Dr Lindsay Browning

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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball · SLEEP SPECIAL: Rethink Your Sleep With Dr Lindsay Browning · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Cognitive shuffling is, I don't know if you've heard of that one, is a really good technique.

What is that?

Yeah.

So cognitive shuffling is where, so when you wake up in the middle of the night, what we want to do is to do something that sort of

helps us just to calm down and make it more easy that we can just drift back into the next sleep cycle.

So cognitive shuffling is where you think of a word, like literally you're lying in bed, you think of any word.

So the word I use in the example that I teach is the word cake.

So cake.

So think of words

the first letter of the word cake c and then i want you to think about all the words you can think of that start with the letter c so cabbages cauliflower just keep going until you exhaust that list and then move to the next letter a apple aardvark armadillo and so on and then to exhaust a words then move on to k then move on to e now why this is helpful is because these words

they're not a coherent worry they're not you thinking oh my goodness i haven't paid the gas bill i've got that important meeting tomorrow they're just random words so they're helping you to stay calm keep your mind occupied on something that's no low effort and the idea is hopefully that by doing that you'll just drift off to sleep because if we're in bed and it's dark it's night time we're calm we're more likely to sleep and if at the end of that you haven't been able to fall asleep

okay, fine, maybe get up and go and do something else for a little while and come back to bed again and don't beat yourself up about it.

But yeah, cognitive shuffling can be really good.

Lindsay, what do you say?

So a lot of times when people come to see me, they're really struggling with their sleep.

They will say, I have done everything.

And it sounds like that digger has done everything.

You know, they followed all the rules.

They're avoiding caffeine.

They're avoiding alcohol.

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