- You're feeling very sleepy, actually you're not
and that's why you're watching this video
so stay tuned for more tips on how to
actually feel very sleepy.
(light piano music)
So like I said, this week's video topic
is about how to get to sleep.
And I have heard from many of you messaging me when
I'm asleep, 'cause sweet Jesus I love sleep, so much sleep.
If I could sleep for 12 hours every night
the world would be a better place.
But I've heard from many of you messaging me,
'Hey, it's 3am.
I'm watching your videos back to back.
I can't go, I can't go to sleep.'
Turn off your technology.
I know that you're like,
'But Kati, it's my only outlet.'
I'm telling you.
All the research shows we should stop watching television
I believe, and I even hate to say this,
but I believe that they said television should
go off three hours before bedtime.
But that's just not realistic for me.
Maybe not, maybe it is for you
Hey try it, let me know leave it in the comments.
But I say thirty minutes, three zero.
Give yourself thirty minutes of time to unwind
stop the technology, put it away.
I don't care if you have to read the news, Sean.
At night for so long.
Who reads the news?
I don't care if you need to shop.
That's what I do, I search on eBay, I can't help myself.
I don't care what it is.
If you wanna watch Kati Morton's videos
they'll be there tomorrow, I promise.
They're on YouTube they're never going away.
Never never.
So whatever you need to do, stop doing it
30 minutes before you wanna go to bed
and it will help you unwind, you'll unravel
and you'll feel so peaceful.
Well, at least that's one portion of it.
So, stop the technology giving yourself
enough time to get into a routine.
Number two, start a routine
and I know this sounds silly but for many of you
I guess you don't know, I was a nanny
for all through college and part of grad school.
And what that means is I changed a lot of poopy diapers,
I put a lot of babies to sleep.
And what did I do?
Routine.
It was all a routine.
We bathe them, we give them a bottle, we burp them
then we put them to bed.
We bath them, you get the picture
Right?
That's what you do every night
and so they get used to it and when they're in the bath
they'll even start getting tired.
Like, but you know how babies fight the sleep.
They're like, 'No. No.
Another moment of light.'
When we get older we wish we'd never fought the sleep
But we need to get into routines.
So if you wanna shower and then you wanna like
brush your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face
We all have things we have to do to get to bed.
So let's start putting them into a schedule
so we have a routine, a bedtime routine
and I promise that it will help.
'Cause oddly enough our bodies our programmed
and they get used to you know,
It's almost like on the weekend when you wake up
when your alarm would normally go off.
For like five minutes you're like,
Why the heck am I awake?
It's 6:30 in the morning.
Who wants to get, and then you're like
(snores) you know 'cause you don't have to get up
But your body knows that it usually gets up at this time
and it can be the same for going to bed.
And that's, so number two is routine,
and that leads us right into number three
which is setting your circadian rhythm
and yes circadian rhythm is something that happens naturally
But what I'm saying is this routine should start
about the same time every night.
So for me, realistically, for me to go to bed
at a regular time, I would probably have to
start my routine around 9:30.
Because I like to get to bed around 10:30
and so to turn off the stuff and to get ready
and you know, it's good if, if I start talking to Sean
I'm like hey, we should probably go to bed soon
Yeah yeah, it's like 9:30.
So start finding out what your time period is.
So you set a schedule so that you can start
getting to bed at the same time
and waking up at the same time.
And this is where weekends just really mess us up
because then we're like well, crap it's 1:00 am
I usually go to bed at 10:30, and then we sleep in
until noon and then we're all out of wack.
So try as much as you can to slowly
bring it to a regular set time okay?
Because I promise that will also make it much easier.
So what are we gonna do?
We're gonna turn off our technology.
We're gonna start a routine of sorts
and we're going to start getting our circadian rhythm
you know, kind of back in sync.
'cause it takes a little while
and I really think that you'll feel the differences.
And the last little tip that I have
and something that really works for me
and it's something I learned in college,
is don't mix your areas.
And I know you're thinking, what the heck
does that have to do with sleep?
But what I mean is, don't watch TV in bed.
Don't study in bed, study at your desk.
Watch TV in the living room.
If you separate your areas into
sleep, relaxation, wonderful area.
Stress, study, anxiety area.
Watching funny television, YouTube video area
Right, we create areas, and then when we go to bed
our body just like that routine and that...
All that stuff I'm talking about
it will be like, 'Wow, this is the only,
this is the place where we sleep.'
And it sounds silly but that's something that
really helped me because I used to study in bed in college.
And then I took this class and they were like
you should probably separate your areas
and I tried it and boom, no problem, no more issues.
So try those things out and if some things worked for you
helped you put yourself to sleep
Sometimes like chamomile tea can work or you know
you might have your own little tricks and tips.
(mumbles) that was a mouthful.
But leave them in the comments below
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And keep working with me and we will get some sleep,
feel sleepy, and that'll give us
a healthy mind and a healthy body.
(laughs)
Sean's asleep back there and I put myself to sleep
(snores)
but man, I could always sleep.
I can nap like nobody's business
I could nap right now, probably sitting up
just give myself a little neck pillow
No problem (laughs).
I think I didn't miss anything.
Oh I forgot the habit thing.