Mindful Sleep Therapy

Dear All,

I hope you are well.  I believe “The Guest House” by Rumi captures perfectly the daily struggle that we all experience in our lives and offers a heartening approach to it.

The Guest House

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

By Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

Dr. Guy Meadows - runs the London Insomnia Clinic and has created Mindful Sleep Therapy to help people recover from chronic insomnia. To find out more about his insomnia prevention plans please click here.

Wishing you the best of sleep,

Guy

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