Spoiler alert, this product is amazing last night. I woke up at 3 a.m. And
I was awake for
too long thinking about work relationships
Electricity bill - whatever and I was awake till I think I got back to sleep about five and then my alarm went off at six
Hmm. So this is the third night in a row that it's happened and I am
ready for a change
I've done a bit of research and I found this product called a Dodow
which emits a blue light on to the ceiling while you try to get to sleep at night and you just follow it with your
breath, so there's no drugs involved which is good. I like that and
I've ordered it online. I'm a little bit skeptical, but apparently it's a sleeping miracle
So I'm going to give it a go and then I'm gonna give you my review
About all the pros and cons of the dodo coming up
G'day, I'm Anna Cheney and I make these videos because I want to empower women especially women who live with anxiety
I worked as a registered nurse for 10 years and I now live in Sydney and I work as a yoga teacher
and also as an actor I
have the Dodow now and
Spoiler alert, this product is amazing. I wanted to try this new product because there's no drugs involved and
I preferred not to take drugs to get to sleep
Just so you know, no one is paying me to make this video
I wanted to make this video because I
Think it's really important to get sleep and to get good sleep because it can really help you with anxiety and life in general actually
The Dodow which I have and I'm going to show you how to use it
And I'm going to tell you all the pros and cons about it
Arrived pretty quickly in the mail actually, and I'm going to talk to you about it in this video
Please join me on my journey as I reach 1 million
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Hit the subscribe button at the bottom of the screen there. When I was very little I had
severe asthma
and
I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep
largely because of the drugs that I was taking as well as not being able to breathe and
Nowadays, my sleep problems are a little bit different because my troubles with sleep usually happen in the early hours of the morning
So it's like 3 a.m
And I'm thinking about all the things and then I can be awake for an hour or two
So although my anxiety has really improved over the years
massively actually
Thanks to yoga and meditation and various choices I've made in my life as well as supportive friends and family
I still have times at night where I have a very overactive brain
and I'm sure some of you can relate to this so I
Bought the Dodow. I don't know how to pronounce it. I call it the dodo
Here it is came in a neat little box it takes three little
AAA batteries and I'm gonna show you how to use it. It's clearly
white plastic it's so
ridiculously easy you place it on your bedside table and
Then you tap it like a smartphone. So it's got two different settings you can tap it once
For eight minutes or you can tap it twice for 20 minutes
So I'll just show you how to do it. So you tap it like that and you can see
The blue light coming out changing and because you've got it on your bedside table
The blue light projects onto the ceiling and you get this really wide circle. It's not too harsh though
It's just sort of like a gentle blue light and when it's a wide circle
that's when you you follow it to get wider and then you breathe out as the
circle contracts on the ceiling and then opens up again and contracts and it's really
soothing
it's very
Relaxing I was a bit confused about the blue light because I thought that blue light was bad
For sleep. Blue light's not so good
If you're looking into a screen like LED lights directly into your eyes, but because this is a blue light projected onto the screen
It's nowhere near strong enough to affect the melatonin levels in your body
Which is the problem with blue light so you don't need to worry about that at all
And actually I did a bit of research and they originally tried it with orange light and they found that the blue light works better
Blue is a really soothing color for us
human species so
It's really really effective and I bloody love this product
I was a bit skeptical because I've been practicing yoga and meditation for years and I thought well
I don't need a product to remind me to breathe because I - apart from the fact that I'm a human and I breathe I
when
when you're practicing meditation and yoga you focus a lot on the breath and
So I'm good at reminding myself to
Consciously change my breathing at night to do deeper breaths
Because that sends you in to rest and digest
and it's better to be in that phase when you are wanting to go to sleep rather than in fight or flight, obviously and
the rest and digest phase helps your
parasympathetic nervous system
So it just calms you right down and so I thought why do I need a product to help me to do that?
Well, I'll tell you why because you don't have to think about it. So that is the really the best thing about it. It's
Got this light projected on the ceiling you just watch it and it lets you
Just breathe in you're in your own way, but you don't have to think about trying to slow your breath down
so what I found was that I was watching it and
breathing along with the expanding and contracting light and I found my eyes like
doing these ones
Yeah. Oh
I'm watching the light watching the light and I reckon it was honestly about six minutes and I was I was out
Which was amazing because like I said earlier, my problem isn't usually getting to sleep at night
I'm usually flat out during the day. I get a lot done. I'm highly productive by the time I go to bed
I'm knackered and I just go to sleep
but
Yeah, my problem arises usually when I've had a few hours sleep and my brain wakes up and goes
Oh, you need to put on a load of washing or the world is going to collapse so
I put this on and the first night I put it on about 3:00 a.m
And I put it on the 20 minute setting where you double tap it and that means it will go for 20 minutes. I'll just switch that off.
And I
Reckon, I was out. Yeah
in six minutes was so fast, and then a couple of nights ago. I put it on
about 3:30, I think and
I put it on the eight-minute setting and I vaguely remember it going off
I just remember trying to keep my eyes open to see if I could keep myself awake
But I couldn't you get so the eyelids get so heavy it is
Unbelievable. So I've used it for a week now. It is consistently good. It's also good for my "I'm a middle child
I want to do it all myself" thing because it can just rely on something else to help me to get to sleep
Which is really good. Please give this video a like if you're finding this useful
So just a little bit about how this works
when you breathe in
And out really steadily it reminds your body that you're safe. And for those of us who have anxiety
even if you only have anxiety now and then
the
main thought with anxiety is that this thing that's bothering you even if it's something little like I forgot to put the
Bananas on the bench whatever it is
you know that it's not an important thing to worry about but your brain tells you otherwise it's really hard to differentiate between
What's worth worrying about and what isn't?
So what this does is it changes your body's
physicality like it physically changes your nervous system and it tells your body to
slow down
Because your body is constantly
Communicating all the sections of your body are communicating
so for example if it's a really really hot day your
Peripheral blood vessels will dilate that's just normal. It's a response to what's happening in the outside world. If you've got anxiety
your body thinks you're under threat and there's something wrong and so it will pump you full of adrenaline trying desperately to
Prepare yourself for fighting or for running away
so
with you using your breath you can lie there and
Allow this light
to change your breathing patterns
So that you can convince your body through a physical method not through your thinking
that you are safe and
That's one of the reasons this works so so well. Sometimes you might hear a noise in the middle of the night for example
and you think "Oh someone's breaking into the house." And that makes sense if somebody is breaking into the house
Obviously you want to be full of adrenaline, but then it can get a little bit
shifted with those people who have anxiety is
You hear you hear a tree knocking against the side of the house and you think well, maybe it's someone breaking in
I think it's the tree, but maybe it's that so it's really hard to
use thought to
Combat
Those fears and that's why you need something physical to change your body rather than actually change
The brain waves in your head by yourself. It's too hard to do it all by yourself. We need help. We all need help
That's just humans. We need help
Yes, I'm a middle child. I like to do things myself, but I need help as well
Obviously the worst thing you can do is concentrate on trying to get to sleep
We've all done that "go to sleep go to sleep" which doesn't work
So I love the watching of the blue light because as soon as my mind would start to wander
I would just focus back on that. It didn't really get a chance to
Wander very far. So this is a very powerful
Distractor it doesn't disturb anyone either. My partner's not bothered by it
Okay on to the cons I actually found it really difficult to find
Negatives about this product you could argue that because it's plastic, it's not great for the environment
But to be honest, I'm sorry planet, but I would rather sleep
Over the saving of this amount of plastic
I don't use plastic very much in the rest of my life. So I feel justified in
Purchasing a small piece like this. Another thing is I guess you could say that for what it is
It's quite a lot of money
But really it takes a lot of time and effort and research to put into a product that works so so well
so you're not paying for the piece of plastic you're paying for the time and the effort that these scientists and
researchers put into making this product and
Creating something that works so well, and honestly when I'm lying awake at 3:00 a.m
I would pay any amount of money to go back to sleep. The only other thing is perhaps for those people that really
don't like lying on their back or can't lie on their back for whatever reason is that it might be a little bit challenging to
Project it onto the wall. Although I reckon you could if you sleep on your side
I'm sure you could find a way to prop it up and
Project it onto the wall. I
Always lie on my back when I'm trying to go to sleep anyway, and I visualize my spine in perfect alignment
which it isn't because I have scoliosis, but just to try to
Suppose realign it over the years your mind is really powerful. If you like the idea of using this product
I've left the link below so you can click on that and go straight to it and
And purchase it from there. I may get a small Commission because of how I've set it up
But if you don't want me to get that Commission, you can always go to the website yourself and find it from there
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