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Insomnia’s a bitch isn’t it?
There you are, laying in your bed at the end of a long day, desperately trying to switch off your mind, attempting to finally wind down and just … get … some … damn … sleep, yet you still can’t seem to fall under the sandman’s spell.
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If, like me, you suffer from this brutally exhausting condition, you’ve probably also tried everything. Herbal teas, reading yourself to sleep, listening to (supposedly relaxing) rainforest music – nothing seems to work.
So how do you get to sleep in under a minute?
Not only that, once asleep, how do you STAY there?
It comes down to a stunningly simple breathing technique. It’s called the “4-7-8 exercise”, and it’s advocated by Dr. Andrew Weil, Director at the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona as an effective and natural tranquiliser.
Here’s how you do it: