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sleep deprivation has profound effects

on your well-being in this video would

explain those effects and then what to

do about it it can increase your risk of

diabetes it can increase insulin

resistance which comes before diabetes

increase your blood pressure it can

cause a heart attack directly it can

make you fat it affects your mood puts

you in a state of depression anxiety

worry it can increase your risk of

getting a stroke it can make you more

susceptible to injury in getting in an

accident it also decreases your

attention your focus and your memory and

it severely affects your mental state

and even your vision other than that it

won’t affect any other part of the body

and you have nothing to worry about

but what is the actual root cause and

why can’t people sleep and the number

one thing behind having a sleep problem

is being in flight or fight mode okay

being in the flutter fight is like being

chased by a tiger you’re gonna have

adrenaline go up you’re gonna of

cortisol go up your body is prepared for

some emergency or sudden survival action

as in flight run away or stand there and

fight try to sleep if you’re running

away from something or you’re fighting

something now this mechanism is part of

something called the sympathetic nervous

system and by itself it’s really just

sending signals to certain muscles and

glands which actually have the ability

to contract hormones and it’ll affect

the muscle called the diaphragm that

affects your breathing so the actual

reason why you can’t sleep has to do

with increase muscle tone so there’s

certain muscles in your body that will

not let go they will not relax if your

diaphragm is being activated it’s going

to affect your breathing you’re gonna be

holding your breath you’re not gonna

have a relaxed breath this is why

control breathing actually can help you

sleep as well but the point you need to

know there are certain muscles on your

body that are in a state of tightness

and that tension

just won’t let you drift off into a nice

sleep but if you’re the sleeping problem

I want you to do something right now

now you’re probably watching this in the

middle of the night because this is on

sleep deprivation if so I want you to

isolate what muscle or muscles have

tension in them is it your traps

is it your lower back is it the muscles

on the front part of the chest

is it the muscles in the abdomen through

here is it the legs it isn’t your hip

make mental no all right so now that you

identified what muscles that are tight

this is the technique and it’s a bit

counterintuitive you want to locate the

muscle tightness and then you want to

stretch the opposite muscle okay now

what does that mean well let’s just

pretend that your trap muscles up here

are tight you know you’re like this okay

so your trap muscles raise your arm like

that right so the opposing muscle would

be the muscles that bring your arm down

they’re called the last they’re

underneath your arms I put a little

chart down below but here’s what you

want to do you just want to stretch the

opposite muscle so in the example of the

traps you’re gonna stretch the lats so

you would take the top of the door or a

bar at the gym and stretch okay you’re

gonna stretch the opposite muscle what’s

gonna happen it’s gonna melt these traps

and the more that these muscles relax

the better you’re gonna sleep this is

why stretching before bed is so so

important so that’s step one and you can

check out the muscles down below and get

some ideas on what type of stretching

you need to do now the next thing to do

relates to acupressure okay now you can

use acupressure on other reasons why you

have muscular tension - like cold

injuries for example and I put some

really good links down below of how to

do acupressure how to handle old

injuries and so you can start applying

at your body because if every part of

your body was in a total state of

relaxation you would be able to sleep

now you also have three electrolytes

that are involved with the relaxation of

muscles you have magnesium potassium and

calcium so if you are low in

electrolytes that can also affect the

muscle relaxation alright guys so go

ahead

try this apply it comment down below and

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