Welcome to the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast.

This is an excerpt from Charlie Morley's brand new audiobook, Wake Up to Sleep, Five Powerful

Practices to Transform Stress and Trauma for Peaceful Sleep and Mindful Dreams.

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Many things such as loving and going to sleep are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

CS Lewis.

The man who first taught me about mindfulness and sleep, meditation teacher Rob Nen once

told me, insomnia is the process of trying to fall asleep.

Falling asleep isn't something you can try to do. In fact, sleep is in many ways the

culmination of not doing anything at all. It is an automatic biological process that will

occur naturally in the absence of stresses that prevent it from occurring.

Most of the sleep hygiene approach is the troubled sleep, largely ignore these internal

biological stresses and focus instead on external obstacles such as blue frequency

light and caffeine intake.

The core of the approach seems to be, remove the external obstacles to sleep in order to

create conditions that make it easier to fall asleep.

Sleep hygiene tips aren't long-term solutions though and can often become further obstacles

to sleep as we stress ourselves out over creating the perfect external conditions.

Author of the sleep book, Dr. Guy Meadows, sums this up perfectly.

They often become one of the many props that contribute to the general loss of trust

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