How to Get More REM Sleep

all right i'm back again didn't we just uh meet yesterday well i'm back today for another presentation today we're going to talk about how to get more rem sleep normally a person will go through 90-minute cycles of sleep okay between four and six of these cycles with different levels or stages more deeper levels of sleep that's called

non-rem and then you have a superficial level of sleep which is called rem now the non-rem sleep which is the deeper delta wave sleep occurs more in the first half of the sleep and this is where you get body repair you get detoxification you get rejuvenation

you get more growth hormone stimulation but then you have something called rem sleep okay what is rem sleep rem is the more superficial sleep it's the second half of your sleep and this is where most people have the problem so most people get the first part of the sleep but they're not getting that second half they're not getting that full rem sleep what's very interesting about

rem sleep is that the weight patterns or the brain activity is almost identical to when you're awake but you're actually in this sleep state now you would think if the brain activity is very similar to being awake and the rem sleep is actually using sometimes even more energy than the awake state

you might wake up from this dream state actually exhausted and feeling like wow i just ran a marathon well that's because you did your brain in that rem state has actually used more energy which is pretty wild but here's another interesting thing about the rem stage you actually get more mental rejuvenation in the rem stage than you do in the non-rem stage so in the non-rem stage

you're getting more physical rejuvenation and the rem stage you're getting more mental rejuvenations so you wake up feeling more mentally rejuvenated more improved memory better learning interesting now in the rem stage you're getting low muscle tone you're dreaming i just mentioned that you're getting a massive stimulation the brain stem that's causing this state and you're

getting a lot of acetylcholine being pumped out that's a neurotransmitter that's causing the state and you're getting virtually no activation of the serotonin or noradrenaline or adrenaline and in rem sleep you are more sensitive to temperature so if the temperature is too cold or too hot that can inhibit that stage so now what does all this mean what can we do with this data

well number one we want to make sure that the muscles around our brain stem are completely relaxed when we go to sleep i'm going to put a video down below of how to achieve this you can either do this yourself with a a torture i mean a treatment device like this putting this back in your neck these two little things right on the back right underneath your your skull and lay back

on a chair and let this device melt those muscles around your brainstem or you can have someone press into the the point right underneath your neck and i'll put a video link down below to show you how to do that it's a great way to relax the muscles around the brainstem because if you go to sleep with all this tension in the upper part of your neck it's going to be very difficult all

right number two you want to get your breathing balanced and i've done videos on this what happens when you have difficulty sleeping is usually your breathing is off usually your breathing is like the inhalation is not the same as the exhalation so you want to synchronize the two you want to breathe in three four or five seconds and breathe out

three four or five seconds make sure that they're equaled up sometimes it'll be three seconds in three seconds out sometimes it'll be four seconds in four seconds out but you want to just focus on your breathing that will start to send signals into the brainstem through the vagus nerve to help you get into this state all right number three you want to adjust your blanket

to make sure your temperature is correct i know with my wife she needs a thicker blanket i use a thinner blanket sometimes even a sheet all right number four you want to increase your acetylcholine how do you do that vitamin b1 you can do nutritional yeast you can do other types of b1 make sure it's natural but take a little b1 before you go to bed

b1 is very important in your sleep cycles especially when you're making acetylcholine and especially when you've been through a lot of stress b1 counter stress b1 helps you counter nightmares anytime you have nightmares that means you need more b1 all right number five stress

stress is the biggest barrier to your sleep you're going to find out whatever's behind the stress and deal with it do something to improve it because the stress is the number one thing that will keep you out of both rem sleep and the non-rem sleep anyway that's my summary on how to get more rem

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