Mindful Sleep Therapy

What is Mindful Sleep Therapy?
Mindful Sleep Therapy is a technique developed by Dr. Guy Meadows (PhD) to help prevent chronic insomnia. It combines a number of approaches such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Meditation.  Mindful Sleep Therapy teaches you to accept and embrace your insomnia, allowing your brains natural sleeping ability to take control. It does this in the knowledge that once all fear, anger and pain surrounding poor sleep is removed so too will be the powerful grip that it has over you.
Insomnia sufferer’s lie in bed ‘trying’ to make themselves to sleep, unfortunately the more you try to make yourself sleep the further sleep goes away. By accepting and embracing your insomnia you are no longer ‘trying’ to sleep, instead you are accepting that your brain knows how to sleep and will do if you let it.

Can Mindful Sleep Therapy help me?
If you do any of the following habits then Mindful Sleep Therapy can help you.

1. Lie in bed awake at night trying, wanting and forcing yourself to sleep.

2. Lie in bed at night thinking of all of the past poor quality sleep that you have ever had.

3. Spend your days and nights imagining how bad your sleep is going to be in the future.

4. Lie in bed imagining how bad you will feel tomorrow if you do not sleep.

If you engage in any of these habits on a daily basis they are likely to be playing a key role in fueling your insomnia and keeping you awake at night. Mindful Sleep Therapy teaches you to abolish these habits and to achieve natural good quality regular sleep.

Find out more: To find out more about Mindful Sleep Therapy and Dr. Guy Meadows’s 6 Week Insomnia Prevention Plan please go to The Sleep Doctor webiste or contact him directly at guy@londoninsomniaclinic.co.uk

Dear All,

Due to demand and the success of my Free Insomnia Prevention classes I will be running more classes throughout 2009 and all over London. The next one is planned for the beginning of February 2009 and will be in the Morgate area. As per normal this 1.5 hour class will be completely free to the public and will give you the chance to understand why sleep is so important for your health and learn about everything you can do to promote a great night’s sleep.

If you would like to attend the class please email me at guy@londoninsomniaclinic.co.uk and I will reserve you a place. I will update the blog with the exact date and time as soon as it has been confirmed.

Wishing you the best of sleep,

Dr. Guy Meadows (PhD)

London Insomnia Clinic

6 Week Insomnia Prevention Plan