Decided to share my own sleeping technique that i somehow came up with. Until i turned 25, i could fall asleep in matter of minutes. After 25 i started to notice it takes much longer time to fall asleep, so i started to "feel" my body and time when melatonin kicks in.

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TL;DR Loosen all your body, every time you breathe out imagine your body sink more into the bed.

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Long version:

1. Loosen all your muscles and start controlling your breath, breathe in and then slowly out
2. Every time you breathe out, make/imagine a feeling that your body is sinking into the bed(like a free fall feeling on roller-coasters)
3. Put attention into every body part you have to make sure they are relaxed. If you have any thoughts coming back, keep focusing on breading
4. In some point, melatonin in your brain starts kicking in. Then usually starts the next stage
5. Imagine collapsing rings (i see only vague rings, less detail the better i think). They come and go, like you are going backwards in tunnel
6. In 10 seconds, you should be sleeping now :)

Later in life i discovered meditation and was surprised on how remarkably similar it is to my technique. It's all about feeling yourself(body&mind) and controlling your body and thoughts

Factors that also help:

• Do meditation(3-7 days a week, at least for a month, to see effect)
• Use twilight app on your phone/pc, dont use bluelight screen 1-2 hours before sleep
• Darken your bedroom as much as possible
• Try some white noise generator app(rain,waterfall,wind etc)
• Empty your bladder

If somebody tries this out i would love to hear feedback :)
If you have any questions, please ask, i probably forgot to elaborate something important