Get Your Sleep On!

Hello everyone, it is Alexandra J. Johnson. I hope you're having a fantastic day. I'm drinking some watermelon juice. Well, it almost was watermelon juice. It was so delicious. And today I wanted to share first I wanted to share this, Revive, Stop Feeling Spent and Start living again, which is a great book. And I wanted to read a little piece from here which I think are just the fundamentals of radiant health. It's really simple and awesome. So as Homo sapiens, we are physically and mentally designed to eat natural and seasonal foods from our nearby environs and exercise in spurts, exert, rest, recover, exert, and so on. We are meant to have fresh air, sun and water. We are built to sleep when the sun goes down and wake when it rises. So that's really simple, but so awesome for your health. You know, if you could eat locally grown, organic grown food, if you could get out and see the sun every single day and you could drink fresh, clean water and move your body numerous times throughout the day, you know, we're not meant to be sitting at a desk or at a computer all day long. And then also getting to bed early and getting up early, I mean, that just is a huge, powerful force of getting you back into your natural rhythms. We're designed for that. So I just love that. And it's really simple. If you follow those simple tools, those simple tips, you're gonna have radiant health. And there's, you know, obviously little tweaks that you can do and more extensive work that you can do on your radiant health. But just allowing your body to heal and recover and get what it needs most is really, really important. And with our modern world, you know, we have so much emotional stress and mental stress and then physical stress from what we eat and the processed food and the junk and all of that. It's amazing how our bodies even function with all of that. So. So giving our bodies some love and kindness and just having that space to heal is really, really important. So that's why sleep and going to bed early is important. You know, as you go to bed when the sun sets, or as the sun is setting and it's dark a few hours after, then you, you're getting in the natural rhythm. I mean, it's such a powerful force. The sunrise and sunset, we want to be in sync with that. So going to bed earlier and then waking up with the sunrise is fantastic. So that's why one of my blissiplines is to wake up with the sun. I've set my alarm for six and I Wake up and I get going and, and then I go to bed around 8, 30, 9, 10 o' clock at the latest. But it's important to honor your body and give it the time to heal, rejuvenate, detox. That's what it's doing at night. And to violate those natural rhythms just does not make sense for your health at all. So sleep. And also it's important too, which I got from Frank Lippman. Waking up at the same time every day, no matter what time you go to bed, that's a great way just to get into natural rhythms. And it's great to feel over the long term, you know, the long term to feel better waking up at the same time, you know, and if you stay up really late, then take a nap. He says that, you know, a lot of people will take naps during the day, you know, and I know a lot of people at jobs or something aren't able to do that. But if you're able to do that or take a nap in your car or whatever, but having the commitment that you're gonna go to bed earlier and just resetting your, your clock so that you're in sync with the sunrise and the sunset and what else? Oh, people often say, well, you know, I'm a night owl and gonna have to disagree with you, because if we went camping and you weren't allowed to bring your cell phone or a computer or any sort of lights, alcohol, drugs, any of those things, any sort of stimuli, you would be going to bed a few hours after the sunset because there'd be nothing else to do and it would be pitch black. So I think that I don't believe in night owls. I think that they're, you know, if you allow your body to do what is natural, it will go to bed early and it will wake up early. What keeps us awake is our computers and our cell phones and our TVs and all of that. So, you know, as part of sleep hygiene, going to bed early and starting to. As the sunrise set or as the sun sets, as the sun sets, you start shutting everything down. And, you know, you shut off your computer and you either read a book or whatever, turn the lights down and then you release melatonin, which is your sleep goody that needs to happen for you to get sleepy. So if you have your computer on all the time, you know, and it's 11 o' clock at night, you're not releasing melatonin and you're not getting sleepy. So it's important to give your body the knowledge that it is dark and it is okay and it's time to get sleepy and go to bed and it's a process for sure. I know the computer can be so alluring and you know all of that. So anyways that's it. Sleep. Make sure you're getting your sleep, taking, taking the time that you need and sometimes people need between seven and 10 hours of sleep and you know your body will go up and down and sometimes you need more sleep and just honoring your sleep cycles because they will change especially if you're going through a lot of emotional stress, mental stress or just some sort of physical challenge you will need more sleep and there's nothing wrong with that. It's actually your body doing what it does best is heal you and keep you balanced. So that is all for today. Thank you for watching and let me know if you have any questions and I will see you very, very.