If you’re having trouble sleeping and you want another option besides watching C-SPAN, Dr. Andrew Weil may have that perfect sleeping trick for you.
It doesn’t take much but some simple breathing techniques called the 4-7-8 method:
Step 1: Press the tip of your tongue against the hard ridge of tissue behind your upper front teeth and keep it there.
Step 2: Exhale all of your breath out.
Step 3: Inhale, quietly, through your nose for four seconds.
Step 4: Hold that breath for seven seconds.
Step 5: Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whooshing sound, for eight seconds.
And then repeat it four times.
According to Joseph Chandler, an assistant professor of psychology at Birmingham-Southern College, “Sleep is a vulnerable state and it takes body-wide permission to achieve. Feedback from different systems, including the stress system, must give the green light that it is safe to sleep.”
Take a look at the video below to learn this trick:
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