Dr. Anna Lembke

Right?

And then, you know, if your schedule and your lifestyle allows, doing some exercise or some mind-body work, some meditation, something that maybe, you know, you don't necessarily look forward to before you do it, but you know that after you do it, you feel better.

Okay.

And you plan all that out.

You put your exercise bag there or you arrange to meet with a friend to exercise or you put whatever your meditation practice is.

You get it all ready and you plan it out.

And then when you wake up, you don't linger in the bed when you know especially you're not going to be able to go back to sleep.

Don't grab for any digital devices.

Don't look at any screen.

Your brain is going to tell you, oh, I need to check this, or I'm just going to look at that, or this is really important.

Really try to plan it out so you don't need to look at your device for any reason, not for a text, not for mapping.

Know where you're going to go.

Plan it out in advance.

Get up.

Leave the device behind.

Go outside if you can.

Move your body.

Be in nature if you can.

Be in a space where you are not counting yourself or digitally monitoring yourself.

You're just with yourself.