Zen Sleep

Eric Chiles makes a coherent argument — that Western insomnia is largely a problem of anxious striving rather than broken biology, and that Zen's non-striving ethic is the antidote. For readers who have already tried clinical sleep hygiene approaches and found them mechanical, that reframe can be genuinely useful, and at 126 pages it's a quick read. But the audience is narrow, the publisher is small, and readers who aren't already sympathetic to Zen philosophy are unlikely to make the philosophical leap the book requires.