Lewis Howes explains why anxiety keeps you awake at night. Your body's alarm system detects real threats like job loss or debt, not just random stress. Instead of sleep hacks, identify what your nervous system is actually sensing.
If your body has identified you're lonely, if your body has identified— and you know the great Bessel van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score— if your body is letting you know that I think you're about to get fired, if your body's letting you know, hey, you got 6 figures of student loans and a mortgage and 2 car payments, it would be failing you if it let you sleep all night. It would be failing you if it let you sit fully present in an intimate moment with your romantic partner.— it'd be failing you because death is at the door. Wow. Right? And so instead of, I need to figure out some hacks to sleep throughout the night. No, you're waking up at 2:30 in the morning because your body's doing its job. You're not safe. The goal is to try to figure out, okay, what's my body identifying that's not safe? That's the work. Not because you'll sleep. You'll sleep. You will be able to wake up without coffee or have coffee because you want it, not because you have to have it. Right. Your body will take care of itself.
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