Coaching practices for Calibration Training Before Bed
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- Every night before bed looks completely different depending on my mood
- I get into bed and my thoughts start racing in every direction, broad and scattered, and I can’t drop off
- My bed has basically become where I scroll and watch shows, not where I sleep
- My bed is where I scroll, watch shows, answer emails, and worry
- I make calls about how things will go all the time, but I never write them down or check them after
Practices that may help
- Calibration Training
Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable. - Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep - Pre-sleep trataka for insomnia and mind-calming
A ten-minute trataka session in low light before bed draws scattered thoughts into a single point.
Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation - Keep screens out of the bedroom
Reserve the bed for sleep so the space itself cues winding down.
The Digital Sunset - Use the bed only for sleep (and sex)
Reserve the bed strictly so the brain learns to associate it with sleepiness, not wakefulness.
Stimulus Control for Sleep - Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use
Keep a forecast log and score it — you cannot improve calibration without feedback on where you were over- or under-confident.
The Outside View - Set a screen cutoff time
Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
The Digital Sunset - Evening yoga routine for sleep
A gentle 15-minute yoga sequence 30–60 minutes before bed lowers cortisol and core temperature to accelerate sleep onset.
Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows - Build a consistent pre-sleep wind-down routine
Create a repeatable 30-60 minute pre-sleep sequence that cues the nervous system toward rest.
The Phone-Free Bedroom - Use 4-7-8 breathing as a sleep-onset ritual
Four to eight cycles in bed before sleep reduces physiological arousal and supports the transition into sleep.
4-7-8 Breathing, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Nature And Movement Before Bed
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
- Deliberate Rest Before Bed
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
- The Power Of Habit Before Bed
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
- Why We Sleep Translated Into Practice Before Bed
A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
- Attentional Deployment Before Bed
Attentional deployment is James Gross’s term for deliberately directing attention within a situation to change its emotional impact. Because emotion is partly determined by what we attend to, shifting attention toward or away from specific aspects of a situation can modify the emotional response without changing the situation itself. It includes both distraction (shifting away from the emotion-generating aspect) and concentration (focusing on specific features that generate a different emotional response).
- Bedroom Cue For Sleep
Make the bedroom feel and look like sleep so every environmental signal primes drowsiness.
Design the bedroom as a single-purpose sleep cue
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