According to research by the National Center for the Economy and Society in Oxford, it’s no revelation that most of us benefit from some shut-eye – the average Briton gets just 6 hours 19 minutes of sleep a day. Research for Sainsbury’s. For many people, part of the struggle is getting past the first turn.
If you can’t get a good night’s sleep in your bedroom, you might wonder how soldiers manage in more stressful situations. If you’re on the battlefield, there’s no time to throw and roll. This is something that the top military brass knows very well.
So they developed a technique to induce sleep deprivation in soldiers in just two minutes. This trick is detailed in a book called Keep Calm and Win: The Championship.
It was developed by the US military to reduce the margin of human error among soldiers, and is said to have achieved a 96 percent success rate after six weeks of practice.
Ready to give up on sleep? How to do it:
Relax the muscles of the face, including the tongue, jaw, and around the eyes.
Lower your shoulders as far as possible, then place your upper and lower arms one at a time.
Exhale, relax your chest, and then lower your legs starting from your thighs.
Take 10 seconds to clear your mind before thinking of one of three images: lying in a rowboat on a calm lake with a clear blue sky above, lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch-dark room, or saying “No.” “Don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” over and over again for 10 seconds.