Sleep & Recovery
In This Lab...
Orientation to Sleep & Recovery
Listen
How Important Is Sleep?
The Primary Phases of Sleep
Our Genes & Our Sleep
The Camping Experiment
Are We Optimizing Our Sleep & Recovering Fully?
Improving The Quality & Effectiveness of Our Sleep
Investigating Your Personal Sleep Scene
General Sleep Recommendations
A Closer Look at Our Sleep Stages
Sleep Debt
Addressing Chronic Sleep Issues
Sleep Stage Monitoring
Additional Sleep Facts
Essential Oils
Our Body-Mind Knows Our Sleep Needs
Key Takeaways
Key Habits
Sleep & Recovery Checklist
Related Labs
Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions
AT A GLANCE
Ensuring we are obtaining sleep of sufficient quality and quantity, and optimizing our recovery and vitality, is a considerable achievement in today’s world. Sleep and recovery are complex functions and are directly related to virtually all areas of our health, performance, and well-being.
Every mental and physical function in our body-mind is enhanced by proper sleep and recovery, or limited when we fall short. Sleep and recovery, and the factors which influence each, are interdependent and combine to determine our vitality, regenerative capacities, inflammatory and aging processes.
At V-Metrics, we have been studying, exploring, and innovating in assessing and meeting sleep and recovery needs for the best part of 4 decades—and we have important insights to share with you. Insights that ensure you have what you require to navigate the complex terrain of sleep and proceed to optimize it.
Our approach in this Lab and its related Labs will free you from “worrying” about your sleep and empower you to improve it. Your worries will be replaced with clear, concise, principle-centered action steps you can begin to explore immediately. Starting with a deeper, more objective assessment of whether you are meeting your needs for sleep and recovery, or not. We are very excited to share this foundational Lab and its many benefits with you.
Every mental and physical function in our body-mind is enhanced by proper sleep and recovery, or limited when we fall short. Sleep and recovery, and the factors which influence each, are interdependent and combine to determine our vitality, regenerative capacities, inflammatory and aging processes.
At V-Metrics, we have been studying, exploring, and innovating in assessing and meeting sleep and recovery needs for the best part of 4 decades—and we have important insights to share with you. Insights that ensure you have what you require to navigate the complex terrain of sleep and proceed to optimize it.
Our approach in this Lab and its related Labs will free you from “worrying” about your sleep and empower you to improve it. Your worries will be replaced with clear, concise, principle-centered action steps you can begin to explore immediately. Starting with a deeper, more objective assessment of whether you are meeting your needs for sleep and recovery, or not. We are very excited to share this foundational Lab and its many benefits with you.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- How knowledgeable are you about the role sleep and recovery play regarding your mood, function, inflammatory and aging processes, your vitality, and well-being?
- How certain are you that you understand and are optimizing the quality of your sleep and your ability to recover?
- Have you engaged a thorough assessment of your sleep and recovery recently?
- Might improvements in your sleep result in better function across multiple systems within your body-mind?
HYPOTHESIS
Everyone benefits from better sleep and recovery. Sleep and recovery are dependent on your daily habits, some of which are likely to be new to you. Both mental-emotional and physical habits are important to the quality of your sleep. By engaging this Lab and following the guidance within it, you will learn to evaluate your “sleep and recovery scene” and be better equipped to track your progress as you improve on it. Learning how to improve your sleep will prove to be deeply rewarding.