Sleep Help

Mental exercises are a great way to get your mind off of the day’s worries and board the train to snooze town. But counting sheep the old fashioned way isn’t as effective as it could be. Here’s what you should do instead. Dr. Michael Breus (rhymes with Bruce), sleep doctor and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, shares this tip for falling asleep faster. Instead of counting up one at a time, he suggests you count backwards from 300 in threes — 300, 297, 294, etc. The process is complicated enough for your brain that you can’t think of anything else, and it’s boring.