The Mindful Way to a Good Night's Sleep

Practical and useful book!  I love all the ideas the author has in the book - I am going to employ as many as I can.  This may be one of the best books I've read on getting better sleep.

Fascinating insight into how to cultivate deep restful sleep using mindfulness and dream work using a variety of well used methods such as meditations, visualization etc Absolutely loved the book, find self help books are  a great way to changing your lifestyle without fuss

A lovely book full of more thoughtful and holistic ways to ensure a good nights sleep.  Although it is not just aimed at those having trouble sleeping, there are extensive sections on dream work and just improving the quality of sleep.  It is a kind of homage and prayer to sleep !  The background artwork is beautiful and the book itself is almost meditative.  It is a book for taking your time over, and just picking up and dipping into.  A great holistic way to think about and improve your sleep quality.

I’ve had trouble sleeping since receiving a cancer diagnosis over twenty years ago. This is a common occurrence with traumatic medical diagnoses which often corrects itself over time. For me, it set a pattern of behavior that includes insomnia as my standard stress response. Sleep itself, or the difficulty in getting healthy sleep, creates stress, which causes insomnia, which increases stress. It becomes a terrible pattern.

This year I began to really focus on sleep as well as meditation, positive thought patterns and other mindfulness practices. I have read a few other sleep books this year, but this is the first directed entirely to more mental and meditative practices.

This book is divided into three parts: simple sleep habits, dream journals, and gentle waking practices. Scattered through out the book are dreamy illustrations and quotes about sleep, rest, and mindfulness. The tone is gentle and the chapters short with many practical examples to put into practice.

Although some of the tips overlap with other sleep books, the dreaming and waking sections were something I have not encountered in other books. I am not one who remembers dreams very often and have never experienced a desire to interpret them (even feeling a bit of skepticism about the practice), but the ideas and practices in the dream section still help some appeal and may change the way I approach even this aspect of my life.

Perhaps the part I enjoyed most about the book were the mindful waking practices detailed in the third section of the book. I’m not one to leap out of bed ready to embrace the day, so these gentle ideas will definitely make their way into my morning routine.

Overall, I believe this book offers many practical options and plenty of thoughtful considerations to improve sleep habits, not only for the poor sleeper, but also those prone to lengthy hibernation.

For most of my life, I was on bff terms with sleep. I fell asleep easily, stayed asleep, and remembered at least one dream per night. But my daughter, now a toddler, changed that. She has trouble sleeping through the night, even now, which means that I have trouble sleeping through the night. What sleep we do get needs to be restorative. So I was excited to read The Mindful Way to a Good Night's Sleep. 

I really liked the tips Gover has for quieting your mind, and making your bedroom a safe place for rest and dreams. I am bad at self-meditation as well as yoga, but there were many interesting suggestions for incorporating these aspects into your sleep routine. 

There is a lot in this book about dreaming, lucid dreaming, journaling about your dreams, and making sense of nightmares. There is also reassurances for those of us who don't remember our dreams, and exercises to recall them. 

Another lovely aspect of this book is the way gratefulness is incorporated into this book. Spending a bit of time to give thanks for what is truly important in our lives, is something I often forget to do. I'm glad for the reminder to slow down, reflect, and express gratitude. 

*Thank you to Storey Publishing and Netgalley for an ARC*

I read this book over the span of a week, right before going to bed and I have noticed a slight improvement in my sleeping already.
To fully get the benefits of this book, I think you need to constantly work at all the advice given even though some of the advice can be hard to do for some people like me ie. not using any electronics before going to bed.
This book is split up into sections going through why getting a good night's sleep is beneficial, understanding your dreams and why we dream and how that affects our sleep to steps on how to actually get a good night's sleep.
I really enjoyed the journaling prompts given as well as the step by step guide to meditating. 
I marked a lot of pages to look back on such as the breathing exercises which I found very helpful to help me in the future.
I also thought the sleep/dream quotes scattered throughout this book was a nice touch.

This a valuable and helpful self help book about improving your sleep habits. I found the authors suggestions easy to follow and incorporate into my routine. I suggest following  her lead and your sleep will improve adding to your overall life.  The journaling and mindfulness is always a good practice and works. I improved my sleep after reading this book by adding hours I was missing . It truly works and I highly recommend this book.