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The Art of Falling Asleep (TAoFA) is a transformative sleep model that rewrites the foundational principles behind the sleep process itself. In doing so, it offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between your Mind and Body as you approach sleep - and how their roles may differ from the conventional understanding of sleep.

Our core principle, “The Body Sleeps - Not the Mind,” reveals the Body as the true sleeper. This distinction is central to the TAoFA process and carries profound implications for how you approach your nightly sleep ritual.

Since you are not trying to put the Mind to sleep, you won’t be repeating the strategies or techniques you’ve likely tried before. Instead, you’ll become a sleep facilitator - aligning Mind & Body into the same frequency of consciousness, from where you can organize energy by communicating trust, safety, and permission through a simple yet powerful ritual.

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Welcome to TAoFA — a 24-hour transformational modality for sleeping and living in alignment with your soul’s blueprint.

After years of struggling with insomnia, I discovered that sleep isn’t just something we do to restore - it’s an accountability event, reminding us to surrender to the divine intelligence here guiding our lives, returning us to our most authentic selves as a result. That realization led me to create The Art of Falling Asleep (TAoFA) - an intuitive approach to living and preparing for sleep that helps people reconnect with the deeper intelligence of Body, Mind, Spirit, and Soul.

- Derek Lacey, TAoFA Founder

The Problem TAoFA addresses:

Modern life has disrupted the natural codes of sleep. People arrive at bedtime sleepy but energetically disorganized, carrying a tension that once belonged to another time of day, resulting in “minimal survival sleep.” Consequently, they either struggle to fall asleep or fall asleep quickly - only to wake up after just a few hours and find it difficult to return to sleep.

The Solution TAoFA provides:

TAoFA guides you to resolve that tension before bed in order to experience frequency change - the result of your Body becoming organized, made to feel safe, and energetically available to sleep. This process “remembers” a lost frequency of sleep that not only contains more meaningful sleep, but invites an experience that continues into your day - one of deeper alignment, clarity, and soul-led purpose. This experience of day enhances both spiritual connection and the body’s natural process for making energy (ATP), resulting in an individualized chemical byproduct that ensures true, deep sleep.

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As a 24-hour modality, TAoFA can be described as a dual approach to revealing a non-dual reality.

Through a unique grounding practice, a distinction is created between the Mind and Body, so that they may attune with one another and clarify their appropriate roles when fulfilling intention.

As the Mind releases some of its perceived responsibility and entrusts it to the Body - and to the Life Force Energy moving through it - the Body becomes more available to be guided by that energy and carry out the autonomic functions that align with your intention. In other words, the Body will begin to fulfill your intention without needing as much thought or control from the Mind.

As the Mind & Body coherently enter the heart's center, the result is a shift in frequency, dimension - where the present moment is experienced more interconnectedly.

From here, you are greater than the sum of your parts, with ample energy in the Body to express the most appropriate & efficient circadian rhythm for this moment and ample capacity to receive the divine intelligence guiding it.

When the Mind knows how to trust its Body and an intelligence greater than Self, the heart opens and channels more Life Force Energy. This is how sleep becomes a 24-hour practice. This is the function of the Art of Falling Asleep and why we say the purpose of life is to sleep.

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The Art of Falling Asleep is here to support you in creating harmony between your Mind, Body, Soul, and Higher Intelligence - so that your inner energy can move freely, rather than remain blocked or stagnant. Through TAoFA’s grounding practice, you build a stable connection between your intentions and your life force energy, making it possible to meet both sleep and daily life from a place of inner alignment. This doesn’t mean challenges won’t arise - but it does mean you’ll have a deeper foundation from which to meet them.