Who Am I Quest Blog

Have you ever slept a full eight hours and still woken up feeling like you could go straight back to bed?

If so, you are far from alone. So many of us are doing everything we are told to do, and still waking flat, foggy and tired. We reach for another coffee, promise ourselves an early night, and wonder what we are doing wrong.

I have spent over thirty years working with the breath, and if there is one thing you take from this blog it is that the quality of your sleep is not made in the thirty minutes before bed. It is influenced by how you have been all day from the moment you wake up.

If you are having sleep issues then that shift of looking at how you treat your body, breath, life during the day changes everything. Let me explain why, and then give you some simple things you can start today.

Why you wake up tired even after a full night:

There are two settings in your nervous system. One is the sympathetic, often called fight or flight.  You can think of it as the accelerator...