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Summary: A great guide to improve your sleep
Review: Heller's book contains helpful tips for anyone who has trouble sleeping. I've suffered from insomnia for years and found her book extremely helpful. The book packs a lot of information into a quick, easy read. I especially liked the lists such as the ones on how to lessen the effects of jet lag or the 7 essential habits of highly successful sleepers.Heller's book was a vital resource for an article I wrote about sleep titled "Wooing the Sandman."
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Summary: A great guide to improve your sleep
Review: Heller's book contains helpful tips for anyone who has trouble sleeping. I've suffered from insomnia for years and found her book extremely helpful. The book packs a lot of information into a quick, easy read. I especially liked the lists such as the ones on how to lessen the effects of jet lag or the 7 essential habits of highly successful sleepers. Heller's book was a vital resource for an article I wrote about sleep titled "Wooing the Sandman."
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Summary: Help for the Sleepless
Review: How to Sleep Soundly Tonight is a delightful little book. Written simply enough for anyone to understand, yet it is packed full of information for those who suffer from insomnia or other sleep problems. The book starts out with a comprehensive list of ten things you can do today to sleep soundly tonight. These are not your everyday tips, but just a bit off the beaten track. Yet I can see the benefit of all of them. Chapter one deals with how and why we should sleep. Do you know how much sleep you need? This chapter will help you decide what's right for you. Barbara also explains the difference between NREM and REM sleep. This chapter also deals with circadian rhythm, your biological clock and chronotherapy. Are you a morning lark or a night owl? "Research suggests that only about 20 percent is truly at either extreme," Barbara explains in a sidebar, "but it is helpful to be aware of your own tendencies." Do you dream? Barbara explains that most of us dream as much as two hours a night. More important, why do we dream? You'll find the answer in Sleep Soundly Tonight. Sleep patterns tend to change as people age. In chapter two of her book, Barbara discusses sleep from how to deal with fussy babies to the sleep debt entailed by the life of a teenager. Pregnancy alters a woman's sleep patterns, as does growing old. Barbara explodes the myth that senior citizens don't need as much sleep as they did when they were young. "It is a myth that the elderly don't need as much sleep," Barbara says, "but it is true that they don't seem to get as much." Why? You'll find the answer in the book. In chapter three Barbara takes a look at sleep disorders and how to detect them. She discusses common sleep disorders - insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and other disorders. Believe it or not, a lot of these sleep problems we seem to bring on with our erratic lifestyles, filling our time with work and play and not leaving enough hours for sleep. "This deliberate sleep deprivation," Barbara says, "may be a precursor to involuntary insomnia and other health problems." Chapters four and five discuss our habits and our environment. There are ways to improve both these factors of our lives and thus improve our sleep. Chapter six is filled with excellent self-help tips, including bedtime rituals and napping. The last two and a half pages of this chapter contain hints from other people on how they cope with sleeplessness. Ever tried meditation, creative visualization, yoga? In chapter seven, Barbara talks about all of these as a means of relaxing so you can fall asleep. She also discusses relaxation techniques like massage, reflexology, reiki and several more. How about music? "Music therapy has been shown to benefit patients in hospitals and nursing homes," Barbara says in chapter seven. And then there's herbs - in your tea, in your pillow, in your bath or in the air. Barbara tells you in chapter eight how to brew chamomile tea, how to make herbal bath salts and how to make a herbal pillow. In this chapter she also discusses homeopathy and herbal supplements. An excellent end piece to this chapter tells us how to use herbs safely. The final chapter tells us what to do if all these things we've tried still don't help. "Chronic medical problems often don't respond to self-help remedies," the author warns. "(Then) seek conventional medical assessment and treatment." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Barbara L. Heller, M.S,W,, is a psychotherapist/clinical social worker with more than 25 years experience in women's health care and complementary medicine. Another books by Barbara L. Heller: 365 Ways to Relax Mind, Body and Soul on how to deal with the daily stress in our lives Florence Cardinal Sleep disorders guide http://sleepdisorders.about.com
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Summary: Over two hundred easy techniques
Review: Whether sleep problems are intermittent or chronic, author Heller provides over two hundred easy techniques which range from exercises and recipes for sleep-inducing foods to herbal baths and room sprays. Some, such as visualization and bedtime sleep rituals, may be familiar to any who have struggled with this problem; other suggestions, such as the recipes for herbal baths, are unique in How To Sleep Soundly Tonight.
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Summary: Two hundred easy, effective, highly recommended techniques
Review: Whether sleep problems are intermittent or chronic, author Heller provides over two hundred easy, effective, and highly recommended techniques ranging from simple exercises and easy recipes for sleep-inducing foods to useful herbal baths and productive room sprays in How To Sleep Soundly Tonight. Some approaches, such as visualization and bedtime sleep rituals, may be familiar to any who have struggled with this problem; other suggestions, such as the recipes for herbal baths, are unique in How To Sleep Soundly Tonight. If you suffer from insomnia or other sleep related difficulties, read Barbara Heller's How To Sleep Soundly Tonight.
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