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Steps

1. Using a portable CD player, check out books on CD from the local library and put the disk in the player.
2. Turn the volume down to barely audible and start the book.
3. It won’t take long to drift off to sleep and the mind will become ‘conditioned’ to sleep after this becomes a habit.

Tips

• Recommend nonfiction, narrative-type books. Exciting stories and thriller/suspense fiction won’t work. Books on history, travel narratives, poetry, and long-winded literature will work. This is a great way to listen to all of the classics, such as The Scarlet Letter and anything by Jane Austen.
• Recommend CD player as that can be restarted at the point left off the night before. Cassettes won’t work well for this and neither do MP3 players as they will stay on all night and not cut off like a CD player.
• This is a slow way to work through a book. Most nights will only make a few minutes progress before falling asleep so it might take a week to go through one disk. To finish the book more quickly, play the CDs while doing chores (not driving) or exercising.
• Be sure to pack CD player along + disks when travelling. You’ll need it.

Warnings

• Keep the volume barely audible.
• Since the conditioning is to fall asleep while listening to a narrative voice, listen to music in the car and not books.
• Do not train yourself to fall asleep to boring narrative if you expect to attend important lectures (college), meetings (work) or speeches (anywhere).
• Push player unit out of your way when moving around in your sleep - let it drop to the floor (carpeted) or onto nightstand.

Things You’ll Need

• CD player. Sony used to make an indestructible unit that will last forever: Sony S2 Sports CD Walkman. Try amazon. Uses 2 AA batteries, and they last a long time.
• headphones, earbud type
• books on CD checked out from the local public library
• if no one else is in the room with you at night, use a clock radio with CD player installed instead of a portable unit.