Sleep influencer: make live on Instagram to help people with insomnia

Brian Cohn

08/14/2021 6:01 AM

• Clarín.com

• Good Life

Updated 08/14/2021 6:01 AM

"I am amused, but I must be the first person who is happy when people fall asleep on their Instagram live. If they fall asleep, I met my goal."

With this unorthodox -but real-

maxim

,

Alejandro Londinsky

, kinesiologist, meditation instructor and now also a specialist in sleep, appears.

Or at rest, as he clarifies.

"

Many people sleep, but do not rest

. In fact, they wake up more tired than when they went to sleep the night before," he says.

Porteño, 55 years old and father of two children, Londinsky detected that sleeping problems increased during the first stage of the pandemic, between restrictions and uncertainty, and began to live on Instagram to help people.

From Monday to Friday at 22 o'clock, without exceptions, he

provides practical tips to rest

, guides simple meditations, teaches breathing exercises and "connects" his followers with the values ​​of gratitude, the ability to smile or the power of letting go. worries to rest.

Each day is a different theme.

The broadcast schedule was not random.

In addition to being the time of protection for the child, it is the ideal time to fall asleep, according to Ayurveda science.

Londinsky explains: "In many countries of Europe and the United States, people have dinner at 6 or 7 in the afternoon. Argentines only start to think about what we are going to eat at 21:00 and we end up having dinner at 10 or 11. And it is a moment in which the body no longer needs to be eating, due to the natural cleansing that must take place in the body ".

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Your input works.

At least that's what some of the almost 5,000 people who connect live or watch the recordings later on the Instagram account @

Alelondinsky let you know

.

"Many write to me privately. A woman told me:

'I love going to bed with you at night and getting up with my husband

.

' It

was very funny. The reception of the people is gratifying."

According to a study carried out by the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES) to evaluate the psychological impact of Covid-19 on the population, 70% said they had trouble sleeping.

But that was not the only consequence: anxiety, depression, stress, weight gain and sedentary lifestyle are side effects that appeared among those surveyed.

One of these studies that abound in the field of science was the one that inspired him to delve into the subject, based on his experience as a kinesiologist and instructor of meditation and breathing of the foundation The Art of Living. 

"I read an article that said that six out of ten Argentines slept badly before the pandemic, and in the world it was a similar number. That led me to do the living and the workshops, because

many people need their schedules to be ordered, that accompany her

. I had never thought of doing a live and less from Monday to Friday. And I don't do it on weekends because my wife cuts me off, heh, "he laughs.

Charismatic, Alejandro speaks simply, explains and contains.

The tips are easy to apply.

And there is never a lack of humor to empathize and relax.

This is how he states that

"the bed is made only for sleeping and having sex, nothing more

.

"

─And watch TV or read a book either? 

─When you enter the sacred place that is the bedroom, these two very nice things should happen: sex or rest.

All the rest has to happen in the living room

, which is precisely for living;

be it reading the newspaper, watching television or eating.

But in bed it is better to sleep, which is not really sleep but rest.

Because many people sleep six or eight hours, but do not rest.

Londinsy is 55 years old and started making the living on Instagram during the pandemic.

Photo Maxi Failla

─Aren't sleeping and resting synonymous?

─No, because

one can sleep but not rest.

And that happens when we go to bed with worries, with the agenda in the head ... The brain needs certain conditions to be able to rest.

If you had a coffee at night, if you saw a horror movie or were with your cell phone until the last moment, your brain is impregnated with things that will not allow you deep rest. 

─Should we give it more importance than we give rest?

─Think about this: the day you turned 30, you spent 10 years sleeping and 20 awake.

In other words,

a third of your life goes to sleep

.

The importance of sleep is such to be able to live the other two thirds.

Without that sleep, you cannot live your life.

─How many hours should we ideally sleep?

─I used to say that it was necessary to sleep six to eight hours, but

today I am encouraged to say eight directly

, because it is the time it takes for the body and brain to clean the entire system and replenish your energy.

All the lives of Instagram are recorded in your account.

─It is said that older people sleep less, is that correct?

─The question is how they get up.

If they get up well, it's ok.

If they wake up tired and have to take a nap, it is because they did not rest well.

If a person takes a sleeping pill, obviously he is going to sleep.

But did he rest?

Does the pill ensure you rest?

No, because he went to bed with the same problems and worries.

So you don't sleep because your body asks you to, but because the pill makes you sleep.

And

many people wake up stressed, depressed, or with mixed emotions

.

─What happens while we sleep?

─Millions of phenomena.

For starters, what you learned in the day is kept in the corresponding libraries.

Learning happens overnight

.

The brain cleanses what is not necessary and accumulates and stores what is necessary.

Neuroscientists are studying that what you lived or studied happens again several times so that that information is stored in the brain.

What do we do?

We sleep little.

Or if you have an exam, you drink coffee so you don't sleep.

Now they say the opposite is true. 

─Is the body connected with time?

─We have an internal clock, cycles that say that at that time we should already be sleeping.

When the light goes down, when the sun's energy is lower, we should prepare for sleep.

My old man said "make night"

, which meant to start preparing us for sleep.

According to a study carried out by UCES, 70% of the population said they had trouble sleeping.

─What tips do you recommend to people with insomnia?

─

Avoid having the television in the bedroom

, because it is like having a refrigerator in the bedroom.

You are going to be tempted.

The minibar in the hotels is there to tempt you.

Because you woke up or you had insomnia and you start watching your favorite series.

Also take the cell phone out of the bedroom.

─And the food issue ...?

─It's key.

We have to observe from 7:00 p.m. what we are going to put into the body.

Coffee, black tea and mate are stimulants of the nervous system.

He came the same.

And I also recommend taking a quick shower or meditating.

─Many people use cell phones as an alarm.

─It is preferable to buy an alarm clock.

On the one hand there is the temptation to see the cell phone and the other is the electromagnetic waves.

The cell phone should be away from the bed.

For Alejandro, this virtual space is his

"grain of sand"

at this time.

Regardless of whether it is at a family birthday, in a restaurant with friends or in the cinema, Londinsky - like Cinderella - leaves a few moments before 22 to interact with his followers.  

The transmissions were growing in reproductions with the passage of time and had such acceptance that Londinsky designed the workshop

"Sleep well to live better".

 He does it biweekly through the Zoom platform and ensures that it is a good opportunity for people to take practical tools and have a personalized accompaniment. 

"The strength of the workshop is how to live better as a result of having slept and rested well. When people finish the course we maintain a WhatsApp group and follow up," he says.

In addition to his work as a kinesiologist, Londinsky complements with

marma therapy

, an ancient Ayurveda technique that aligns the body's energy channels.

"We have energy centers and energy pathways, just as we have blood circulation and neural connections. It was discovered thousands of years ago that these energy channels could produce relief or pain depending on whether they were stimulated correctly or incorrectly. They are not visible to the human eye. but they can unblock very old contractures or chronic pain ", he sums up.

Some simple tips for sleeping

-Do physical exercise or yoga during the day

: "The body has to expend the energy it accumulates throughout the day and a little physical movement is the key."

-Not having the television in the room and turning off the cell phone after dinner

: "Animals have a gland that tells them 'you have to sleep' when the sun goes down. But we usually have the light in the room and the cell phone in front of us. the eyes and the brain goes crazy. " 

-Avoid drinking coffee, black tea and mate

after 7 pm, because "they stimulate the nervous system." 

-Incorporate meditation into the routine

: "A few minutes of relaxation allow the whole system to be restored, relieve tensions and calm the ups and downs of the mind."

-Take a hot shower

: "A short bath before going to bed allows you to change your body temperature and relax."

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