Modern people live a stressful life, followed by insomnia and other symptoms, a doctor in the United States invented the “4-7-8” breathing method, claiming to help people go to sleep in 60 seconds, you try! Arizona, U.S. a doctor Andrew B. Dr. Andrew Weil, a doctor in Arizona, promotes a 4-7-8 breathing method to help sleep, called the “natural sedative for the nervous system”, can go to sleep in 60 seconds without drugs, and the method can reduce anxiety, beneficial to mental health. Dr. Will explained that the posture of this method of sleep can be very casual, but the practice should still sit with a straight back. He said: “The method is very simple. It can be done anywhere you want to sleep.” The method is simple and easy to learn The specific steps: 1. exhale through the mouth; 2. shut up, breathe in through the nose and count 4 in your mind (1, 2, 3, 4); 3. stop breathing in, hold your breath and count 7 in your mind (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); 4. exhale through the mouth and count in your mind at the same time – Every four times this “one breath” is once and needs to be repeated three times. Because of this breathing when the mind to count, so Dr. Weil called this method is 4-7-8 breathing method. Dr. Weil said, when inhaling to use the nose and do not make a sound, when exhaling with the mouth, to have the “exhale” sound. And be sure to hold your tongue against your palate. Beneficial to relieve anxiety Dr. Will said that this method is very effective, the principle is to allow the lungs to inhale more oxygen, more oxygen in the body can regulate the function of the human parasympathetic nervous system. The 4-7-8 breathing method regulates the function of the parasympathetic nervous system, so that people think less about the miscellaneous things, so you can sleep like a dream. Dr. Will recommends practicing 4-7-8 breathing twice a day for 6 to 8 weeks to become proficient in this method, and then you will be able to achieve the state of falling asleep in 60 seconds.