Practicing meditation or yoga nidra is an effective tool to train the nervous system to transition from high alertness to the relaxation needed for sleep.

“Meditation and yoga nidra scripts have been immensely helpful for me in terms of accelerating the transition to sleep, so they involve taking a few minutes, 10 to 30 minutes or so, just like you would for a nap, and just listening to a script, almost passively, and it has you do some particular patt”