The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep [Paperback]

Michael Krugman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0446693243 | ISBN-13: 978-0446693240 | Publication Date: August 23, 2005 | Edition: 1

THE INSOMNIA SOLUTION is the answer millions of Americans have been waiting for -- a holistic, natural, drug-free, practical, user-friendly guide to falling, and staying, asleep. In Krugman's revolutionary book, he makes readers realize that insomnia is not just a nighttime affliction, but rather a 24 hour-a-day condition. It's almost always associated with stress that we experience during the day. Krugman's incredibly effective Sounder Sleep System assists readers in creating thier own personalized sleep-assistance program, featuring a combination of 18 mini-moves, designed to induce relaxation, reduce stress, and ensure sound sleep.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

If you’ve got insomnia, sleeping pills aren’t the only option. This book offers gentle, easy-to-learn exercises called mini-moves™ to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. These tiny movements of the eyes, lips, tongue, and fingers will relax your body, calm your mind, and lull you to sleep. This is a non-addictive, no-cost alternative to sleeping pills. And it really works.

How does it work? It’s a two-pronged approach. There are daytime mini-moves to help you recover from the stress of life, and night-time mini-moves to help you fall asleep, and stay sleep through the night. They work together to restore your natural sleep cycle.

The daytime mini-moves can be done anywhere, even at your desk or workstation or on a train, bus, or plane. All it takes is three to five minutes. Practice twice a day for three weeks, I can promise that your life will become noticeably more peaceful. When your life is more peaceful, your sleep is more peaceful.

The nighttime mini-moves are done right in your own bed. They effortlessly bring your body and mind to the point where you just naturally drift off to sleep. If you awaken during the night, you can do the same mini-moves again to return to sleep quickly and easily. And the great thing is, the movements are so small that not even your partner will notice you’re doing them. So why not give it a try? You have nothing to lose but those dark circles under your eyes!

From the Inside Flap

"This is a book about self-healing. It teaches you to use your own movements and breath to overcome insomnia and get all the natural, restful sleep you need. In the process, you will heal your relationship with sleep. That means your attitudes and your feelings about sleep will change. Instead of dreading bedtime as a time of irritation, uncertainty, or disappointment, you will look forward to it as a time of comfort, pleasure, and peace."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition (August 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446693243
• ISBN-13: 978-0446693240
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleep at long last, January 9, 2007

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Michael D. Mckinley (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep (Paperback)

I first came across this book at 3 am on another insomnia night and was impatient for a solution. I didn't want any more pills that made me feel drugged the next day. I didn't want any more useless sleep hygiene advice, which worked intermittently. I also didn't want to pay $2,000 for a sleep study that would tell me I needed more pills and better sleep hygiene! Having suffered from insomnia for eight years, I was ready for a real solution.

Two things caught my eye about this book. One, a large percentage of the reviewers were medical professionals who used the method in their practices. Two, the book suggested an approach that would actually relax the body and calm the mind, not drug it or try to control everything around it and hope it behaves. This was what I was looking for!

After trying the methods, I can confirm that they work spectacularly; however, I do have a word of caution on the methods. Follow the steps in the book as exactly as possible, and don't go on memory alone when first doing them. Doing them incorrectly--even slightly so--can give you poor results.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reclaiming Sleeping Like A Baby, August 28, 2005

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Felicia N. Trujillo (Santa Fe, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep (Paperback)

The Sounder Sleep System(TM) is one of those rare methods that actually WORKS! After years of insomnia due to long work days and stress, I began attending Michael Krugman's workshops and was amazed that his easy mini-moves(TM) put me to sleep in bright daylight in a room surrounded by other insomniacs--now all asleep!

I was so impressed that I became a teacher of this system! Since then I find his work also helps my clients who suffer from tightness in the ribs, shallow breathing, stress--and, of course--insomnia.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, May 18, 2006

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This review is from: The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep (Paperback)

This book is incredible! I was beginning to think that sleeping poorly was a result of getting older(I am in my 30s). Now I know that you can learn to be a good sleeper just like you learn other things! Read it and enjoy.