for years, Ben has been operating on little to no sleep. |
| 1:44.0 | You kind of wake up feeling like a broken pain of glass. |
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