5 Strange Techniques That Can Help You Trick Yourself Into Sleeping

Use the '4-7-8' method

Integrative medicine specialist and best-selling author Dr. Andrew Weil claims this technique can help you fall asleep in under a minute. Place the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue just behind your upper front teeth and keep it there through the entire exercise. "Place the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue just behind your upper front teeth and keep it there through the entire exercise. You will be exhaling through your mouth around your tongue; try pursing your lips slightly if this seems awkward, says" Weil, reports the Medical daily. Thereafter perform the following step:

-Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.

-Close your mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of four.

-Hold your breath for a count of seven.

-Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound to a count of eight.

-This is one breath. Now inhale again and repeat the cycle three more times for a total of four breaths. 

Drink milk laced with spices 

A warm glass milk can be just what the doctor ordered to knock you off to sleep. Use soy or almond or lactose-free milk if you're lactose intolerant. Warm milk combined with nutmeg, cardamom, turmeric, cinnamon and ginger, makes for a soothing and tasty concoction. Besides spiced milk is also easier to digest. Make sure you drink the milk three hours after your last meal. 

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