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

It used to be extremely difficult for me to sleep until I hit about 30, 31 years old.

And what I've learned, there's three things that I've learned that have helped me go to sleep extremely fast.

One is going through a transition of fully sharing and starting to heal the process of my shame.

Finding a therapist and talking about what I'm shameful about.

And really revealing parts of myself that I never wanted anyone to know about me.

There are so many things that I didn't like about myself that I was ashamed of or felt insecure around.

And it made me feel like a prisoner to my own thoughts.

Because I felt like I was, in a sense, hiding myself to the world and to the people

closest to me.

Like certain people didn't even know who I was. And when I

started to open up about those things, I felt inner peace. Number two was I started to focus on

everything at night when I was grateful for from the day. I was like, okay, if there was anything

good today, what was it? Even if it was all bad. There had to be something. I'm alive. You know,

I'm healthy or whatever may be. I have a roof. So it's just focusing on anything. And I do that every night where I think it's about three things to be grateful for. That brings me like another level of peace. And then I think about what am I going to do tomorrow to help people? How am I going to serve? Hewing the shame. focusing on gratitude and thinking about how am I going to serve? Healing the shame, focusing on gratitude,

and thinking about how am I going to serve? I love thinking about something you're going to do

for somebody else tomorrow coming from this practice of healing your own shame. One of the

superpowers in good anxiety that comes from your own anxiety. This is a beautiful example that you just told me, is the superpower of empathy.

For yourself or others?

First, for yourself and recognizing it in yourself and then giving it out to others.

Because just as you described your journey, a lot of our own anxieties have been with us since we were little.

Same anxiety over.

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