Sleep Is the Most POWERFUL Mode of Consciousness. Why You're NOT Allowed In
Sleep problems and insomnia begin long before you get into bed. Your body knows why the door to sleep is locked, even when you're dead tired. In this video, I'll show you what powerful mode of consciousness it's guarding from you, and why.
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👤 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ivan Yashukov is a strategic consultant and transformation expert with 20 years of experience in business, psychology, and contemplative practice.
The path:
A successful career ended in burnout and loss of meaning. Everything looked fine from the outside. Inside, there was nothing. The way out wasn't a new method. It was finding my way back to contact with myself. With whatever is inside that knows and feels, not just thinks.
What I do now:
I run transformational strategy sessions — deep work with whatever is running your life on autopilot. Not coaching, not therapy, not esoterica. Working at the root, not the symptom. Over the past year, more than 100 sessions with entrepreneurs, executives, experts, and ordinary people whose lives look fine from the outside but who are sitting with the same question: "How do I get back to myself?"
Experience:
– 50+ projects for Yandex, MTS, KPMG, GetCourse, and dozens of smaller businesses
– Faculty at HSE, MSU, RANEPA
– Founder of Easyntation Academy and JustFive Consulting
– Certifications: NLP, DHE, NHR, ThetaHealing
– Author of books and articles for RBC
Approach:
I bring together Eastern energy practices, Western depth psychology, and spiritual methods. I'm not looking for the "right" method. I use what works. I create space where you find your own answers. Where what was always inside — but silent — finally turns on.
I'm not a guru or a savior. I'm a guide who has walked this path himself and knows what it's like to live without contact with yourself.
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🔍 IN THIS VIDEO:
I break down the neuroscience of what happens in the brain as we fall asleep. Why the body becomes paralyzed. Why serotonin and noradrenaline go to zero. Why a fetus in the womb spends 80% of its time in REM. And why Matthew Walker's hypothesis — that wakefulness evolved out of sleep — turns everything we think we know about life upside down.
I also walk through 4 real cases from my sessions. A woman gripping her mattress with both hands. Natalia, whose insomnia turned out to be a ritual of connection with her mother passed down through three generations. Andrei, whose brain ran as a night watchman. And Mikhail, for whom falling asleep meant stopping, and stopping felt like dying.
At the end I walk you through a practice you can do right before bed.
This is the first video in a series on sleep. Coming next: how we lost the night, what our dreams are trying to tell us, why sleep is a spiritual practice, and what actually happens in deep sleep phases.
Timestamps:
00:00 Mendeleev, Jung, and Ramana Maharshi on sleep
01:12 Ananda, Buddha's disciple, and enlightenment on the threshold of sleep
03:56 The default mode network and why the brain never goes quiet
05:33 Why you can't fall asleep for the same reason Ananda couldn't
07:43 The sleeping brain works harder than the waking one
09:53 The fetus in the womb and 80% of time in REM
11:00 Walker's hypothesis: wakefulness arose from sleep
12:48 My personal experience: how sleep solved problems for me
16:02 The experiment: try commanding your saliva to taste sweet
17:05 Neuroception: your body decides before you do
19:59 Case 1: the woman who gripped the mattress
27:54 Case 2: insomnia as inherited family pattern
34:28 Case 3: to fall asleep is to stop
39:39 How we lost the culture of entering sleep
44:52 Why melatonin and magnesium don't solve the problem
48:00 A practice for before sleep
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