That's what I practiced during the last few nights to better Fall asleep. Either it works very, very well, and I am very, very tired ... probably it is a combination of both. Either way, it's a good exercise for students (and you included) to focus on breathing during meditation or savasana.

Close your eyes and breathe in and out through the nose. Begin to focus on the breath, and its occurrence and blowing through his nose.

What part of the nose is touched by the A-respectively exhale? Do you smell anything while you breathe? Do you smell something else when you exhale? Be fully present at your breathing.

Now focus on what you see with your eyes closed. Can you see spots of light or color, or points? See something with your eyes closed?

Imagine now the numbers 1-10 behind his closed eyelids before. The number 1 is in the right corner of your right eye, and the number 10 in the left corner of your left eye. The remaining numbers are located on a line between them.

You start with breathing (this is important, it must be started with the exhale) count to one, and 'see' gleichzeiting the number 1, all with their eyes closed. Now, inhale, still facing number 1 Now exhale and look 'to the number 2 Now, inhale, still with a view of number 2, and breathe out with a view of number 3 Do so on until you inhale with regard to the number 10, which you can visualize in the left corner of your left eye.

If your thoughts start to wander, you start back at number 1

If you make it to the number 10, without falling asleep, you start all over again. If you have durchexerziert the exercise twice, without that your thoughts have moved and they had to start again from scratch, you ask yourself whether you are really tired? You might just try to sleep because it is the contemporary time? Sleep can not be forced, but we can get the body to be more relaxed and ready.

If you find that you fall into a light sleep, stop counting. Sleep was indeed the idea, right?