Testimonial from Irene: amazing[…]!
“I just wanted to express how amazing your app is! It’s the only one that consistently helps me fall asleep quickly” (23 Sept 2025)
Testimonials, Testimonials meta
Mindfulness
🧘♂️ BSBM+: Updating A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique
🧘♂️ BSBM+: A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique If you’re familiar with my work on the cognitive shuffle and other cognitive techniques for improving sleep and emotional regulation, you might be interested in my updates to the new meditation method I’ve developed. It’s now called BSBM+. The “+” is for the optional unstructured meditation that
Mindfulness
BSBM: A new form of meditation
If you read my initial article on the cognitive shuffle and the theory behind it, published in 2013, you’ll see that I said that the cognitive shuffle (such as serial diverse imagining) is a form of meditation. None of the journalists who covered the cognitive shuffle, to my knowledge, has commented on that. Most forms
Announcements, Uncategorized
We’ve Updated Our Sleep Tips
We are not just here to promote mySleepButton. We are here to help you get better sleep. That’s why Luc P. Beaudoin devised a do-it-yourself version of the cognitive shuffle. It’s also why we provide an extensive list of sleep tips and other useful information about sleep. Recently, Luc P. Beaudoin updated the list of
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mySleepButton still not back on Google Play Store. Blame Google
mySleepButton was removed from Google Play in January and we’ve been trying to get back on. They are saying: Your tax form expired on Jan 1, 2025. Google may need to withhold up to 30% of your payouts or hold payouts completely until you submit a new tax form and it’s approved. You’re currently unable
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Paper in Sleep Theories Book to be Published in Cambridge Handbook of Sleep Models and Theories edited by Daniel Kay
The cognitive shuffle is not just some random technique to facilitate sleep onset. There’s some serious thinking behind it. In fact, it is derived from a theory of sleep onset and insomnolence called “the somnolent information-processing theory”. The theory and technique are outlined in more detail in this upcoming paper that has been accepted
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mySleepButton temporarily off Google Play store, coming back soon
mySleepButton is temporarily off the Google Play store. This is to deal with an administrative formality, namely registering a physical address with Google via our DUNS registration. This apparently is an EU requirement. We are working on it. Meanwhile if you’re an Android user wanting mySleepButton, you can try the do-it-yourself approach to the cognitive
Press
The Cognitive Shuffle in New York Times, BBC, etc.
On April 6 of last year, we wrote about the barrage of publicity that Luc P. Beaudoin’s cognitive shuffle technique for insomnolence has been receiving. It’s just continued…. 2024-05-12. Dr. Scott A. Walter published a tiktok video on the cognitive shuffle. As of 2025-03-20, it has received 609k likes, 6358 comments, etc. This led to
Press
The Cognitive Shuffle and mySleepButton Still in the News
The cognitive shuffle and mySleepButton continue to receive glowing testimonials from people around the web. Here is some recent coverage: 2024-01-29, “Self” published 3 Things to Do When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because You’re Overthinking…Everything. 2024-01-24, Stylist published Cognitive shuffling: this sleep-expert approved technique will help you to navigate night-time anxiety, which also appeared in
Press, Research
Pandemic, insomnia and mental perturbance
On Thursday, Dr. Elliot Kyung Lee, medical director of the Sleep Disorder Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, and Luc P. Beaudoin were interviewed by Matt Galloway on The Current (CBC, Canada’s national radio) regarding the pandemic, insomnia and mental perturbance. The segmented was about 25 min. long. Beaudoin wrote an article article