You Can Sleep is a self help book. Some people can sleep in front of a television or back seat of a car, but wide awake when they go to bed and try to sleep. This book will transfer this ability to sleep when you go to bed. Insomnia is the frustration of not able to sleep when you are in bed. If you have no frustration, you no longer suffer, you are not having insomnia. You just choose to enjoy lying in bed not worried about sleep. Most of the time there are no outside stress or factors that stop you from sleeping. The stress is generated inside you when you are wide awake in bed. This is an inside job, all in the mind. A saying - you are your worst enemy. I am helping you to change that enemy to your friend and help you to sleep. Below is one of the letters from grateful readers and may explain the results of those who find this book useful, and you can be one of them. Dear Dr. Wong, I have long standing insomnia. After months of very poor sleep, I consulted a respiratory physician specializing in sleep medicine and insomnia. He prescribed some sleeping pills and provided with resources for stress including techniques like mindfulness. But, both these interventions worsened my sleep. The pills worked but as I stopped them, my insomnia returned. I bought your book 2 years ago. It changed the way I thought about sleep. This understanding and use of some techniques in your book, resulted in near instant resolution of my insomnia. Indeed I haven't had a bad night sleep since. Thank you very much for your book. This book uses many psychological tools such as CBT, NLP, Hypnosis and a lot of common sense. To start off, you do not know how to make yourself sleep. Sleep is such a complicated physiological and psychological event that even if you know, you may not be able to remember all the steps to start sleep. The more you try to do something you don't know, the more stressed and consequently the more you cannot sleep. This book will help you to return to natural sleep ability which is something we are all born with. I developed the 'equal way' doing things equal to sleep years ago, and this is the back bone of the book. Other factors that help you are included in the book such as - sleeping pills and how to stop them, biological clocks, jet lag, stress management - my two page techniques, the Richter Scale of stress, damage control, life crises, snoring partner, sleep hygiene, who is this 'me' that goes to sleep and so on. I was born in 1943 and was a psychiatrist since 1971, practised hypnosis since 1976 and have a private practice in Melbourne, Australia. My passion is the psychology of sleep and insomnia. I wrote my first book - Sleep Without Drugs in 1989 and my second book on sleep - Tired of Being Tired, How to Activate Your Sleep Switch in 2005. My third book, You Can Sleep goes into the psycho-pathology of sleep problem. Sleep Medicine has progressed at the speed of light in the last 50 years. We now have Sleep Study Units in all major hospitals around the world. However, they are more interested in the physiology of sleep, with sophisticated instruments that record your brain waves, your breathing, heart beat, muscle tension and so on. They fail to go into the mind of those who cannot sleep. This book will make amendment to this deficiency. It has revolutionized the way we think of sleep and how our minds work when we are in bed. I am confident like others, you will find this book very helpful. Moses Wong
About the Author: Dr. Moses Wong is a psychiatrist since 1971 and practices hypnosis. He specialises in sleep psychology and insomnia. Previous publications - Sleep Without Drugs 1989 and Tired of Being Tired (How to Activate Your Sleep Switch) 2005. Dr. Wong is in private practice in Melbourne, Australia. His other medical interests are Quit Smoking and Weight Control using hypnosis and psychotherapy. He believes the three conditions - sleep, smoking, weight are all in the mind. If you change the behaviour and not the basic beliefs in the mind about these issues, the old behaviour will return. This is why smoking and weight issues are recurrent problems. His wife Patricia is a nursing sister he met when he was an intern, and she is his office manager. They have two daughters who are both doctors, and also four grandchildren. They play golf and chinese Mahjong frequently and they are together 24/7 except going to public toilets, ha ha! He enjoys playing piano at wedding receptions and parties. He was born in 1943.