Dr. Andrew Huberman

I learned it's yoga sleep.

You lie down, you do a self-directed relaxation.

It also involves intentions, et cetera.

And I thought, this is really powerful.

And I spent a lot of time in my laboratory working on it and understanding it.

And there are other studies as well that now explain how these states of keeping the mind active while the body is still

as a self-directed practice, is immensely powerful for a number of reasons.

And the reason I decided to call it non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, was not to rob it of the official name of yoga nidra, but because unfortunately, unfortunately, names like yoga nidra, or proprietary names, or when we name protocols after people, it acts as a separator.

often deters people from trying things because it sounds esoteric.

So I went with a description of the thing that relates to what the thing is supposed to do, non-sleep-depressed or what it's all about.

So I actively avoided calling it Huberman breathing or something like that because that's not my interest.

My interest is in people using these tools.

And I have taken some heat for that one.

I'm not interested.

It was not an attempt to appropriate something.

It was really an attempt to just try and distribute valuable tools because I see a lot of suffering

And it seems like a useful thing to do.

So I would encourage anyone that feels like they enter a stressed state too much to learn self-directed relaxation.

First and foremost, so do NSDR anywhere from three to five times a week, 10 minutes a day as a zero cost tool, as a way to be able to better access, better sleep at night.

And then if the fight or flight state persists, then of course, things like physiological size, etc.,