What Is the Best Way to Get to Sleep and Wake up Well-Rested?

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What's the best way to get to sleep and wake up well rested? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions, and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Tina Jacobs from Facebook asks, what's the best way to get to sleep and wake up feeling well rested? Hey, it's JJ and I've got the sleep expert Dr. Peter Martoni with me to answer this question. Now, he's known as Dr. Sleepwright, but when he's not sleeping, he's out having crazy adventures. You might say he's even a bit of an extremist. After all, he skydive, he regularly mountain bikes, and he's rock climbed literally all over the world. And I think you're going to be able to tell where his accent's from. Let me know. He'll be right back to answer this question.

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Now to wake up well rested, well rested, you have to go to bed with that intention. So sleep is a big mind game. And what I mean by that is how you go to sleep plays a critical role on how you're going to stay asleep and then how you wake up rested and when you wake up. So going to sleep is an art. And you cannot think yourself to sleep, which means we can't think about our to do list. We can't think about the things that we have to, you know, we have to do or what's on our plate the next day. You need to remember yourself to sleep. So your think brain is in the front part of your brain and you remember your brain or your memories are in the back part of your brain where your sleep brain is. So the awake brain, where your think brain is, which is in the front. And then your remember brain or where your memories are is where your sleep thoughts are, are your sleep memories. So you need to focus on a good memory. Let's say it's walking around the lake.

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It'S a good memory of the time that you spent with your kids or it's something, a place that you love to go with your parents and you remember that memory over and over again and focus on remembering and don't focus on thinking. And I know it sounds a little bit counterintuitive like, well, what's the difference between remembering and thinking is very different because when you're remembering and you're feeling a good memory in the past and you think and you're remembering that memory, next thing you know you'll doze off to no man's land. And when you remember yourself to sleep, what happens is you're going to stay asleep and then you're going to wake up well rested when you're thinking about things to do. Like the next day you'll just get really, really tired. You'll have an active brain and then what will end up happening is you'll wake up multiple times a night and you won't get that good deep restorative sleep. So to be able to wake up well rested, you need to make sure that you're remembering yourself to sleep.

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