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March 26, 2009

Good Sleep Exercise from Doc Silvers


(This comes from an old book that my late Mom passed on to me.)
With your room properly aerated, and the lights out, slip into bed in comfortable, unconfining night clothing, or in the nude, if that is your preference. Lie on your back, arms at sides, feet stretched to full length. Then start the process of relaxation as follows:

  • Flex and extend the toes three times.
  • Rest for a few seconds.
  • Stiffen the legs and stretch them out hard for one minute.
  • Relax completely, as though you were dead tired and your legs heavy enough to press right through the mattress.
  • With both hands on your stomach, take a deep belly breath, raising your hands with the abdominal wall when it rises as your diaphragm muscle expands.
  • Repeat three times, filling your lungs with each inhalation, and exhaling through your open mouth freely.
  • You may fall asleep any time during this process. If you haven’t done so, continue with the following:

  • Stretch out your arms at the sides as fully as possible.
  • Unlax and let them flop loosely on the mattress, as you previously did with your legs.
  • Repeat the breathing exercise above, inhaling slowly through your nose, and inflating your lungs to their full capacity with the diaphragm, not using the chest at all.
  • Exhale through your mouth, and repeat the breathing six times.
  • If you are still awake, you are a confirmed insomniac, and should continue the relaxing process still further in this way:

  • Wrinkle your forehead and other facial muscles, exaggerating the tensing of each one.
  • Relax the muscles of the face and scalp, allowing them to unwind.
  • Repeat the process of tensing and relaxing a half-dozen times.
  • Stiffen your neck muscles, and stretch your neck as far toward the headboard as possible.
  • Relax and repeat six times
  • Repeat the belly breathing, slowly and rhythmically.
  • Somewhere during this relaxing process, very likely between items 6 and 10, you should fall asleep without being conscious of having done so. Many of my patients required no further use of sleeping pills after they had learned this tension-easing technique. There is no good reason why you cannot do the same.

    Have faith in yourself: in your judgment, your sanity, your will power, and you will find that falling fast asleep is as easy as rolling off a log.

    Doc Silvers says: “Sleep comes to him who seeks it least.”

    **taken from “Dr. Silvers Extraordinary Remedies and Prescriptions for Health”, by Lewis J. Silvers, MD (1964), pp. 136-137.


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