Sleep and insomnia: Improving health with CBT and meditation

If you don't have any diagnosed diseases, does that mean you are healthy? Absolutely not, and on the other hand you may have been diagnosed with a disease, but that doesn't mean you are sick either. 

Understanding hormones is one of the most interesting parts of the human biology. 

It's not just a matter of feeling good, we're talking about life and death. 

Depression commonly is associated with problems sleeping. It's not sure which causes which, but it is certain that they encourage each other. This is why it's important to learn about this snowball effect, and get yourself rolling in the right direction. 

Find out about the magic healing abilities that are intrinsically built into you, but that only start working when you are sleeping. 

A bit more talk about hormones, this one is about the growth hormone, which needs to be regulated tightly. 

People want quick solutions NOW! However, getting healthy isn't about covering up disease, it's about creating a healthy lifestyle for your body and mind to live more harmoniously with. 

You should treat yourself the same way you would treat someone you care deeply about. 

Technology has many advantages, though it brings us out of the natural world, and out of our natural cycles. 

It's important not to put all the pressure on yourself about sleep, in this lecture we're going to try and ease the pressures that you may put on yourself. 

Your biological clock is one of the keys to being alert and performing well during the day, and sleeping a good quality night of sleep at night. Here we will talk about some of the major players influencing that clock. 

Coffee has been a hot topic in the press and with research lately, and there have been some very interesting findings. 

Not all hours of the night are the best for you to sleep, there are better and worse ones. 

Exercise is the closest thing we have to a 'super-drug' today, make sure that you make time for yourself. 

Let's get into some of the techniques that we can apply practically to help us relax and enter into a state of mindfulness. 

Here we talk about the basics, finding our place and time to meditate. 

This is the first meditation session. Listen along with headphones as you enter into the world of meditation. 

In session number 2, we are going to talk about a common technique that will help us listen to our body. 

In this meditation session we can start to understand that by uniting between our body and mind we can help ourselves sleep better. 

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This meditation session provides you with a guided audio file to help you meditate yourself to sleep, putting yourself into a state of mind in which you won't be tossing and turning. 

This is the introduction into the sleeping disorder known as insomnia. 

This is a technique proven to improve insomnia, and help people overcome their sleeping issues. 

This lecture is here to provide you with way to think about your sleeping problems. 

Here's a good way to think about medication before you jump to the conclusion that it is the right thing to do in order to fix your sleeping problems. 

In this lecture we talk about different types of medication that are available in the market, which are commonly used to deal with insomnia. 

After learning all that you have about the health of sleep and insomnia, it's time to make a plan for yourself and put that plan into action to become healthier!