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Headspace Guide to Sleep is a 2021 animated docuseries created for Netflix in collaboration with Headspace. [1] [2] The seven-part series explores the science behind getting healthy sleep and provides advice on how to do so. [3] Each episode ends with a guided relaxation to help prepare you for sleep. [4] [5] It was released on April 28, 2021. [6]
Headspace began as an event company, holding mindfulness talks in and around London. [7] In 2012, Puddicombe and Pierson developed a mobile app, with the first version of the Headspace app launching in 2012. [8] Headspace employs over 1,000 staff, working between the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London offices. [9]
Sleep is a highly conserved behavior across animal evolution, [6] likely going back hundreds of millions of years, [7] and originating as a means for the brain to cleanse itself of waste products. [8] In a major breakthrough, researchers have found that this cleansing may be a core purpose of sleep. [9]
Beatnik, Inc., founded as Headspace, Inc., was a company that specialized in interactive audio technology. It was founded by musician Thomas Dolby in 1993 along with co-founder Mary Coller.
Andy Puddicombe (born 23 September 1972) is a British author, public speaker and a teacher of meditation and mindfulness.He, alongside Richard Pierson, [1] is the co-founder of Headspace, a digital health company that provides guided meditation training and mindfulness for its users.
[1] After identifying the possible underlying causes and the factors contributing to insomnia, the person can begin taking steps towards getting better sleep. In CBT-I these steps include stimulus control, sleep hygiene, sleep restriction, relaxation training, and cognitive therapy. Some sleep specialists recommend biofeedback as well. [2]
Sleep hygiene studies use different sets of sleep hygiene recommendations, [15] and the evidence that improving sleep hygiene improves sleep quality is weak and inconclusive as of 2014. [2] Most research on sleep hygiene principles has been conducted in clinical settings, and there is a need for more research on non-clinical populations. [2]
Young woman asleep over study materials. The relationship between sleep and memory has been studied since at least the early 19th century.Memory, the cognitive process of storing and retrieving past experiences, learning and recognition, [1] is a product of brain plasticity, the structural changes within synapses that create associations between stimuli.