Dr. Andrew Huberman

about the placebo effect, but it's also pretty darn cool.

Because what it means is that our belief system, including our understanding of the mechanisms that are likely driving certain effects of drugs or protocols or what have you, is going to play a powerful role in whether or not we get the effect that we want.

And perhaps that's the most important thing provided that you're going about it safely.

How do I enter the rest and digest state and exit my constant fight or flight state?

Well, the fastest way is going to be physiological size, probably repeated two or three times in a row if you don't experience that the first time.

The second would be to combine that with panoramic vision.

I must say, and I don't want to sound like a repeating record here, but there are certain things that if we're not doing on a regular basis, our nervous system is just going to idle at a higher, let's just call it autonomic RPM, which is not

you know, real science language, but if you've ever felt kind of wired and tired from lack of sleep, you know what this is about.

The key thing is to get enough sleep each night.

You know, so much so that I think we can safely say that stress is not bad for us, provided you sleep well at night.

Now, the challenge is for most people, including myself, if you stress a lot, sleep doesn't come easily, or you wake from sleep in the middle of the night.

And here again is where zero cost,

behavioral protocols are truly, in my opinion, unless there's some dire clinical need, the most effective and best practice.

And this non-sleep deep rest, which, by the way, is indeed a renaming or a partial renaming of yoga nidra, which stands for yoga sleep.

And again, I have tremendous reverence for the yogic traditions.

It's just that

I had to make a decision a few years ago when I'd been introduced to Yoga Nidra in 2015.

I was down at a trauma treatment center, an addiction treatment center in Florida run by a friend of mine, essentially observing what they were doing with these addicts that couldn't recover no matter what their effort, and they were able to recover, to get sober and stay sober, and people were getting over other sorts of traumas through the use of many protocols, of course, talk therapy, etc.,

but they would start their day with 30 minutes to an hour of yoga nidra.

And I thought, what's yoga nidra?