It was a few months after the birth of our second child that I came to truly understand the effects of long-term sleep deprivation. Constantly waking up at 1:00 or 3:00 a.m. soon turned daily life into a hazy blur. I'd often find myself lying in bed, anticipating the next round of crying, or later in the night, I'd be tossing and turning for ages after being woken up. It's no fun whatsoever to drag yourself out of bed every morning with dark circles under your eyes. During this time, it became … [Read more...]
A Deep Sleep Meditation That Entrains Your Brain
As we are all learning in this age of astounding progress in the field of neuroscience, the brain is capable of being trained and re-trained in ways we previously thought impossible. Now Joseph Kao, a brilliant hypnotherapist from the U.K., has turned his hand to developing a tool -- a guided deep sleep meditation -- to help people both relax deeply and also to retrain their brain to be able to fall asleep more easily and sleep more soundly. What makes this particular tool uniquely powerful is … [Read more...]