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restful and rejuvenating sleep. Welcome back in Nanga.

Hey Shen. Here we are with our second Welcome back in Nanga. Hey, Shan.

Here we are with our second week of discussing sleep and getting a restful night sleep.

And mindfulness is such a good place to start.

It's funny as we were preparing to record this episode this week.

I had a couple of nights where I was a bit slow getting to sleep.

So that put me in a state of mind to really remember what helps and

mindfulness certainly helps because it puts us in the in the here and now.

Mindfulness is beneficial for both our body and our mind. It helps calm the body by encouraging slower breathing and a relaxed heart rate which can help us drift off to sleep.

And it helps the mind by drawing it to focus in peaceful

awareness when we don't harness the mind and when trying to sleep it'll start

bringing up different what-if thoughts or scenarios which can keep us awake.

One of the things that I like to do when my brain is a little bit restless before bed.

And it's interesting that you said what you said about having a couple of nights where you didn't just fall asleep straight away because same here and I normally fall asleep pretty quickly.

So who knows something in the stars perhaps. But it really helps to go

through my gratitude and to just give thanks for being in this comfortable place, in this beautiful bed,

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