[Maggiesmom]

The biggest takeaway from Martin’s eight-week course is that sleep is a natural process, so we therefore can never “force ourselves to go to sleep.” This is where many people go wrong: They overthink sleep and try to force it to happen. For example, I used to allow myself a lot of time in the bed for sleeping. I thought, the more time I allow, the better. But this was the wrong approach. Martin’s directions to follow a set sleep window (going to bed and getting out of it at the same time each day) of about 8 hours set the stage for healthy sleep habits.

I also learned that we work against ourselves when we try to relax for the specific purpose of going to sleep. Martin taught me that relaxing and sleeping are two different things. Relaxing in order to fall asleep is forcing the issue; it’s better to focus on staying awake so that sleep can come naturally.

In closing, if you are suffering with your sleep as I was, Martin Reed can help you. The course is worth every penny.

 

 

• This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Maggiesmom.

[Deb]

Thank you. This is encouraging. I’m also a client. I’m on my fourth day of sleep restriction and slept less than 2 hours. I’m hoping to get better.

[Deb]

That makes sense about the relaxing. I don’t know how many people have told me I need to do meditation, take natural supplements, listen to relaxing CDs, take a hot bath in the evening, etc. in order to relax. But insomnia has nothing to do with that. It’s a learned problem so it needs to be unlearned.

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