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. Combining dreamwork and mindfulness, this practical, all-natural wellness program fosters restful sleep and positive dreaming. Features good lifestyle advice, yoga poses, simple meditations, journaling prompts, breathing exercises, dream recall tips, and more. 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. 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 Rediscover the pleasure of sleep. Through friendly guidance and dozens of easy exercises and doable practices, mindfulness teacher and dream therapist Tzivia Gover shows how lifestyle changes and dreaming can enhance a good night's sleep. This holistic program - including meditation, relaxation, yoga, journaling, and dreamwork - not only helps you improve your sleep habits but extends into the waking hours, too, with tips for morning routines to foster more joyful, mindful living all day. "Soothing as a lullaby, Gover's latest work is the print version of being tucked into bed with a warm glass of milk. Bringing her yoga and mindfulness training to shed light (or perhaps dark) on how to get a good night's rest in this 24/7, go-go-go world, the author asks us to slow down and contemplate the value and importance of how we spend one-third of our lives. Both science facts and quotes from poets lace the pages with reasons why we would want to sleep better and explore our dreams. Gover provides a linear progression of nuts-and-bolts advice on how to get to sleep, stay asleep, experience lucid dreaming, remember dreams, keep a dream journal, and wake up with a smile. It's all told with gentle prose that makes this book delightful and inspiring as well as practical. VERDICT For anyone who has ever had trouble fal

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