Sleep Methods and Devices for Reducing Cardio-Pulmonary Risks Factors

A method of promoting public awareness of the preventative health regimen for reducing tendencies of cardiovascular/pulmonary risk factors through developing a preferential side sleeping position by using a dual pillow system as part of a preventative health regimen comprising the steps of:

• a. positioning the body between opposing first and second pillows attached together by an intermediate member such that the body has concurrent opposing contact at forward and rearward orientations with respect to the two opposing pillows in tension, including contact of one pillow at a back portion of the body and contact of the second pillow with an extended arm or leg during natural sleep on a bed;
• b. repeating a sequence of habitual side-sleeping positions of the body based on the forward and rearward contacts with the opposing pillows to establish a memory of the sequence and feelings associated with the contacts;
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• c. applying this sequence during normal sleep to condition the body and mind to favor a side rather than supine sleeping orientation.

A device for developing a positional orientation sleep aspect (POSA) for an individual with respect to a companion sleeper, to enhance the individual's awareness of sleeping position to enable the individual located on a bed to assume at least one preselected side-sleeping orientation on either a left or right side, said device comprising:

• a) a support member configured for comfortable positioning under a lower trunk portion of the individual as part of a sleeping surface on the bed and between opposing sides of the bed in a perpendicular orientation to the individual, said support member having upper and lower edges for orienting toward top and bottom portions of the bed, and opposing end portions for positioning toward the opposing sides of the bed;
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• b) a first elongate pillow coupled and secured to the support member and configured to be positioned at the bed surface with a longitudinal axis of the pillow extending between the upper and lower edges of the support member to provide restraining support at a low back side of the individual with the individual in a side-sleeping position;
• c) a second elongate pillow removably attached to the support member in a location approximately where the companion sleep would lie adjacent to the individual;
• d) the support member having an extended portion for laying across the bed away from the first pillow with sufficient length to provide a sleeping surface under both the individual and a companion sleeper to be adjacent to the individual;
• e) the first pillow and support member being configured for positioning the individual's body in a preselected, side-position orientation on the support member to capture the support member under the lower trunk portion of the individual while establishing at least three separate and concurrent reference points of contact with the individual, including (i) at least one reference contact of the individual's trunk portion in the side-position orientation on the support member on the bed, and (ii) at least two reference points of contact at forward and back sides of the individual with and between the first pillow and the second pillow or companion sleeper respectively.