{"id":24366,"date":"2025-03-20T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24366"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:32:11","slug":"what-is-cognitive-shuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24366","title":{"rendered":"What Is Cognitive Shuffling?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Joe Whittington, 47, has been an emergency room physician for two decades, but he can still find it tough to quiet his mind after leaving the hospital.<\/p>\n

As he tried to doze off after one particularly chaotic shift, he kept thinking about a victim of a motorcycle crash whose vital signs had tanked, a patient who developed sepsis and another whose heart had suddenly stopped beating.<\/p>\n

His tendency to replay the night\u2019s events<\/a> \u2014 and his irregular work hours \u2014 often made it tricky for him to fall asleep. Over the years, he tried deep breathing, meditation and melatonin, before finally stumbling upon a technique called cognitive shuffling.<\/p>\n

The sleep strategy helps to \u201cforce my mind out of that loop and into a state where I can finally rest,\u201d said Dr. Whittington, who has shared it on his Instagram account, which has more than 750,000 followers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCognitive shuffling\u201d has been touted on social media<\/a> for years<\/a>, but does it really work? We spoke with sleep experts and the scientist who created the technique to learn more.<\/p>\n