Components of sleep & the things that you can do to enhance and improve the overall quantity and quality of your sleep.

Optimal Response Initiative (ORI)

Dr. Kristina Seymour continues to discuss the importance of optimizing your sleep. In this episode she focuses on components of sleep, aspects of sleep and the things that you can do to enhance and improve the overall quantity and quality of your sleep. Learn how important it is to catch the Thriving Train when it leaves the station: The Thriving Train is “the first full cycle of sleep” (and we need to have 5 full cycles each night) In order to catch The Thriving Train we need to be at the Thriving Station on Time: a consistent bed-time (which also requires a consistent wake up time)

• Learn about the stages of sleep: 1 & 2 are Transitory (falling into sleep)
• Stage 3 is the Slow Wave Sleep (Deep): body can move; brain incorporates things (sounds) from our external environment (like the sound of our alarm clock)
• Stage 4 is Rapid Eye Movement (REM/Deep): body is not moving; brain is not incorporating things from our external environment; rather, the brain pulls from thoughts, emotions, experiences that are on the thumb-drive (short-term memory) because it is the in process of moving the memories further and further towards the hard-drive (long-term memory); REM is the time of night where the brain is naturally processing a lot of emotions and all levels of intensity (very rich in emotional value/intensity/meaning); REM is the download time of sleep. The thumb drive needs to be emptied so that it has plenty of room for a new day to take in new information the next day.
• Importance of getting 5 full sleep cycles

• Increase the quantity of hours (if it’s under 7-8 hours a sleep each night)

• The First 4 hours are very important for memory (and other things)
• Improve the quality of sleep, set goals to get a lot more than 4 hours of sleep per night.
• Optimal Sleep is between 7-8 hours a night - consistently

• The brain is designed to naturally clean up after the day’s activities every night when we sleep

• Dr. Seymour discusses how to improve sleep habits.

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