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“the combination of poor sleep habits, negative thoughts and associated behaviour was maintaining the problem,”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“It’s only when I stopped finding ways to disagree, stopped believing that there was something different and unique about my problem that I even began to recover. If”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“Every time you do this, that habitual thought pattern becomes weakened, and thus becomes less habitual, less automatic. Do this enough and the brain will give up firing in this way, and the negative thoughts won’t occur at all.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Companion: From Chronic Insomnia to the Best Sleep of your Life

“the fundamental state of the insomniac is one of profound loneliness.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“Not minding about whether you sleep is probably the one single most important (and difficult) change in attitude that you can make.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“ignorant, innocent children sleep effortlessly without questioning how or why.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“If you need a pill to make you sleep then the implication is that you must be unable to sleep on your own. This means that when you take a sleeping pill, any success will be attributed to the medication. The result is that you come to trust more and more in the drug and less and less in yourself until, eventually, you have lost all belief and trust in your own ability to sleep.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

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― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Companion: From Chronic Insomnia to the Best Sleep of your Life

“No one is physically or psychologically unable to sleep. In fact, we are all born with the same natural sleeping response. But we also have the ability to fight this instinct to prevent us from falling asleep in times of danger. This means that sleep is a delicate thing and for some, poor sleep habits and negative beliefs are enough to override the falling asleep response.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“fact, the only reason anyone ever falls asleep is because of trust,”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“until you have genuine confidence in your own ability to sleep unaided, there will always be a lurking fear that one day the problem will return.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems

“that in giving up responsibility, you give up your power.”
― Sasha Stephens, The Effortless Sleep Method:The Incredible New Cure for Insomnia and Chronic Sleep Problems