What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert, and I created the Live Pain Free Process. I’ve been creating innovative ways to get people to learn how to heal from within. Today, I would like to talk about the concept of what to do when you wake up from a sound sleep. That’s going to be a touchy subject for a lot of people because sleep is a big deal. A lot of people don’t realize that your body is telling you things at night. Dream states are powerful.
Your body’s always doing working on something, and sometimes when you’re overworked and your brain hasn’t really cooled down — what I call “spooling down” — it actually still processes through the night. Your brain is just a problem solving mechanism. It’s a supercomputer that can solve any problem once you show it one. If you don’t slow down, just like a child, you will have a hard time sleeping. To avoid that with our children, we give them nighttime routines, but we need to have the same thing as adults. If we don’t do our nighttime routine for whatever case that is, your body won’t sleep as well.
What do you do when you actually wake up? You have to realize a couple different things. One is that your brain is probably trying to tell you something. Either you never really closed out of a problem that you were trying to do, and it’s waking you up to tell you, or you’re emotionally triggered by something, physically, mentally, or emotionally that has not been closed. What does that mean? If I wake up because I’m in physical pain, you might wake up and say, “Oh, F. Oh, damn. Oh fill in the blank.” Roll over and say, “It’s 2:00 again. Oh my God,” and you’re just going to start to get triggered emotionally. Once that happens, your brain starts to process ways of getting out of it and figuring what to do next to fix the problem. Once it starts spooling up, that’s when the trouble truly comes in because now your body’s waking up because your brain’s processing faster and saying, “Oh, now it’s time to wake up. Let’s problem solve. Let’s go.” Then cortisone levels start raising. Everything starts picking up its pace and then you’re up.
What is the solution to that? One, recognize what you did wrong. Did I not follow my routine? Did I drink too much? Did I drink too much coffee? Did I watch too much TV late at night, or am I having a problem with my spouse, with my job, with my kids? Whatever the case may be, figure that out instantaneously, recognize it, say, “All right. This is what I need to fix,” and write it down on a piece of paper. I always keep either my journal next to my bed or just a random piece of paper and pen, so if something does wake me up, and I just jot it down — don’t even look, just jot it down — my brain allows me to calm down.
That’s going to be a key, and that takes practice because you’re going to have to realize that you shouldn’t open your eyes, you shouldn’t panic, don’t even look at the clock. You have to realize that you’re awake, calmly breathe, relax, and see what’s happening inside. Either my leg hurts or my shoulder hurts in whatever position. Write it down. If it’s something mental, write it down, or if it’s something physical, roll over nice and easy. Do some nice relaxing breaths to bring the nervous system down.
You’re doing it two-fold. One, if it’s a mental issue, an emotional issue, write it down and make sure you say, “I’ll deal with this in the morning” because that’s when your brain says, “All right. We’re going to deal with it in the morning.” It’s right there. It’s a reminder. It’s good. It spools down. If it’s physical pain, don’t try to get up and do anything. Hold it, take a couple of deep breaths, relax.
Now there is an odd case where this lovely trick does not work, where you’re too emotionally invested in whatever you’re doing, which means it does shoot up. What you’re going to have to do is get out of bed, go somewhere, and write it down in detail. “This is what happened. This is what I’m going to do about it, and this is when.” Really go through that in your head. Then do it.
Do it right then and there. Either do your stretches, do your trigger point work, take a shower, drink some water — do whatever you say you’re going to do to make it better, and then your body will spool down faster rather than you sitting up in bed saying, “Why am I not going to go to sleep,” or, “I should be doing something. ” Get up and actually do it, or else your brain will not shut off and you just stay up longer. I’ve seen people stay up all night because they refuse to get out of bed and walk to someplace where you can write it down in specifics. I’ve seen it happen a billion times. I’ve even done it.
That’s what I learned. I have to get up and really write it down, but sometimes — this is the hardest part, and then I’ll let you go — when you wake up at night, it is for a reason; it could be an amazing thought that you need to write down that will change everything. It’s that big of an idea, so don’t think, “Oh, I’m up again. Dammit.” Think, “All right. Why am I up? What’s happening?” Write it down because you never know. It could be a game-changer. Hope this helped. If you have any other questions, please holler at me. Give me a call on the next one. Bye.
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