Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening

by Rubin R. Naiman

Book Overview

In Healing Night, sleep and dream expert Rubin Naiman explores sleeping, dreaming, and awakening, going far beyond the science of sleep medicine to reflect on what he believes is the profoundly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929636538
• ISBN13: 9780929636535
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Syren Book Company
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

If you have sleep issues this is a must read!

Ive had sleep disturbances for 20+ years. Have tried every supplement, sleep hygiene (don’t get me started), sleep “experts” abs studies, endless medications…and this book is a cup of water in the desert. The less mechanical force of western medical viewpoints is so necessary! It’s staggering how useless 99% of the advise I’ve paid for has been misleading, not helpful and even harmful.

Much Needed Info

This book should be standard reading material for everyone who has wondered why their sleep/waking life is not in sync with the world. We have so gotten away from what nature delivers to us on a daily/nightly basis:the dark. Rubin Naiman artfully explains what we can do to recapture what can heal us: honor the Night. And in doing so, we also honor ourselves, our dreams and bring about our awakening to a new and more nature-driven world.

Sweet Dreams

Healing Night offers practical ways to combat sleep disorders. Dr. Naiman eschews approved FDA pharmaceutical sleep aids in favor of a natural approach. Some of the suggestions include using meditation and exercise to reduce stress levels. A must read self help book for anyone who has anxiety and insomnia. I rate it 5 Z's.

Strongly recommended for readers suffering from sleep disorders

Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening, authored by sleep and dream medicine specialist Rubin R. Naiman (Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine), provides the reader with theoretical, historical, and psychological understandings of dreams, including a multitude of strategies and innovative ideas for assisting, conditioning, treating or growing beyond sleep disorders. Introducing readers to diverse conceptual explorations of dreaming and dream sciences drawn from a variety of perceptive interpretations and over twenty-five years of medical dream-oriented experience, Professor Naiman enables the reader to arrive at a concise and highly acute understanding of dreams in spiritual, scientific, and medical ideologies. Healing Night is very strongly recommended for readers suffering from sleep disorders, as well as students of the dream-sciences and psychology, and those searching for tools to evaluate dream interpretation utilizing perspectives from philosophical, literary, mythological, and modern psychological sciences.

Healing Night, Healthy Spirits

Reading "Healing Night" was a blessed experience. Dr. Naiman's artful and sentimental writing style beguiles readers while they absorb vast amounts of technical science and advanced spirituality vital to their well-being. Dr. Naiman is conversational, but scholarly. Poetic...yet prosaic. His strong, human, caring, and qualified voice effectively ushers readers into the life-threatening plight of our sleepless and dreamless world. Throughout "Healing Night", Dr. Naiman gently weaves his ever important message of developing and maintaining healthy sleeping, dreaming, and waking patterns with personalized anecdotal threads. The results are a seemingly effortless and beautiful tapestry of the psychology, physiology, and spirituality necessary for readers to understand and overcome our cultural and sociological addiction to artificial light, sleeping pills and waking "aids". "Healing Night" is a rare, masterful recipe for nursing our parched, exhausted, ignored, and overstimulated souls back to health. If you are serious about improving your relationship with sleep...or with yourself, "Healing Night" is the most comprehensive medical and spiritual manual that I have ever come across.