3 Ways to Deep Sleep Despite Anxiety

Sleep is the bedrock layer of health. Without sleep, your biochemistry and brain don’t function properly, including your memory, mood, focus, and emotional reslience.

Anxiety often goes hand and hand with poor sleep.?

The worse your anxiety, the?worse your sleep, and the worse your sleep?the worse your anxiety becomes?the next day. It’s a brutal toxic cycle.?As a result, many of us have picked up bad sleeping habits or?would rather drug ourselves into an unconscious state?to just wake up the next day not feeling rested.

If you’re like me, I faced a life of poor sleep. Whether it was not sleeping, staying up at night, but then being so sleepy during the day, all of these problems troubled me.

Eventually I thought I would never go to sleep.

But I started researching, learning and experimenting.

I want to show you 3 very simple things you can do to easily fall asleep as fast as possible…

First and foremost, it’s important to understand why we face this problem in our society.

We live in a world where nobody teaches us how to sleep, and we are actively incentivized to not go to sleep in order to buy, work, or escape more.

I will split this guide into two main parts; physiology & psychology.

Let’s start with psychology first...

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I. Psychology

No sleep supplement in the world will help shut off a mind that’s not living a purposeful life and not living an authentic life. Let me explain..

I remember staying up at night and my brain would replay all the social interactions I had that day. Either cringing over what I said or replaying what I should have said at the time.

If you are not your authentic self...

If you are not doing what you want to be doing...

If you have deep regrets about life and aren’t doing anything about it...

You will more than likely face sleeping issues until you fix these things. Unfortunately, it’s also a debilitating toxic cycle that turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you have anxiety, you stay up at night regretting and overthinking, you wake up the next day exhausted, your brain is barely functioning, and now you are plunged in the same situations, inherently repeating the cycle.

Which now brings me to my favorite part..

II. Physiology

Without complicating it, here are the most straightforward actions I would be taking for sleep...

1. Sleep Tranquilizer Breathing Technique

An exercise said to be the “natural tranquilizer for the nervous system” developed by?Dr. Andrew Weil?to help his patients rest their body and mind.

Slow, rhythmic, diaphragmatic breathing helps the body release muscle tension, lower heart rate, and rest the mind by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.

By far the easiest way to practice this technique is to download an app called?Breathwrk, available on both iPhone and Android.?

I personally use this app almost every day and if you go to the blue sleep category and do the Sleep exercise for at least 5 minutes you will experience an immediate different state of mind to lull you to sleep!

2. Sleep Anchoring Exercise

I have yet to do this exercise properly and NOT knock it out in 5 minutes or less.

However, it requires a bit of training to do properly, as it uses your mind. If you’re a meditator and have been training your mind you might find this easier. Nonetheless, this is a powerful technique that can change your sleeping life.?

How to Sleep Anchor:

- Pick 2 vowel sounds. I’ll choose EEEEEEE and AAAAAAA.

- Each time you inhale, play the EEEEE sound in your head.

- Each time you exhale, play the AAAAA sound in your head.

- You are NOT saying these out loud, you are simply playing this sound in your mind inaudibly.?

- Repeat. You will notice within 1-2 minutes a sense of drowsiness almost like a hypnotic state. Don’t resist it and keep playing the sounds until you are unconscious.

- Trick here is to not stop doing the exercise at all. Many people who never trained the mind before, can often do this for a couple of minutes but then get distracted and forget to do the technique. If you can keep doing it, I promise you’ll go to sleep.

3. Supplement GABA + Magnesium L-Threonate, or Tea

Chamomile tea, as well Yogi Soothing Caramel Bedtime tea is an effective drink to help coax your nervous system to slow down and shut down.?

Additionally, you can supplement with the active form of Chamomile, Chamomilla instead if you don’t want to drink anything at bedtime.?

Taking GABA and/or Magnesium L-Threonate has been shown to be effective for your brain overall as well as sleep. GABA is to calm any stress and slow your thoughts, while Magnesium ensures your nervous system works properly.?

Magnesium helps to sensitize cells to the effect of insulin, from sugar in the blood and reduce inflammation.?Magnesium helps us relax, supporting healthy sleep and reducing stress. All of these effects help keep our brain healthy.

The overwhelming majority of us are deficient in magnesium as most magnesium-rich foods are wildly under-consumed in most areas around the world.?

Bonus

Avoid supplementing with Melatonin. Of course I know what you might be thinking, why? Melatonin is the most common sleeping supplement however it doesn’t lead to long term good results. Melatonin is good for occasional use, not everyday. Use the better supplements highlighted above for better long-term results.

Conclusion

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