Counting backwards can help you fall asleep faster by shifting your focus away from worries and regrets and forcing your brain to stay in the present. Here are some counting techniques that may help you fall asleep:
Count backwards from 100 in multiples of three: This rhythm can put you in a sleepy state and force your brain to focus on the counting.
"Counting backwards from 300 by 3s" is a sleep aid technique where you mentally subtract 3 from 300 repeatedly, forcing your mind to focus on a repetitive, simple math task and distracting it from racing thoughts that might be keeping you awake; this can help you fall asleep faster by calming your mind.
How to use it:
Lie comfortably in bed with your eyes closed.
Start at 300 and mentally subtract 3 each time, saying the numbers to yourself: "300, 297, 294, 291..."
Continue counting until you feel your mind drifting off to sleep.
Interesting, will investigate the next time i sleep. My method for sleep, is to take 30 short inhales and exhales. Exhale with some force. Similar to a Wym Hof breath. I have been doing this for years and work every night. It even works if you wake in the middle of the night and can not get back to sleep. Let us know how it works
the evening before sleeping I bless my body and say thank you for serving me. With the hands on lower abdomen. First for my whole body, then for arms/ legs/ hands and fingers, feet and toes, for the torso and my head. Then I bless the inner organs, sometimes together sometimes each by each. Then my brain, blood, glands, lymph system, bones. Then each and every cell in every part of the body and every part I did not mentioned until then. At last I visualize each and every part, cell, etc healthy and happy. ( but sometimes I fell asleep before reaching the end 😅
i would like to share a story on this subject. I saw a Ted Talk once that suggested counting backwards from 100. Every even number, close your eyes. Every odd number, open your eyes. This will make you very tired very fast.
One day, I was working at a hospital assisting physicians with procedures in Interventional Radiology. We had a patient who needed a dialysis catheter placement. They typically give patients some sedation for this type of procedure, but this one person was not responding to the sedation medication at all. I don’t know why. The doctor gave her a second dose of sedation. No effect. We waited a little while and still nothing. So I suggested the counting backwards, opening and closing your eyes thing. Well, the patient tried it, got to about 95 and fell asleep. Then she stopped breathing! Everyone looked at me like, what have you done! Anyway, she recovered and did fine, thank God. But I never recommended that again. Either the drugs all kicked in at once or my trick almost killed someone. Crazy times.
That's a great method, thank you for sharing! 🤗 I will use it together with my usual sleep aid - cortisol supplement amazon.com/Cortisol-Supplem... that helps me to throw away all bad thoughts and fell asleep. But how does this method work?
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