Mihail Pautov explains why good sleep matters for recovery. True rest isn't just lying down, it's mental rest. He recommends reducing evening mental activity and staying present to sleep better instead of ruminating about the past or future.
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Tell me about the sleep. Is there anything special you're doing or you're just laying in the bed and fall asleep? So one thing I realized for myself is it's not the amount of time how much I spent lying horizontally which matters, it's the question of how much do you recover during that state. Yeah, so and that means recovery can only happen if there is no usage, let's say of energy. It's the mind is the mind activity which is sucking a lot of energy. Meaning like you go to bed, you wake up in the morning but still feel like very tired and not recovered. Well, it might be the reason that your brain, your mind is still too active in the evening. Stop thinking too much of the past, stop dreaming too much about the future, practice yourself, remain in the presence. And this also then translates afterwards into your quality of sleep because when you sleep, you sleep.