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Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep

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I bought Sleep Thinking, started following the method a couple of weeks ago, and I'm already seeing results. I'm waking up earlier in the morning, and getting work done on a creative writing project that I've been putting off for too long. I'm encouraging all of my friends and colleagues to buy the book and start sleep thinking. The book is well-written, clear and easy to understand, with well-chosen examples that should make it easy for a broad spectrum of people to apply sleep thinking to a broad range of needs, for creative, personal, school, and business enrichment. Do yourself a favor, get this book and start sleep thinking.

If you need a little help getting problems sorted out personally or professionally, this is a great book to assist you in that endeavour by a simple technique - sleeping on it. Eric Maisel has constructed an easy-to-follow step-by-step method to harness our unconscious in solving what seems in broad daylight to be the unsolvable. He provides several typical case studies including work problems, artist's block and having a problem with a roommate. Writing down and refining the key issues surrounding the problem and keeping a dream journal are recommended. Solutions may not necessarily appear after the first night's sleep on it. The whole process may take a few days or several months. But once you get into the habit of sleep thinking it becomes easier. This technique is very similar to various meditation techniques I have come across, but sleep thinking is a more comprehensive and constructive approach. I believe it also provides more possibilities because you are not continuously consciously focused on the problem you are trying to solve.

Eric Maisel is one of the top creativity coaches in the US and has 30 books out. He's published in both fiction and non-fiction.

I had an opportunity a few months ago to hear Dr. Maisel speak in person. Everything he said resonated deeply with my own experiences. He answered many of my half-formed questions about my creativity, depression, obstacles, and frustrations.

I bought several of his books on Amazon...including "Sleep Thinking."

I'm about three-quarters of the way through the book, and am impressed by the topics he's touched on. In his presentation he brought up recent sleep research which found when we are asleep we are dreaming part of the time - of course - and thinking about questions and issues from our waking life the rest of the time.

This book helps you to figure out how to direct your mind to think about the problems you want to solve or the next step in your creative pursuit while you're asleep. I have no wonderful stories to share about my success in this area, but I've found using his techniques help me sleep better and feel calmer. I consider that a move in the right direction all by itself.

I've also read his book "Deep Writing" which is also unique and insightful in different directions.

Dreams have been known to help individuals come up with solutions to problems: Kekule's discovery of the benzene ring; Elias Howe's discovery of the sewing needle. People are also aware of how dreams can bring to the fore personal issues buried in the subconscious. In this book, Eric Maisel presents a program to use dreams in a systematic way to help in multiple areas - problem solving, creativity and even personality change, for example. The key to Maisel's system is the sleep question; in other words, before you go to sleep ask your brain to consider a particular question for which you need an answer. If your career is stalled, you can ask yourself something like "I wonder what can move my career forward?" The brain has now been primed to dig into its massive database and come up with an answer. The answer may not emerge crystal clear or immediately. It may take months of sleep-thinking before an answer arrives. And an answer can even arrive subconsciously. However, an answer will arrive if you are sleep thinking correctly.

Maisel's book is filled with numerous examples of how his clients successfully sleep-thought (assuming that's the correct past tense). My opinion is that this does work. I have on numerous occasions awakened with solutions to problems, maybe not answers to the big questions of life, like why do my Mets suck, but to other pressing personal issues. However, I wish that Maisel or someone else would verify his claims and findings with some experimentation and compare people who use the sleep-thinking program to those who don't. Anyway, I am now going to sleep with the following sleep thinking question in mind: "How can I get Jennifer Aniston to cook me some pancakes for breakfast?" Good night.

Wow, "Sleep Thinking" what fascinating way to use the sub-conscious mind to solve everyday problems. The sub-conscious mind never sleeps it always working, it never sleeps. So why not put to work for you. Why not take advantage of the greatest problem solver man has ever known. Some the most perplexing problems that man has ever come across were solve by the process of sleep thinking.