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Free Sleep Improvement Teleseminar

I encourage all of you with sleep challenges and insomnia to join me for my no-cost sleep improvement teleseminar – titled Sleep Without Insomnia ~ Stop Needless Anxiety…Improve Your Sleep Now!

This free sleep class will be held Tuesday, April 14 – 5 pm (Pacific) (8 pm Eastern).

Discover why attempts at improving your sleep habits often fail, and what you can do immediately to begin improving your sleep.

Watch this short video inviting you to participate in my class. Anyone with sleep challenges and insomnia can benefit from participating.

Just go to http://sleepwithoutinsomnia.com/teleseminar.html to read more details and register. As a registration perk, you’ll receive a Bonus Bundle of gifts. Check it out!

As always, I wish you improved sleep.
Glenda Sparling
Sleep Coach & Author
Sleep Without Insomnia

‘Bye-bye Cadbury ~ Hello Bed!’

Nothing feels worse than hearing your alarm clock ring in the morning when your body is screaming for a few extra hours of rest. Given the opportunity, who wouldn’t get more sleep? If I had a choice between a year of unlimited Easter candy and a year of unlimited sleep, I’d say “Bye-bye Cadbury” and “Hello, bed!”

Many people don’t get as much sleep as they should. Since the invention of the light bulb, people sleep about 500 hours per year less than they used to. Whether we’re kept awake by our partner’s snoring or we stay up too late watching TV, we wake up tired, groggy, and cranky.

This is an excellent article.

Thanks for sharing.To read the complete details of The Stunning Consequences of Not Getting Enough Sleep – click here.

Whether you’re the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker, few are immune from insomnia.  So, get a grip on your sleep habits.  Join me for this free sleep improvement teleseminar – Tuesday, Apr. 14 – 5 pm (PST).

For more information and to register, click here.

As always, I wish you improved sleep.

Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

What is Narcolepsy?

In today’s news…

Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. This disorder is characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. People with narcolepsy experience excessive daytime sleepiness and intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the day, regardless of the circumstances.

Read the complete article:  http://thetartan.org/2009/3/30/scitech/healthalk

As always, I wish you improved sleep.
Glenda Sparling
Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Watch for my upcoming free sleep teleseminar – Sleep Without Insomnia – April 14. To register click here.

Economic worries create tossing & turning

Video: Economic woes make it hard to sleep | NBC13.com

Thanks for sharing this article.

If you’re tossing and turning due to economic stress, join my free sleep solutions teleseminar – April 14 (5 pm PST) – to find out more about the seminar contents and to register, click here.

As always, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach, wishing you improved sleep!
Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Help! I Can’t Sleep!

Help is on the way!

IT’S 3am and you’ve been tossing and turning throughout the night. You have been trying hard to go to sleep but can’t seem to do it. Even if you do fall asleep, you will be awake 10 minutes later.

You have been suffering from this sleeping disorder for months. Insomnia is the most common sleeping disorder; most of us would have faced this problem at some point of our lives. You can read the complete article at by clicking here. Thanks for sharing!

If you face this challenging problem, join my free sleep improvement teleseminar – April 14 (5 pm PST) – to find out more about the seminar contents and to register, click here.

As always, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach, wishing you improved sleep!
Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Don’t gain Weight – Gain Sleep!

Hi, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach.  Read on and join my free teleseminar on how to improve your sleep.

They’ve found that there is a link between lack of sleep (poor quality sleep) and weight gain.

You can learn to improve your sleep and loose weight.

Consider joining my free Teleseminar on sleep improvement.  I’m offering this class Tuesday, April 14th. at 5 pm (pacific time – 8 pm eastern time (and everywhere inbetween).

Here’s the link for registration - http://sleepwithoutinsomnia.com/teleseminar.html

Also, take a few minutes to read the following article – Hunger and Sleep – it’s all related.

Bad news for insomniacs: ‘hunger hormones’ affected by poor sleep

As always, I’m Glenda – your sleep coach – wishing you improved sleep.

Glenda Sparling
Author & Sleep Coach
the Spirit of Sleep

Chicken or the Egg? Sleep Disorder/Anxiety Disorder?

Which came first – the chicken or the egg – a perennial question? With sleep, which comes first – the anxiety disorder or the sleep disorder? One feeds the other.

Studies have shown that more than 40 million Americans are suffering from sleep disorders and the number has been increasing. Generally, referred to abnormal sleeping pattern, sleep disorder or insomnia is associated with symptoms such as sleep apnea, sleep walking, falling asleep spontaneously, waking up feeling unrefreshed, waking too early in the morning, trouble falling asleep. In some cases stress or anxiety may trigger such sleep related disturbances. Whatever may be the reason, it is difficult to root out the disease unless the patient undergoes a successful sleep anxiety cure procedure.

Read the complete article – http://www.nicheconquest.com/health-and-fitness/sleep-disorder-anxiety-disorder-and-the-cure.php

Meditation – a Blissful entrance to Sleep

The choice is always yours.  You all know that medications of any kind can cause physiological and psychological dependency.

As an option for sleeping medication, try meditation to calm your mind, body, and spirit prior to bed.

Meditation is the ‘act’ of focusing your mind.  Effective mediation can be of great assistance in stopping the conscious worries of the day and setting up a peaceful consciousness allwoing you to enter into sleep with a relaxed state of mind.

Those of you who have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep, may discover that the addition of an evening meditation just before getting into bed, will assist your mind into a calmer more peacedful state and that getting to sleep will come naturally.

It is also highly recommended that regular, daily mediation will provide consistently more positive results in attaining peaceful sleep.  For instance, it is better to meditate 10 – 15 minutes each night, rather than a 1 hour session every 3 or 4 nights.

As you experience the benefits of regular meditation, you will likely want and desire to increase this amount of time.

Here’s how.  It’s very simple.

• Find a quiet place – no phones, no family interruptions, not too hot – not too cold.
• Relaxing music is nice, but not necessary.
• Wear comfortable clothing.
• So that you don’t fall asleep – sit comfortably in lotus position or if sitting in a chair, sit forward (so that your back is not touching the back rest).  Lying down is not recommended because it is too easy to fall asleep.  Yes, I know…the ultimate purpose is so that you fall asleep, but not at the onset of the meditation.
• Keep eyes closed or half-open, not really focusing on anything.
• Relax your shoulders.
• Rest hands comfortably in your lap.
• If sitting, your feet would be settled flatly and evenly on the floor.
• Now, begin to focus your mind.  What you focus on is up to you and is reflective of the type of mediation you are practicing.  Some focus options are simply following your breath, in and out.  Mentally repeating an easy mantra, or even following the repetitive sound of a beating drum or even your heart beat.
• Be aware of your own mind and thoughts.  However, if you have negative, restless thoughts, acknowledge the thought without giving it too much attention – notice it but don’t get involved.  Mentally, tell it ‘later’.  Or pretend it is a floating cloud or balloon and give a small pinprick to deflate it.
• Decide the minimum time you want to meditate.  Start off with short sessions to begin feeling comfortable.
• Begin calming and clearing the mind – often by focusing on simple breathing.
• Conclude and dedicate – a dedication at the directs positive energy toward your intention and makes an impression on the mind and subconscious.
• For beginners, keep relaxed, don’t push yourself, be patient, don’t expect immediate miracles.
• Medication usually requires a little practice.  What ever you do and for how long you do it, is better than nothing.  A few sessions will generally not undo years of negative habits.  So don’t beat yourself up!
• Be patient and go with the flow.
• Congratulate yourself on your positive effort to improve your sleep.

Meditation is just one of many tools and techniques that may be used for you in recognizing and resolving your sleep challenges.  As one who experienced 23+ years of chronic insomnia, I encourage you to create positive changes in your life and in your choices – meditation is just one of these choices.

For a more complete guide of tools, resources and techniques for improving your sleep, get your free copy of the ebook – the ABZzz’s of Sleeping Insomnia Free.  Just click here.

As always, I wish you improved sleep.
Glenda Sparling ~ Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

More Losing Sleep Over Recession – No kiddin’!

When your 401K became a 201K, many started having extremely restless nights.  No wonder! That is cause for distress and worry.  Having a ‘worry journal’ and actually using it – meaning writing out all the fears you have, many actually help you to see your way clear to a solution.  It’s definitely worth doing.

More Losing Sleep Over Recession – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver