Review: Mindfulness for Insomnia by Orzech and Moorcroft

The Good: This book was a great beginning mediation book.   It covered a lot of the details that many people don't understand as they start mediating -- such as that your brain will get distracted and that mediation is not about keeping your mind completely blank as many believe.  I also liked how it gave this information out on a day by day format rather than dumping it on you all at once as some mediation books do.   And I enjoyed the online mediation that I listened to as well.

The Not So Good: It seems a little conflicted about what it's purpose is. Apparently the plan is to come at Insomnia indirectly, by using  meditation/mindfulness completely separately from the moments of insomnia.  I do not know if that works or not at this point, but IMO it lead the authors to a book that is really a beginning mediation/mindfulness book with prologue on how that can help out with insomnia.  Additionally some parts seem directed toward a coach or counselor on how to guide patients (although I may be somewhat misremembering the start of the book due to having just read the online PDF -- which is 100% directed towards that purpose).    Lastly,  the online meditation seems awkward to access but is integral to the book.  I know from experience that any small awkwardness in accessing something like this pretty much makes it extremely unlikely I will use it at all.