Dr. Alok (Dr. K)

Notice the internal drives when you don't feel like doing something and then run contrary to it.

That is how you are gonna be doing pushups for your frontal lobes and taking control

Decreasing the size of the connection between what you feel and how you act.

That's the really important training that you need to do.

Because what happens every time you give into an emotion and you act when you feel a certain way is it strengthens the connection between your emotional circuit and your behavioral circuit.

We need to weaken that connection out to separate those two things.

Can enlightened people just sleep four hours?

I think human beings can be healthy with four hours of sleep.

I don't know if being enlightened has anything to do with it though.

I think there's a lot of really interesting stuff from the yogic literature that we're sort of starting to discover.

So a couple of my favorite studies.

So we now know about free diving.

But, you know, I've studied with yogis that will breathe once an hour or even less.

Once an hour, I think I've come pretty close to that.

We know from freediving that that's something you can do.

Another thing is there's a great study by Herb Benson that showed that

Practice of yoga and pranayama in the right way can alter body temperature by a maximum of nine degrees Celsius, which is insane.

That's been verified in the laboratory.

And I think that similarly with sleep, there are certain things that you can do that will allow you to sleep for a very small quantity of time.

And that just has to do with like physiology, right?