Dr. Michael Grandner

The trick is why aren't you able to do this thing you were built to be able to do?

What's in the way?

What's preventing your body from working the way it's supposed to?

And insomnia treatment is often like that.

It's like, you can probably sleep just fine.

You were built with this ability.

There's a chance maybe there's something else, but most of the time you have everything in you you need to sleep fine.

Something is in the way.

Let's get out of your own way and clear that path.

It's through the conditioned arousal.

It's teaching people that, A, they can gain more control over their ability to sleep than they thought.

But also paradoxically, it also teaches people how and when to surrender some control.

So like, let's say you have a stomach bug and you have no appetite for a day, right?

You're eating like toast and drinking tea or whatever.

If you eat anything, that would be bad.

You don't think, what if I starve to death?

That's not a thought you have.

You don't think, oh, I have this stomach bug.

What if I get a niacin deficiency and have permanent damage?

Because no, you don't.