Insomnia will disappear: Trick that works better than sleeping pills
How to fall asleep if you have insomnia (photo: magnific)
People who have struggled with insomnia for years know how exhausting such nights can be. Medical experts have shared a simple technique that can literally “switch off” anxiety and help you fall into deep sleep.
This is explained by the well-known doctor Amir Khan on Instagram.
A secret weapon against insomnia
Doctor Amir Khan revealed a method called “cognitive shuffling.” This unique technique sends a clear signal to your overactive brain that it is completely safe to sleep.
According to the specialist, this is a far more effective and modern alternative to traditional sheep counting, and it works especially well when your thoughts are racing at lightning speed.
The biggest advantage of this method is its absolute simplicity — you don’t need to Google instructions or strain your memory in the middle of the night.
The essence of cognitive shuffling comes down to a specific word game that distracts attention from stress.
You need to think of any word, preferably one with a varied set of letters.
Then, for each letter of that word, you must come up with new words that start with it and clearly visualize their images in your mind.
You continue cycling through words for each letter until your imagination runs out, and then simply move on to the next letter.
For example, choosing the word “basketball,” you begin to think of and visualize: banana, bank, barometer, balcony.
Journalists and ordinary people who tested this method admit that they usually fall asleep by the second or third letter, without even remembering how consciousness shuts off. Losing sleep due to anxiety will no longer be necessary.
Scientific explanation of the phenomenon
This phenomenon has a fully grounded medical explanation. The cognitive shuffling method was developed by Canadian researcher Luc Beaudoin more than ten years ago.
The technique is designed to artificially recreate fragmented thinking similar to dreaming, which typically occurs in people with healthy sleep right before falling asleep.
Researchers divide our thoughts into those that prevent sleep (endless planning, worries, fixation on problems) and those that promote sleep (calm abstract images).
By constantly switching between random, emotionally neutral words, you block insomnia-related thoughts. This process reduces anxiety and fully mimics the natural slowing of brain activity, which inevitably and gently leads to deep night rest.
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