How to GET TO SLEEP, Mental Health Videos with Kati Morton

You're feeling very sleepy..

Actually you're not and that's why you're watching this video

So stay tuned for more tips

On how to actually feel

Very sleepy.

So like I said this weekend's video topic is about

how to get to sleep

and I've heard from many of you messaging me

when I'm asleep

cause sweet jesus I love sleep. So much sleep

If I could sleep for twelve hours every night the world would be a better place.

But I've heard from many of you saying

Hey, it's 3 AM. I'm watching your videos back to back.

I can't go.. I can't to to sleep

Turn off your technology.

I know that you're like "But Kati,

it's my only outlet"

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, all the research

shows we should stop watching television.

I believe, and I even hate to say this,

but I believe that they said television should

go off three hours before bedtime.

But that's just not realistic for me

maybe it is for you, hey, try it

let me know, leave it in the comments,

but I say 30 minutes-- three-zero

give yourself thirty minutes of time

to unwind, stop the technology, put it away

I don't care if you have to read the news

shawn, at night, for so long

(he reads the news, who reads the news?)

I don't care if you need to shop.

That's what I do, Isearch on Ebay.

I can't help myself.

I don't care what it is

if you want to watch Kati Morton's videos

they'll be there tomorrow

I promise. They're on YouTube.

They're never going away. Never, never.

So, whatever you need to do

stop doing it 30 minutes before

you want to go to bed.

And you will--it will help you unwind

You'll unravel. You'll feel so peaceful

Well, at least that's one portion of it

So stop the technology

give yourself enough time

to get into a routine.

Step 2. Starting a routine.

And I know this sounds silly, but,

for many of you, I guess you don't know

I was a nanny through all of college

and part of grad school

and what that means is I changed a lot of
diapers

I put a lot of babies to sleep

and what did I do?

Routine. It was all routine.

We bathed then we give them a bottle

then we put them to bed

we bate them, we.... you get the picture

you get the picture, that's what we do

every night, and so they get used to it

and when they're in the bath they'll

even start getting tired.

You know how babies fight the sleep

They're like 'no, no another moment of light'

right? when we get older we wish we'd
never fought the sleep

but, we need to get into routine.

So if you want to shower and then you want
to like brush your hair, brush your teeth

wash your face, we all have things we have
to do to get to bed

So let's start putting them into a
schedule so we have a routine.

A bedtime routine. And I promise that it
will help.

Cause oddly enough our bodies are
programmed, and they get used to

it's almost like on the weekend when you
wake up when your alarm would

normally go off

and for like five minutes you're like
"why the heck am I awake?

It's six thirty in the morning! who wants to---"

and then you're like ::snoring::

You know, cause you don't have to get up

but your body knows that it normally
gets up at this time

and it can be the same for going to bed

So number 2 is routine and that leads us

right into number three, which is

setting your circadian