Wake Up to Sleep

From common work-related stress to the more serious effects of trauma, this book teaches effective techniques to help readers achieve the best possible sleep.

Struggling with your sleep? Best-selling author and sleep expert, Charlie Morley, reveals a scientifically verified, holistic approach to healing stress or trauma-affected sleep.

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, will show 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 in our 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

Whether you're experiencing stressful sleep or not, the techniques and practices in this book will help you maximize the time you spend asleep and show you how to achieve some better, stress-free shuteye. Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and lucid dreaming teacher who has over 10 years' experience in the field of sleep, dreams, shadow work and mindfulness. www.charliemorley.com.