Sleep hygiene, hot baths, kiwi fruit, breathing techniques, acupuncture, counselling, supplements, sleeping tablets...Over twenty years, I tried it all. Nothing worked.The more I tried to force sleep, the more I fed my anxiety and obsession - and the more insomnia stripped from my life.I can't get up early as I can't sleep at night. I can't see my friends tonight. I can't do the job I love. I can't share a bed with my wife. I can't, I can't, I can't.For two decades, slowly but surely, insomnia took over my life and stole my happiness.And then I found CBT-I. Everything changed. Every thought, every action, CBT-I had seen it all before. My insomnia was not unique. Your insomnia is not unique. It always boils down to two problems: sleep drive and hyperarousal.By addressing both through behaviour changes, sleep knowledge and cognitive restructuring, I went from being somebody trying everything they could to make themself sleep to being somebody trying everything they could to stay awake.After overcoming my insomnia, I trained with a sleep physician to help you overcome yours. In this book, I take you on my journey and share the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment so that You Can Sleep Too!

Welcome to Your Journey to Restful Sleep Imagine waking up each morning feeling refreshed, energized, and ready to take on the day. For years, I couldn't imagine what that felt like. Insomnia had its grip on me, making nights a battle and days a fog. But after countless trials and errors, I discovered the practical, science-backed strategies that finally put my insomnia to bed. This book, "Put Insomnia to Bed: How I Hacked My Sleep to Beat Years of Insomnia" is the culmination of my journey. My goal is simple: to provide you with a straightforward, actionable guide to help you achieve the restful sleep you deserve. What You'll Learn In this book, we'll explore a variety of topics crucial to understanding and overcoming insomnia. Defining Insomnia and its effects on the mind and body. How artificial light disrupts natural sleep rhythms. The impact of caffeine, energy drinks, and diet on sleep quality. Explore the relationship between alcohol and sleep. How to reset your internal clock Tips for building a bedroom conducive to rest. How to unwind before bed. The nightly routine that helped me kick insomnia to the curb This isn't just another book filled with generic advice. It's a hands-on guide, grounded in personal experience and supported by scientific research. You'll find practical tips you can start implementing right away, and the results will speak for themselves. Restful sleep is within your reach, and this book is your roadmap to achieving it.

The first source on insomnia treatment since the advancement of newer drug options and cognitive behavioral therapies, Insomnia: Diagnosis and Treatment presents a comprehensive reference on the complications, evaluation, and treatment of insomnia. Ideal for sleep medicine specialists, psychiatrists, and neurologists, this text uses a multi-discipl

"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

There is no better way to improve your sleep than to cultivate the attitude of a loving parent with a small child. For example, when it is time for the child to go to bed the parent says, “You have had a great day. You have played with all your toys, you did ‘this’ and you did ‘that’ but now it is time to go to sleep. Tomorrow is another day but right now it is time to go to sleep. Get into bed and make yourself comfortable.” They then repeat what they just said, “You have had a great day. You have played with all your toys, and you did ‘this’ and you did ‘that’. Tomorrow is another day but right now it is time to go to sleep. Turn over, close your eyes and go to sleep now.” But when the parent gets into bed they lie awake thinking and worrying to all hours of the night. If only they took the attitude of a loving parent with themself they would be off to sleep in no time at all. In this package you will learn how to use hypnosis to quieten the mind, slow down your energy, and gently drift off to sleep. This is not a cure for insomnia but if you should wake up in the night then you will be able to use the same procedures to quickly get back to sleep again. This package will also help you to deepen your meditation and be generally more relaxed throughout the day. You will learn how to: - Be your own sleep therapist. You get the exact words and procedure to put yourself to sleep every night. - Prepare yourself to fall asleep. - Gain control of a racing mind and quieten it. - Learn a number of ways to fall asleep. - Use self hypnosis to enter states of deep relaxation. - Get to sleep quickly. - Quickly get back to sleep if you should wake up in the night. - Reinduce a drug state. For example, recreate the experience of having taken a sleeping pill. - Turn your sleep into deep meditation.

Discover natural ways to sleep better - that actually work!Sleep hygiene, hot baths, kiwi fruit, breathing techniques, acupuncture, counselling, supplements, sleeping tablets ...Over twenty years, I tried it all. Nothing worked. The more relaxation tips to fall asleep I tried in order to force sleep, the more I fed my anxiety and obsession - and the more insomnia stripped from my life.I can't get up early as I can't sleep at night. I can't see my friends tonight. I can't do the job I love. I can't share a bed with my wife. I can't, I can't, I can't. For two decades, slowly but surely, insomnia took over my life and stole my happiness.And then I found CBT-I. Everything changed. Every thought, every action, CBT-I had seen it all before. My insomnia was not unique. Your insomnia is not unique. It always boils down to two problems: sleep drive and hyperarousal.By addressing both through behaviour changes, sleep knowledge and cognitive restructuring, I went from being somebody trying everything they could to make themself sleep to being somebody trying everything they could to stay awake.After overcoming my insomnia, I trained with a sleep physician to help you overcome yours. In this book, I take you on my journey and share the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment so that You Can Sleep Too!If your almost there but I haven't quite tickled your fancy enough with my blurb. If you click- Visit Amazon's Joseph Pannell Page - you will see a video with 10 evidence - based techniques to help you overcome your insomnia that in only 7 minutes will completely transform the way you think about sleep. You will also see a photo of my book being devoured in a GP surgery like a hot cake ! Already tried CBT-I? whilst CBT-I cured my own insomnia, I trained in NATTO and I have also come up with a fair few of my own techniques and adaptations so this book will be different. How well do you sleep? If you are looking for a natural way to fall asleep fast and stay asleep, get your sleep on and join the hundreds (the books only been out a few weeks but it is on a roll so it will be thousands soon!) of people who have had their lives transformed.

It is sadly true that it is not always easy to fall asleep. This gently amusing, highly effective anthology of soporific dullness has been carefully curated to put readers to sleep as quickly as possible. With a pillowy case wrap, stultifying illustrations, and pages of sheep to count, this giftable godsend for the under-rested features dozens of snoozy short texts, including "The Motion of Sand Dunes," "The Administrative Bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire," "White Noise: A Technical Explanation," and many dozens more— though good luck reading very far on any one evening. Insomniacs will also appreciate "A Staring Contest with Fifty Cats," "Some Interesting Mathematical Theorems," "The Dullest Entries from Interesting Diaries," and other zzzzzzzz.