Andrew Huberman· PhD
And then I always do, a non sleep deep rest protocol sometime in the afternoon. This is sometimes a 10 minute yoga nidra type protocol, or a 30 minute yoga nidra type protocol.
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And then I always do, a non sleep deep rest protocol sometime in the afternoon. This is sometimes a 10 minute yoga nidra type protocol, or a 30 minute yoga nidra type protocol.
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So I've made it a practice, a daily practice in fact, that after lunch and after this walk, I do a brief 10-minute hypnosis script because what I've found is that in contrast to naps and in contrast to other forms of NSDR, it really allows me to enter a state of deep relaxation, but also to then exit that state in a very focused and deliberate way that allows me to lean into my afternoon in an alert way, in a way that I can function and do mental work and interact with people, et cetera. So there's no brain fog, there's no grogginess.
So I am an, as you can probably tell, I'm very enthusiastic about hypnosis as an optimal NSDR protocol, and so I do that every single day. There are days that I don't manage to do it for whatever reason. I forget or interference from email or et cetera. But that is essentially how I enter my early afternoon. I do this post-lunch, post-walk NSDR in the form of a Reveri hypnosis.
So I do daily or maybe every other day hypnosis script that's about-- it's self-directed hypnosis script of about 5 to 15 minutes, usually, trying to get myself to be less pissed off about something that I'm really pissed off about, frankly. I imagine the stuff I'm really pissed off about in the screen on the left side. I think about all the things that make me feel good, and then I keep thinking about how angry I am. This is really how it goes. And then over time, I've noticed, well, you're coupling that bodily state of calm to the anger thing.