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Health Journeys: A Meditation to Help You with Healthful Sleep

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She talks for about 17 minutes and then it is all music. I wish she would talk through the whole thing. It takes me longer to fall asleep and when I don't hear her voice I notice it and come out of my "trance".

This recording was recommended to me and I was very skeptical that it could help me get to sleep on stressful nights. To my surprise it has been very effective and only failed to work one night out of very many.

I find Naparstek's light hypnosis guided imagery for sleep very helpful when used intelligently WITHIN an overall program to improve sleep. In our stressed-out post 9/11, 24/7 society, too many of us find ourselves taxed near the limit of our capacities. WHEN we create healthy evening sleep rituals, fairly constant bedtime and arising times, a cool dark bedroom, ban the TV and maybe the clock, THEN Naparstek can ease us over the line into sweet sleep during high-stimulation or high-conflict periods. If you only throw in her CD when you're agitated and expect miracles, you may or may not get them. I find her great for nodding off or when I awake during the night, but not within the last 2 hours before I get up. Note she's offering us the chance to work on our sleep patterns beyond one night, to ENTRAIN our bodies and hormonal systems for better sleep patterns, with techniques such as finding the right position to lie in before sleep each night, to encourage bodily-based sleep memories. I found only multiple good and subtle side-effects with the Naparstek drug.

I was using sleeping pills continuously to help me get to sleep at night and decided to try something different. I am truly amazed at how well this works. The first couple of nights I had a hard time getting my breathing to feel right and relaxing, but since then I've been asleep before 20 minutes has passed. If I wake up at night and can't fall asleep, I simply press play and listen to the cd again and go back to sleep.

When I first bought this (and other specific versions by Belleruth Naparstek - sleep, stress and general wellness), I was very skeptical. I didn't think anything was going to help me (especially not some stranger talking to me on a CD). Couldn't have been more wrong. This CD works every time. Each time I listen to any one of Belleruth's CDs, I become visibly, physically more relaxed and am usually snoring in la-la-land bliss before the CD ends. Highly recommend all of her CDs.

Not at all too new-agey. Her voice is very soothing and she presents images to think about that I was able to relate/respond to very well. She goes beyond the standard "relax the toes, now the foot, now the ankle" that others have -- the narration also works to quiet the mind. The music in the background is not at all intrusive and the narration with background music eventually goes to background music only; it works well on my iPod, giving me a nice long time to hear music to sleep with. I use this music as a type of white noise also. I highly recommend this dvd, and look forward to trying some of her other ones.

This is an excellent CD. My wife and I listen too it at least 3x per week. I am a Mental Health Therapist by Trade, and I have recommended this CD to a number of my patients. This is where most mental health healing begins, and that is simply by meditating and quieting the mind.

I find this CD very helpful in getting to sleep. I use it almost every night and now I only need to listen to the first part to fall asleep. BellaRuth's voice is very soothing and pleasant. Give it a try.

I've been listening for a couple weeks now when I go to bed and it definitely helps me relax and calm my mind. I also think I'm more
rested in the morning. I just wish it would keep me asleep All night!

This Cd is very helpful for meditation to help relax you for sleep. I don't however recommend listening to it with headphones, the feel of them can be somewhat distracting when you are trying to fall asleep. Put in bedside CD player and let yourself drift off to sleep as you listen.