According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 50-70 million adults in the United States experience chronic sleep deprivation. The average American sleeps for only 5.7 hours a night, 2 hours less than the recommended minimum. With Dr. Maisel's help, readers can learn how to snooze sooner and spend their hours in bed productively!
An expert on the effect of stress on sleep, Dr. Eric Maisel has innovated a way to manage anxiety and stress using the power of your own mind. A fresh and unexpected approach to problem-solving, Maisel participated in leading a study on various aspects of sleep. A positive and surprising discovery from this study, people can "assign" themselves a problem to solve during sleep and awaken with potential solutions. Night Brilliance is not only a guide to this practice for readers, but also a space to record your feelings and findings. It also provides ways to sleep more, more deeply, and relax sooner.
Why does this work so well?
According to Dr. Maisel and his colleagues' study, when you're asleep, you're not simultaneously working, scrolling, or multitasking in any way. You have your full mind dedicated to solving issues that arise during the day.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. The Mother of Thoughts
2. Let Me Sleep On It
3. Waking Necessities
4. The Beauty of Oblivion
5. Much Too Economical
6. The Quiet Classroom
7. More Than Ourselves
8. Our Richly Colored Night
9. The Better Half of Life
10. Oh, Thoughtful Night!
11. Wider Than the Sky
12. Confident Sleep
13. Free-Rein Sleep
14. Thinking Harder
15. We Are Not Hypocrites
16. A World of Our Own
17. Sleep Thinking Responsibility
18. Day Work
19. Collaborations with the Universe
20. Where to Start?
21. Conscious Exploration
22. Vague Days, Logical Conclusions
23. Your Thoughts and Affections
24. What You Choose to Focus On
25. Anxious Bedtime
26. Background Anxiety
27. Bedtime Routines
28. Careful Prompting
29. Inviting Change
30. Begin in Wonder
31. I’ll Take Care of That
32. When Things Come Alive
33. The Pact
34. The Right Question
35. Morning Is Best
36. Hello, Solution
37. Interpretations
38. Connecting the Dots
39. Applying Knowledge
40. Practicalities
41. Obey the Night
42. Not Swift, Not Easy
43. The Conviction to Repeat
44. The Loom of Life Never Stops
45. Longing for Ways
46. What Temptation Resisted?
47. Who You Are in the Dark
48. Recency
49. The Best Meditation
50. Our Access to Other Worlds
51. Poems Fully Written
52. The Toughest Problems
53. What We Wish for Waking
54. At Ease with Not Yet Knowing
55. How Long Should It Take?
56. Decision Is a Risk
57. By Seeking and Blundering
58. A Form of Not Being Sure
59. From Problem to Question
60. When the Answer Is Maturity
61. Paralysis by Analysis
62. The Song Won’t Let You
63. Dare to Visualize
64. To Understand the Immeasurable
65. A Big Shadow
66. On Napping
67. A Mental Simmer
68. On Not Waiting for the Right Mood
69. On Not Waiting for the Muse
70. You Will Never Live
71. The Privilege of a Lifetime
72. Having a Why
73. A Hope That’s Waiting
74. The Noon of Thought
75. A New Way to Think
Epilogue
