Sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus joined Lisa Garr (email) to discuss his sleep research and how to determine your sleep chronotype. We have been able to identify chronotypes since the 1970s, he explained, noting how he defines chronotype categories by naming them after mammals that have similar sleeping patterns:

- Lions are early risers; they generally make excellent operators or managers, and have Type A personalities

- Bears get up when the sun comes up and go to bed when the sun goes down; they are doers, extroverts, energetic, and fun - this is the most common chronotype

- Wolves are night owls; they are artistic, creative, and entrepreneurial people who often suffer from high rates of disease, depression, and anxiety

- Dolphins are insomniacs who display a very distinct chronotypical pattern

"Once you understand your chronotype you can learn all kinds of things about your body's propensity to do things, like lose weight, or go to sleep, or when is the best time to exercise," Breus said. An individual's chronotype is genetic but can be shifted with the use of light therapy and melatonin, he added. According to Breus, the best time to exercise to lose weight for all chronotypes is in the morning (whenever one naturally rises) and on an empty stomach.

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During the latter half of the program, Marla Frees talked about her spiritual journey and psychic gifts. Frees shared details from a traumatic childhood event, when she was tied to a high chair and force-fed spoonfuls of pepper by her mother. She credits the suffering for awakening her abilities. "Out of that trauma my hypersensitivities were having to intuit what was going to happen and how [my mother] was going to behave," Frees said.

She recalled an experience in which a booming voice gave her an instruction to avoid being seriously injured by her out-of-control horse after it was startled by thunder. She also revealed who she speaks with on the other side, a group of beings she calls THEMS (The Heavenly Eternal Messaging System), and from whom she receives downloads from the source. Frees indicated psychic abilities flow from a place of love. "There's no other reason for me to be given messages, and then learn to connect to deceased loved ones, unless it was to do something with it that is helpful to other people," she noted.