Restful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefits of Sleep Even When You Can't

by Sondra Kornblatt, Teresa E. Jacobs MD (Foreword by)

Overview

Restful Insomnia for the Restless Mind

"Wonderfully creative solutions for the hopeless insomniac, transforming worry and sleepless nights into deep eazzzzzzze." ―Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, nutritionist and author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health

#1 Bestseller in Sleep Medicine and Healing

If you are battling insomnia and telling yourself “I cannot sleep”, this book teaches you how to gain the benefits of sleep without actually sleeping.

If you’ve suffered from countless nights of sleep deprivation, then this book is essential to helping you thrive in the night. Sondra Kornblatt highlights many techniques that help insomniacs gain the benefits of sleep without ever having to sleep. If you can’t fall asleep, then this is the book for you! 

“I cannot sleep”. There are over 70 million people in America who have trouble sleeping. Moving through everyday life without proper sleep can be frustrating and alarming but with this book learn how to properly function from your lack of sleep. If you can’t fall asleep, Sondra teaches the importance of an evening ritual to create internal rest. Instead of leaving your bed worn out by sleeplessness, leave your bed refreshed and ready to conquer the day. Restful Insomnia gives you tools to thrive while functioning on little to no sleep.

Restful insomnia teaches you how to:

• Bring rest to the body with a unique form of night yoga
• Quiet the mind through guided meditation
• Quell the soul's worries through night writing

If you enjoyed books like Say Good Night to Insomnia, Sleep Smarter, or The Sleep Solution, then you’ll love Restful Insomnia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573244671
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Conari Wellness
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sondra Kornblatt is a health and science writer and author. She developed the Restful Insomnia program in 2000 and has been teaching it in the Pacific Northwest ever since. She is a certified sleep coach with a degree in counseling and community affairs. She has certificates in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). She has studied many personal development modes and communication, such as meditation, yoga, energy psychology, somatic body healing, and Reiki. Learn more at www.restfulinsomnia.com. She currently lives in the Seattle area with her two children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Foreword 13

Introduction: An Endarkened Insomniac Sees the Light 15

1 The Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind-Who"s Driving the Van? 25

2 What's the Problem? 35

3 Reframing and Using Insomnia 51

4 Creating a Night Nest 61

5 Evening Rituals 75

6 Getting into Your Body 89

7 Night Yoga 99

8 A New Relationship with Pain and Discomfort 113

9 Change Your Mind 127

10 Resting with Meditation 141

11 Emotions and Touch 155

12 Wisdom Writing 169

13 Finding Your Spiritual Center 177

14 Grounding 187

15 Positive Focus 195

16 Taking Restful Insomnia Insights into Sleep and the Day 211

Bibliography and Resources 219

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Wonderfully creative solutions for the hopeless insomniac, transforming worry and sleepless nights into deep eazzzzzzze." ―Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, nutritionist and author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health

"Restfull Insomnia is a delicious contradiction, filled with insightful ways of bringing peace to insomnia. It revisions insomnia as a journey of the spirit. This is the book to read when you can't sleep." ―Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine

Editorial Reviews

Restfull Insomnia is a delicious contradiction, filled with insightful way of bringing peace to insomnia. It revisions insomnia as a journey of the spirit. This is the book to read when you can't sleep. Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine-- "Reviews"

Wonderfully creative solutions for the hopeless insomniac, transforming worry and sleepless nights into deep eazzzzzzze. Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, nutritionist and author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health-- "Reviews"

From the Publisher

"Wonderfully creative solutions for the hopeless insomniac, transforming worry and sleepless nights into deep eazzzzzzze." Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, nutritionist and author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health

Reviews

Anyone who has spent a sleepless night will be tempted by the title of this book. Kornblatt (A Better Brain at Any Age) has developed a New Age methodology to manage sleepless nights and emerge relaxed from sleeplessness. Her Restful Insomnia (RI) program is a conscious meditative approach that draws on many holistic agencies, including diet, various stress-relieving means, evening rituals, yoga, and other relaxing strategies, to create distance from random thoughts and a "conscious mind," which keep one awake at night. Each relaxing procedure—e.g., "creating a night nest," "wisdom writing," "finding your spiritual center," "grounding," and "positive focus"—is presented in step-by-step detail interspersed with none-too-useful digressions from Kornblatt's case studies in RI. VERDICT Gayle Greene's Insomniac is a better choice for those needing an everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-insomnia book. Kornblatt's book is an optional purchase for those interested in exploring meditative or stress-relieving techniques.—James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York

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