Try paradoxical intention

Because good sleepers don't use any strategies to fall asleep, paradoxical intention therapy has been recommended as a treatment. "Trying to fall asleep" is replaced with "trying to stay awake" in paradoxical intention therapy. The goal of the strategy is to have you take a more passive approach to sleep by deliberately stopping you from falling asleep.


The approach of encouraging a patient to engage in his or her most feared behavior is known as paradoxical intention. This sort of insomnia therapy is based on the assumption that performance anxiety prevents sleep from beginning. Surprisingly, if a patient stops attempting to fall asleep and instead tries to stay up as long as possible, the performance anxiety is likely to decrease, making sleep easier to come by. According to psychologist Arash Emamzadeh, all you need to do to fall asleep is try as hard as you can to stay awake.

Try paradoxical intention
Try paradoxical intention
Try paradoxical intention
Try paradoxical intention

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