Dr. Jameca Cooper shares a 90-second pre-sleep routine: place ice cubes on your eyelids to calm your nervous system, then put a hand on your heart and scan your body for aches, pains, or numbness. The practice helps you notice stress signals your body sends before they disrupt sleep.
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It's very important. So try this 90-second sleep hack. First thing, cubes on your eyelid. It's like a central nervous system reset, just to kind of calm your brain, ground it in a way. A lot of you are familiar with grounding. This is the other thing I want you to do because the body is important. Like I told you before, the body kind of tells you what you need to do. So put your hand on your heart before you go to sleep and sit and think and kind of really scan your whole body and see what you feel, like any aches or pains or any unusual parts of the body, and ask yourself why your hand is on your heart. What parts of my body is— what parts are unsettled right now? What's going on? Unsettled could be pain, strain, palpitations in your heart, aches somewhere, numbness. It could be any of those things, but this is going to teach you to really kind of pay attention to your body because lots of times what I see with my therapy clients is that your body can give you some signs and some symptoms. It's just that sometimes we don't pay attention to those signs and those symptoms. So you want to put your hand on your heart and