Sleeping like a baby? NOT!

Are you still chasing the elusive Sleep Switch?

Have you been struggling with the stress and health issues that chronic insomnia brings? Research tells us that insomnia can cause many problems in health and cognition;

• Low energy
• Lack of motivation
• Attention, concentration or memory problems
• Poor performance at school or work
• Extreme mood changes
• Daytime sleepiness
• Trouble making errors at work or while driving
• Tension, headaches or stomach aches
• Frustration or worry about your sleep.

Chronic insomnia can put you at risk for major depression, and can logically lead to prescription drug dependence and overdose.

Insomnia occurs for a variety of reasons that can often be pinpointed through a survey, questionnaire or a full blown sleep study.

While the shelves of our pharmacies as well as the local health food/supplement store are crammed with sleep aids for over the counter use - to say nothing of the 100's of prescription products for sale behind the counter, the latest and greatest research is proving beyond any doubt that most insomniacs benefit from CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you change actions or thoughts that hurt your ability to sleep well. It helps you develop habits that promote a healthy pattern of sleep.

CBT can take a variety of forms including:

Stimulus control - creating a positive stimulus triggered by tiredness opposed to the negative stimulus of the fear of tossing and turning all night.
Sleep Restriction - setting strict limits on the time you spend in bed every night, forcibly limiting the number of bed time hours only to the number of hours that you actually sleep, not the hours tossing and turning. The idea is to deprive yourself of additional non productive hours attempting to sleep, decreasing the actual number of sleep hours and increasing your overall tiredness. It's goal is to stabilize your sleep pattern and instill more sound habits.
Cognitive control and counseling for the worries and negative thoughts that can race through your mind hour after miserable hour.
Sleep Hygiene, or improving your basis sleep habits - deleting coffee from your evening routine, exercising to increase fatigue and decrease stress, stop napping at mid day - those kinds of things.
And finally, relaxation training with biofeedback. This is the area that has helped me the most over the years. It consists of techniques such as muscle relaxation, controlled breathing meditation, as well as the more tech oriented methods of biofeedback, brainwave training and audio relaxation programs.

If you are experienced with sleep audio programs, there have been extraordinary improvements in the field over the last few years. They now incorporate unique brainwave frequencies at the proper timing and in the right order to help train you to go under with the ease of a baby.

Sleeptracks.com provides you with a simple 7 question survey to determine your basic needs for an audio sleep program, while true brainwave enthusiasts can look at the amazing site from My Mind Shift to give yourself a high tech kiss goodnight on your tired little forehead.

And for those of you who love freebies (and who doesn't!) try Tranquil Sleep Now. Along with your audio sleep system you pick up 107 yes 107 free bonus gifts!

A Free e- Book, just for you!

I love the long weekends! Amid all the current and non-stop News online and in the media, I have to go on a regular "News Fast" as our friend Dr. Andrew Weil calls it.

So I spend some time researching and surfing. Possibly no other category of health and nutrition is searched online more frequently then "Weight loss".

Google it today and you will find 92 million webpages dealing with the concept. No kidding, try it yourself! (BTW, a search for "George Bush" yields a mere 40 million pages.)

So, how does a person sort out the wheat from the chaff?

Well, we get to a point where we listen to our trusted sources and then surf on from there. In my morning monsoon desert surf, look what I was able to find for you . . .

An awesome little e-book with a few - 177 to be exact - tips for weight loss and exercise; some brilliant, some common sense (the least common of all our senses), some just worth trying.

For example:

1. Substitute fruit purees for butter or margarine. They are easy to prepare in a food processor and will significantly reduce calories and fat.

6. Water mixed with fructose suppresses appetite better than glucose with water or diet drinks. Drink a glass of orange juice one half to one hour before a meal.

73. If you love pie, stick with the fruit pies. Pumpkin and other fruit pies are lower in calories. Pecan pie has about 430 calories while the same slice of pumpkin pie is only 240. You can drop another 100 calories if you don’t eat the crust!

100. Not only is a single order of Fettucine Alfredo an artery clogger, it also weighs in at a whopping 1,500 calories! When eating Italian food, opt for pasta topped with marinara or meat sauce (skip the meatballs), red or white clam sauce or chicken Marsala.

So, take this 12 dollar e-book with my blessings, with an eye for the content which suits you best.

And enjoy the 173 other tips.

And of course, it's my gift to you. Get it here, for free.

FLASH-

My surfing also brought me to this gem. Dr. Suzanne must be doing something very right with her Secret weight loss program, because food and drug lobbyists are trying to shut her down.

"New Breakthrough Secret discovered by lady doctor has other doctors
baffled!"

Find out how Dr Suzanne Gudakunst discovered how calories, carbs, and such have far less to do with the real reason you're fat and can't seem to lose weight regardless of what you do!

It is currently available here:

Dr. Suzanne's Dangerous Secret

But hurry as lobbyists want her secret forever banned because it threatens the food & drug companies' continued stronghold on the masses in order for them to remain rich at the cost of YOUR health!