TNT Sleep | Why this website? | About the author | FAQ
One of the main purposes of this website is to supply a short and inexpensive ‘e-book’ (downloadable electronic book) and a conventional ‘handbook’ that fully explain a new, simple and effective method that can assist you to fall asleep WHENEVER and WHEREVER you desire. This new method will provide you with a technique that you can easily learn and then apply in those situations when you believe that it’s just your own mental activity or constant worrying that is stopping you from falling asleep, or from returning to sleep once awoken.
However, if you believe that your sleep problems could be a result of sleep apnoea (a breathing disorder involving brief interruption to breathing during sleep), then this website may not be for you - although the Internet links below may still be of use. Sleep apnoea can be a significant health danger, so it is recommended that you seek a medical diagnosis reasonably soon.
At present, while the development of the e-book is still being finalised, awaiting scientific trials of the method by a recognised sleep laboratory, this website is still available to provide you with introductory information and to allow you to register your interest in learning more about the method. Registration is completely free and without obligation and you may delete your registration at any time.
Your registration details will NOT be disclosed to any third party and the only emails or correspondence you will receive will be to advise you of progress being made in the laboratory sleep studies and to indicate when the e-book and any other associated materials have become available. At the appropriate time you may place an order, or cancel your registration completely or even just keep your registration on file so that you can still receive information advising of any related products that might be offered in the future (e.g. CD’s or DVD’s explaining and demonstrating the technique).
The one inadequacy in virtually all the advice available on getting to sleep, or returning to sleep once awoken, is that it provides no reliable technique that an average person can REGULARLY use when it’s only the activity of their own mind that is preventing sleep.
Some techniques work well at first but,
because they are basically difficult, time-consuming or boring, they
lose their effectiveness because the sufferer finds them more tedious
than the insomnia itself – a bit like that expensive piece of
exercise equipment that starts to gather dust in the corner of the
room after just a few months of enthusiastic use.
The common suggestions for inducing sleep include minimising light and noise, being cool (but not cold), being physically comfortable, dealing with aches & pains and limiting possible interruptions from things such as mobile phones & pets. You should also avoid, before bedtime, such things as strenuous exercise (at least 3 hours before bed), bright light (including that associated with TV), heavy meals, caffeine (from coffee, tea & cola), nicotine (from smoking), alcohol and other stimulant drugs. When in bed you can improve your chances of sleeping by relaxing all of your muscles, starting from your toes up, by breathing slowly and gently and by yawning, if possible.
To lessen any feelings of anxiety that might otherwise keep you awake, you can maintain a bedside ‘worry book’ to record those things you must remember for tomorrow; check that your bedside clock alarm has been set correctly and then cover up or move the clock to where it can’t be easily seen; and take appropriate steps to be confident about your personal security while sleeping.
Having followed all those recommendations, you would normally expect to fall asleep fairly quickly. However, when the expected sleep hasn’t occurred after some reasonable period of time, it’s common to start becoming anxious about the situation. Perhaps your mind started out being over-stimulated as a consequence of some of the day’s events or because of the thoughts you were having prior to, or just after going to bed. In general, once excessive mental stimulation or anxiety cycles take hold, the chance of your just ‘drifting off to sleep’ becomes even more remote.
Typically, the more time you lie in bed awake, often just worrying about how bad you will feel in the morning, the less likely you are to fall asleep. This ‘vicious circle’ is generally even more pronounced if you have had the same sleepless experience on preceding night(s).
The common advice, once this situation occurs and sleep has eluded you for 15 to 30 minutes, is to get up and do something boring - like ironing; or reading an unstimulating book; or having a light snack; or drinking some warm milk; or taking a warm bath; or repeating your normal pre-sleep ritual; or counting sheep; or thinking of some pleasant place you’d like to be; or thinking of a happy memory from the past etc.
Some of these techniques mean that you must waste valuable time out of bed doing these things and, often, it becomes difficult to select the right moment to return to bed and attempt to sleep again. In fact, your sleeping arrangements and those of others in your immediate vicinity, particularly when you’re not in your normal bed, may actually make it very difficult or impossible for you to even follow some of these suggested techniques.
Besides these personal-action, sleep-assisting techniques, there are also many and varied sleep ‘aids’ on sale, such as alcohol, drugs and herbal remedies. You can obtain specialist training in meditation or in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) as well as purchase purpose-written, relaxation music or dialogue and ‘bio-rhythmic’ sound CD’s. These can all be quite expensive, or require a significant learning commitment on your part, or require special equipment (such as a CD player) or they require on-going purchases (such as herbal remedies, alcohol and sleeping tablets).
In summary, while these various personal-action or sleep-aid methods probably have differing degrees of success, the best long-term strategy is to have a very easy, quick-acting, and INTERESTING ‘mind-only’ method that will, after frequent use, be a method you know you can rely on. Once you have gained confidence in such a method, you can eliminate for good those worrying thoughts about not sleeping that start to infiltrate the ‘back of your mind’ as you ready yourself for bed each night.
You may have encountered recommendations regarding ‘sleep hygiene’, which include advice aimed at ‘preparing’ your mind & body for bed through following some standard sequence of activities or ‘ritual’ as you prepare for bed. Sleep hygiene also encompasses the need to just use the bedroom for sleep (and sex) – that is, don’t watch TV in bed, eat in bed or use the bedroom for other business or entertainment activities.
While this ‘sleep hygiene’ advice may be helpful, there are always people who cannot follow these recommendations because of their particular living arrangements at the time or those who choose to ignore this advice for a variety of other reasons.
Another common suggestion is that you should avoid over-sleeping, as this may make you less sleepy at bedtime. Therefore, if you wish to follow this advice, you should resist the temptation to sleep-in on weekends and avoid taking naps during the day or evening. Again, this advice may be hard to follow, particularly if, like many people, you enjoy these little pleasures.
The new ‘mind-only’ method, explained in full by the e-book to be available from this website, doesn’t require that you practise any form of ‘sleep hygiene’ nor avoid over-sleeping, nor does it require that you don’t think or worry about issues when you are in your bed. Once the technique is learned and found to be effective, you can even have the flexibility to allow yourself, once in bed, to contemplate almost any subject matter, for as long as desired, then use this method to ‘switch off’ your mind when you finally consider that it’s time for you to go to sleep.
Although effective for adults, the method is also likely to be effective for children of late primary school age or older. Once learned by children, the method will comprise a valuable skill that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives and, when the time comes, easily impart to their own children.
Whilst the new method being offered here was developed and refined by the author for his own use over the past 15 years, it is only recently that it has been tried by a handful of ‘guinea pigs’ - friends of the author who had mentioned that they suffered from similar sleep problems. For the majority of these people, the method worked on the very first attempt, after just an hour or so spent reading or listening to a detailed description of the method. For those in this group who did experience success, the method continues to work on almost every occasion they need to use it. It has been this immediate but unexpected success with a variety of people in a variety of situations that has inspired this website.
Insomnia, and all the negative effects (and occasional tragedies) it inflicts on its sufferers (and, indirectly, on the sufferer’s close family, friends and workmates) has virtually become a scourge in our modern-day, highly developed and stressful society. It is likely that this new method will help sufferers to tackle this problem much more effectively.
To support the claim that this technique is easy to learn and use successfully, legally sworn ‘Statutory Declarations’ relating the experiences of these first few ‘patients’ (including the date & place of swearing) will soon be uploaded to this site for you to read. In Australia, a ‘statutory declaration’ is a legal document that is sworn in front of a government-appointed ‘Justice of the Peace’. These documents have been written, in the form shown, by ‘real’ people and they have not been edited or doctored in any way. For balance, any statements from people for whom the method was not particularly successful, will also be included.
The prices for the products explaining this new sleep technique will be quite reasonable, and they will come with absolutely no further cost. You can be totally confident that there will be no on-going subscriptions, no silly or questionable ‘free stuff’ that you really won’t need, and no gimmicky ‘today only’ discount offers. Full payment for an e-book, for example, will entitle you to quickly access and download the document.
However, as you would expect, an e-book document is supplied primarily for your own use. While it cannot be supplied as a copy to others in its electronic form, and normal publishing copyright laws apply, you can, once you have purchased your copy, share that single copy with friends as you would with a printed book that you might purchase. In fact, you are encouraged to do this, as the author’s goal is to have the method become as widely known and practised as possible.
As noted above, this website currently only allows you to register your interest, completely free and without obligation. However, for those who really wish to do so, it will be possible later to make an advance payment with your registration in order to ensure quick supply when the product(s) first become available. (Should you decide, prior to supply, to cancel your registration, you will receive a full refund to your credit card of any pre-payment that has already been submitted. These refunds will be based on the original amount received in Australian dollars, and therefore any payments returned in other currencies may be unavoidably adjusted down due to currency conversion commissions charged by credit card providers, or adjusted up or down due to movements in currency exchange rates that may have since occurred.)
While the sleep method offered by this website is new and unique, you may still wish to research other websites which discuss insomnia issues. If so, the series of links below will direct you to some of the better, free websites on this subject - the first site mentioned (in the form of a 196-page, e-book PDF document) may be particularly helpful as it’s very comprehensive in itself, while also containing links to other useful Internet sites.