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Stress and sleep · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey, good morning my friends.
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  So today we are continuing Doing our series on stress.
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  And today, it's all about sleep. Oh, I is this not one of the,
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  the toughest things when you are stressed, how you don't sleep.
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  And sleep is such a fundamental part of our well-being.
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  It's such a fundamental part of everything about us that we
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  can't, as a human being, we just can't not sleep.
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  We cannot decide, I'm just not going to sleep, and I'm going to
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  be fine. In fact, there are study after
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  study after study that That show the detrimental effects of lack
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  of sleep, and how you can actually get to the point where
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  you hallucinate, because you are so deprived of what your body
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  needs to heal. Because honestly, you know,
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  sleep is something that heals our body and takes the time to
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  put us in a state of, you know, it's actually an altered state
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  when you really come right down to it.
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  Sleep is an altered state and we are able to go Regenerate
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  ourselves. Our body regenerates, our energy
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  regenerates are set on a cellular level where
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  regenerating regenerating ourselves.
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  So, what's so important to remember is, if you are not
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  sleeping and you are ignoring this in your life, in general,
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  you need to get help with this because you are vastly under
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  estimating the effects. It has on you, your hormone
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  levels on a very basic human. Even function level, it's
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  destroying you. And if you are not sleeping, you
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  truly do, need to get help with it.
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  Whatever the kind of help that maybe, you know, you seek out a
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  doctor, you find out you seek out someone that can help you
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  meditate. There are lots and lots of
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  different ways to handle it. Now today, I'm going to discuss
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  some of the more natural ways to handle it because that tends to
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  be my way of doing things. And I like to teach you guys.
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  What works for me and what I will say, if you are Our
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  chronic, if you are in a chronic state of sleep deprivation and
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  you cannot get it handled. You definitely need to have
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  medical help for it because it is fundamental to your
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  well-being and don't ignore it. Now, that being said, okay,
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  might a leap of handling. This comes back to again, very
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  organic ways of doing things and looking at things and saying,
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  okay, well, first of all, first and foremost, it is never a
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  great idea to go to sleep watching the news.
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  Who's watching something scary, doing things that are scary.
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  Movies things that you know, will trigger your lack of focus
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  on sleep. If you get over stimulated,
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  before you go to bed playing video games, horrible to do.
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  If your children play video games before they go to bed,
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  even studies, show that even within an hour.
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  And a half of going to bed, 90 minutes and going to bed, they
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  can be detrimental. To the child sleep, not to
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  mention other things. And that's a whole different
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  podcast subject. However, video games, no bueno,
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  not a good idea. And that goes for the ones on
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  your phone, my friends because I can't tell you how many of my
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  clients will say, why don't play video games?
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  Well, I guess they kind of do a little bit on my phone, if
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  you're on your phone and you're messing around with it before
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  you go to bed, don't your phone? Technically should not even be
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  in your in your room. It should be out of your room so
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  that your one not getting the EMF waves but too.
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  Just having it. There isn't is anxiety for so
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  many people in itself, just having the phone there.
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  So ditch the phone, if you can. Now full disclosure, I sleep
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  with the phone in my room because my daughter doesn't live
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  with us. And I, if she needs has an
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  emergency, I want to be able to answer that phone but I don't
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  have it within a reach of me immediately and I don't play
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  with it. It's there if she calls a couple
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  of times, the phone will click over and it will unlock and let
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  me know she needs me. But That's the only reason it's
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  there, otherwise, it's silenced. So Understand those little
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  triggers before you go to bed. The other thing, drinking coffee
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  all day long drinking, anything that has caffeine in all day
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  long. Not a good idea for getting
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  ready, even if it's late in the afternoon, you're having coffee.
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  That's going to cause you an issue when it comes to being
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  able to sleep at night. So you have to look at that and
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  say, okay, I've got to start putting some stuff in place that
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  allows me to be able to sleep and you have an intention of
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  being able to sleep. I can tell you right now sleep
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  is a very important thing to me and I have it all lined up.
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  I make my bed every day one because it feels great to have
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  the accomplishment in the old Marine Way of having a bed done.
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  But to it also feels great when you get into bed and it's neat
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  and you can relax. I make sure I have you know the
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  covers exactly the way I want them.
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  I am ultimately looking forward to going to sleep if you're not
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  looking forward to going to sleep, you have To question.
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  What's the reason I'm not looking forward to this?
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  Is it? Because you already plan on the
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  fact, you're going to struggle. Not sleeping.
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  Because if that's the case, we already know what the problem
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  is. You're anticipating not
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  sleeping. Therefore you won't sleep.
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  A lot of my clients that struggle with this.
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  I will suggest that use hypnotherapy.
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  'S meaning, you can get an audio.
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  That is a guided meditation that talks to you about relaxation
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  and sleep. And they really do work.
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  I can Promise you they really do work.
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  You just have to do them and repetition is the mother of
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  skills. So I listening over and over and
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  over to the same, one is not a bad thing.
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  So many people worry about this and they say well I've listened
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  to that so many times. Yeah, there's a reason because
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  once we know things, we know them and they become part of us
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  just like you understand multiplication.
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  And how many times have we all done the multiplication tables
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  in our lives yet? You know we don't seem to mind
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  that because We knew that there was an outcome of memorizing
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  them. So, this is the same thing with
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  doing meditations like this, you memorize them and it will help
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  you go to sleep. And thirdly, you've got to be
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  hydrated to sleep. Well, I don't care what anybody
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  tells you if you're dehydrated, you don't sleep.
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  Well because your body is constantly seeking out hydration
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  and it's it, it's constricting because it doesn't have enough
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  hydration. So all these little pieces, you
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  have to try Why first? And if you do that and then they
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  still don't work. You know it's one of those
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  things where you can say, okay now I know I've tried all these
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  other things and I definitely need some help.
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  Now again, one of the biggest things is someone says, well,
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  I'm going to watch something before they go to bed and I
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  myself, we do this. Okay?
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  I want full disclosure, we have an iPad, will watch something,
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  but I will not watch things that disturb me, in fact, just the
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  other day we ended up watching a movie that my son picked and it
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  was In the afternoon on Sunday, it wasn't even close to going to
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  bed, but I watched it and it haunted me all night and then I
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  the next day, my husband actually said to me that movie
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  really bothered me, I couldn't think stop thinking about it and
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  it was hours and hours before we went to go to bed and it still
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  got to us. So the effects are real.
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  Be advised, keep on it and put yourself in a place to win with
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  this. At least.
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  Try these steps and see if this helps to reduce it because
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  Immediately, as soon as you get some rest stress goes down.
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  So hopefully this was helpful, my friends, and we will continue
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  this tomorrow. I will see you.
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  Then have a great day. Bye.