: Fiona Brennan
: Sleep Well 8 Habits to Help You Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep and Wake Up Refreshed
: Gill Books
: 9780717199167
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: CHF 16.20
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: English
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Transform your sleep, Transform your life. Imagine getting into bed every evening and drifting off quickly into a deep and restorative sleep, awakening refreshed and glowing with life and vitality. You feel calm and powerful and you know that you can cope with anything that comes your way. It is time to meet your best-slept self! Over the course of the eight-week Sleep Well programme, you will learn the surprising and effective habits necessary to optimise the length and quality of your sleep and transform your relationship with rest, resulting in long-term benefits to your health, mood and productivity. The unique blend of hypnotherapy, spirituality and sleep science will help you to wake up fully to who you are and develop faith in your innate ability to get to and stay asleep - every night. 'A much-needed compassionate and insightful guide to promoting restful sleep.' LUCY WOLFE, SLEEP CONSULTANT 'A map to guide you toward a lifetime of beautiful, restorative, restful sleep.' DERMOT WHELAN ''Sleep Well is a wonderfully practical, easy-to-read book that will immediately improve your sleep length and quality ... a scientifically grounded masterpiece.' DR ROBERT KELLY, CARDIOLOGIST

Fiona Brennan is CEO of The Positive Habit, a clinical hypnotherapist, a two-time best-selling author and an inspirational speaker. Fiona has a thriving private clinic and hosts bespoke wellness retreats in Ireland and abroad. Her first book, The Positive Habit, is a firm favourite for thousands. Fiona is a regular contributor to Newstalk and The Business Post. Fiona recently graduated in Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Health from the Royal College of Surgeons. She also trained under Eckhart Tolle as a Teacher of Presence. She is on a mission to help as many people as possible to sleep well, release anxiety and feel powerful. For weekly insights and free meditations please visit thepositivehabit.com and follow Fiona on her active Instagram page @the_positive_habit_.

THE SLEEP WELL
AUDIOS

All audios are available to download on www.thepositivehabit.com with the password ISLEEPWELL.

Please listen to the short instructional audio track ‘Instructions’, if you haven’t already done so. It will provide you with an overview of how to listen to your hypnotherapy audios every day.

Tonight, please start listening to ‘Week Two: Habit Two’ of the Sleep Well audios. Please listen to this audio for a minimum of seven nights. Please do not skip ahead to Week Three until you have listened for a full seven days.

Please also continue to listen to your morning meditation and your rest ritual tracks each day.

Measure Your Sleep

BEFORE YOU BEGIN Week Two of the Sleep Well Programme, please take a moment to rate your sleep. On a scale of 0 to 10, how well have you slept in the last week? (0 is ‘terribly’ and 10 is ‘very well’.) Please use the image on the opposite page to mark where you feel you are on this scale.

Welcome to Week Two

MANY PEOPLE FEEL an almost immediate benefit of listening to the audios and shifting their mindset towards sleep in as short a period as a week. If this is you, wonderful. If not, no problem – the most important thing is to keep going and the faith will come. You will make the progress you need in your own way, in your own time. Sleep is definitely not a competitive sport.

This week you are going to learn about the neuroscience of what happens when you go to sleep. You will explore the importance of letting go so that you can sleep. You will look at how feeling safe at a biological level is essential for you to surrender into sweet slumber. You will complete the very worthwhile exercise of writing your own sleep story, starting from when you were a child. This can be very illuminating and something most of us never take the time to do. Once you have written this you will begin to question some of the conditioned negative beliefs you may have about how you rate yourself as a sleeper.

This week’s habit is one of my favourites. It turns bedtime into something you genuinely look forward to. Habit Two, ‘Create a “blissful hour” 60-minute bedtime routine’, is exactly that: pure bliss.

The Scientific Door to Sleep

DURING THE SPANISH flu pandemic that raged across Europe just after the end of World War I, Austrian neurologist Constantin von Economo discovered something spectacular.8 He studied two types of flu patients: the first type fell into a deep lethargy or coma before dying; the second type did not sleep at all before eventually surrendering to death. Von Economo conducted autopsies on the two different types of patients’ brains and discovered that they had different types of lesions. In the brains of the patients who had slept before they died, he found damage in the posterior hypothalamus, the upper part of the midbrain. Von Economo coined the term ‘wakefulness centre’ to refer to the part of the brain that maintains wakefulness. The patients who had not been able to sleep before dying had lesions in the preoptic area of the anterior hypothalamus, and this part came to be known as the ‘sleep centre’.

This seminal work enabled scientists who conducted autopsies on people who died after being in a coma to discover that the brain-stem plays a significant role in wakefulness. They learned that there are two major circuits in the brainstem that inte