I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your Life! by Paul McKenna, Hugh Willbourn (Editor)

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We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping. However, more people are suffering from insomnia than ever before.

Paul McKenna,Ph.D., has made a remarkable twenty-year study of tackling insomnia. He has developed a unique, easy system that everyone can use to improve the quality of their sleep. In this book he shows you how easy exercises and simple changes in your thinking and behavior can have a significant impact on your sleep.

The book also comes with a hypnosis CD that resets your body’s natural sleep mechanism so that you will automatically find it easier to get deep, restful sleep and have energy to achieve what you want and improve the overall quality of your life.

Publishers Weekly

Self-help author McKenna (I Can Make You Thin) presents a number of easy-to-follow suggestions for insomniacs in this handy guide to getting a better night's sleep. While some advice is fairly self-evident (no caffeine after 2 p.m., decreasing alcohol consumption), ideas on topics like pre-sleep anxiety will surprise many chronic bed-tossers who don't realize the extent to which the sleepless cycle is self-perpetuating. Though heavy on self-help jargon, McKenna's sound ideas are clear, easy to read, and don't get bogged down in unnecessary explanation, though he does helpfully explore some of insomnia's root causes. A bundled CD also offers assistance with self-hypnosis and deeper sleep.
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Library Journal

Best-selling British self-help guru McKenna (I Can Make You Thin) notes that his latest work, designed to help overcome insomnia, is "written in a special hypnotic language." The book's accompanying guided hypnosis CD—intended to reset the reader's sleep cycle—continues that approach by presenting colorful and dynamic graphics reminiscent of a computer screen-saver along with a low-toned, British-accented male voice (the author's). The CD's kaleidoscopic images may not suit those prone to motion sickness, and the author's recommendation to sleep, make love, or use this book and CD only in bed may not find favor with insatiable readers. The book concludes with a chapter devoted to sleep questions and answers and a list of the 14 golden rules of sleep. VERDICT McKenna focuses on resetting the sleep clock, so those needing a more comprehensive look at insomnia should see titles like Peter Haur and Shirley Linde's No More Sleepless Nights. That said, readers who would like to try an approach based in hypnosis may want to try.—Lois K. Merry, Keene State Coll., NH

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