Why stay up when you can just sleep?

A sleep cycle...? Eight hours of sleep is not necessarily necessary for everybody. What you want to do is find just that right time to sleep. Basically, according to Chinese wisdom you have different time segments: two hour time segments throughout the day that connect to a particular organ. So we have 12 different organs that connect to these different time periods. These are the energetic periods. So that means that that organ is most active during that time. 11 pm to 1 am is the gall bladder, 1 am to 3 am is the liver. Those two organs work together to really process the blood, remove toxins but not just that, also emotional toxins—things like that—so you want to be sure that you're lying down for those to work. If you are not lying down, if you are active, if you're using your body, using your muscles, the blood is not able to return to the liver. It is helping your body move. It is helping your brain think. It's doing all that. That's why it's very very important, especially 11 p.m to 3 a.m, that we are fast asleep in bed. So first off, what we're saying here is that you are already asleep at 11. So however long it takes for you to fall asleep, maybe you need to go to bed at 10 30 or you need to go to bed at 10 for you to actually fall asleep. Now if if your body is nice and balanced and everything is working well, yes if you're ... six hours during that time period that should be enough energy for a healthy, balanced individual. Now if you have trouble sleeping through the night, if you wake up, if you have different issues like this, then that means that something is out of whack, so those six hours might not even really be six hours. If you're waking up or it's unsettled sleep, so what you might have to do until you can get those those disharmonies balanced, you might want to try to go to bed a little bit earlier. So not wake up later but go to bed earlier—10 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 8 45, why not—you can go to bed earlier. That two hour time period before—so 9 p.m to 11 p.m is kind of the general organ of the body. It's called the triple burner. It just encases all the organs, so that is totally a fine time to to sleep as well. Three to five is the lung, so the lung is, you want to make sure that your lung gets nourished, nice calm breaths while you're asleep. Well, 11 to 3 is the most crucial and then you also want to be asleep during the lung time as well. So three to five is pretty important. Some people, maybe their lungs will activate at 4:30 and you wake up then, but it's it's generally towards the end of that two hour period for the lungs and then at five a.m if you have gone to bed at a good time, at five a.m you should have this, just this breath, you almost, it's almost like the scene that you see in a movie right where the person wakes up, like that should happen to every single person right around 5 a.m. Whenever that happens that's the time you wake up, you can think of that breath. It's very much like when a baby is born and they take their first breath, energetically that's what's happening. It's the birth of this day, you're being born in this day, you take this breath, now you're awake. If you go back to sleep then you kind of killed that momentum. Well, I would argue that probably what happens at around five o'clock, you do take that breath, you do actually wake up, but maybe you didn't get good enough sleep, maybe you felt exhausted, maybe you didn't go to bed at the right time and so you're gonna want to, your body says, "You know what? Forget about this. We're going back to bed." What science is discovering now is pretty much what what the ancients in china have been talking about before. I've heard people say from from 10 p.m to 2 a.m is is like the money sleep, which basically depends on whether you're on daylight savings or not, so we're using 11 p.m to 3 a.m, but sometimes it could be 10 p.m to 2 a.m, I suppose. Well, ancient wisdom doesn't usually talk about sleep cycles, but in the West we ... each sleep cycle is an hour and a half, which is getting close to the two hour period of that. That would be four sleep cycles or three of these two hour segments. When you sleep you definitely want to be breathing through your nose pretty much all the time. You want to be breathing through your nose. Nose breathing is definitely a lot better. A lot of ancient Chinese texts actually talk about "don't even speak too much," because when you speak you're breathing through your mouth, so what I'm doing right now is a very bad idea. Also too, according to ancient wisdom, pathogens, when you speak, especially when you're outside and it's windy, can enter through your mouth. Now, you don't have as much of that problem when you're asleep at home, but drafts and things like that, you could get colds if you're if you're not careful. 5am to 7am—that's the large intestine or the colon and that period of time after you have woken up at five and then the colon does what the colon does best. That's the best time for that. Before you fall asleep at 8 45 tonight, be sure to like and subscribe, and if you have any other questions about ancient wisdom, anything in this video, or really anything at all, leave it in the comments below and if you're lucky maybe i'll make a video about it. We will do a whole series on internal wind, a horrible thing that happens to the body. Apparently some people think it's funny that you have internal wind. That's cracking some people up here. Whoo, it's certainly windy in my organs today! My goodness, how do I get rid of all this wind? It's not what you're thinking. Okay, it's not, it's different than that.