Our society has trained and conditioned us to believe in a false belief that everything must be instantaneous-instant food, instant money, and an instant pill to heal everything we suffer from. How to Sleep Like a Baby Without Drugs gives us a new insight into a world where taking better care of ourselves teaches us how to slow down, enjoy ourselves more, and virtually eliminate our dependency on being a drugged-out society, especially in an area that is so vital to our living, and that is our rejuvenating sleep. There's also a special section from Maya Babak's The Sleeping Baby Book that gives parents some inspiration and hope into giving themselves and their precious babies a lot more sleep. This book is tuned into all of us who are tired or taking drugs that don't seem to help us all that much, and that creates even more challenges inside our bodies that we didn't have before, just because we take them! When we sleep better, we feel better. When we sleep better, we perform better. When we sleep better, our personalities are better. How to Sleep Like a Baby Without Drugs lifts us up! It releases our shackles! It makes us alive again! And in reality, isn't that what it's all about? Don't we just want to feel alive again? How to Sleep Like a Baby Without Drugs Mind-Body-Spirit Series By Janeska Smith Asante AuthorHouse Copyright © 2015 Janeska Smith Asante All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5049-0281-6 Contents A) What's Wrong With Us?, 1, B) Do You Wind Up or Wind Down?, 3, C) What Challenges, You Say?, 5, D) What Can I Do About Sleep, Then?, 13, E) Where Can I Find The Real Natural Resources, 22, F) What is Geopathic Stress and What Does That Have To Do With Sleep?, 30, Why the Cry It Out Method is Bad for Babies, 37, Sleep: A Dynamic Activity, 50, CHAPTER 1 A) What's Wrong With Us? Here's what's wrong with us. We've been programmed to participate in a 21st Century '24/7 out of control' lifestyle of gigantic proportions. According to American statistics in 2012, over 40 million Americans have had some problems sleeping. Sixty percent of those are long-term chronic problems and every year the numbers rise. And, OF COURSE, we would have sleeping issues here in the U.S. We eat WAY TOO MUCH food. We eat WAY TOO MUCH crappy food. We don't even know how to spell 'exercise' or even try to fake doing it, if we don't have to. 'Quiet time' is akin to a four-letter bad word, or akin to sticking one's 2-year old in a corner for punishment, instead of treating our child like someone we actually cherish. Many of us are watching violence and horror on TV, 10 minutes before we put on jammies. Many of us are so stressed about money, jobs, no jobs, our families; you name it, that we act like walking zombies on a 'midnight body hunt'. With all this happening and more, I'm surprised anybody sleeps, ever ! Everyone appears to be on an unending treadmill going 200 miles an hour, and has no idea how to get off & where they're going, or even how to stop speeding down this virtual highway. So, we're not just 'Sleepless in Seattle', we're sleepless from LA to New York City, and we're kickin' it all back to our 'already frazzled nerves'. So, the $2 Billion Dollar questions happen to be: "What's Wrong With Us?" "And What Do We Have To Do To Get Some Sleep Up In Here?" CHAPTER 2 B) Do You Wind Up or Wind Down? Most people don't even know what 'winding it up' means. Well, let me tell you. There are several things that simply keep us 'sleepless'. We just have to be aware of it and learn how to reverse those things, after the sun goes down, where we have that after-dark, after-hours wide-eyed thing, going on. Back in the day, people literally sat on the porch at night and talked (without screaming) or sat in the swing and rocked back and forth, while the summer breeze blew in their faces. Not everybody had a porch or a swing, but you get the point. Right? Some families had some warm milk and Honey Graham crackers by Nabisco, while they started getting quiet, long before bedtime. Some families even walked their kids into their rooms and actually read them a bedtime story and said prayers with them before bed. (Imagine that!) Or, they simply took a warm bath and soaked in the tub while Calgon took them away. The water's heat, melted their worries and brought imaginary sandbags to their eyelids. Nighttime was TLC (Tender Loving Care) time, so everyone in the house organically knew to mentally prepare for bed. They didn't even have to think about it. It was subconscious. In today's world, we've made 'over the top' noise and 'over the top' activity, a subconscious thought that overwhelms us. Yikes! The TV's blastin', video games and music are running marathons in the kids' rooms. Everyone's talking on the phone or texting like 'text messaging' will be obsolete in 48 hours. Parents are screaming from one end of the house to the other; dishwashers and electronic devices are glowing like Christmas lights