Getting The Z's You Want Sleep-Sense in the 21st Century

This Sleep-sense program takes the reader through essential information for anyone wanting to improve their experience of sleep. With sleep being viewed as 'the new sex', a great deal of misinformation has been promoted in recent years, while at the same time science informed information has been largely neglected. With increasing pressure around the whole issue, sleep anxiety has become a major contributor to problems- what should ideally be a pleasurable letting go at bed-time has, for many people, become a nightly battle with fears, anxieties and pressure to 'perform' in regards to sleep. Accurate information about the nature of sleep (and how we can work with these realities instead of against them) goes a long way to alleviating self-imposed sleep anxiety. In addition, specific exercises and resources are offered in this book to reduce sleep anxiety and to make sleep more likely to happen. For example, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) tapping applied to sleep problems is discussed, as well as science-based tips on substances to try and those to avoid. A range of issues that can interfere with sleep are presented, as well as advice on how to deal with these.