The correlation between stress and sleep deprivation is becoming increasingly apparent in a modern society. Many people have troubles falling asleep, because they feel the weight of stress most heavily at night.
Best-selling author Dr. Andrew Weil, who received his M.D. from Harvard University, recommends to overcome stress and insomnia with one amazing breathing technique known as the “4-7-8 exercise.” This trick is shockingly elementary, takes hardly any time, and can be done pretty much anywhere. How to do the “4-7-8″ exercise:
1. Place the tip of your tongue against the tissue ridge right above your upper front teeth. Keep it there during the exercise.
2. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.
3. Close your mouth and inhale slowly through your nose while mentally counting to four.
4. Hold your breath for a mental count of seven.
5. Exhale completely through your mouth for a mental count of eight making whoosh sound. This concludes the first cycle. Repeat the same process three times.
The four-count inhale allows to take more oxygen. The seven-count hold gives the oxygen more time to thoroughly permeate the bloodstream, and the eight-count exhale slows the heart rate and releases a greater amount of carbon dioxide from the lungs. In a nutshell: breathe in for four, hold for seven, and breathe out for eight. Very simple isnt it?

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