I got this CD well over a year ago when I was going through a breakup.  My mind would race at night and I would find it extremely difficult to push the obsessive thoughts of my failed relationship out of my head.  I would stay awake for hours before eventually falling asleep. I read the reviews of this CD and thought I would try meditation.  I was encouraged when my therapist said she had heard of Roberta Shapiro.  I bought a CD player and would just let it run from one segment to the next.  It really forces your brain to push out the negative thoughts and relaxes you enough to fall asleep. She states in the intro that even if you keep it going once you fall asleep, your subconscious mind will hear the affirmations.  Within a week I was falling asleep by the end of the first track.  A year later and I still listen to it every night. I'm to the point I don't even get through the first track - and I stay asleep the night through.  I can't say enough about this CD - it literally helped drag me out of a bad time in my life.