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Mindfulness and Sleep: How to improve your sleep quality through practicing mindfulness
If you're having trouble sleeping, mindfulness can help.
If you’re having trouble sleeping, mindfulness can help.
Do you worry about the fact that you are awake when you want to be asleep, and how tired you will feel during the day? You are not alone. One in three of us experiences problems sleeping—often triggered by stress, illness, and getting older. However, practicing mindfulness meditation regularly can help. We can learn to become less reactive and more accepting of being awake, which in turn reduces our anxiety around not sleeping. This may mean we drift off to sleep, but even if we are still awake, the mind is quieter. In Mindfulness and Sleep Anna Black introduces mindfulness and explains how it can help change your relationship to sleep as well as reduce stress. There are 25 practices and activities that introduce mindfulness and how to practice it. These include meditations for night- and daytime, as well as everyday activities that shine a light on our habitual patterns and behaviors and help create better habits to support the body’s self-regulating sleep system. Learn how to keep a sleep diary, too, which allows you to make notes about what you discover when you pay attention to what helps and hinders you in sleeping.
If you’re having trouble sleeping, mindfulness can help.
Do you worry about the fact that you are awake when you want to be asleep, and how tired you will feel during the day? You are not alone. One in three of us experiences problems sleeping—often triggered by stress, illness, and getting older. However, practicing mindfulness meditation regularly can help. We can learn to become less reactive and more accepting of being awake, which in turn reduces our anxiety around not sleeping. This may mean we drift off to sleep, but even if we are still awake, the mind is quieter. In Mindfulness and Sleep Anna Black introduces mindfulness and explains how it can help change your relationship to sleep as well as reduce stress. There are 25 practices and activities that introduce mindfulness and how to practice it. These include meditations for night- and daytime, as well as everyday activities that shine a light on our habitual patterns and behaviors and help create better habits to support the body’s self-regulating sleep system. Learn how to keep a sleep diary, too, which allows you to make notes about what you discover when you pay attention to what helps and hinders you in sleeping.
128 pages, Paperback
Published March 13, 2018
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November 13, 2020
I’m a psychiatrist, and we learned about sleep and sleep problems during residency. However, I understand that handling them in actual cases with actual patients (or with my own self) is not always easy. The negative stigma that some might have about psychiatrists constantly prescribing sleeping pills also do not help. So I had determined to learn, practice, and endorse more non-pharmacological approaches; mindfulness is one of them.
This book is an excellent read, both for laypeople and for mental health clinicians. It is especially great in explaining sleep theory, mindfulness theory, and mindfulness practices in layman’s terms, so that clinicians may adapt them accordingly. The layout and illustrations are pleasant to see, the colour palette (yes I’m noticing this too!) is calming, and thus supports the theme of the book. I really enjoyed reading it and have learnt much from it. I’m definitely keeping the book in my clinic for reference.
This book is an excellent read, both for laypeople and for mental health clinicians. It is especially great in explaining sleep theory, mindfulness theory, and mindfulness practices in layman’s terms, so that clinicians may adapt them accordingly. The layout and illustrations are pleasant to see, the colour palette (yes I’m noticing this too!) is calming, and thus supports the theme of the book. I really enjoyed reading it and have learnt much from it. I’m definitely keeping the book in my clinic for reference.
July 2, 2022
a great beginner book for mindfulness and if you have some sleep issues. I think this book teaches the fundamentals of mindfulness very well and not only that it teaches you how to properly apply it in your day to day life as knowing what mindfulness is and being able to implement it to your life are two different things and is hard to implement to your life if you are new to mindfulness.
I didnt have any sleep issues, however, i did want to get better with mindfulness and this book did just that so i am glad i read this book.
The book does repeat the basics of mindfulness through out the book which well i found it repetitive and quite unneeded but it does this in different ways to help people practice mindfulness into their lives and again if you are someone new to mindfulness and want to get into it this book can help with that but if you do not have sleep problems then i think there are probably other books better for new individuals who want to get into mindfulness or want to explore it.
Thank you for reading this review :3 ♥
I didnt have any sleep issues, however, i did want to get better with mindfulness and this book did just that so i am glad i read this book.
The book does repeat the basics of mindfulness through out the book which well i found it repetitive and quite unneeded but it does this in different ways to help people practice mindfulness into their lives and again if you are someone new to mindfulness and want to get into it this book can help with that but if you do not have sleep problems then i think there are probably other books better for new individuals who want to get into mindfulness or want to explore it.
Thank you for reading this review :3 ♥
October 5, 2019
I was disappointed. The title is promising but it there are many mistakes in the text. Also it seems that the authors has taken text from many experts but references are scarce. If you want to learn more about sleep there are many better alternatives written by experts in sleep medicine.
June 14, 2019
Actually this is a good hands-on introduction into both mindfulness as well as sleep hygiene. There are better books for both areas (e.g., "Why we sleep") but if you only want to read a single book on this topic, this might be it.
It is roughly structured into three parts:
1. why is sleep important?
2. introduction to mindfulness
3. lots of practice ideas.. you might not want to read this in one sitting, it's rather meant to be something that you read-on-demand
It is roughly structured into three parts:
1. why is sleep important?
2. introduction to mindfulness
3. lots of practice ideas.. you might not want to read this in one sitting, it's rather meant to be something that you read-on-demand
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