Restful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefits of Sleep Even When You Can’t
Product Description
Insomnia has meant nights of frustration—until now. A new program, Restful Insomnia, helps insomniacs mimic the benefits of sleep so they can greet the mornings refreshed. If you are among the 70 million sleep-deprived Americans who do battle every night, take heart! This book will show you how to use your waking night hours to quiet your mind, replenish your creativity, and relax deeply. You’ll come to accept your insomnia and discover how to derive enough of the… More >>
Restful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefits of Sleep Even When You Can’t
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…I’ve only finished the first few chapters. Funny too, at least if you have much experience as an insomniac. I can really relate to all the failed methods mentioned.
Her discussion of the conscious and unconscious mind was really eye-opening for me; we’re not talking Freud here. What it boils down to is not heeding/acting on every “urgent” thought from the planning, organizing part of our brains when it’s time for sleep. She gives lots of good tips on how to do that.
Rating: 5 / 5
Restful Insomnia by Sondra Kornblatt
Red Wheel/Weiser Books, 2010
Review by Debra Louise Scott
Sondra Kornblatt presents a surprisingly readable Self-Help book for chronic insomniacs. I usually have a hard time with the Self-Help genre, as they tend to make me feel frustrated or guilty, or else take me into areas I really-don’t-want-to-deal-with-right-now. Sondra avoids the usual self-examination scenarios and goes gently to addressing the actual issue of what to do when sleep is elusive.
Restful Insomnia is geared to the person who understands the body’s relationship to energic forces from within and without. If the sentence, “…try having a dialogue between your body and your Conscious Mind.” makes you roll your eyes, you probably won’t get much out of it. However, if you are someone who meditates, does Yoga, works in esoteric realms, or utilizes alternative healing therapies, the exercises will make a lot of sense. Some passages remind me of the work of Carolyn Myss, [...]
so I was surprised to not find her listed in the Bibliography.
A subtler technique runs throughout the book that I very much appreciated. Those of us who suffer from chronic insomnia are often afflicted with short attention spans and /or impaired reading comprehension. She introduces a complex idea along with another simpler idea, the simpler idea is explained, and the other simply referred to in passing. The next section will reinforce the simpler idea and expound more on the the complex one and mention a third idea briefly. She continues this introduction and reinforcement in small sections so that by the time you get to the complex concepts, they feel more like old friends than another mind-boggling exercise. The method played well into my tendency to read these types of books in small sections rather than straight through.
Because the focus is on learning to feel rested, rather than curing the insomnia, there is no sense of frustration about progress or lack thereof. It is about learning to become friends with your body the way it is, not the way the sleeping pill commercials tell you it should be. The subtitle of the book is “How to get the benefits of sleep even when you can’t”. While this may be a bit overstated, it does tell you that there is an alternative to stressing over the clock ticking away, and obsessively counting the hours that you actually did sleep as a measurement of how the subsequent day is going to turn out.
Rating: 4 / 5
Sondra’s witty and insightful tips combined with proven facts work together to create a plan for discovering the joys of sleep or at least rest again. I found comfort in knowing somebody else is or has suffered the same tortures of insomnia; then I found solutions to help me begin to take control of my nights again or maybe let go of the need to have control. Either way, most nights I sleep thanks to this book. The other nights I find myself calmer and more at ease with my insomnia. Thank You Sondra!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
A personal, realistic and non-threatening approach to dealing with sleep deprivation, Restful Insomnia is beneficial for every reader–not just those who suffer from the condition. Sondra Kornblatt reveals her own troubles with insomnia and accounts her journey from frustrating sleepless nights to finally being being able to mimic the benefits of sleep through techniques such as Night Yoga and Wisdom Writing. Sondra also mentions some examples of clients whom she coached with her revolutionary program and how her techniques worked for them.
But besides all the sleep talk, Restful Insomnia is just darn entertaining. Sondra’s conversational, and at times, comical tone is unexpected for a non-fiction book that tackles such a troubling subject–but it’s refreshing and it works. I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking for an alternative solution to this important problem that affects so many.
Rating: 5 / 5
Sleep, as good as it is, is not so easily acquired. “Restful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefits of Sleep Even When You Can’t” is a collection of tips for fighting the insomnia that affects many Americans. Rest and sleep are not synonyms, writes Sondra Kornblatt, as she states various techniques to make sure one has the energy for the events ahead when sleep is simply not on the menu. Warning against drugs, “Restful Insomnia” is a choice acquisition for when someone has to settle for the next best thing.
Rating: 5 / 5