Fast Asleep, Wide Awake: Discover the secrets of restorative sleep and vibrant energy
A powerful methodology to help you switch on your body’s innate ability to sleep well and how to build extraordinary energy.Sleep problems aren’t created when you put your head on the pillow. Everything you do during the day – every thought, every behaviour, every choice you make – can impact on how you sleep at night.Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, a physiologist and renowned sleep and energy expert, has worked with people for over twenty five years. Combining this professional experience with academic and personal insights, she shares her view that sleep problems are not just about sleep but rather about how we deal with life and its inevitable challenges.In this ground breaking book, she goes beyond traditional sleep methods to examine the true causes of sleep problems .Fast Asleep Wide Awake shares a unique and highly practical process for accessing deep and restorative sleep and shifting your energy from survival energy to a more sustainable and vibrant source of energy that we all have access to.Using tools and techniques based on Western science and Eastern practices learn how to sleep deeply and find the energy to embrace life’s challenges with courage and optimism.
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To my mother, Kushma.
To my father, Hari.
To my sister, Nirvana, and brother, Ravi.
And especially to my daughter, Maya.
To Saraswati, the goddess of learning, art and wisdom.
Contents
Introduction – Thriving Not Surviving
Chapter 1 – Getting Ready to ‘Be the Change’
Chapter 2 – Discovering the FAWA Formula
Chapter 3 – Understanding the Sleep–Energy Balance
Chapter 5 – Your Personal Reality Check – Who Are You?
Part II – Waking Up: The Energy Clean-up
Chapter 6 – Cleaning up Your Energy with the 5 Non-negotiables
Part III – Fast Asleep: The Pure Sleep Programme
Chapter 7 – Introducing the Tools in the Pure Sleep Programme
Chapter 8 – The Essentials – Preparing to Let Go
Chapter 9 – The Deeper Tools I and II – Sattvic Sleep
Chapter 10 – Doing The Real Work and Tapping into Extraordinary Energy
Chapter 11 – The Energy for Life Programme
Chapter 12 – Let the Magic Unfold
I am deeply grateful to all who provided the magic that made writing this book possible:
The clients and patients who have brought me so much insight and inspiration, and that little clinic in Moorgate where I first discovered the ‘click’ of doing the work I knew I was born to do.
All the people who have guided, supported and enabled me to bring the words through.
Sandy Draper, my editing doula – thank you for getting ‘it’ and me – and Carolyn Thorne at HarperCollins for her patience and belief in my message.
The special friends who understood my journey and have always supported just at the right time – Gosia Gorna, Nikola King, Luisa and Peter Diana-Kuramapu, Melanie Langer, Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes and Carolyn Kolasinski.
Lisa Lewisohn for her patience in putting up with the writing-induced mood swings.
And last but never least my daughter, Maya, for her great patience when I kept disappearing off to the shed to write.
‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’
Plato
Last night I did something that I haven’t been able to do for decades. I slept without my fan on.
It was 5 November, Bonfire Night, and the air crackled with light and colour. I could smell bonfires and hear distant sirens. Lying in bed I wondered if I’d be able to sleep and then I remembered that I hadn’t turned on my fan. I have slept with a fan for many years – it acts as a buffer against the intrusion of noises out there and my own thoughts in here – but last night I decided I no longer needed it.
I slept deeply until morning, without any props.
I am called a sleep and energy expert. I’ve gained this reputation because I have a knack for solving people’s sleep problems and I love doing this. But even more than this, I love helping people to live their lives with energy and meaning. I make no secret of the fact that my work stems from overcoming my own challenges with insomnia, but over the years I have learnt to sleep deeply and restoratively. And why? Because I have learnt how to deal with life head on.
