How to Fall Sound Asleep in Just One Minute

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If you have anxiety or if you’re stressed before an important event, falling asleep and staying asleep might be a problem. Try this to calm your nerves and get some good rest.

It’s called the ’4-7-8′ method. This is what you need to do:

 Breathe calmly through your nose for 4 seconds.

Hold your breath for 7 seconds.

Breathe out slowly through your mouth for 8 seconds.

How it works

This is what I found out about how it works. When you’re stressed or anxious, the amount of adrenaline in your blood increases and your breathing gets faster and lighter. This breathing exercise acts as a kind of sedative. Deliberately slowing down your breathing in this way forces the rhythm of your heart to slow down, making you calm very quickly; it’s simple physiology!

The same exercise helps to calm down your mind, too, simply because it makes you concentrate entirely on your breathing. You don’t realize it, but at this moment your central nervous system gradually reduces its activity, and feelings of anxiety disappear. Any neurologist can confirm this for you.

The result is that your whole body relaxes. In terms of the speed and strength of the physical effect it has, the exercise is similar to an anesthetic. It was investigated by Harvard medical doctor Andrew Weil, who found that the ’4-7-8′ method has been well-known to Indian yogi for several centuries. They use it during meditation practice in order to achieve a state of complete relaxation. It’s safe to say, therefore, that it’s completely harmless.

How it can be useful to you, specifically

If you wake up late at night because something’s bugging you, for example, it will help. The same goes for when you’re feeling nervous ahead of a competition or an important life event. The ’4-7-8′ method is guaranteed to let you get the rest you need!

To relax your mind and body before bedtime, mix together

 1/4 tablespoon of honey

1/8 tablespoon sea salt

1 tablespoon of coconut oil

You can just swallow this mixture as it is or add it to a glass of warm water — the effect would be the same.

These ingredients will not only have a great effect on your health but will also reduce cortisol spikes which impede your ability to sleep and wake you up at night.

Original Source : Brightside

The night sleep is very important and lack of it can lead to terrible consequences, so don't let insomnia get hold of you, practise on these effective tips and sleep well.