Wake Up to Sleep
5 Powerful Practices to Transform Stress and Trauma for Peaceful Sleep and Mindful Dreams
Inspired by his work with military veterans, Charlie Morley explores how to combat the harmful effects of stress and trauma in order to achieve restful sleep and healing dreams. This book shares more than 20 body, breath, sleep and dreaming techniques proven to help reduce anxiety and improve sleep quality in 87% of participants.
We’ll explore:
· the science of how stress and trauma affect sleep
· yoga nidra and mindfulness practices for deep relaxation
· breathwork practices to regulate the nervous system
· lucid dreaming methods to transform nightmares
Whether you're experiencing stressed-out sleep or not, these powerful practices will help you optimize the time you spend dreaming so that you can sleep better and wake up healthier.
We spend a third of our lives asleep. On average, that's 30 years spent snoozing. It's one of the most important factors to ensuring good health and a longer life. So why do so many of us suffer from sleepless nights? And how can we sleep better and wake up healthier?
In this practical five-part book, sleep and dreams expert Charlie Morley shows you how to achieve restful, healing sleep, and combat the harmful effects of stress and trauma. Using breath and body-work practices and deep relaxation techniques, this book takes a body-based approach to combatting stress and trauma during sleep. You'll discover:
• how to optimize your sleep routine
• a step-by-step approach to improving your sleep, proven to reduce the symptoms of stress-affected sleep by up to 70%
• mindfulness-based techniques and breathwork to help reduce trauma
• lucid dreaming exercises and powerful consciousness techniques
• the neuroscience of sleep and stress
The techniques and practices in this book will help you maximize the time you spend asleep and show you how to achieve better, stress-free shuteye.
Dreams of Awakening has currently been translated into 5 languages
Resources
Check out the resources mentioned in the book.
Demonstrations of Breathwork Techniques
Recommended Yoga Nidra Tracks
Recommended Coherent Breathing Tracks
Independent Evaluation Report of Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep
Reviews
Charlie gives us the science and the know-how to help integrate trauma, calm the nervous system, breathe better and sleep soundly. This is a book to refer to time and time again for years to come.
David Hamilton
Author of How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body and The Five Side Effects of Kindness
I have known Charlie for a long time and I consider him a very positive influence in the world. In this book he guides people in how to be more helpful human beings. I strongly believe his authentic confidence and sound mind give him the ability to do this.
Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
Abbot of Samye Ling Monastery
Learning from Charlie felt like him taking me by the hand and guiding me on an exploration of my own mind. I highly recommend him not only for his knowledge of the subject matter but more so for his unique ability to teach in a fun and compelling way that gets results for his students.
Vishen Lakhiani
New York Times bestselling author and founder of Mindvalley
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