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Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well and Wake Up Well!

A bad day can just be an outcome of a bad night of sleep. And studies show that quality of sleep is as important as its duration.


Written by Aashika Rajendran

On Apr 19, 2023 – 8 minutes read

Sadhguru’s 10 Tips To Sleep Well And Wake Up Well

Sleep is a part of your health and wellbeing no matter how young or old you are. Getting a night of good quality sleep has many benefits, which include protecting your physical and mental health, quality of life, and personal safety. If you find it hard to fall asleep at night after a tiring day, here are Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well that you must try out!

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well: 9 Amazing Tips

The brain needs a good night’s sleep for better functioning, emotional wellbeing, physical health, daytime performance, and personal safety(1). Researches have suggested that adults need at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night to be well-rested and be fresh and active the next day.

Would you like to know more about why sleep is important and the top tips that make you sleep well and wake up well? Scroll down to read more about it. 

Here is What a Good Sleep Can do to Your Body:

  • Controls body temperature and metabolism. 
  • Keeping your immune system strong.
  • Controls the brain function as well as help in restoring memory.
  • Keeping your heart and blood vessels healthy.
  • Repairs tissues and stimulates growth in children.
  • Helps in regulating appetite,  weight, and controlling your blood glucose levels.
Sadhguru's Tips to Sleep Well and wake up well

What Happens When One doesn’t Get Enough Sleep?

Here are some of the issues that might affect you when you don’t get enough sleep:

  • Excessive daytime sleepiness, tiredness, and headaches
  • Morning nausea
  • Poor memory and difficulty in focusing
  • More prone to anxiety and depression
  • High risk for obesity(2), diabetes, and cardiovascular-related disease
  • An increased risk of addiction to alcohol and drug dependence
  • Less focus while driving
  • Being careless
  • Relationship problems and anger management issues
  • Lack of sex drive. 

Who is Sadhguru?

Before delving into Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well, let’s take a look at who this mystic is. “Sadhguru”, originally Jaggi Vasudev, is an Indian yogi, mystic, and author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers Yoga and mental health programs around the world.  His books have appeared in “The New York Times Best Seller” list. Sadhguru is also a well-known speaker at the Headquarters of the United Nations, World Economic Forum, the Australian Leadership Retreat, Indian Economic Summit, and TED.

5 things to do before sleeping sadhguru

He has also been a speaker at king technology companies like Microsoft and Google. He received Padma Vibhushan civilian award by the Government of India in 2017 in recognition of his contribution to the field of spirituality.  His teachings and wisdom backed up by science are what make him and his yoga practices well known around the world.

Sadhguru’s 10 Tips For a Better Sleep

Sadhguru has addressed the science of sleep and here are some of his tips to sleep well and wake up feeling alive and fresh.

Here is the exact question he asked,

“ Sadhguru: How many of you find that one day morning when you get up, you’re feeling ugly for no reason? If it is happening even at least two, three times a year, then you must do certain things before you go to bed. It’s very, very important. Either the pleasantness or unpleasantness inside you can incubate when one is disturbing the sleep cycle. The energy you can incubate can either be negative things or positive things. He states that the lack of proper sleep can cause major physiological problems over a period of time, therefore, it’s important to get rid of these from a person’s life.”

According to Sadhguru, there are a few things that you need to take care of before you go to bed. Once you go through them, you will understand how ignorant and careless your routines were. You will also understand how important they are for sound sleep.

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well

Here are the 10 miracle yet simple tips that can help you sleep well as well as wake up well. First, let’s check the things to do before sleep.

#1. Shower

The first and most important point Sadhguru stresses is the importance of having a shower before going to bed.  He says it’s really good to always go to shower before going to bed. That’s true, it does make a lot of difference. Sometimes when the weather is not so hot, taking a cold shower at night can be difficult. Therefore one can take a lukewarm shower but certainly should take hot showers. 

showering before bed to sleep well

This shower is a very rudimentary bhuta shuddhi and ancient cleansing practice. The science behind taking a shower is related to the fact that the human body is made of mostly water. Therefore taking a shower helps to balance the body and calm down the nerves making you feel positive and fresh before going to bed. It will also help you sleep better throughout the night(3).

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well #2. Meals

food time to sleep well

The second factor in Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well is food. It’s better to have meals three to four hours before bedtime, especially for those who have non-veg meals, this time gap is mandatory in order for proper digestion to take place. Also before going to bed and as soon as you wake up it’s good to drink a glass of water.  

#3. Keeping a Lamp 

lamp near to bed

Using an organic lap with a cotton wick and any oil in your bedroom is great. Keeping this lamp somewhere in the room while you sleep can create positive energy in the space where you sleep. You can also do a chant or other nightly yoga practices or Sadhgurus Isha Kriya to get a deep and peaceful sleep.

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well #4. Humans are Mortal

It’s important to keep in your mind that you are truly a mortal, believe that you could fall dead right now. It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, you can fall dead right now. Sadh guru asked everyone to go to bed thinking this is your deathbed and you have just one more minute to live. Among Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well, this one might have surprised you.

sadhguru sleeping position

Having this thought can actually help you keep everything else aside and sleep well. Thoughts disturb sleep when we go to bed thinking about the next day. But if you can imagine that there is no assurance of one, it’s just you falling into one deep and peaceful sleep. Your thought can be controlled thereby improving the quality of sleep.

#5. Keeping Things Aside

sadhguru best time to sleep

Last three minutes before going to bed keep aside everything that you have gathered in your life on earth- the body, the mind, things such as your phone, laptop, etc. It’s better to keep aside anything that you have a personal relationship with. “Just sleep as life – not as a man, not a woman”. Once a person is successful in managing the art of sleeping like that, he will wake up as a different person- more energetic, more productive, and more loving towards life.

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well #6. Placing your Head in the Right Direction While Sleeping

Sadhguru's Tips to Sleep Well direction

According to Sadguru sleeping position and the magnetic pull of the earth are very important. In India, it’s not recommended for people to sleep with their heads facing north while in Australia you should not put your head to the south. If you have ever wondered why these rules are there, here is why. 

The magnetic pull works on the body every day when one is standing vertically the circulation of the blood is even in the body. But when one lies in the horizontal position and if the head is kept in the direction of the magnetic pull, i.e., north. When there is too much circulation in the brain you cannot sleep peacefully. The flow towards the brain increases, this can cause health issues, even in some old people.

How to Wake up Well – Sadhguru Tips!

The above-mentioned are Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well, here are some tips on how you can wake up well.

#7. Try not to Wake up to an Alarm

Try not to Wake up to an Alarm

This might sound crazy especially to working people, you might be wondering what if you sleep through the day. The kind of sound you wake up to can have an effect on your sleep cycle. Therefore coming awake to an alarm bell with a sudden start is not the best way to do your life. So what kind of sounds you come awake to will determine the context of the day.

Once a person gets used to getting the right amount of sleep, you will be able to naturally go to sleep as well as wake up on time. So as per Sadhguru there is no best time to wake up or any easy hacks to wakeup early. The best way to go about this is to go to bed early enough so that you come awake naturally.

Sadhguru’s Tips to Sleep Well #8. Waking up on the Right Side of the Bed

tips for good sleep

Our heart is the pumping station for your blood, our heart is what pumps life across the body – this process started from the left side of the body. Therefore, in India, when you wake up it’s best to roll to your right side and get up. Waking up on the left side is not healthy because, as Sadhguru says, “When you are in a certain state of relaxation when the body is in relaxation, the metabolic activity is low. When you get up, there is a certain surge of activity (2)” can be bad for the person mentally as well as physically.

#9. Wake Up With a Smile 

Sadhguru's Tips To Sleep Well And Wake Up Well

Above all, it’s important to wake up to a smile, which on the other hand is only possible after getting proper sleep. Wake up with a smile because you are still alive, you are lucky to have a life. A Quarter million people die every day, and they too are normal people just like all of us- so isn’t being alive great?

What do you think of Sadhguru’s tips to sleep well? Let us know if you guys tried any of these tips and how it’s changed your life. 

Keep it simple, keep it healthy!

  1. A Peer Reviewed Journal For Managed Care And Hospital formulary Management .(2019). The Extraordinary Importance of Sleep

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281147/
  2. PMC.(2013). Sleep and obesity.(Online). Available at

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632337/
  3. National Library of Medicine.(2019). Before-bedtime passive body heating by warm shower or bath to improve sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis.(Online). Available at

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31102877/

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