A fitness expert has earned praise for sharing a military technique that enables individuals to fall asleep within just two minutes. In a YouTube video, Justin Agustin reveals the secret to drifting off without the usual tossing and turning. He explains: “There’s actually a military-proven technique to fall asleep in exactly two minutes after closing your eyes. It’s mind-blowing.”
According to Justin, this technique was developed to help soldiers fall asleep anywhere, anytime – even in noisy and uncomfortable environments like battlefields. He notes: “Sleep for a soldier is crucial. According to my research, this was developed mainly for fighter pilots who need 100% of their reflexes and focus, which we all know decreases with the lack of sleep.”
To use the technique, Justin advises starting by calming your body, then systematically relaxing and shutting down each part from head to toe. Begin by relaxing your forehead muscles, followed by your eyes, cheeks, and jaw, focusing on your breathing. Next, move down to your neck and shoulders, ensuring they’re not tense.
Let your shoulders drop and keep your arms loose, including your hands and fingers. To aid relaxation, imagine a warm sensation flowing from your head to your hands. Finally, take a deep breath, exhaling slowly as you relax your chest, stomach, thighs, knees, legs, and feet. He continued: “Again, imagine this warm sensation going down from your heart all the way to your toes,” and stressed the importance of decluttering the mind of stress during this exercise.
To facilitate a stress-free state, he suggests envisioning two specific scenarios. Firstly, picture yourself tranquilly resting in a canoe on a still lake under a clear blue sky. For the second scenario, imagine lounging in a black velvet hammock inside a completely dark room.
To maintain focus, he recommends a method for when distractions creep in: “At any time when you start thinking about anything else or you start getting distracted, repeat these words for ten seconds – ‘Don’t think. Don’t think. Don’t think. Don’t think’.”
He asserts that dedicated practice of this technique every evening for six weeks can enable individuals to quickly master it, allowing them to fall asleep within two minutes each night thereafter. Users have taken to commenting on his instructional video, sharing their positive experiences with the technique. One person remarked: “This technique is called progressive relaxation and it works! I used to use it in college when I had horrible anxiety.”
While another added, “I learned this technique, not for falling asleep, but for pain control. It’s effective.” A third commenter shared a different approach: “Actually I learned that if you think of a memory instead of imagining something usually helps a lot more. You’re using a different part of the brain when you’re remembering a core memory rather than spending energy creating new things. It definitely makes me fall asleep much faster.”