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Reflections on Module 3
Hey team, Just figured out the discussion boards šŸ˜… I went through the module, and I have a few sporadic thoughts I want to share while it’s fresh: -I’m really excited to talk about how to educate kids on this. Sleep is one of those things we can’t really give them an experience with as we can with movement and breathing — and we can’t follow them home — but it’s the most important thing. Can’t wait to dive in to how we help them! -I love sleep trackers/journals. As with other modules, I’m loving the simplicity around this (templates I’ve used for courses/carts around sleep science were great but cumbersome). Categorizing sleep blockers and starters is just so brilliantly straightforward, and focusing just on the most common ones removes a lot of the weeds. -I wonder about your thoughts, @David Bidler , on the dangers of wearables interfering with self-trust, intuition, and/or interoception. I’ve very little experience with them, but I’ve read some recent articles about how your general evaluation on how you slept is a better indicator than wearable data. And I do have colleagues in the breath/sleep science space who have worn a different brand on each wrist and woke up to totally different data. In everyones’s experience, where’s the line between this being useful empowering data and it being sort of a crutch, especially for young people (again coming from someone with almost no experience using them for sleep)? -Lastly, I’ll just add another sleep starter for anyone who’s interested, which is the idea of ā€œstate anchoring.ā€ As the brain is a prediction machine, linking a specific stimulus to bedtime time can aid the brain and body in winding down. Example: If you turn off overhead light and put on the same relaxing music an hour before bed, you’ll begin to anchor a parasympathetic state to those stimuli (could be anything). As always, looking forward to rich thoughts and discussions!
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Interesting points re tracking. I do believe that common sense needs to prevail when tracking anything - sleep tracking being no different. I would suggest that the essential information to be shared, coached and mentored is firstly how important sleep is as a foundation for our health - and secondly what tools can we develop and use to support regular, healthy sleeping patterns - what works for one will not necessarily work for another. Wearables are a personal choice and should be considered on an individual basis in each case. If I am working with somebody who I believe has a tendency to become unhealthily obsessive and anxious through tracking such as this then I would not suggest or encourage them to track their sleep in this way - simply support them in developing healthy habits surrounding their routines. I would say this applies to me too, knowing myself well enough to decide if anything I decide to track is something that is going to help or hinder me in any way (which I often may not know until I try it out but that is part of my experience of learning about myself). My mum and dad has some scales when I was a child to keep an eye on their weight - they started to become anxious checking their weight constantly on the scales - so they threw them away. However, the process of learning about eating in a more healthy manner helped them create a healthy relationship with food and develop sustainable and healthy habits for many years. They have many friends who still use scales in a healthy manner and find them to be a really useful piece of equipment for many reasons. Just because the tool is in the box, doesn't mean I have to use it if that makes sense?
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