I remember being able to sleep anywhere anytime. I’d sleep in my stroller when my mom was walking me, I’d sleep in her arms when she was holding me. I’d sleep in the car, on trains and even on planes.
My mom is half Kiwi (with family in Australia) and she’d take me to Australia when I was under a year old.
Obviously I don’t remember that but I was so adaptable. Much more than I am today. Somehow, somewhere a long the way we stopped being able to have a good night of sleep no matter what we do.
In this article I’m going to talk about a concept called “building your perfect quantum day“. I use the word quantum because essentially we are beings of light, just like the late Dr. Fritz Albert-Popp once said…
“We know today that man, essentially, is a being of light. And the modern science of photobiology … is presently proving this. In terms of healing, the implications are immense. We now know, for example, that quanta of light can initiate, or arrest, cascade-like reactions in the cells, and that genetic cellular damage can be virtually repaired, within hours, by faint beams of light. We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically, that the function of our entire metabolism in dependent on light.” – Fritz Albert Popp
What this means is that we receive light from the sun and we emit light inside our own bodies. These particles of light are called biophotons. Quantum refers to quantum physics which refers to the idea that we are all one and connected to each other via wavelengths of light.
I fully realize there are many more factors to consider when it comes to your ability to have a good night of sleep, like hormones, parasites, heavy metal accumulation, diet, food allergies, poor digestion and more which I plan to cover in future articles. I’m also working on building an entire curriculum around these concepts for a sleep course I’m working on.
Until then I’m going to focus on the foundation of light and how to manage your light environment that will lead to your ability to have a good night rest.
I don’t want to merely pay lip service to heavy metal accumulation, parasites and hormones because through proper blood testing, you can make great strides with your sleep.
For some people simply getting rid of parasites has been the one thing that has allowed them to cure their insomnia. For others doing a heavy metal detox is what really moves the needle for their sleep. I’ve seen people where it takes doing all of the things mentioned above to overcome sleep issues naturally.
It all depends on what you’ve been eating for your entire life, the environment you currently live in, your light exposure and daily stressors.
Curing insomnia naturally takes a multipronged approach that is unique to each individual.
In short I recommend doing all of the things I mentioned above ALONG WITH “building your perfect quantum day” to have a good night of sleep.
Morning
Most of you know by now that I recommend all my readers to watch the sunrise every single morning. If you wake up too late and the sun has already risen it doesn’t matter. For the first few hours after sunrise there are specific frequencies of UVA and infrared light that helps to create melatonin in your pineal gland.
When morning sunlight hits your pupil it then goes to the central retinal pathways to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus of your brain. Your SCN is the master clock inside your body.
Every cell has its own internal timing mechanism.
What reference point does each cell have to keep the right time? How does it know what time of day or year that it actually is? The way it does this is through biophotonic communication via mitochondrial emissions back to the SCN. The SCN in turn communicates to each cell in your body what environment your body is now in.
Is your body at 5,000 feet elevation? Is your body exposed to extreme cold? Is your body experiencing the dry heat of the dessert? Is your body inside or outside? Is your body exposed to sunlight or artificial light? All of this environmental information is passed back and forth between each cell and your SCN in nano seconds, and it’s happened all day every day.
But who sets the SCN? How does the SCN know what time of day it is? How does it know all this information? It knows it through the photons of light that come in, through our pupils.
Have you ever wondered why there are parts of our eye (the sclera) that are white?
White reflects light. That’s weird right?
Then you have the iris which is a ring-shaped membrane behind the cornea that sits in front of the lens. This is the colored part of your eye. Then in the center you have the pupil which are always black.
The color of black is a receiver of light.
We know that our eyes are more of a clock than they are a camera but what’s interesting is that your eye is also like a magnifying glass in that it hyper concentrates all the rays of sunlight into the pupil. It does this the same way as when you take the refracted rays of the sun and super concentrate them into a tiny hole that could start a fire if you do it correctly.
Your pupil is doing the same with the color temperature, the kelvin and frequency of light when you’re in sunshine. Your body is wonderfully made.
The more you study this, the more incredible and mind blowing it actually is.
So now you can see how wearing sunglasses or contact lenses is extremely damaging to our circadian rhythm and timing.
But I digress…
When you first wake up, I do not recommend looking at your phone, unless you have already turned your phone orange AND are wearing the red glasses that should be sitting on your nightstand from when you went to bed the previous night.
I like to take off my sleep mask right when I wake up with my eyes closed. Then I’ll open my bedroom window (all windows block UVB and IR light, not good for your circadian rhythms) and as soon as my window is open, I’ll open my eyes to let sun directly into them.
Then I drink my 32 ounces of filtered water with 5 capsules of nattokinase and then walk out of my bedroom into the backyard with no shoes on. It’s very important to be grounded in the morning while you’re getting morning sunshine. If you can expose more skin to that morning sun, the more powerful the effects will be.
I’ll usually pet the dogs, check the garden and look in the direction of the sun for a few seconds multiple times during my time outside. Usually I’ll spend 15 minutes or more doing this each day.
Then when I go inside, I immediately open all the windows of our home to let natural frequencies of light into our house. The added benefit of airflow helps as well.
I’ll then have breakfast and spend time with the kids, mostly outside if I can. I use every excuse to get outside as much as I can, especially in the morning, which is the MOST critical time to be outside.
A great thing about morning sunshine is that there’s no UVB yet so you cannot get a sunburn. You can track all of this with an app called Dminder.
Morning sun is also a great way to build more melanin in your body so you don’t get sunburn. Have you ever heard people tell you that you don’t need sunscreen and that morning sun is more effective? How do you think our ancestors got us here without sunscreen?
Afternoon
I work from a home office so my windows are always open and during the day I limit the amount of blue light coming from my computer screen. Blue light from the sun is healing. Man made artificial blue light causes blindness, insomnia and cancer.
I avoid man made blue light like the plague because it’s dangerous.
During the day I’m also wearing my yellow blue blocking glasses (even though my window is open) to block any excess blue light coming from my computer screen.
Another extremely powerful thing I do 5 or 6 times during the day is go outside. This usually looks like taking my shoes off and walking on the grass in our backyard. Maybe I’ll check the compost bins and spin them or maybe I’ll pet the dogs for a minute or so.
I’ll then come back to my work station in my office and continue working. I’m literally outside for 2 minutes tops.
How does this affect anything?
The idea here is twofold.
When we’re working on computers, we’re building a static electrical charge in our tissues. Grounding with bare feet helps to discharge this static electricity. This is what causes you to get a shock if it build up too much. We’ve all felt that.
Grounding discharges this electrical voltage.
The other thing grounding (aka earthing) does is to receive free electrons from the earth. Electrons are what’s needed by your body to lower inflammation (the cause of all disease and yes, insomnia). Having your feet on ground is incredibly healing.
When was the last time you did that?
The other benefit of regular “sun breaks” is that it resets our circadian rhythm through the SCN. Remember what I said that your eyes are more of a clock than a camera? All clocks need to be reset.
What would happen to your old grandfather clock if you set the time once and left it for ten years? It would be way off right?
What’s throwing off our circadian rhythms on a regular basis?
- nnEMF
- Wifi
- smart meters
- wireless routers
- cell phones
- fluorescent lights
- being indoors etc.
Getting sunlight into your pupil multiple times per day is resetting that internal biological clock that controls your circadian rhythm. The more you’re exposed to man made light and technology the more you need to reset your biorhythms.
I also workout three times per week. I used to go to the gym and I hated that. I hated it for so many reasons. The air was toxic, there was sweat on all the machines. I couldn’t listen to my audio books because I was constantly interrupted. A 60 minute workout would take at least 90 minutes. I never had extra time to throw away like that.
All gyms have toxic indoor lighting and toxic air as well as high amount of nnEMF and wifi.
Now I have a home gym and workout outside which gives me more of a chance to get natural sunlight to help with my sleep.
Sunset
Experiencing the sunset is almost as important as watching the sunrise. The important thing I try to educate people about is that it doesn’t matter if you can actually see the sunset, you just need to be outside grounded to the earth so that your body experiences it.
Generally speaking the color temperature of the sun before it sets is around 1,200 to 1,500 kelvin. It goes from that level of irradiance and brightness to absolute zero in a second. This light to dark millisecond is a magical time. It’s a spiritual time. It’s time of transition where lots of biological timing processes are happening inside your body and yet you can’t even feel it.
I like to look up the time of the sunset on Google and then set my alarm on my phone about 5 minutes before the sun actually sets. This way I can get up and go outside right when it happens. The entire process takes about one to two minutes maximum.
The setting of the sun is powerful for your sleep and for your health. You only get a finite amount of sunrises and sunsets in your life so I would highly encourage you to embrace as many as possible.
Not only will your ability to have a good night of sleep improve, but your overall health will improve as well.
Evening
When I’m working and my alarm goes off to watch the sunset, I immediately change the color of my computer screen to emit zero blue light. This is because when I come back from being outside for the sunset, I do not want any blue light to enter my eyes until the morning sunrise.
For this reason I’ll take off my yellow glasses to go experience the sunset and take my orange glasses with me outside. I never wear blue light blocking glasses when outside and I don’t recommend that. As I’m walking back into the house, I’ll put on my orange glasses so when I look at my computer screen (that’s also now orange) I’ll be also wearing my orange glasses.
Then I make sure that all the lights in our home are orange and then we’ll get the kids ready for bed.
About 2 hours before bedtime which is roughly 9:30 or 10pm I’ll take off my orange glasses and put on my red ones while taking my first 50mg melatonin supplement. I don’t take melatonin to help sleep, I take it to prevent cancer, longevity and as an antioxidant.
Then I’ll take a magnesium bath (under red light of course) that has boron and baking soda added to it. I’ll soak for about 20 to 30 minutes. After I get out I’ll stretch for about 10 to 15 minutes since my muscles are now loose and warm from my medicinal bath routine.
Then I’ll read in bed for about 10 minutes. I don’t read on a kindle or other electronic device but an actual book that has pages. In order to avoid waking my wife up, I’ll use a special book light that emits only red light so I can read in the dark.
When I’m done I set the book on my night stand, turn off the book light and lie on my back. Then I’ll close my eyes, take off my red glasses and put on my sleeping mask.
In about 5 to 10 minutes, I’m asleep for the night.
Should I wake up at night (which is now rare) to go pee, I’ll put on my red glasses but keep my eyes closed and walk to the bathroom with my eyes closed. Then I’ll open them with my red glasses on, only for a split second while I’m going pee.
In my bathroom I have a red nightlight that’s effective but doesn’t lower melatonin levels.
Then I go back to sleep with my eyes closed and put on my sleep mask and I’m off to never never land once again.
Conclusion
If you want a good night of sleep, it takes an understanding of how hormones work and how light affects our circadian biology. Once you fix all of these issues, you can go to bed at night knowing you’ll fall asleep and sleep deeply.
Questions:
- What’s your night time bed routine for sleep?
- How many times (if at all) do you wake up to go pee?
- How long does it take you to fall asleep?
Comment below!