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How To Fall Asleep In Two Minutes

I tested a research-backed strategy for falling asleep quickly and naturally. It worked brilliantly.

Matt Lillywhite
4 min readNov 6, 2020
Photo by Karly Jones on Unsplash

I used to spend several hours struggling to fall asleep each night. Instead of having beautiful dreams, I’d often lay in bed, toss and turn, and look up the ceiling. And more often than not, my productivity plummeted since I wasn’t getting a meaningful amount of rest.

I couldn’t spend the rest of my life like that. I knew something needed to change. So I began researching several methods to fall asleep faster. A three-step strategy from the military stood out from the rest. And since I started implementing it, I’ve been able to fall asleep within a couple of minutes.

If you want to do the same, here‘s what you need to do:

Relax The Muscles In Your Face.

According to The Sleep Foundation, “feeling stressed out increases your physiological and psychological arousal in ways that are incompatible with the state your body and mind need to enter relaxed, restorative sleep.”

It’s extremely difficult to fall asleep if you’re always feeling anxious or worried. Negative thoughts can keep you awake at night and prevent your body from feeling relaxed. So if you want to reduce the amount…

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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