How to Spring Clean The Forgotten Things

Cleaning keeps our place feeling nice and fresh. It’s good for the mind and even better for ensuring a high quality of life. How often do we clean everything, though? That’s what spring cleaning is for—finishing the usual cleaning activities, but then taking it a step further for a really deep, thorough clean that covers more than just your space. While most spring cleaning guides might give you a breakdown on things you already know, we want to dive into the things that you forget (ignore) when it comes to doing a thorough cleaning.

Electronics

Our electronics are some of the dirtiest possessions we own. Did you know that your cell phone has around 25,000 germs per square inch, making it dirtier than a public toilet seat? Our phones are such a ubiquitous part of our lives that many of us forget just how much we constantly expose it to bacteria and germs. Think about it: you probably take your phone to the toilet, right? You also probably lay it down on just about every surface imaginable, whether it’s in your home or in public spaces. It’s a good idea to invest in some cleaning wipes to keep those germs off your phone because whatever is on your phone then gets transferred to your hands and face. Don’t forget about your tablets, keyboards, mouse, and laptops too. Those also get dirty quickly as we use them for just about everything. Going further, beyond just the physical germs of our electronics, it’s a great idea to clean through some of your old files that you have stored in your phone, tablet, and computer. We might not be aware of just how much junk files we carry that are slowing down the performance of our devices. If you know you have some files that you don’t need, delete them off your device or transfer it to a hard drive so they’re archived and not hindering your present. You’ll be surprised how much was just taking up unnecessary space.

Cleaning Supplies

Seems weird, but most of us miss thinking about cleaning our cleaning supplies like the vacuum, sponge, broom, toilet brush, or toothbrush. You’d think that your supplies get cleaned during the process of cleaning, but they don’t! Cleaning your supplies every now and then will ensure that your space will be effectively clean too. Give your vacuums a good wipe down of the dirt they’re carrying when the container gets about 75% full. Your sponge and toothbrush can be cleaned using a mixture of 1:1 hydrogen peroxide and water. Hydrogen peroxide is a natural disinfectant that’s safe for the body so it’ll work wonders on getting rid of the germs on more sensitive items that affect what goes into your mouth. Try cleaning your toilet brush with bleach, and your brooms can be cleaned by hitting them against something solid like a tree or pole so the dust can come out of the bristles. (Just make sure there’s no one around to inhale the dust!)

Old Information

This is something hidden that most of us are completely oblivious to cleaning out. Inside of our minds we hold trillions of informational circuits that dictate our everyday perception, behavior, thoughts, emotions, and actions. Some of these circuits are beneficial for our function and survival, but most of them are old information that actually hold us back from living the life that we want. So what qualifies as old information? Beyond the clutter and mess in our physical space, there is dust that we all carry in our mental state. Do you feel sometimes that you’re flooded with negative thoughts and emotions that are either produced in your own mind or put there by the media or the people around you? Past trauma, heartbreaks, failures, bullying, rejections...everything that you’ve experienced that is not properly processed in your mind (especially from childhood) stays as old clutter that affects your present state. Try to step back and picture momentarilythe overall progression of your life and self-reflect. Can you pinpoint a specific time in your life where you faced huge loss? Maybe a shifting point that caused you to view the world, yourself, and others differently? While you may think these past experiences are only inside of your head, they actually affect outward behavior and actions, too, which in turn, impact yourself and those around you. If you can identify a certain thought pattern or old information that no longer serves you, take a deep breath in through your nose and imagine releasing that information out as you exhale deeply through your mouth. The pain, the heavy memories, the stress...let it go and shed it as an old layer of skin. If you approach this carefully and with pinpointed, conscious thought, you can leave the experience with a cleared mind.

Cleaning out more than just the obvious things in your environment has extremely positive ramifications on your health, happiness, and peace. A true clean involves purifying energy within your own self beyond just your physical space. Follow these tips along with the cleaning that you typically do and you’ll be inviting lots of clean energy into your life and an even brighter, healthier mind and spirit. 

4 Exercises for Your Heart That Are Not Cardio

A healthy heart is a huge component to overall health, and high-intensity cardio workouts are most often seen as the best way to take care of your heart. The only problem is, cardio is stressful, which could be counterproductive to easing any tension you might be holding around the heart. Good news is that there are some specific exercises that are good for your heart that won’t leave you feeling the stressful aftermath of traditional cardio exercises. In honor of February, which is national American Heart Health Month, here’s a list of our favorite non-cardio heart exercises that will benefit you:

Toe touches

You probably didn’t think that stretching your legs had anything to do with your heart, right? Turns out, it has a lot to do with it. In a conducted study from 2008, scientists at the University of North Texas and a handful of Japanese university researchers found a direct and clear correlation between flexibility and heart health. The study, which involved 526 adults varying in age and health, showed that participants who were more flexible in their legs and back and could touch their toes easily had less arterial stiffness, which is vital to a healthy heart. The same went for the opposite—those who showed low flexibility and could not touch their toes showed a higher rate of arterial stiffness leading to the heart. You don’t have to go rushing to the cardiologist if you can’t touch your toes, but it’d be a great idea to start a routine of stretching at least once a day for ten minutes or so. Try to work up closer and closer to being able to touch your toes while sitting down, and then eventually build up to reaching past them if you can.

Push-ups

Push-ups are an all around good workout to stay in shape. Not only do they develop your arm muscles but they also keep your heart in excellent shape. Your body has 12 major merdians, or energy channels, that carry energy to all of your organs, joints, and muscles. The heart meridian flows in your arms from your pinky leading up to the heart, so the pressing motion of a push-up activates this pathway and promotes a healthy flow of energy and blood to the heart. Try doing as many push-ups as you can without stopping for one minute and practice doing these at every hour. You’ll see what a difference this can make physically and mentally!

Full-body tapping

As we accumulate stress and tension through daily life, meridians can have blockages and issues similar to arteries. Tapping is a great way to break up the blockages in your body that may be stuck inside like ice blocks—especially in the heart and chest area to get a healthy flow of energy to the heart. So before or after you do your stretching and other exercises, fit in some body tapping to your routine. A great tool to use for this is our acupressure ball massager, which we highly recommend to tap your body easily—especially those hard to reach places.

Chest opening

The conception meridian runs down the front and center of your body, and chest opening is a great way to unblock energy that keeps the chest area clear and open for the heart and lungs. This exercise also opens and loosens the back muscles, which are tied to heart flexibility and health as mentioned earlier. This one is especially a good one to do throughout the day so keep this simple routine included in your group of easy-to-do heart-serving exercises. We especially recommend this one for the office! It’s a simple exercise to do to on your own to quickly release stressful energy. Make sure that while you’re doing chest opening, keep your eyes forward even while rotating your torso and arms.

Now you’ve got a handful of exercises to keep your heart healthy without even stepping foot into those running shoes. If you do all, or even just a few, of these heart-healthy exercises once per day, you’ll gradually increase your flexibility for body, meridians, and most importantly—your heart.

5 Steps to Mindful Eating

The holidays are perhaps the most tempting time to break our usual healthy eating habits. Some of your favorite foods are being served, so putting on the holiday pounds can become a harsh reality if we’re not careful during all of the festivities. But, fear not, because we’ve got you covered! Adopt our five tricks during your next holiday feast and you can remain mindful through the temptation and steer clear of overindulgence.

1. Go for the smaller size. Portion control is widely known, but it could leave you still feeling hungry afterwards from knowing that you ate just a small amount. A trick for eating mindfully, while feeling satisfied, is controlling the size of your plate. Imagine that you’re standing in line waiting to serve yourself a plate of food at a holiday gathering. You see before you a whole table lined with your favorite foods, and you just can’t wait to sample all of it. At this moment, it’s instinctive to reach for a big plate and start loading it with all the foods you want. BUT, instead of reaching for that big plate for the delicious offerings, try grabbing for a smaller plate and putting the food there. Yes, it’s straightforward, but we often grab a full-sized plate for every meal when we really don’t need that much food. Grabbing the smaller plate limits our portions and overall meal size, and leads us to lower intake. Our brains psychologically feel more satisfied eating a small plate of food that is full, rather than the same amount of food placed on a larger plate; this makes it appear as if it’s less food when it’s not. Turns out you didn’t need the huge plate after all!

2. Landscape your plate. With all of the options you might have during holiday mealtime, it’s important to keep good ratios among your food groups. It’s an easy mistake to load half of your plate with simple carbohydrates that bloat your gut. A best practice for landscaping your plate is like this: fill half of your plate with vegetables, add a fist-size of a source of protein, a handful of complex carbs like whole grains and starches (try sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkins or beans). Get a smaller portion of a simple carb like bread or pasta and the smallest helping of desserts.

3. Chew each bite 30 times. Chewing, like walking and breathing, is so second nature that most of us don’t really chew our food properly. The eating process is usually far too rushed since it’s done out of habit, so that causes us to chew food too quickly and swallow too soon. The result is larger chunks of food that are harder to digest and can clog up your intestine. Those larger, unchewed chunks of improperly digested food can also lead to leaky gut—an uncomfortable digestive ailment that leaks toxins from the gut back into the body. A way to practice mindful food consumption is by chewing your food at least 30 times every time you put a new bite into your mouth. Each chew will continue to break the food down, and you might even taste different layers of flavor in the food you are eating. Chewing your food 30 times also prepares the food in your mouth for easier digestion once it goes down to your GI tract.

4. Slow your pace and put down your utensils. It’s something that doesn’t cross the mind too often, but this is a powerful small change that will keep you mindful and attentive while eating your meal. Our habit is usually to keep our forks in our hands and just keep going bite after bite before our stomachs can catch up with us and we suddenly realize that we’ve been full since 20 bites ago! Beyond being a bad habit that leads to unhealthiness, it’s just another way to take us away from being mindful and present with each bite. Try this instead: After each bite, put your utensils down. When we hold our fork constantly in our hands, we fall into the trained habit of loading out mouth with another bite as soon as we’ve swallowed the previous one. Putting your silverware down after each bite will set a break period and time to focus on the food that you’re currently chewing, rather than going through the motions mindlessly.

5. Limit your water while eating. Most people, out of habit, wash down their meal with a huge glass of water or drink. It’s easy to be guilty of this since eating makes us thirsty, and the drink usually helps us get it down faster and satiate our thirst. Well, the real reason we’re thirsty after eating is because our foods contain much more sodium than our body needs so our bodies crave water to compensate that. And did you know that using water to aid in chewing is actually bad for digestion? When we drink a lot during a meal, it lubricates the food and leads us to improper chewing, which in turn makes the food more difficult to break down, taking longer to digest. Consuming large amounts of water while eating fills up our stomach way faster, taking up more space and causing gastric reflux. While some may recommend not drinking water during a meal at all, we’d say that’s not entirely necessary. You can drink in moderation as needed—just don’t intake too much or you’ll disrupt your digestive process.

Put these methods into practice so that you can both enjoy the holiday festivities and avoid mindless consumption when the meal is served. If you often find yourself feeling overstuffed or unsettled after every meal, you can adopt these tips outside of the holidays, too. As long as you remain mindful and do everything with intention, you can find a balance between healthy enjoyment and indulgence—it just takes a little bit of your care and attention.

4 Foods for Staying Warm in Cold Weather

Staying warm can be a challenge—especially during this time of year as our bodies transition from warmer weather to the wintry cold. Looking for how to stay warm in winter by layering your clothes is one thing, but sometimes the right food or drink to warm you up is the exact complement for a perfect winter setting. We’ve gathered a food guide with healthy teas and recipes that contain proven ingredients to keep you warm in cold weather. A note to remember is that just because a food is served hot doesn’t all make it a warming food!

1. Hwangchil Tea

Hot tea is an intuitive go-to drink for staying warm in the cold, but which ones are the best for the job? Hwangchil (Dendropanax morbifera) tea is one that can offer a one-of-a-kind drink experience, mixed with a robustly healthy reward that packs a powerful punch to keep warm. Use of Hwangchil tea dates back to ancient East Asian culture, where it was exclusive to the emperors. Due to its immensely healing property, it has been nicknamed the “1,000-year-old tea,” signifying longevity. Many teas that we’re more familiar with nowadays such as green or black teas, even when consumed hot, have an intrinsically cooling characteristic for the body. Hwangchil tea, on the other hand, is a naturally warm food that is the perfect drink for cold weather and for digestive benefits. Click here for how to prepare it and drink it, along with a meditation guide to pair with the tea.

2. Ginger Soup

Ginger has a long list of healthy benefits and is especially helpful when one is sick because of its natural property of being a warm food. Due to its thermogenic properties, it’s an extremely beneficial health food that increases blood flow, which naturally raises the internal temperature of your body. Raw ginger is said to have the best effects to keep you warm, but for those of you who aren’t keen to its biting taste, mixing it in some soup will give you the benefits while keeping it delicious. Not to mention...what’s a better food for cold weather than some soup? Ginger soup is a simple, healthy, and refreshing meal that’s easy to make and will warm you up in no time. This is a great warm food to eat while you’re sick, too. Throw in some of your favorite vegetables or meat (we recommend carrots, onions and beef, which have intrinsic warming properties too), and you’ll have a well-rounded and delicious dish for the season. Check this Ginger Carrot Soup recipe for inspiration.

3. Raw Honey Lemon Tea

Raw honey lemon tea is a healthy tonic that detoxifies your body while helping you stay warm. Lemons are widely known to cleanse the liver, and raw honey is a powerhouse of antioxidants, which boost the immune system and fights disease. It’s also a powerful natural antibiotic as it contains hydrogen peroxide, which is secreted into it by bees as they produce the honey. Raw honey is a naturally warm food that is soothing for the digestive tract and blends perfectly with lemon tea. Our recipe we recommend for the lemon tea is: slice half a lemon into two quarts of water and turn up the heat to high. Bring it all to a boil. Once the lemon water boils, turn down the heat to low and let the tea simmer for about 10 minutes. The tea is ready when the water turns yellow from the lemon juices. Pour some into a glass and add raw honey to taste.

4. Peanut Curry Chicken

Peanut Curry Chicken is a motherload of winter meals. Not only is it amazing and brings a bit of a kick, but almost all of the ingredients are warm foods like peanuts, chicken (can be swapped for a non-meat), cumin, rice, cayenne pepper, ginger, onion, turmeric and more. Here’s a quick glimpse how some of this recipe’s key ingredients are great for staying warm and makes for perfect food for cold weather. 

Peanuts have high levels of vitamin B-3, promoting blood flow and boosting metabolism—both of which scientifically raise your core body temperature to keep you warm. 
Cayenne peppers bring a lot of the spice to this dish, which makes you sweat from the heat. What makes cayenne a unique pepper is that its spiciness is actually good for the digestive system and an awesome anti-inflammatory health food. 
Onions are a widely-used ingredient in traditional Eastern medicine to promote perspiration as well as combat against cold weather sickness. Onions are said to facilitate moving qi (energy) to the surface so you can keep warm. 
Chicken, like other lean meats, is rich in iron, which your body needs to keep itself warm. (Think: Iron is in blood, and healthy circulation and condition of the blood is what keeps your body warm.) Those with iron deficiencies are known to have constant cold hands and feet.

Give these healthy warm food recipes a shot during your next family or friend event over the holidays, or simply on a cold day at home to treat yourself. We hope you’ll feel cozy and toasty when you try them! Post a comment about what are some of your favorite food or drink you have for cold weather to warm up. We want to hear from you!

How to Balance Your Chakras with Crystals

Have you ever felt out of sorts and don’t know why? You were not unhealthy, things just felt like they were not right. Medical professionals have told you that you are fine physically, but something still feels off. Maybe you feel like you need a breather, but can’t explain why. Or maybe your habit is to just brush it aside and say that it might be all just “in your head.”

Energy teachings around the world talk about energy centers in the body known as chakras, and most spiritual people practice some type of chakra meditation. Even people who don’t believe in the spiritual side of chakra meditation can benefit from having their chakras balanced, because chakra meditation is all about focus.

Crystals are often used to balance chakras because the chakras are organized by color and spiritual energy, and a crystal’s unique energy is often influenced by its color as well. Crystals can put you in the right frame of mind to effectively balance your chakras, smoothing the flow of energy through the body and addressing bodily complaints.

The Seven Chakras

Chakras are like small whirlpools of energy in the body. Each one is associated with different parts and functions, but they are all surrounded by major muscles and organs and blockage or unbalance in a chakra can cause physical ailments in the associated regions. There are seven major chakras that travel up the spine, and here’s a look at how to use crystals to clear that energy center:

• The red Root chakra is located at the base of the spine in the vicinity of the colon and bladder. It is associated with feelings of security and confidence. Red or black stones such as bloodstone, garnet, red jasper, or smoky quartz can all help ground you for work with your higher chakras.
• The orange Sacral chakra is located just above the pubic bone and regulates sex and creativity. Carnelian or citrine can balance this chakra to enhance your creative expression.
• The yellow Solar Plexus chakra is in our core, from the chest down to the abs. It is where our personal power and confidence resides. To stimulate your inner strength and intellect, use amber, tiger’s eye, or golden topaz.
• The green Heart chakra is the emotional center in the upper part of our chest. Jade or calcite can bring balance through this middle chakra, or pink stones, such as rose quartz, can open it to receiving love.
• The blue throat chakra is all about expression, and includes the mouth, tongue, and breath. Light blue stones or like turquoise and aquamarine can stimulate this chakra to encourage honest and just speech.
• The most famous chakra is the indigo Third Eye, located in our forehead and encompassing the brain, where intuition and inspiration reside. It is the chakra from which we can look deep within ourselves, and this can be aided by lapis lazuli, sodalite, or amethyst.
• The top violet chakra is called the Crown, and it is actually above our bodies. It represents wisdom, universality, and our connection with everything around us. Purple stones, most notably amethyst, are used most often for this chakra, but clear stones, such as quartz or diamond, more closely resonate with its energies. Use it with your chakra to open it to meditation and the world around you.

How to Do It

When you are ready to do the balancing, there are a few ways you can do it. One way is to lay down and place each stone upon its corresponding chakra. Once the stones are in position, you continue to lay there, absorbing their energies and merging them with your own. Imagine the color of the crystal coming into your body and healing all negativity or heaviness that may be stored there. This method turns your attention to each chakra, enabling you to find the source of the disturbance and correct it. The crystals create a connection between your mind and your body, which combined with your focus, balances these energy centers.

Balancing your chakras can help bring focus and clarity to your life. It can teach you what is going on within yourself when you’re not looking, which can help keep you healthier and in turn happier. Using crystals to balance your chakras can help cleanse them and bring balance, health, peace, and mindfulness to your life.

5 Steps to Keep Your Brain Young

The concepts presented in this blog are from Ilchi Lee’s newest book, “I’ve Decided to Live 120 Years.”

Remember the saying, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?”

Most of us are taught that the brain stops developing at a certain age and that new brain cells aren’t (and can’t be) created when old ones die. However, recent and emerging science is proving that to be completely wrong. We can actually develop new brain cells and neurological pathways our entire lives, as well as improve the function and capability of our brains regardless of age.

With this new, more hopeful knowledge, we can gain confidence to take real steps in protecting and keeping our brain healthy long into our senior years. But what does that take? The key is consistent and proactive maintenance instead of idle neglect by putting your brain on autopilot. Here are some steps to take to improve and maintain the health of your mind:

1. Give your brain a key nutritional supplement: hope

Make a regular practice of giving your brain hopeful information. Instead of criticizing yourself for a mistake you made, try turning the perspective from negative to positive by viewing the situation as an opportunity for growth and learning. Establishing this habit will set you up for success when times get a bit rough—rather than dwelling in the negative which damages your brain, you’ll be conditioned to the positive vibrations of hope no matter what the external circumstances may be.

2. Envision yourself younger than you are

If you think you’re old, your body will follow suit. The power of the mind is quite amazing when you put it to use and dangerous when leaving it to waste. A study by Andrew Steptoe at the University College London showed people who thought of themselves as younger gaining 50% more years of life as opposed to those who thought of themselves as older than they were. When you fill your mind with youthful energy, your brain will act on those thoughts physically to gain a jolt of vitality in life. Try finding new approaches to daily activities, including movement in things that are typically stagnant or routine. Your brain loves new things!

3. Avoid leaving your brain in its default state

Be proactive about engaging your brain in activity. To maintain vibrant health in the brain, it’s important to break your patterns and habits by being proactive. Leaving your brain on autopilot is a fast track to aging and brain deterioration. It’s ok to have a relaxing day but avoid just lying around the entire day being idle. Break it up with productive activities that are still relaxing — something like one minute exercises or meditations can be a great way to do this and keep you active.

4. Engage in meditation to relax the brain and connect it to your body

They say our brains are where our spirituality and divinity exist. It is the major portal in which we process information from both inside and outside of our bodies. However, with the many distractions we have nowadays, it doesn’t take much time at all to become disconnected from our brain and bodies, which ultimately is a disconnect from the spirit and divinity that reside within us. Setting aside time for yourself and connecting to your brain through quiet meditation is the best way to be mindful of the holy, sacred life that lives and breathes within you.

5. Absorb Enlightenment wisdom and principles

For maintaining optimal all-around health of the brain, it’s crucial to feed and fill it with good information. Your brain loves new things, and it also loves absorbing information about how to grow through self-development. We recommend the book , a New York Times bestselling author. This is Lee’s newest book that focuses on a life of longevity with purpose, hope, and health to change the way you think about your own life and set forth a new path that makes it even more satisfying. You can purchase the book here or download it on Amazon Kindle.

What are some ways you like to gives yourself hope and dreams—and how do you keep your brain active and engaged every day? Let us know in the comments below!

6 Ways You Can Trick Your Body Into Falling Asleep Faster

Have you ever been exhausted from the day, only to lie in bed and find that your mind is racing and you just can’t fall asleep?

Funnily enough, sleep can evade us when we most need it. From the stress and anxiety of the day, worrying about tomorrow, and even the elements in your bedroom—these can all be contributing factors as to why you cannot fall asleep. Sleep deprivation can be harmful to our mood and our health, and it is recommended that adults get anywhere from seven to nine hours of sleep each night in order to rest the mind and rejuvenate the body.

If you’re having trouble falling asleep, try these five methods for a restful and peaceful evening chasing dreams.

Exercising a Few Hours Before Bed

Exercise can help you fall asleep faster. Many people hit the gym in the evenings after work. Often, exercise is the last thing we want to do with our tired bodies and minds at the end of a long day, but exercise can be a key factor in sleeping well. Keep in mind that exercising too soon before you go to bed can have reverse effects, as it amps up your energy level. Hitting the gym a few hours before bedtime can help tire you out and can contribute to an easier transition for your body and mind as you go to bed.

The 4-7-8 Method

Breathing exercises can work wonders for sleeping. This is an excellent way to trick your body into relaxing, allowing for better rest and reaching a deep sleep. The most commonly used method is the “4-7-8” method.

Try this method in a few easy steps:

• Place the end of your tongue just above and behind your front teeth and keep in there for the entire breathing exercise
• Next, with your mouth closed, inhale for four seconds through your nose and hold it there as you count to seven
• Finally, exhale through an open mouth as you count to eight, and repeat three times

This breathing exercise helps lower your heart rate and encourages your body to relax. 

Create a Sleep Environment

Set the mood in your bedroom before bed. Many people watch TV or browse through social media in bed. Playing music with a slow rhythm at a barely audible level helps, as does the scent of lavender, dim lighting, and cozy bedding.

All these elements send signals to both brain and body saying that it is time to wind down and relax. This activates the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone, and we will find that we can fall asleep easier when the mood and energy is right in the room.

We need time to adjust from the transition of a busy day to sleep rest mode, and these methods encourage your body to fall asleep faster.

Use Temperature as a Tool

Temperature is also another way to fall asleep faster. Setting your bedroom at a cooler temperature also signals the body that sleep is needed and coming soon. When we sleep our body temperatures drop slightly, so a cooler room will drive you into the sheets to get cozy.

A fan can help cool your room and provide white noise for those who like sleeping with a soft sound. Another trick is to take a warm shower or bath before bed. Warm water helps us relax and moving from the warm shower to the cool sheets can help us fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

Hide That Clock!

In the event of waking up or tossing and turning all night, many of us are constantly checking the clock to see what time it is.

Repeatedly checking the time on a bright screen or bedside clock only increases your anxiety as we stress about how much time we have left to sleep and why we are still awake. If you remove or hide the clock, and you remove the stress of checking the time altogether.

Belly Button Healing

This method is new and incredibly effective at releasing held stress and tension in the body. When the muscles of the abdomen are tense, the brain receives messages that there is unease in the body and relaxation is hard to come by. Belly Button Healing is the regular and mindful stimulation of the navel to release stress, tonify the organs, and get your vital life force energy (ki) moving in your body to clear any energetic blockages.

While these methods aren’t a universal cure for insomnia or difficulty sleeping, they are surely worth a try. Even just setting the intention to turn down the lights and turn off all devices one hour before bedtime could make a world of difference.

I invite you to give the tips a shot and see what resonates best with you and your needs.

Here’s to a good night’s rest and an energized morning! If you’ve discovered a method that has helped you transform your sleep patterns, please share with us in the comments below.