Dr. Scott Walter shares tips on counting your heart rate and thinking about random objects or objects to stop your mind from thinking, helping you fall asleep sooner.
Lying in bed with your mind refusing to sleep is an unpleasant experience. But there is a simple psychological method that can help people easily slip into dreams.
The British National Health Service points out that insomnia and other sleep problems affect at least a third of the population. Even though we have applied traditional relaxation measures such as limiting the use of electronic devices, taking hot baths, and drinking chrysanthemum tea, lying down and not being able to sleep still makes people feel awkward. Many people toss and turn in bed for long periods of time, no matter how hard they try to “count sheep”.
Dr. Scott Walter reveals a tip to help you fall asleep quickly when your mind can’t rest. He posted advice on social networks, encouraging people to overcome Sunday fear syndrome (a form of anxiety about work and the upcoming work week) and quickly fall asleep. He describes this tip as a “huge turning point” and regrets not knowing about it earlier in life.
Simple “mind games” can help you fall asleep quickly. Image: Editing
This method does not involve taking melatonin or other supplements, hot baths or even reading before bed. It’s a simple mental exercise called cognitive shuffling, which helps “rearrange or reorganize thinking,” similar to shuffling a deck of cards.
Dr. Scott explains that this method works because it “distracts the mind from conscious thought patterns” that often keep people up at night, from worries to plans to arguments.
There are many ways to perform cognitive disturbance, such as thinking about random words or specific objects. People may think about a cow, a leaf, a sandwich, butter, liver – things that are unrelated and have no meaning at all. Then everyone counted their heartbeats and every eight beats thought of a word that started with that letter.
The expert further explained that, in this way, the method of “imitating” small dreams, which takes place during the sleep transition, helps the brain recognize that it is time to sleep safely.
Below the doctor’s article, many people recount their own ways to fall asleep quickly. For example, one person commented that they found a simpler method, which is to focus on the alphabet and for each letter, think of a place, a fruit, and a drink that starts with the letter. that thing. This person usually cannot count past the letter E before falling asleep.