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We continue to discuss the ever important bucket of physical well-being and how sleep is imperative for success. Good sleep every night 7 to 8 hours is the average healthy amount. It may vary from

person to person but that's a safe bet.

Sleep includes both dream sleep and deep sleep,

and of course light sleep.

Deep sleep is non-rem sleep when the body renews itself and all physical toxins are removed

and amyloid is removed from the brain,

inflammation goes down and hormones are self-regulated.

Dream sleep is another phase of sleep where the brain wave activity is not as slow as in deep sleep

which is four cycles per second in dream sleep it's anywhere from

four to seven to eight cycles and during dream sleep we have the release of

emotional toxicity and the buildup of the release of emotional toxicity and the buildup of stresses are also released if they are emotional or psychological in nature.

And light sleep is the entry into both deep sleep and dream sleep so you need sleep

deep sleep and REM sleep for emotional and physical well-being.

My personal sleep routine begins two hours actually before I sleep and that is I don't use any technology in the

bedroom I make sure that by the time I'm going to sleep the lights are gradually dimmed and ultimately it's total darkness.

I usually use a little bit of aroma therapy in the form of any pleasing aroma derived from fruits or plants, anything that is soothing,

sometimes sandalwood because that is also cooling.

I also make sure that the temperature in the room is about 68 degrees,

which is the ideal temperature for you to sleep a little on the cooler side because for

thousands of years we slept outdoors maybe millions of years. And then I practice something called yoga-nidra.

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