Sleep Well, Sleep Deep: How Sleeping Well Can Change Your Life (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

According to Lukeman (What Your Dreams Can Teach You), a psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist, more than a third of all Americans suffer from lack of sleep. How well we sleep plays a role in both mental and physical health, from headaches and irritability to impaired judgment (according to the author, more than 100,000 car crashes a year are caused by sleep-deprived drivers). Lukeman presents the means to abolish sleeplessness: he contends that a calm and relaxed mind is essential to deep sleep and explains that people are in charge of their own sleeping habits. A helpful personal sleep quiz allows readers to assess their sleep potential and identify the reasons why they aren't sleeping well. Lukeman then methodically provides practical advice and strategies for achieving deep sleep. This reader-friendly guide also includes information on natural sleeping aids, sleep disorders, self-hypnosis, dream analysis (the "Sleep, Dreams, and Health" chapter is particularly interesting), how to defeat jet lag and how to teach children to get a good night's rest. Readers who find themselves staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. would benefit by devoting those currently sleepless hours to reading Lukeman's helpful book. (Nov.)
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Product Description

New Book Is The Prescription For A Good Night's Sleep

Can't sleep? You have plenty of company. More than fifty-three million people in American don't get enough sleep. Over thirty-million adults and children suffer from sleeping disorders like insomnia, restlessless and sleepwalking. As many as one million car crasher a year are attributed to fatigue. If you are tired of sleepless nights, Sleep Well, Sleep Deep shows how sleeping well can change your life. Author Dr. Alex Lukeman presents the latest research information about sleep and disorders and provides concrete steps for getting some solid shut-eye.

Sleep Well, Sleep Deep: How Sleeping Well Can Change Your life reveals the mysteries of sleep. It gives practical advice about what to do when you can't fall asleep; how to treat insomnia; what nightmares mean; the function of dreams; conventional and alternative medicine sleeping aids; getting babies to sleep through the night, bedwetting; and self-hypnosis for relaxation and stress relief. In addition, Dr. Lukeman provides a sleep quiz, gives specific steps and strategies to follow, resources to call upon and a wealth of scientific research and traditional approaches to consider.

In Sleep Well, Sleep Deep Dr. Lukeman explains:

-Why our bodies need to sleep, sleep deprivation, sleep debt -What to do when your child can't sleep -Dreams and how they affect our health -Medications-over the counter, prescription and holistic -How to defeat jet lag and tricks for catching up with yourself

Also, Dr. Lukeman provides an easy, step-by-step process for self-hypnosis in order to promote better sleep, relaxation and well being.

Sleep Well, Sleep Deep helps the reader take charge of their sleep. Loaded with scientific steps and sleep strategies to follow, resources to call upon and a wealth of scientific research and traditional approaches, this book gives concrete assistance to all those fraught with sleepless nights.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.; 1 edition (November 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871318911
• ISBN-13: 978-0871318916
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,294,265 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, December 21, 1999

By A Customer

I found this book to be interesting and easy to read. I learned about specific things current research shows can help me sleep better such as taking herbs and designing good sleep habits. I enjoyed the personal sleep inventory that pointed out what I needed to do to sleep better. It told me a lot more than I expected and was fun to read. It really works too. I highly recommend it.