Numerous people face sleep difficulties every single night they go to bed. This is truly a tiring and time- wasting procedure through which they need to go regularly before they finally fall asleep. If you have insomniac tendencies and take more than an hour to fall asleep each night, you’re spending more than nine 40-hour weeks on that pointless activity every year.

Fortunately, there is a solution for these sleep disorders and we will now present it to you. Namely, it is a technique which helps you train your brain to fall asleep almost instantly.

However, before you attempt to improve your sleep habits, you need to make certain changes in your diet habits. In order to have better sleep, you need to eliminate the following common foods and beverages from your diet:

• Coffee
• Cola
• Caffeinated Tea (green tea, decaf tea and white tea)
• Chocolate (as well as cocoa and cacao)
• yerba mate

Coffee seriously affects your ability to fall asleep and have a good sleep. Even a small cup of coffee in the morning can disrupt your night sleep. You may also sleep less restfully, and you’ll be prone to awaken more often throughout the night. Consequently, you may wake up tired and need extra sleep.

However, we have some good news for coffee lovers as well. If you simply enjoy your caffeine, you can add it back once you’ve gone through this adaptation training. Once you’ve mastered the habit of being able to fall asleep in 30 seconds or less, some caffeine during your day will not disrupt your sleep.

Training Process To Fall Asleep Faster

To fall asleep in less than 30 seconds can be achieved through a long-term process of sleep training. Do not expect to learn some easy trick that you can use right away to make this happen instantly. However, once you’ve trained yourself to this point, the process is effortless, since you will fall asleep almost automatically, without any difficulties.

Nevertheless, you may still find it difficult to relax and fall asleep immediately, especially after a stressful day, but most of the time under normal conditions, you will successfully achieve it in less than half a minute.

The training process may take a long time, sometimes months or even years, but it’s not at all difficult, and it needn’t take a serious time commitment. In fact, the training will most likely save you a significant amount of time. The only challenging part is maintaining consistency long enough to get results.

First consider that it’s possible for you to fall asleep faster, for instance, remember all those night when you were too tired to watch a film and fell asleep on the couch, or when you drifted off while reading. This is important since thus you can consider the possibility that your brain already knows how to fall asleep quickly, and if you create the right conditions, then you’re capable of doing this again. You just need to train your brain to do this more consistently.

This indicates that you aren’t falling asleep faster simply because you haven’t trained your brain to do so.

The essence of this approach is to urge your brain to drop all other activity and immediately transition into sleep when you desire to do so.. If there are few consequences for a lazy approach to falling asleep, then your brain will continue to be lazy and inefficient in this area. Without incentives to become more efficient, your brain will remain naturally lazy by default.

Our brain is never passive, even during deep sleep, and it operates in different modes of consciousness, including beta (waking), alpha, theta, and delta phases. When you lie in bed waiting for sleep, you’re waiting for your brain to switch modes. So, we usually dwell on other thoughts, lie and wait to fall asleep, while our untrained brain takes its sweet time making the necessary state change.

In fact, your subconscious may continue to bubble up thoughts and ideas to occupy your conscious mind, distracting you with mental clutter instead of letting you relax and slide into sleep. Even if your conscious mind needs to go to sleep, it is in fact your subconscious which determines when you fall asleep. So, if your subconscious mind does not hurry to fall asleep, your conscious mind will need much time to force it.

On the other hand, trained subconscious mind is obedient and fast, and when the conscious mind says to sleep, the subconscious activates sleep mode immediately. However, you must note that this will only happen if you’re feeling at least partially sleepy, because if the subconscious doesn’t agree with the need for sleep, it will still cause sleep difficulties.

The process to train your brain to transition immediately and without delay after your need for sleep appears involves using short, timed naps.

It is fully explained below:

First stage

When you feel drowsy at some point during the day, you should allow yourself to take a 20-minute nap. But exactly 20 minutes total, so it would be good to use a timer to set an alarm.

Begin the timer as soon as you lie down for your nap. Whether you sleep or not, and regardless of how long it takes you to fall asleep, you have 20 minutes total for this activity… not a minute more.

Now, you need to relax and allow yourself to fall asleep as you normally would. This practice has no special aim, so you should not force yourself, for all results are acceptable: If you just lie there awake for 20 minutes, good. If you fall asleep, it would be great. And if you sleep for some fraction of the time, that’s good as well.

After those 20 minutes, without lingering, you must get up immediately. No lingering, not a minute more. It is this part which is essential in this stage. If you’re tempted to continue napping after the alarm goes off, then put the alarm across the room so you have to get up to turn it off. It is a rule, so no matter what, get up immediately. In case you feel tired and sleepy, do not let yourself go back to sleep immediately, wait for at least an hour and take another nap later.

We believe the best time for this nap practice is during the day, but you can also do it in the evening. You may have your evening nap right after dinner, for people usually feel a little sleepy then. But this evening nap must be at least an hour before your normal bedtime.

The ideal practice is one nap a day, but you can do them at least a few times a week if you can.

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