The Gift of the Night: A Six-Step Program for Better Sleep

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A fast and easy six-step approach for addressing insomnia and other sleep disorders

An effective, easy six-step program to help you sleep better as well as thirteen specific techniques to help you fall asleep and stay asleep

Offers an integrative approach combining evidence-based sleep science with holistic and spiritual techniques

Provides online support in the form of short videos, audio meditations, and exercises from the authors successful sleep clinic

More than one third of adults suffer from insomnia or some other kind of sleep disorder. Left unaddressed, lack of sleep can lead to debilitated health, lowered resilience, and decreased performance in all aspects of life. Restoring hope to the sleepless, psychotherapist Philip Carr-Gomm reveals how we each have the ability to unlock better sleep naturally.

Combining his knowledge of sleep science and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with techniques drawn from spiritual traditions and insights from the emerging field of psychedelic therapy, Carr-Gomm presents a fast and easy-to-follow six-step program to help you sleep better. He explores a multitude of approaches to sleep, as well as sleep difficulties and how to overcome them. He looks at the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy and microdosing, applying elements of the psychedelic therapy model as a way of optimizing the conditions for sleep. He recommends thirteen natural ways we can drift into a deep and restorative sleep, including hypnotherapy, Yoga Nidra, sophrology, progressive muscle relaxation, and white, pink, and grey noise, and provides scripts for five of these techniques. His successful sleep clinic provides online support in the form of short videos and audio meditations as well as exercises.

In addition to the six-step program, the author guides you in discovering the factors inhibiting a good nights sleep and explores the difficulties of sleep phobia, sleep-talking, sleep-walking, and Exploding Head Syndrome. He also answers questions about the links between sleep and depression, sleep and obesity, and the value of sleep hacking and lucid dreaming.

Helping you get a better nights sleep, this concise and simple guide shows you how to benefit from everything the night offers to body and soul.

Author Bio

Philip Carr-Gomm is an author and psychotherapist, having trained in psychology, sophrology, and psychosynthesis psychotherapy. The founder of the Sophrology Institute, he works in the emerging field of psychedelic psychotherapy with the Synthesis Institute in the Netherlands. He runs a sleep clinic that offers online sleep therapy and is the author of over twenty books, including Empower Your Life with Sophrology, Seek Teachings Everywhere, and The Prophecies. He lives in Sussex, England.