How To Sleep Like a Dog for Hormone Health & So Much More

Hey everyone.

Uh [sighs] let's discuss a little bit

the value and the implications of better

deeper sleep.

Um

some suggestions uh that I'll share with

you about how to help yourself get

deeper sleep.

Um and at the end maybe we'll even do

some breathing together. A lot of people

have been asking a lot of questions

because I spoke a little about um doing

some breath work in the morning.

But in this video, I'm going to suggest

as one possible means of helping you

relax enough to get deeper sleep, maybe

some breath work before you sleep. That

might be of more valuable uh might be of

more value to many people the situations

they're in.

>> [snorts]

>> So, I hope you like my thumbnail. That's

my dog, Milky.

He's such a good boy. We have uh four

dogs, eight cats,

um lots of ducks, quite a few chickens.

They're all pets. They're all friends,

you know,

but he's he's a comical he's a comical

and a good friend. So, I thought maybe,

you know, he gave me an idea to title

something how to sleep like a dog

because, you know, people that have had

dogs have often observed how well they

sleep, um, how comfortable they look,

perhaps with jealousy at times, right?

Because for humans, maybe it's not so

easy.

So, what can we learn from our K9

friends or what can we uh

what can we experience similar, right?

This video is going to probably be

slower than a lot of them because a lot

of these videos are more about me giving

you information I know can serve you

well.

And I try to [sighs] I try to honor your

time because I treat others the way I

wish the way I would like to be treated.

And um

uh usually if I try to look up a blog or

a specific video for a specific kind of

information, I'm always

a little annoyed that I have to scroll

through 47 minutes of people's ego

narratives, whether positive or

negative, just to maybe if I'm lucky,

find that one piece of information that

took about 30 seconds to find, you know,

and if someone hasn't timestamped it,

I'm I'm literally stuck scrolling.

around until I can find it

because time management is super

important especially as you intend to or

start to become more sovereign with your

own time. But this video is different

because I can picture that you may even

be listening to it

um in preparation for going to sleep.

So, I'm intending for a calming energy,

you know, a a gentle touch with this and

just to go over some

some things that I find really useful.

Um, I experienced chronic insomnia for a

good deal of my life growing up. In

fact,

basically my entire childhood, not

during summer break, but the other nine

months or whatever of the year going to

public school or

and then I went to a private school, but

same issue. Um, there was always this

schedule and my internal clock

didn't work with it. I I was sort of my

natural rhythm was sort of a more

nocturnal thing at that age. And uh that

was the opposite of

what I was dealing with. And then when I

went and started getting various jobs

um out of school, jobs, professions,

etc., most of those also involved a

schedule.

And um the insomnia was one of the one

of the most troubling things I think

that people deal with. It is kind of

underestimated how much of a cost it has

on you. And I remember laying there in

bed knowing that I'm not sleeping,

knowing that I'm running out of time to

sleep, and knowing how punishing the

next day would be because the compound

effect of it kept being more and more

punishing. And of course, that stress

and the mind doing what the mind does.

You're running out of time to sleep, go

to sleep, which of course made it

impossible.

So the narratives of the mind is one of

the issues here.

And um so I I'll suggest

um an element that can help you um

some possible lifestyle changes that can

help.

And um like I say, maybe we'll just do

some breathing together towards the end.

So you'll see that when I'm talking

about breath work, I'm not selling a

book and trying to make it look like

some

powerful superior you got to do it a

certain way. Not at all. really it's um

for me I just do what feels right

because at some point I'll start

slipping into what you might call a flow

state or something where there's no more

thought and yet in that state when I've

forgotten that I'm a person I've

forgotten all the conditioning you of

what you think you are when you're

having the human experience I'm just

consciousness and I used to almost panic

when I'd start to reach that state

because it took me by surprise it was

stronger than any psychedelics I had

ever experimented with. Um, which made

me really respect the profound power of

breath work. And now when I reach that

state, it's no longer startling or it no

longer takes me by surprise and I

actually enjoy it. And I found that as

I'm coming out of that state, say in the

morning perhaps when I'm doing this

mostly currently,

I'll often have

the exact creative solutions or ideas

for the next step in my own life in

various departments without having had

to think about it at all. Which means

that I was sitting in the field of

higher consciousness, the infinite

divine mind.

And whichever expression of that

infinite mind I or more than a mind

really that infinite consciousness

of infinite power and creativity and

love. And [snorts]

when I'm sitting in that presence, I'm

given the information. It doesn't come

in words, sometimes images, sometimes

feelings. But it's it's not really any

of that. It's more. And as I'm slipping

back into

my

pragmatic mind,

which you could even relate to being ego

consciousness, the one that you use to

navigate basic choices and

communications

um in your daily life. I find that I was

given the creative ideas or inspirations

for which step is next on various

project or or aspects of life or a

solution to someone I'm hoping to help

with a certain thing. Um so it's really

it's really profoundly valuable. But

another thing of course that can help

someone

go to sleep and get deeper sleep is

deeper relaxation.

And

um in the box below you'll find some

information about some of these things

I'm talking about today. Um and of

course if you do a little research you

can find a lot more. But

one thing is that uh when you sleep

deeper your cortisol goes lower your

testosterone goes higher. So, as

pertains to a fitness channel with with

a mostly uh male audience currently,

um I know that's of value. Granted, if

you're female, of course, sleep is just

as important for you and for your

functional empowering hormone balance

and so forth. So,

um

let's see if there was anything else to

sort of

Yeah. So, we know that

stress, cortisol, these things make it

harder to sleep. We know that they lower

testosterone if you're a male. Um, and

that, you know, that's just one thing.

That's one measurement people look at.

There's many, many, many other

physiological

struggles that are much harder when

you're not sleeping. I mean, when I look

back at my my up my growing up years and

I fortunately I've been able to provide

my kids with a lifestyle where they can

do they can do their schooling online

and they can sleep however much is

natural to them. And uh you know my

younger son who just turned 14 is

already 6' three you know and um myself

having chronic insomnia my entire

upbringing running on a total lack of

sleep

um you know I I'm 6'2 at least but I and

not that height is the measure of a man

by any means but I just I I realize you

know when I look at the size of my hands

and the length of my arms and things I

probably would have been more like 6'7

or something if I got good sleep growing

up. But that's fine. I mean, I'm happy

with, like I say, it doesn't really

matter how tall you are. It's just an

interesting realization that, you know,

all that all the hours missed of growth

hormone.

And if it's not about your growing

years, if you're already an adult

physically, I mean, the profound

implications to your well-being and your

ability to make decisions out of love

that serve you well versus fear and

confusion, all these things are so

heavily affected by what kind of sleep

you get or don't get.

And uh your your brain chemistry when

you don't get enough sleep.

Um, not that this is the only thing

going on in in the world making brain

chemistry difficult for people. Of

course, there's so many things, but just

starting with sleep, it's such a

fundamental thing and it's uh it's it's

profoundly difficult for many people for

many reasons to get good sleep. So,

you know, the the idea of the content

here is to be to be of value, to give

give things to others that I would want

given to me, you know, if I could go

back to my own younger years and have

some way to give this to myself or even

now. I mean, sleep is just as important

now as it ever was. Fortunately, I've

got sovereignty over my own time. So if

I have a a night of, you know, where I

don't sleep much, I don't even stress

anymore. I go with it. I accept it for

what it is. I see what's going on. I go

through the process. I look for the

value and what I'm experiencing in my

consciousness, whether it's comfortable

or not, because I know in the morning,

if I'm just wrecked, of course, I can I

can get some more sleep if I need to. My

family will cover me on the basic things

going on in the homestead, and we all do

that for each other. So, it's it's a

wonderful blessing and it's a wonderful

contrast and there's a lot of value in

contrast having been through some of the

worst of something and then later some

of the best. Um the clarity from the

contrast of course

um makes a stronger impression on a

person. So they they value what they've

gleaned from their experience more

perhaps. Right?

So let's start with an elemental thing

that helps a great deal and this has so

many profound health impacts and

benefits and it's something really

really lacking and that is magnesium.

Uh, magnesium catalyzes well over 300

biological functions in your body, all

of which are very important.

And it's chronically lacking in society

from

partially from most of the food chain

being grown in soils that were depleted

a hundred years ago and keep having a

little bit of chemical

um

chemical sort of synthetic mineral put

on it. Enough to make a new crop. But

that new crop is entirely lacking all

the the trace elements, it's lacking

hundreds of things that also serve you

well and need to be there for things to

function holistically,

you know. So, in other words, just

because it looks like an orange and

tastes somewhat like an orange, if

you're able to look at the

electromagnetic energy in it or some of

the mineral levels or other things,

there's a very big difference between a

depleted orange and a truly rich one

grown in like healthy, rich, alive soil

that's being fed by things that are

always feeding back into that soil. And

of course, that parallels what's going

on with the human body.

Now, if you're saying, "Well, you know,

I don't eat oranges anyway. I only eat

animals." You know,

remember that those animals are all fed

from the same things. This is all just

the same chain.

All things are connected.

So,

magnesium [snorts] is the relaxation

mineral and it actually your body needs

magnesium among many other things which

I just mentioned. It needs magnesium to

provide the kind of energy that it

actually takes to relax.

And maybe that's not a way people are

used to thinking about relaxing because

you might think of relaxing as a

complete lack of energy or a turnoff of

energy, but it's not true at all.

The many things going on in your body

when you're actually relaxed, just

because you're still doesn't mean a lot

isn't happening. In fact, the most

profound things in life are found by

going inward. And that usually requires

some sort of stillness or at least

peacefulness.

Also, the most profound things in life

are not what you see on the outside,

but what can potentially be seen by

going inward. So,

magnesium is the elemental one of the

biggest elemental imbalances or lacks

that people are dealing with. And I know

from lots of personal experience that

when I start highdosing magnesium, the

profound relaxation and the deeper sleep

I get is immediately evident. Even

though I'm in a situation in life where

I don't have to worry about when I get

up. Um my

philosophy of life,

my spiritual

well-being, you could say. I'm trying to

find words for things that don't

necessarily always translate very well

to words. But even though all those

things are better than they've ever

been, when I'm physically lacking

magnesium, which I deplete through

sweating profusely all the time, I

basically live in a sauna. You know,

that's that's one of the wonderful

things about living here is you live in

a sauna. But of course, that depletes

magnesium and certain other minerals

very rapidly.

Um, people that think a lot, which if

you look at society, people are

literally trapped in a in an intense

loop of constantly overthinking, all

that nervous system strain burns out a

lot of magnesium. And then when that

catalyst is missing from so many other

physiological processes in the body, um,

all these things occur that are

diagnosed or labeled this and that and

you're given synthetic drugs to cover up

the symptoms so you can manage it or

whatever. Of

course, the cause isn't being addressed,

and it may sound overly simple to many,

but I I would not be sharing it if it

wasn't of profound use, and therefore

something that, you know, like I say, I

would want someone to share with me if I

wasn't aware.

So, as far as what magnesium to use and

utilize, I've linked a product below in

the information box that is what I use.

It is not the tastiest. There are many

forms of magnesium with all kinds of

flavors and so forth. And I have

experimented with different products,

some which tasted really good, but they

never gave me nearly the same effect

even from internal consumption. So I

choose this elemental basic earth

magnesium.

Um I can afford a lot. You can afford a

lot for what it is. Buy it in bulk. Um

if you need to find a way to flavor it,

so be it. Um, but all that said, the

product I've linked below,

um, I do consume it internally. I'll

take like a,

if I have a large meal in my stomach, I

can probably get away with a tablespoon

because you can really only absorb so

much magnesium internally at one time

without giving yourself the

what's a nice familyfriendly kind of a

peaceful term for this.

Well, like diarrhea basically, you know,

it it'll really wash you out. It's

really good for carrying constipation,

but if you're trying to get good sleep,

of course, that's going to interrupt it

if you overdo it. So, the idea is not to

try to mega dose magnesium internally,

just to learn where your threshold is,

how much you can take to have a nice

balance to how fast things are going

through your intestines, not too much,

not too little. And then an even bigger

hack, or if you want to call it that,

is magnesium oil,

which is a funny name because it's not

actually an oil, but it does tend to

feel a little bit oily on the surface of

your skin. And the product I've linked

below is perfect for creating magnesium

oil. It's very simple. You just put a

bunch in water and it's very water

soluble. You can look up formulas and

people's opinions on how much. I know

that everyone is sort of addicted to

numbers and being told what to do, like

what's the magic formula? I found that

you can put incredible amounts of this

elemental magnesium and water. Um, up to

the point where it hurts to put it on

your skin, it it stings and burns. And

if you get it in an open wound, which I

always have all over me, that really

stings. It doesn't actually hurt you,

but it burns.

Um, some of the research and anecdotal

evidence suggests that when you start

using this magnesium oil, even if it's

in a lower concentration,

what you want to do, of course, is put

it on as much of the surface of your

skin of your body as you can because

that organ your skin can help you absorb

much more magnesium than what you're

going to be able to just internally

ingest.

They are two different pathways and I

recommend both for the best result. But

if you wanted to compare and say which

one's better,

um, I hesitate to use that term. But

actually,

for most people, it would probably

behoove them if they were only going to

do one or the other to actually go with

the topical route.

Most people will be able to absorb more

more total magnesium through their skin

than they will through their digestive

tract. So, that's something to consider.

It's really good for sore muscles,

injury, recovery topically, um healing

wounds. He even helps healing like

damaged tendons and ligaments. Uh my my

my wife makes a really good like

magnesium comfrey sav that we use that's

really good when you have imbalanced

muscles or muscle knots or um strain

things, sore things. It just helps these

things align and heal faster.

Um before a bunch of people asked me for

that exact formula. Um, it just consists

of some version of castor oil,

comfrey, which is like blended and then

sort of strained for just like the the

juice so you don't have like chunks. Um,

and some magnesium, elemental magnesium.

And really, there is no right amount of

each of these things. You're free to

just toy around with it, mix it up, and

just come up with a sav. Any different

version of it she's ever created works

great. And they've all been different in

concentrations. We're not really

obsessed with numbers here.

It's more intuitively guided. And if you

feel you need more, just, you know, put

more.

When you start using it, like I was

saying, it might burn your skin. And

apparently this is a symptom of lack of

magnesium. You'll notice that as you

continue to use it, say you create a

certain formula, it's in a maybe a you

keep it in a mason jar or something and

you drip some on your skin and you wipe

it on and it's like, man, that stings.

If you stick with it for a while and

you're putting this on your body, it'll

actually get to where it doesn't sting

nearly as much. And that's a sign that

you're starting to

saturate your body with more appropriate

levels of it.

Again, there's information on all these

things. Plenty of people know about

magnesium oil, make their own magnesium

oil, and and tout the benefits of it.

And that's very real. So, I I suggest

looking into that because it's something

that I can easily recommend. It's not

dangerous. You can't hurt yourself. You

can't overdose on it. Um, if for some

reason a person was actually able to

saturate their body with an excess of

magnesium, which I'm skeptical that's

even possible, but if you did, your body

would easily just let it off harmlessly.

So, there's nothing to fear about an

overdose, in other words. Um,

it improves your skin. It improves like

some people put it on their scalp to

stimulate hair growth. Um

because again it's a catalyst for other

enzymes, other proteins, other things to

do what they do. You know anything that

catalyzes that many amazing functions

throughout the body I mean

is very underestimated in its value. So

that is my elemental suggestion to to

incorporate the benefits

of

magnesium into your life into your

physiology

and uh if you do so

well if you do so you do so. Okay.

Um,

now where I live, it's one thing, but

where people are living in society and

you're continuously having more things

dumped on you and

the food sources and the air and the

water and and now it's all this

electromagnetic interference with your

brain and your body's physiology. And

they keep amping it up and adding more

and adding more and it's getting harder

and harder to even

while it's getting harder and harder for

people to

sort of even remain remain coherent

and aware and and feel the sort of

clarity to do anything about what's even

happening. I understand I understand

that

there there are many things interfering

with your sleep.

When it comes to those kind of things,

you can look into what some people have

done who are motivated and innovative

who are stuck in the city for the time

being and all these electromagnetic

things are being installed around them

uh without their permission. And uh

there are people that are creative and

innovative and motivated that find ways

to protect themselves as much as they

can from these things. Okay? And I I

recommend you look into that and see

what you can do.

Um in my case, my family was uh living

in a city that we knew we had to get out

of for a lot of reasons if we wanted to

continue living and ever really live

more as who we are. And it was very

difficult and there were a lot of things

working against us and we had to protect

ourselves in what ways we could at the

time. The electromagnetic interference

was pretty bad where I was living and

where we were living. And that did harm

us. Um, we did what little we had within

our control, like

stay off of your uh blue light devices

and things like this when it's closer to

sleep time. Um,

as far as the air, when we get into, you

know, breathing to relax, to reduce

cortisol,

to still the mind, or to at least be

able to observe your own mind from a

peaceful place and detach from it so

you're not stuck in it suffering.

Um, what we did, my wife would infuse

high quality essential oils into the

small condo type thing we were living

in. So that at least when we're

breathing that air, it's killing the

microbes. It's fighting the black mold,

which that house was inundated with, as

so many are now,

and it's giving you something to breathe

that has benefits. Um, high quality

essential oils, for example, actually

help your body uptake more oxygen. So

they pair well of course with with

breath work and breathing exercises.

So we did what we could do. We had all

sorts of water filtration going on. And

actually that was just for the shower.

Um I would drive two and a half hours

every weekend to put well water in a

bunch of

um a few barrels basically.

um nonBPA plastic barrels or something

and bring them home so we had water

worth drinking. So, we did what we

could, but the plan was,

you know, this is one step closer.

It's not the goal. It's not the end.

We're basically strengthening ourselves

and preserving ourselves well enough to

survive long enough to make the exodus

we need to make.

Um, so whether that's your plan to truly

change and to truly get your life

sovereignly into your own hands or not,

you can at least protect yourself from a

good deal of what's going on. And it

really does make a big difference and it

is worth the effort. An investment in

your health on any level.

You know, spiritual health is of the

most important. But many people are not

even aware they are a spirit. You've

been given a backwards

training model for creation where they

teach you that matter exists and then

somehow consciousness comes from that

when when of course it's completely

backwards. Consciousness exists and

consciousness is what is focusing enough

to hold energy

into these structures we call matter.

But

the point is uh protecting of your

well-being on any and all levels. Any

kind of improvement empowers you a

little more towards a better

improvement. Right? And progress is

progress. If one continues to progress

towards something better,

they will get to something better. Okay?

It's just kind of a directional thing in

that sense. So

another thing here is is well related um

the mind is what people have been

conditioned to believe they are

but your mind really what you're what we

call mind is really more like a a radio

or an antenna. It's more of a receiver.

This is why if you really dig and look

deeper and study these things, you

realize that no one can tell you where

anyone's thoughts are actually coming

from.

And there's a wisdom behind that. When

you finally realize or see or feel or

perceive

that you are not your thoughts and your

thoughts are not your own.

When you observe the mind from a safer

place, which is what say a breath work

practice or a better spiritual alignment

with truth can help you do,

you realize that you are definitely not

your mind. Your mind has a lot going on

and your mind is needed for

dealing with pragmatic reality in your

earthly uh physical life.

But when you believe you are your mind,

then you are literally

subject to being controlled by anything

that controls the narratives which have

trained your mind to believe whatever

you believe about life.

So in order to sleep better, part of the

idea with the breath work would be to no

longer be frustrated with your mind's

busyiness, the habits it's in, comparing

this, fighting that, all the ego

narratives, all the worries about the

future, all the perceived futures, all

the worries about what anybody thinks,

all the desires, all the ambitions,

whatever it is, whatever your mind's

doing, fears,

all the problems the divine experiences.

If you if you look at the root of them,

they all come from a fear. Every one of

them is rooted in a fear.

And when you're actually in love, you

can't be in fear at the same time. So

to detach from that identity with your

own mind and its narratives

seems terrifying to people that haven't

done it because they think they're going

to lose themselves. But what you would

ultimately find is that that isn't you.

And you're much better off knowing that

and being free from it.

Otherwise, the mind will constantly

make you suffer and cause you to make

others suffer if you really identify as

being your own mind.

So relaxation, lowering of cortisol, the

physiological relaxation that magnesium

allows you to experience much easier.

And then a practice that you develop if

you care to do the inner work um

to learn to go deeper into what you are

so that you can be free from the

illusionary suffering of the human mind

or if you don't think it's suffering the

addictions of the human mind. Let's talk

about addictions. Um maybe your current

ego idea of yourself is so awesome and

exciting that it's keeping you up at

night. But again, the point is to learn

how to sleep well, right? Or be able to

do so. So look at the addictions. What

is it that the mind feels the need to

constantly be holding on to as if it as

if it becomes still, it's going to lose

that thing?

Um, the obsession.

A lot of it in this day and age has to

do with electronics, uh, fancy phones,

for example. Um, I haven't owned a phone

for at least 15 years. Um,

and

I'd have to say I don't regret that at

all. Our family, between the four of us,

we have one cell phone because you need

it for certain things. Um, I couldn't

even have a YouTube channel, for

example, without a phone. You have to

send little codes back and forth to

prove and take pictures that you are

even who you say are and such things.

There's legal contracts, selling and

buying property, things that you can't

do in this day and age without a phone.

And there's a lot of positive uses,

things you can do remotely with wisdom.

But once you're addicted to whatever

your phone

is physiologically doing with your brain

chemistry, whether it's up, you're most

people are probably more addicted to

outrage. I think ever since the early

radios that people started to have in

their homes,

um it was figured out that, you know,

things that cause an outrage or what get

you that airtime. It gets everybody

listening. So you can see in the modern

world the way things are titled, the way

people approach looking at a topic that

it's not about wisdom or healing or

freedom. It's it's 99% about just

keeping you always being outraged about

something or someone or yourself or

whatever it is because that's a strong

addiction and it makes somebody a lot of

money, give somebody a lot of influence

and people living in ego

crave control.

So if they have more people listening to

them, doing what they say, fearing what

they say to fear, it gets them a lot of

seemingly worldly control. And that's an

addiction. So whether you're the one

telling everybody what to think next or

you're the one that's constantly

confused because you're being told to

run over here and believe this and then

you're being told to run over here and

believe this and you're told this

warning and you're told that warning and

you're told this outrage, you know, and

you know the the whose fault it is or

what to be afraid of or angry or excited

about all these things. the air time,

the the attention that's being gleaned,

the energy that's being taken from you

and given to whatever it is that's

causing that manipulation, these things

are all divisive and manipulative. So

if you set a standard for yourself like

well you know I'll use these electronic

devices for what's productive for me and

I'll I'll set boundaries of course on on

how much I let myself just be stuck you

know in this this neverending swirl

of an echo chamber. I mean that can help

because

in the last few years if you think about

it

social media has gone from and these are

just arbitrary numbers but it's

something like this. It's gone from what

seemed to be maybe 95% pretentious to

probably 99% pretentious because of the

whole AI thing.

I don't know how philosophical to go

with this. I'll try it and I'll trim it

out later if I if it doesn't work for

everybody, but

basically what the AI is, and most

people don't see this, but it's just all

the information that mankind thinks it

knows about things, put all into one

place

and given the ability to talk and answer

questions and imitate life.

And now people are able to even further

create an illusion of a certain

lifestyle they're selling you or a

certain identity that you need to have

that's going to supposedly complete you.

But of course all these things are

taking place in the illusionary ego

which will always be suffering.

If if you're addicted to having more,

achieving more, supposedly being more,

no matter how much you take from

anybody,

the desperation will get worse because

it's not what you're truly looking for

and your mind is not truly who you are.

So the mastery in learning to detach

from these struggles

is the ability to detach from the

thinking mind, the ego mind, the left

brain basically

that honestly believes you are this

person and you're separate from

everything else and the world's business

model of competition or you know

somebody always taking advantage of

somebody else and all the plotting and

scheming and the fears and the ambitions

and all these addictions

or just information addiction, you know,

I I say something simple like just do

some gentle breath work, do some breath

holds, do it how it feels good until it

deeply relaxes you. And people just

repeatedly are like, "But how how many

breaths? Which way am I supposed to hold

it?" you know, um this is it's like I

know that people have been sold a lot of

ideas like you need to do this in this

exact pattern. You need to be facing a

certain direction. You need to do it at

the magical time of day. But these are

all just infinite hoops of the mind that

defeat the very purpose of what you're

looking to do, which is detach from the

narrative of your mind

so that you can sleep. so that you can

go to a deeper place and regenerate a

non-thinking place.

So at the end of the day, quite

literally, unless you're taking a nap in

the morning or something, but at the end

of the day,

to let go of all these things and

realize that you are none of them. And

it doesn't matter how many things are

telling you you are. It doesn't matter

how many things are telling you what you

should be, what you supposedly need,

what self-improvement supposedly is.

If you're tired of chasing your tail, if

you're tired of the endless stress that

never really goes anywhere,

you really have to learn to let it go,

at least temporarily.

And then you access a different

dimension where you leave your conscious

mind and you enter a deeper space.

And in that space, the brain, the

nerves, and different parts of the body

get to regenerate much better, including

the higher testosterone production. Um,

I mentioned that in this video, of

course, because this is a fitness

channel with some with some health sauce

thrown on it.

But, you know, it's just one of many,

many parameters, of course, that are

going to benefit. Um, [clears throat]

so in order to keep it down to a simple

list of things, because the last thing

you need is for me to feed your

information overload addiction and give

you 500 different things you can try to

sleep better, which will of course keep

you too busy to ever sleep.

The idea is to

let go of this world in a sense. Let go

of the narratives. You can observe them.

Your mind is not necessarily going to

just obey you, especially not at first.

Um, it's not going to turn off. It's

it's going to come back online. The ego

is going to constantly be

talking and comparing um ideas of

superiority or victimhood, which are

basically the only two games it ever

knows. If you want to divide all the

different ideas out there into two

categories, that's really all they are.

And um those narratives can keep you up

at night to say the least. Right? So

[sighs]

there's a yin and a yang. You might say

the the part of you that thinks, "Oh,

I'm never going to achieve my goal or be

enough or whatever." That doesn't let

you sleep. And if you can't sleep, of

course, you can't regenerate. You can't

have a healthy state of mind and

physiology.

So whatever it is you really need to

express in life when you start to go

deep enough to discover your true self,

you know, if your battery is so depleted

that you can't even relax, and that's

again back to the magnesium connection.

Um,

you know, if you can't do that, if you

don't have the physiological

energy type to even relax,

um,

you know, the other side of you, the

active side that wants to be stimulated

and get stuff done or whatever you're

motivated by, whatever you are aiming

for, that site is is super super limited

and its energy its energy reserves

become so shallow and it gets even more

easy to constantly be confused by

everything all the time.

So,

I guess that's enough talking in a video

about

not letting the mind's talking keep you

awake, right?

So, just for the peacefulness of it, in

case you're perhaps listening to this

and

coming closer to sleeping, let's let's

just do a little simple breathing

together. You guys will see that this is

not um

not what you might imagine. It's not the

types of many ideas you've been sold

about it. There is no right or wrong

here. Okay?

The idea is to relax at the simplest

level. And

you'll notice that if you do some kind

of breath work, there are changes that

take place. Uh you know, these changes

take place whether you're really

changing your technique or not. It tends

to go deeper after a while. Like I

mentioned earlier in the video, there

were points where I was taken by

surprise suddenly when I found myself

actually leaving my body, which is

something I've done a bunch of other

ways. I had an ND when I was young. Um,

I was totally out of my body, which of

course reframed life very differently

for me than others.

Um, I've had a lot of astral projection

type experiences and

um, maybe maybe that's kept the door

more open. So, I'm not saying that

necessarily you will find it that by

doing breath work you suddenly cross

some threshold you didn't expect to and

you're leaving your body, but you might.

I don't know. I wouldn't put limits on

it. But whether you do or not, the

practical value we're talking about here

is to help you change your physiology to

where you can sleep deeply so you can be

more at your best, right? To deal with

all the things that you need to deal

with

and to be a closer version to an

authentic version of yourself as you go

forward. So with all that said, let's

just take a few deep breaths together.

You'll notice this is not going to be

um breath holding like maxing out trying

to increase the breathold. That's a

little different thing. I actually do

some breath holding and deep breathing

in intervals that actually just make me

feel much more blissful. Okay, so that's

what you see me doing here. Now, if your

pattern feels different, I would say

hold your breath as long as it's

comfortable. When it starts to get a

little uncomfortable, gently release it

all the way out.

And then you'll see me taking a few slow

breaths with shorter breath holds. Deep,

slow, deep in, deep out. And then after

a few of those, maybe I do another

longer breath hold. This is just what

I've instinctively done for me, okay?

That I find profoundly relaxing. Again,

um your pattern, your ideal pattern

would come from relaxing and not

overthinking. and possibly not thinking

at all. It you may in the beginning,

ironically, you may have to think a

little bit to remind yourself that

you're even doing breath work so you

don't forget to do it. But at a certain

point when it sort of sinks into the

subconscious and becomes a practice, you

no longer have to sit there and tell

yourself, "Okay, breathe in. Okay, hold

it. Okay, let's let it out. Okay, let's

take a few breath." You know, it gets to

a point where there's no words anymore

necessary.

And then it gets even more relaxing and

it starts to go deeper. So again, it's

not about external things. It's not

about looking at someone what someone is

doing from the outside and trying to do

what you see them doing. It's about

feeling what's happening with you and

just and being kind to yourself. Use

your breath work just to be kind to

yourself. Okay?

Um

because that's going to help you get off

to sleep a lot better than some practice

[clears throat] that you think is

rigorous or you're trying to achieve

something. You're not. You're you could

almost say you're trying to unachieve

something in order to go to sleep.

All right, let's just breathe together

and relax for a minute here.

I love you, my friend. May you sleep

deeply because you're deeply loved.

Sleep like a dog.