{"id":2013,"date":"2016-10-06T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T23:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:39:47","slug":"sleep-like-a-kitten-part-3-can-i-reset-and-retrain-my-body-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/2016\/10\/06\/sleep-like-a-kitten-part-3-can-i-reset-and-retrain-my-body-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep like a kitten \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 Can I reset and retrain my body clock?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, to be able to sleep like a cat \u2013 anywhere, any time, on anything.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read \u201cPart 1 \u2013 Three quick tips\u201d here<\/a> and \u201cPart 2 \u2013 Find your sleeping style\u201d here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m really struggling with switching to Daylight Savings Time this year, and it\u2019s Steemit<\/a>\u2019s fault. Well, no, not really. It\u2019s my own habit of posting late at night that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got to stop. So I\u2019m revisiting the sleeping tips of hypnotist Paul McKenna, as a reminder to myself. I\u2019m going to share some of them here, and hopefully they will be useful to you too.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s work through this with a fictional case study. Let\u2019s say you want to go to bed at 11pm, sleep for 7 hours and get up at 6am. But what happens is you can\u2019t get to sleep till 12pm, then you can\u2019t get up till 7am, and then you\u2019re late and rushing.<\/p>\n

Tip 1 \u2013 Get up consistently earlier<\/h2>\n

Going onto Daylight Savings should have forced me to do that. But that\u2019s the thing with working from home \u2013 if I get up at 9am or 10am, nobody else really cares. So I need to find a way to make myself get up.<\/p>\n

Our fictional person is going to get up at 6am, even if they feel like crap. 6am every day, without fail. No matter how much they want or need to crawl under the covers for a bit longer.<\/p>\n

Extra tip: It helps to throw open your curtains and get some sun on your face as soon as you wake up, too.<\/p>\n

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This tip seems a bit counterintuitive, until you put it together with the next two tips.<\/p>\n

Tip 2 \u2013 No napping during the day<\/h2>\n

No napping, no matter how tired you get. This is a rule you can\u2019t break, if you want to reset your sleep.<\/p>\n

Tip 3 \u2013 Don\u2019t get into bed till you\u2019re sleepy<\/h2>\n

I need my 7 hours sleep, so I need to be asleep by 11pm! Yes, but if you\u2019re not sleepy, and can\u2019t get to sleep, is there any point in lying awake?<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t go to bed at 11pm. Find a quiet space to unwind \u2013 read, have a bath, do some stretching, whatever relaxes you. And don\u2019t get into bed until you\u2019re sleepy, even if it\u2019s 1am.<\/p>\n


\nYou\u2019ve probably figured out where we\u2019re going. Get up early, no napping, don\u2019t go to bed till you\u2019re sleepy. It might take a few days, but eventually you will be tired enough to start falling asleep at 11pm.<\/p>\n

Tip 4 \u2013 Don\u2019t lie awake<\/h2>\n

This is also important. In this era of handheld devices, how easy is it to reach out your hand for your phone when you can\u2019t sleep? And what does that tell our subconscious mind? It tells it that it will be rewarded for not sleeping.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re not going to reward our wayward mind, oh no. If we have lain awake for more than 30 minutes, we are going to get up and do some work. Something boring. Something like cleaning the kitchen floor or doing some filing. Something that you\u2019ve been avoiding, maybe.<\/p>\n

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Eventually the message will get through \u2013 the choice is between sleep and something punishingly dull. So we may as well sleep.<\/p>\n

Tip 5 – Listen to his audio<\/h2>\n

Just listening to McKenna\u2019s melodious, hypnotic voice will be enough to send many people off to sleep in seconds. For the rest of us, it might be necessary to listen every night for a while, and really absorb his material.<\/p>\n

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There are a couple more tips, but I\u2019ll let him tell you those himself. If you think McKenna\u2019s approach might be helpful for you, the first four tips will be enough to get you started while you wait for his book and audio to arrive.<\/p>\n

His book \u201cI can make you sleep\u201d is available from Amazon. (Though that was published in 2016, and my audio is much older, so it might be a slightly different version.)<\/p>\n

These tips will help you reset your body clock if the main problem is that you\u2019ve been getting into bad habits. If that\u2019s not your issue, don\u2019t worry, there will be more tips later.<\/p>\n

PS. A friend\u00a0who sleeps like the dead, pointed out that those tips are as unlike the way a cat sleeps as it is possible to get. He\u2019s right of course, but this series is for those of us who CAN\u2019T sleep like a cat, and need to employ some different techniques.<\/p>\n

Originally posted on Steemit –\u00a0https:\/\/steemit.com\/health\/@kiwideb\/sleep-like-a-kitten-part-3-can-i-reset-and-retrain-my-body-clock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, to be able to sleep like a cat \u2013 anywhere, any time, on anything.\u00a0 Read \u201cPart 1 \u2013 Three quick tips\u201d here and \u201cPart 2 \u2013 Find your sleeping style\u201d here I\u2019m really struggling with switching to Daylight Savings Time this year, and it\u2019s Steemit\u2019s fault. Well, no, not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/dietnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}