Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

The trouble with most people, says Psychiatrist David H. Fink of Beverly Hills, is that they just can't relax properly. "In my experience--and it's a lot of experience--I have found that the quickest way to help people learn to manage their emotional patterns easily is to teach them to relax their muscles at will." Since 1943, a quarter of a million people have bought Dr. Fink's bestselling Release from Nervous Tension to find out how to do it. Meanwhile, Dr. Fink has worked out a new wrinkle.

For years, he has been dosing his own, patients with such droning incantations as, "Arms, relax . . . shoulders, relax . . . eyelids, heavy," etc. It seemed to help, but Dr. Fink decided that it would help even more if the patient didn't have to put up with the physician in the same room. He made a tape recording of his professional drone. The result was so relaxing that he went to a Hollywood studio, made a recording as therapeutically smooth as possible: organ music, plus such reiterated crooning as "Going to sleep . . . Completely relaxed . . . Arms and legs are heavy, heavy . . . Eyelids feeling heavy . . . Sleep, sleep, sleep . . ." The studio technicians, Fink noticed happily, had to dose themselves with black coffee to stay awake.

Moreover, says Dr. Fink, copies of the new 18-minute recording worked wonders for heart patients, high-blood-pressure victims and others. A housewife told him she played it while she washed her dishes; a writer, who used to be tense at his desk, used it as a sort of background music while he worked. Says Dr. Fink, who is now planning to put his disk on the market (around $5): "One thing that helped me was my wife's advice--'Talk as though you were speaking to a little child cradled in your arms'--and I did."

Who turns off the record player when the patient dozes off? Says Dr. Fink: "Let the record player alone. . . So what? . . . It will cost about one cent in electricity."

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