Slide one hand behind your head at the base of the skull and rest the other on your forehead. Let your hands take the weight for a minute.

What the research says

A Cochrane review of manipulation and mobilisation for neck pain found short term relief when manual therapy was combined with exercise, and little sign of lasting benefit from manipulation on its own. Hands on the neck can ease things now without fixing anything permanently, which is roughly what this is for. A separate Cochrane review of early skin to skin contact found benefits for feeding and for how physiologically stable newborns were, which is evidence that being held steadies a body, though those were babies held by their mothers rather than adults holding themselves.

Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.