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Sleep easy

If we can improve the quality of our sleep, we can improve the quality of our lives. Join me in this episode where I talk to Leigh about why sleep is so important and how it impacts our health and wellbeing. This episode is also jam-packed with simple tips you can start putting into practice straight away!

The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night

Using a blend of mindfulness and new ACT therapy techniques, Dr Guy shares his unique five-week plan to cure your sleep problem whether it's a few restless nights or a lifetime of insomnia. Sleep well, maintain a positive outlook and restore the quality of life you deserve - for good.

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation

This guided progressive muscle relaxation meditation will help you release tension, relieve anxiety, and fall asleep.

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How to Get a Good Night's Sleep: The Very Best Tips

Sleep is one of the most undervalued components of our health – if we can improve the quality of our sleep, we can improve the quality of our lives. This episode is jam packed with simple tips that you can put into practice straight away and I hope that by the end of the episode, if you don’t already, you will be convinced to make sleep a priority in your life.

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Calm App

Calm is the #1 app for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation. Join the millions experiencing better sleep, lower stress, and less anxiety with our guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, stretching exercises, and relaxing music. Calm is recommended by top psychologists, therapists, and mental health experts.

Sleep Cycle: Sleep Tracker

Start your day feeling energised with Sleep Cycle’s intelligent alarm clock, designed to gently wake you up while you’re in your lightest sleep phase. Plus, you’ll get detailed analysis as our sleep tracker monitors your bedtime patterns from the moment your head hits the pillow.

Headspace App

The mind’s tendency to get caught up in thoughts is perhaps strongest at bedtime, when we suddenly stop and be still. Meditation helps lower the heart rate by igniting the parasympathetic nervous system and encouraging slower breathing, thereby increasing the prospect of a quality night’s sleep.

Urgent Care

If you need urgent help please contact your doctor, or Imperial College Health Centre on 020 7584 6301.

You can also ask to see someone at the Accident and Emergency department of your nearest hospital. Information about your local A&E services can be found here - Find your nearest A&E - NHS (www.nhs.uk) Call 999 if you need help straight away

Other urgent out of hours mental health support

Samaritans - for people experience high levels of distress including suicidal feelings. Call 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org, this service is 24 hours.

Shout crisis text service - offers a 24 hour text service, free on all major mobile networks, for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere. Text 'SHOUT' to 85258.

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Fitness to Study Procedure Inclusivity Statement Student Mental Health Code of Practice and Guidelines

Let us know what you think

If you have any comments, thoughts, or encouraging stories you want to share with us as a result of this week's topic, or any of the Kind Mind Series, please email us at counselling@imperial.ac.uk.