The healing power of sleep - Sheila Lavery

This guide presents practical steps to make waking hours more sleep friendly. It provides a catalogue of remedies, from self-hypnosis to Bach Flower remedies, that should help induce sleep. By adjusting a bedtime routine or choosing more suitable bedroom furniture, lighting and ventilation, readers can learn to sleep more easily. Questionnaires enable readers to identify problems and offer individual advice for a good night's sleep.;Most people will spend up to 20 years of their life asleep. Yet, little thought goes into sleep until it becomes a problem. For one-in-ten people, sleeplessness can go on for weeks, months or even years. Four per cent of marriages are said to break down because of sleep-disturbance irritability.;This book explains how important quality sleep is to health. It tells how to improve personal sleeping habits and the quality of sleep achieved each night.;The most common enemy of sleep is anxiety. Arising from work or family problems, anxiety makes the body release stress hormones that prevent sleep. Exercise, eating and drinking just before bed also stimulates the body and makes sleep difficult. The book explores sleeplessness and the main causes of sleep disturbance in adults and children.