A Good Night's Sleep: A Drug-Free Solution

by Jan Sadler

How to overcome insomnia with visualization, breathwork, and meditation

• Presents mental and physical exercises to quiet mental chatter, visualizations to prepare for sleep, and deep breathing and mindfulness meditation techniques

• Explains how to establish and analyze a sleep diary and how to retrain the body to sleep solidly

• Includes a 65-minute audio CD of guided visualizations and relaxation techniques

In A Good Night’s Sleep , Jan Sadler teaches the skills needed to break the patterns and frustration of insomnia. She explains how to overcome stress and restlessness through meditation and deep diaphragmatic breathing, how to prepare for sleep through positive visualization, and how to quiet mental chatter with awareness and physical techniques such as the “Stop/Cancel/Change” and “Shakeout” exercises.

Sadler addresses how to reduce dependence on sleeping pills, determine the amount of sleep you truly need, and, most important, how to retrain yourself to sleep soundly. She provides a two-week sleep diary and shows step-by-step how to identify and analyze any underlying daytime and pre-bedtime habits that can disturb sleep. In addition, the accompanying 65-minute audio CD presents six relaxation and visualization techniques, including Sadler’s “Peaceful Sleep Bedtime Routine,” a 20-minute guided relaxation practice designed to ease one into a deep and peaceful sleep. By revealing the keys to quality, drug-free sleep, A Good Night’s Sleep enables you to reclaim control of your sleep cycle and your life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2008

Reviews

[Lisa Lazarus]

This is an excellent book for people who have lost the skill and capacity to sleep and have made the mistake of long term use of sleeping pills. It provides practical techniques and routines to follow both day and night to support the acquisition of new skills and a new approach to sleeping. Like all books of this kind, it provides support and valuable life lessons for an enhanced life style beyond sleep dysfunction. This is a valuable book that I will read again and again and will keep close to hand at all times.

[Jacquie]

I really liked this book and am incorporating lots of ideas on how to get a better night's sleep...and getting results! She's made some nice charts so that you can keep track of your daily activities to see what is affecting your sleep.