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Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in 21st century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

The average person spends 26 years of their life sleeping, but most of us are still tired, all the time. The reality is, sleep is not a priority for most of us and even though we’re getting sleep, it might not be the type of sleep you need. Dr Tim Sharp, Dr Happy, introduces you to 10 simple daily habits to get better-quality sleep so you can achieve a happier and healthier life.

In Life Time, Professor Russell Foster, a world-leading expert on circadian neuroscience, takes us on a fascinating journey through our days and nights. Using surprising examples and cutting-edge science, he busts long-standing myths about the best daily routine: from how to use light for a better night's sleep to using meal times to supercharge your metabolism, from the optimal time to have sex for conception to the extraordinary effects the time we take medication can have on our risk of life-threatening conditions such as strokes.

Do you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep or find yourself exhausted during the day? Olivia's straightforward science-based tips will enable you to get the sleep you really need - not only will you sleep better, you'll be more productive, less stressed and able to function at your absolute best.

Take a Nap! Change Your Life. explains the five stages of the sleep cycle, particularly stage two, slow wave sleep, and REM, and the benefits each one provides; how to assess your tiredness and set up a personal sleep profile; and how to neutralize the voice in your head that tells you napping is a sign of laziness. (Not that anyone would have called JFK, Churchill, Einstein, or Napoleon a slug-a-bed.)

In her new book, Arianna reveals all the ways that our inability to get enough sleep impacts our lives; undermines our decision making; compromises our health, our athletic performance, our work lives, our relationships and even our sex lives; and causes us to lose control over how we interact with others and engage with the world. She discusses the latest science on sleep, explores the importance of dreaming, tackles how technology changes our sleep cycles and explores ways to get better and more restorative sleep.

As long as you have entrenched anxiety about insomnia, you will struggle to improve your sleep in a lasting way. To end insomnia, you need to calm the anxiety that drives it. Rather than trying to make sleep happen, your focus must be on reducing your anxiety about insomnia and its consequences. As we’ll explore in the audiobook, when you’re stuck in a loop of anxiety about your sleep, your nervous system makes it very hard to sleep.

A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the simple changes we can make to lead happier, healthier, and more resilient lives. Life has never been more stressful. It is no coincidence that chronic degenerative disorders such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses, and mental-health conditions are on the rise. But if we want to tackle them, we need to look beyond their symptoms. That is the message of dentist and health advocate Ron Ehrlich.

In this gentle morning meditation, you'll learn how to access your inner navigation system to weather uncertain times and create a life full of meaning and purpose. All you need to do is find a quiet space where you can sit undisturbed for 20 minutes or so.

"It’s not you, it’s your schedule." Does it sound like magic? It’s not. We’ve all heard of circadian rhythms—those biological processes that give us jet lag and make us night owls or early birds. But few of us know just how profoundly these diurnal patterns affect our overall health. Bad habits like skipping meals, working late into the night to maximize productivity and then trying to "catch up" on sleep during the weekend disrupt our natural cycles. A growing body of research on chronobiology reveals just how sensitive the human body is to these rhythms all the way down to the genetic level.

Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta helped countless listeners keep their brains sharp and effortlessly productive with Keep Sharp. In 12 Weeks to a Sharper You, he now provides a step-by-step 12-week program to help you put his transformational ideas into daily practice. As Dr. Gupta writes, 'Change is a challenge, and changing long-established habits takes effort.' But this workbook makes it easy to apply Gupta's groundbreaking tips and research to establish healthy behaviours for life.

In The Hidden Lives of Dreams, Melinda Powell, psychotherapist and co-founder of the Dream Research Institute UK, reveals how we can better understand our dreams and how doing so can improve our waking lives. As well as examining the importance of sleep and dreams, Powell explores the role of light, colour, landscapes, space, healing presence and lucidity in dreams, dispels common misconceptions and addresses our fears of nightmares.

Help your children fall into a deep sleep and feel the benefits of mindfulness meditation. With relaxing music, the soothing voice of the narrator, and fun bedtime story visualizations, this mindfulness meditation will help children relax, stimulate their imagination, and learn valuable life lessons about handling stress and worry.

World-renowned researcher Sara C. Mednick PhD has the solution. She developed the concept of the Downstate while studying how our internal systems sleep, cardiovascular, circadian, muscular and metabolic work together. The results were astounding: our systems need restorative states, and these states don't just happen during sleep. In fact, you can harness Downstate moments in everything you do, from deepening your breath, to timing your exercise and meals, to holding hands, or walking your dog.

Ten percent of everyone on the planet suffers from chronic insomnia. Are you a part of this group? I know I was. And that's why I've spent years looking for ways to sleep well and live a happier life. This guidebook is the product of my personal experience, reviews of groundbreaking scientific reports, and feedback from people who have used the knowledge contained in it to shape their new habits and change their lives.

Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward - from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions. Not everyone does this successfully every night.

If you are like most people, the odds are you aren't getting enough sleep. Thanks to shifts in our culture, we are in the midst of an epidemic of sleeplessness and unfortunately, sleep deprivation has bigger consequences than one might think, ranging from irritability, brain fog and weight gain to serious conditions like hormone dysregulation, heart disease, memory impairment, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Better Sleep, Better You offers a one-stop resource to help you reap the benefits of sleeping well every night.

All the senses are gently engaged to enhance the process and research now shows that imagining a sea breeze or a still lake is as mentally beneficial as being there. Similarly, meditations included help the listener to put down their worries and turn them over to the unconscious world and welcome in calm and restoring energy.

Prolonged sleeplessness is ancient history as you nap off, sleep well, and wake up revived. Hypnosis has been utilised for a considerable length of time to fix numerous sicknesses, including the failure to show signs of improved sleep. You can assist yourself in improving the nature of your life with hypnotherapy.

Los apremios de la vida cotidiana te roban energía e intención. Dormir se ha convertido en un acto automático y rutinario: al final del día caes agotada en el lecho, sin darle relevancia. Nuestra cultura nos ha convencido de que compartir la cama es normal y deseable, como muestra de amor y cuidado hacia la pareja, los hijos y otras personas. Romper estos paradigmas y reclamar una noche para ti misma es una acción sublime para recuperar tu energía y tu poder, reencontrarte y volver a habitar tu cuerpo en consciencia absoluta, sin la invasión de vibraciones ajenas.