Nsima Inyang

And then over time, when you start to fall asleep, you're gonna realize, wow, I'm breathing through my nose when I sleep.

And when you breathe through your nose at your sleep, you're gonna have a lower heart rate and more restful sleep, which is why years ago, all the bros like us started sleeping with mouth tape.

Do you sleep with mouth tape?

Sometimes, but I don't have to anymore.

Like I do it just because I'm used to it, right?

But I've tested myself to see, will I still wake up with a dry mouth?

Do I still have my mouth fall open?

I asked my girlfriend, let me know if I was snoring when we wake up in the morning.

And now I don't, because I used to snore.

And it was because of all these things I wasn't thinking about.

Like when I first started thinking, when I first started bringing awareness to this maybe,

maybe eight or so years ago, one of the first things I noticed is when I was working on my laptop with my Beats headphones on, I didn't realize my ex-girlfriend actually told me, Insima, you're breathing through your mouth, when she was sitting with me once.

I was like, what?

She's like, yeah, you're breathing through your mouth while you're working.

I was like, hmm.

I started to get some self-conscious and this was before I knew about all this but yeah That was like her bringing awareness towards that got me to be like I need a Keep my mouth closed when I'm fucking when I have because when you're not thinking and you're listening to music and you're working Your things will just drop into the way they are and you will have to do the work of bringing awareness to the diaphragmatic breath and

bringing awareness to your facial posture so that you can make these subtle changes over time that long-term will have big health benefits.

But in the short term, it's gonna be a level of frustration and work because you're gonna be like, it's not clicking, it's not working.

Well, it's because it takes a constant effort to change the patterns that have been built into your system for probably the past decade.

When I sleep on my back, even if my mouth is taped, I'll snore.