I Need To Sleep

In  I Can Make You Sleep  Paul McKenna writes that you need to allow two months for your sleep pattern to become robust.  It's actually a little over two months now since I started Paul McKenna's  program. So how is it going? Has my sleep drastically improved? Did I follow the program to the letter? If you've read some of the other posts in this blog, you will know the answer to that last question was that at times I found it really challenging to do so. These times were mainly when our normal routine was thrown by events such as the late nights we had in the run-up to Christmas and then going on holiday for 2 weeks immediately afterwards. Getting ill on return was a challenge too! Choose When To Start the Program Carefully If you are thinking about starting Paul McKenna's sleep program, you will more probably have more rapid success if you choose a time when you are at home throughout and when there aren't holidays such as Christmas looming. But, if you ar

Image: David Castillo Dominici via freedigitalphotos  A few days after we got back from our break I became ill with a flu-type virus. This was definitely a test for Paul McKenna's sleep program. In the book, I Can Make You Sleep , McKenna doesn't write about what to do in case of illness, but I decided that the normal rule of getting up at the same time probably didn't apply. So when my head was pounding and I wasn't able to keep my eyes open I let them close and drifted off to sleep, no matter what time of day it was. I didn't get out of the house for several days and did very little exercise. I say very little exercise because as McKenna points out in  I Can Make You Sleep, we are exercising from the moment we wake up. In one of my favourite passages, someone at one of his workshops says she does no exercise and McKenna's response is to ask her if someone carried her to the workshop. This is one of the things I really like about McKenna's approa