Fast Asleep, Wide Awake: Discover the secrets of restorative sleep and vibrant energy

by Dr Nerina Ramlakhan

Overview

A powerful methodology to help you switch on your body’s innate ability to sleep well and how to build extraordinary energy.

Sleep problems aren’t created when you put your head on the pillow. Everything you do during the day – every thought, every behaviour, every choice you make – can impact on how you sleep at night.
Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, a physiologist and renowned sleep and energy expert, has worked with people for over twenty five years. Combining this professional experience with academic and personal insights, she shares her view that sleep problems are not just about sleep but rather about how we deal with life and its inevitable challenges.
In this ground breaking book, she goes beyond traditional sleep methods to examine the true causes of sleep problems .
Fast Asleep Wide Awake shares a unique and highly practical process for accessing deep and restorative sleep and shifting your energy from survival energy to a more sustainable and vibrant source of energy that we all have access to.
Using tools and techniques based on Western science and Eastern practices learn how to sleep deeply and find the energy to embrace life’s challenges with courage and optimism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008179861
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr Nerina Ramlakhan PhD is a physiologist and sleep and energy expert. Nerina works with the Capio Nightingale Psychiatric Hospital in London on their sleep, energy & physical health programmes that are designed to support mental wellbeing. She also runs regular sleep/energy workshops for women recovering from cancer at the Haven Centre in Fulham, London.
Nerina uses her academic background in physiology, philosophy and psychology to guide her teaching, but her approach is highly practical. She has a strong belief that everyone can live a healthy and more fulfilling life by tapping into and nurturing their deepest inner resources – even in these hectic times that we live in. Her work, both with individuals and organisations, is dedicated to helping people to create greater balance, vitality and peace.
Nerina’s work has recently been featured in The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Express, The Guardian, New Scientist, The Evening Standard, The London Paper, Woman & Home, Healthy Living, Red and Psychologies Magazines. She has talked about power napping on the Radio 2 Chris Evans show and has appeared on This Morning, GMTV, CNN and more recently, SKY NEWS talking about technology addiction. Nerina is also the sleep advisor to the Silent Night bed company. She has written a book called ‘Tired But Wired’ June 2010. Nerina writes a regular blog for The Huffington Post.www.drnerina.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Preface xi

Introduction - Thriving Not Surviving 1

Chapter 1 Getting Ready to 'Be the Change' 21

Chapter 2 Discovering the FAWA Formula 27

Part I Shifting Awareness

Chapter 3 Understanding the Sleep-Energy Balance 43

Chapter 4 East Meets West 67

Chapter 5 Your Personal Reality Check - Who Are You? 81

Part II Waking Up: The Energy Clean-up

Chapter 6 Cleaning up Your Energy with the 5 Non-negotiables 97

Part III Fast Asleep: The Pure Sleep Programme

Chapter 7 Introducing the Tools in the Pure Sleep Programme 121

Chapter 8 The Essentials - Preparing to Let Go 123

Chapter 9 The Deeper Tools I and II - Sattvic Sleep 139

Part IV Wide Awake

Chapter 10 - Doing The Real Work and Tapping into Extraordinary Energy 167

Chapter 11 The Energy for Life Programme 176

Chapter 12 Let the Magic Unfold 220

Conclusion - Flying and Flourishing 237

Endnotes 241

Bibliography 245

Resources 247

Index 249