Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Footnotes are located at the end of the relevant chapter. Italics are represented thus _italic_. By LYMAN P. POWELL _The Art of Natural Sleep_ With Definite Directions for the Wholesome Cure of Sleeplessness. Illustrated by Cases from the Emanuel Clinics in Boston and Northampton _Christian Science_ The Faith and Its Founder THE ART OF NATURAL SLEEP WITH DEFINITE DIRECTIONS FOR THE WHOLESOME CURE OF SLEEPLESSNESS, ILLUSTRATED BY CASES TREATED IN NORTHAMPTON AND ELSEWHERE BY LYMAN P. POWELL Rector of St. John’s Church, Northampton, Mass. Author of “Christian Science: Its Faith and Its Founder”; Editor of “Historic Towns of the United States” G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY LYMAN P. POWELL The Knickerbocker Press, New York To MY WIFE WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME BY EXAMPLE THE MORAL VALUE OF SERENITY PREFACE This little book, like my book on Christian Science which appeared a year ago, is the evolution of a pamphlet. The first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless night some years ago. The last half was written about two years ago, after I had found relief by auto-suggestion from the lifelong bondage of insomnia and had thereby doubled my capacity both for work and play. First published in the spring of 1907 as my weekly message under the heading of “The Parson’s Outlook” to the 5000 readers of _The Hampshire Gazette_ in and about Northampton, the article on sleeplessness was republished by request in the same paper some months later; then, as the demand increased for it, in pamphlet form. This year past it has been used in the Emmanuel Clinic, both in Boston and Northampton, with such gratifying results that more than 300 sufferers from insomnia in one part of the country or another have testified by letter or by word of mouth to the benefit they have received from it.