Rubin Naiman, Ph.D., is a sleep and dream specialist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. He believes that conventional medical approaches toward insomnia fall short by overemphasizing objective views of sleep while downplaying the personal spiritual experience of the sleeper.

Naiman’s new book, Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations, offers an alternative, integrative approach to sleep. It encourages us to reclaim authority over and responsibility for our own sleep by recognizing its key spiritual dimensions. As a complement to conventional medical perspectives, Hush invites us to reconsider our preconceived notions and approach sleep mindfully, with humility and willingness to learn directly from it.

“Just as the natural childbirth movement arose to counter the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth, we are in dire need of a natural sleep movement to counter the appropriation of sleep by the healthcare industry,” says Naiman.

Naiman is also founder and director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization that offers a broad range of sleep-related services, trainings and consultation internationally. He is a leader in the development of integrative medicine approaches to sleep and dreams, creatively weaving medical and neuroscientific perspectives with depth psychological and transpersonal views.

For more information, visit DrNaiman.com.