This method guarantees falling asleep within a few minutes.
Difficulty falling asleep, waking up at night, waking up too early in the morning… 37% of French people regularly suffer from sleep disorders according to Inserm. Occasional sleepless nights do not appear to pose any health hazards. On the other hand, regularly lacking restorative sleep is very bad in the long term for the body. This can cause mood disorders, decreased attention, irritability, learning problems and a risk of depressive syndrome. If sleep deficit becomes chronic, it can also increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.
To remedy difficulty falling asleep, an American doctor, Dr. Scott Walter, has revealed a tip that seems to work, since he puts it into practice himself: “I’m a doctor and sometimes I have difficulty falling asleep, but I’m going to teach you this technique that changed my life.” Rest assured, it’s not about reading for hours, taking a hot shower (everyone knows that) or even taking medication. No, it’s much simpler than that. In reality, a “simple mental exercise is enough” he explains on TikTokThe aim of this exercise is to “distracting one’s mind from a conscious thought pattern that keeps one awake.” In fact, more than half of insomnia is due to stress, anxiety and depression. These disorders can condition our perception of sleep and cause the famous insomnia. According to Dr. Walter, it is possible to reorganize our thoughts in the same way “from a deck of cards that is shuffled”. All it takes is to distract the brain and stimulate the creation of “micro-dreams” that occur when we are about to fall asleep.
This famous technique which guarantees rapid falling asleep is called “cognitive shuffling” or “cognitive shuffling” in French and can be performed in several ways. “I just think of random words and objects that have nothing to do with each other, for example: cow, leaf, sandwich, butter, kidney…” says Dr. Walter. He repeats the words that come to mind until he falls asleep. If it is difficult for you to find random words, the doctor offers an alternative to his method: “First, choose a letter of the alphabet, then count your heartbeats and every eight beats, think of a word starting with the letter you chose.” Repeat until your eyelids fall from sleep.