The Mindful Way to a Good Night's Sleep

by Gover, Tzivia

• ISBN13: 9781612128825
• ISBN10: 1612128823
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-12-12
• Publisher: Storey Books

Summary

Good sleep, including positive dreaming, is essential to good health. In this friendly guide to cultivating deep, restful sleep — naturally — mindfulness and dreamwork expert Tzivia Gover offers practical lifestyle advice, easy yoga poses, 10-minute meditations, simple breathing exercises, visualization and journaling activities, and lots of encouragement and inspiration. You’ll learn how to set the stage for safe, productive dreaming, cultivate your dream recall, and learn to gain insight from your dreams. Gover also helps you create healthy bedtime and morning routines to ensure a restful night and refreshed, joyful living the next day.

Author Biography

Tzivia Gover is the author of several books including The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep and Joy in Every Moment. A Certified Dreamwork Professional and the education director for the Institute for Dream Studies, Gover has led numerous workshops and panels about dreams, mindfulness, and writing, and she holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She is an active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the founder of 350 Dreamers, an international network of people who dream together for global healing. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and can be found online at tziviagover.com. 

Table of Contents

Bedtime Story: Talking in My Sleep
Bedside Manner: How to Use This Book

A Good Night's Sleep
Bed
Lullaby
Getting Sleepy
It's Good for You, and It Feels Good, Too!
Cycles or Stages: The Geometry of Sleep
Your Laptop Is Not a Teddy Bear
Pillow
Oms for Z's: Lessons from Yoga and Meditation
When Sleep Won't Come
Darkness, Silence, and Stillness, Oh My!

Sweet Dreams
A Dream Defined
Your Brain on Dreams: What Science Can and Can't Tell Us
Try to Remember: Improving Dream Recall
Slow Wave: Taking Time to Understand Your Dream Language
Zen and the Art of Keeping a Dream Journal
The Yoga of Dreams
Navigating Nightmares: When Bad Dreams Happen to Good People
The Places You'll Go: Taking Dreaming to the Outer Limits

Good Morning
The Silver Ball
Bed Head: Waking the Brain
On the Right Side of the Bed

Epilogue: Sound Sleep for All
Your Dream Index
Acknowledgments: Mutual Dreams
Index