I Can Make You Thin: The Revolutionary System Used by More Than 3 Million People (Book and CD)
by Paul McKenna
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Author: Paul McKennaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-30
ISBN: 1402765711
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Sterling
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Book Review: OVERCOME INSOMNIA FOREVER AND GET THE BEST REST OF YOUR LIFE is a powerful statement, but after reading, I think it may be true
Summary: 5 Stars
Paul McKenna, the self-help guru and bestselling author
of I CAN MAKE YOU THIN, has written his next book with an
equally compelling title: I CAN MAKE YOU SLEEP . . . its
subtitle says it will help you OVERCOME INSOMNIA FOREVER
AND GET THE BEST REST OF YOUR LIFE.
That's a powerful statement to make, but after reading the
book, I think it may well be true . .. and, in fact, I'm now trying
some of the exercises that are contained.
They are easy to do . . . they make a lot of sense, too . . . for
example, there's:
* Systematic Relaxation
Read through this exercise first before you do it, and remember: only do
it where you can safely relax completely, such as in bed.
1. Use your most comfortable, tired, drowsy voice and simply say each
of the following to yourself as you do it.
Now I relax my eyes
Now I relax my jaw
Now I relax my tongue
Now I relax my shoulders
Now I relax my arms
Now I relax my hands
Now I relax my chest
Now I relax my stomach
Now I relax my thighs
Now I relax my calves
Now I relax my feet
Now I relax my mind
2. At this point you may find it helpful to go through the whole process
again several times to deepen the relaxation.
Like every other skill you learn in life, this gets easier, and you get better
at it, with practice. So every night practice speaking to yourself with a
contented, happy, tired, drowsy voice that yawns, so that it becomes
a natural, automatic part of falling asleep easily.
In addition, there were many other techniques spread throughout
the book . . . one of my favorites was the following:
* Go to bed only when you are sleepy.
It is as simple as that. If you aren't sleepy, don't go to bed. However
tired you might want to be, or think you ought to be, don't go to bed
unless you actually feel sleepy. Stay up and read, get on with all the
jobs and tasks you've been putting off and go to bed only when you
feel really sleepy. You have already been surviving on not much sleep
and you won't get any more by trying to force it. When your body needs
it, it will let you know. This means you should never say things like, "I'd
better go to bed now as I need my sleep," if you don't feel sleepy. Only
when you feel sleepy is it correct to decide to go to bed. When you first
start using this system you may find that you are up much later than usual.
Don't worry, that is perfectly normal. After a few days of going to bed late
and getting up half an hour earlier, you will find that your natural sleepiness
begins to show up earlier in the evening.
And I liked how McKenna urged readers to be careful with what they
say to themselves:
* Saying "I'm an insomniac" is defining yourself by your past. That's like
saying, "I can't run because I'm a person who stands still." If you define
yourself by what you have done in the past, you will repeat the past. If
you define yourself as someone who is free to make choices in the
present you can change your future. What you've said about yourself
in the past is a story you tell yourself. You can change the story you
tell yourself.
There's an excellent guided hypnosis CD that accompanies I CAN MAKE
YOU SLEEP, which by itself would be worth the purchase price.
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