Dr. Michael Grandner

What you think is, I don't have an appetite for a couple of days, but in a couple of days, it'll come back and I'll be fine.

And when people deal with temporary sleep loss that same way, it's a similar system.

The system can correct itself if you let it.

But what ends up happening is when we start stressing about it, it starts creating these problems.

And a lot of times it's us getting in our own way.

Great.

So first of all, in addition to stimulus control, in terms of the other tools within CBTI, a lot of them focus on this idea that,

you want to drive your natural sleep drive, put that sleep drive in bed.

And when you're not, when bed is not really going to be used for sleep, you get up.

And so if you're going to be on your phone, the first thing I would say is try and separate the phone from the bed.

Have the bed be the place where sleep is occurring, not where sleep is predictably not occurring because it's not occurring when you're on your phone.

See if you can do that.

Um, if you,

for some reason you have to be in bed when you're on your phone, I would say the thing to do is you still want to create that separation.

The best way to do that is maybe stand next to your bed.

Because like I say stand, it's silly and very rarely do people actually do it, but people sometimes do.

And I do this because if you're standing, if being in that proximity is important,

for your ability to sort of wind down or whatever, but at least A, you're not in bed, but B, the standing does something very important.

And especially people in the athletic space will know this, that you don't lose touch with your body's communication to you.

When you're standing, there will eventually come a point where you say, but I really want to sit down now.