Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
From Monday, September 27 to Friday, October 1 ChiliSleep will host the Back to Sleep Challenge. It’s an online, free, five-day event featuring prominent speakers from the world of performance improvement and sleep medicine along with a dedicated Facebook group and homework to practice implementing what you learned. The lineup includes: Kelly Starrett—physical therapist and…
On the surface, prayer and meditation look the same. Someone closes their eyes and sits still. There may or may not be an image, some beads, candles (scented or unscented) perhaps some other object involved as well. They’re not. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, prayer is a request or statement to God or a god…
The big secret to sleeping on a busy, noisy street is getting used to it. The smaller secret is how to deal with occasional spikes in noise. That’s it. Getting used to traffic noise and the occasional spikes like blaring car horns can happen for almost anyone. Eventually. When they go out to the country,…
Sleep takes up a major chunk of the day. That can conflict with your other goals. How can you sleep less yet maintain health? I spend hours every week writing a sleep blog. I’m also longtime a sleep science enthusiast with a 25-year background in healthcare. I’ve both read and experimented a lot with sleep.…
Sometimes, a bandana blindfold is a quick answer to improving sleep because even a little light can be annoying and interfere with falling asleep. Go to bed like a hostage! Morning sun creeps around gaps in the curtains, getting you up too early. Once again, the sunbeams have started cheating you out of a few…
It doesn’t have to be difficult to sleep with GERD GERD, acid reflux, and waking up suddenly in the middle of the night coughing and hacking: the terms and experience go together—especially after you eat a little too much a little too close to bedtime. They don’t have to. Until you develop what they call…
The Bedtime Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others: Part 4 of 4 Lots of people are hungry, hungry to get better. Some are more than hungry; they’re starving. In the United States, the personal development/ self-improvement industry was worth almost $10 billion in 2019. That number represents serious spending. It’s a competitive world out there.…
The Bedtime Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others: Part 3 of 4 Hearing about conflict has a way of making an impression on you. It heightens your senses, makes you sit up and pay attention, gets you thinking about who’s right and who’s wrong. It’s just the kind of thing you want to avoid before…
God grant me the serenity… Why it’s a great idea to memorize at least the first verse of the Serenity Prayer. Internalize it upon your heart and mind. It happens to every man and woman too. Sometimes you feel powerless. You feel like you’re a member of the security detail on Star Trek, the crewmembers…
All I wanted was to sleep, but fear kept me awake. I fought back against insomnia with a time-tested sleep method employed by the United States Army. As a mother of two, I’ve known sleepless nights a bit too well. I was one of the 164 million Americans who contend with sleeping issues at least…