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Insomnia is not a new disease. The ancient Egyptians remarked that one of the worst things in life is to be in bed and be unable to sleep. The word ‘hypnotic’ comes from the name of the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos. Throughout the centuries, drugs have been available to help with sleeplessness. However, as more and more hypnotic drugs have become available, more and more people have come to suffer from insomnia. It is possible that modern life is more competitive than life in the past, and insomnia becomes a symptom of modern, busy city life. It is also possible that people are more aware that there is a drug for treating insomnia, whereas in the past people suffering from insomnia would have had to put up with it rather than seek treatment Hence this gives an artificial increase in the number of people with insomnia who take sleeping pills.

The drugs. For many years, opium and alcohol were the only remedies for helping insomnia. In 1869, chloral hydrate was discovered and became the first synthetic hypnotic drug. This was widely used at that time and is still used even now. Choral hydrate is relatively short acting; it is marketed in Australia as Noctec, Dormel, and Chloralix.

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There are many of us who feel we want to overcome our nervous trouble through our own resources. We do not want to rely on taking sedatives and tranquillizers over a long period. We want a more natural approach to our problems:

Relaxed.

Natural to relax.

It is the natural way.

To rest, and relax, and be calm.

Natural way to gather strength.

Strength of body, and calm of mind.

Of course, this sequence of thought is absolutely true. Relaxation is nature’s way of coping with tension and anxiety. When we feel tense, something within us tells us to sit down and relax. This is the simple biological remedy for a very common condition. But the trouble is that when we go to do it, we find it hard to achieve. Through our sophisticated cultural development we have lost the biologically primitive art of simple relaxation. We need a little help to relearn it again. It is natural and simple; we just need this little help to learn again what our distant forefathers could do so easily.

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