Are you suffering from sleep disorder? Here’s Self Hypnosis Technique to get rid of insomnia and other sleep related problems.
Hypnosis helped me get to sleep'
Sleep relaxation techniques
Another relaxation aid was the 'favourite place' exercise. This was also based on Suzie's personal experiences.
"I'm lying in a hammock in my parents' garden," she says. "I'm reading a book or sleeping. It's sunny and really peaceful.
"To reach my favourite place, I walk down some steps and feel the warm stones under my bare feet. I get in the hammock and feel the book. A cat wanders over with its tail in the air. Then a dog comes to rest near me."
Dr Walters says it's important to suggest details, such as touch, and "actually feel" the comfort of the hammock.
She also worked on changing Suzie's attitude to sleep. "Suzie saw her anxiety as a permanent thing," she says. "That contributed to her problem."
Suzie thought that she could only fall asleep in complete silence, but she lived in a shared household, so this belief raised her anxiety.
In one relaxation technique, you imagine that you're breathing through your feet. You feel the breath move slowly up the body, down the arms and out of the hands.
"Hypnosis provided me with answers," Suzie says. "But it's not an overnight solution. I've learnt techniques and it's up to me to keep working on them."
Ref: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/insomnia/Pages/hypnosis.aspx
How We Get To Sleep
Let's examine how a person who has no difficulty getting to sleep actually does it. Most people are unaware that someone who lies down in bed and "goes to sleep" actually moves through four different stages, the last of which is unconscious sleep.
The four stages of sleep are:
1. Thinking
2. Fantasy
3. Hypnoidal
4. Unconscious Sleep
Stage 1 - Thinking
When we get into bed, we start thinking about the events of the day or, possibly, what will happen tomorrow, or any myriad of things.
Stage 2 - Fantasy
Whether the person is consciously aware of it or not, his thoughts eventually turn to thoughts ASSOCIATED with relaxation. (Perhaps thought of a future vacation or activity in a place that person already associates with feeling relaxed.)
Stage 3 - Hypnoidal
As both the mind and the body relax, the muscles release tensions, and the person enters a light stage of hypnosis, known as hypnoidal. When a person enters this state of mind, he is still conscious, yet he also experiences time distortion and some amnesia. We actually must enter this hypnoidal stage because it is what enables us to attain the last stage. (No one, for instance, can honestly say, "Last night I fell asleep at 11:34 p.m. and 17 seconds.") It is the amnesia and time distortion aspects of the hypnoidal stage that make it impossible to identify the moment of transition from hypnoidal to unconscious sleep. We simply "drift" from one to the other.
Stage 4 - Unconscious Sleep
We are not consciously aware of anything going on around us.
People who have difficulty getting to sleep
This person has great difficulty transitioning from thinking to fantasy, or he simply stays in the thinking stage way too long; usually because he is worried about something or doesn't know how to control his own mind.
Now that we know about the four stages, the strategy for someone having difficulty initially getting to sleep is to skip the thinking stage altogether. Therefore, when the person gets into bed to go to sleep, he needs to begin visualizing or imagining the fantasy stage. Remember, the fantasy stage needs to be thoughts associated with relaxation.
One way to develop a fantasy stage is to reflect upon some real experience where you really were feeling relaxed. This could be when you were on a vacation or involved in some activity that you associate with relaxation. One of my clients visualizes riding north on Pacific Coast Highway, while another visualizes an imaginary round of golf on one of his favorite courses. Yet another visualizes being on a beach on the island of Maui. It is important that you use your own experience because you already associate that occasion with relaxation. It is most important that you stay in or maintain that fantasy thought process. That will eventually draw you into the hypnoidal stage and then into unconscious sleep.
Alternative method for getting to sleep
Yet another way of understanding how we get to sleep is to recognize that the combination of stages 2 (fantasy) and 3 (hypnoidal) result in the person actually hypnotizing himself. A person may not be consciously aware that that is actually what he is doing, but, in fact, it is.
How to use Self-Hypnosis to get to sleep
Self-hypnosis (like meditation) is possible because of two Dominant Laws of Suggestibility. (These laws of suggestibility, of which there are five, are literally how we learn everything.) The Laws of Association and Repetition are what make self-hypnosis possible.
Ref: http://www.hypnosis.edu/articles/insomnia
Try Self Hypnosis Technique to get peaceful sleep throughout.
You may also like: Self Hypnosis Technique
Hypnosis helped me get to sleep'
Sleep relaxation techniques
Another relaxation aid was the 'favourite place' exercise. This was also based on Suzie's personal experiences.
"I'm lying in a hammock in my parents' garden," she says. "I'm reading a book or sleeping. It's sunny and really peaceful.
"To reach my favourite place, I walk down some steps and feel the warm stones under my bare feet. I get in the hammock and feel the book. A cat wanders over with its tail in the air. Then a dog comes to rest near me."
Dr Walters says it's important to suggest details, such as touch, and "actually feel" the comfort of the hammock.
She also worked on changing Suzie's attitude to sleep. "Suzie saw her anxiety as a permanent thing," she says. "That contributed to her problem."
Suzie thought that she could only fall asleep in complete silence, but she lived in a shared household, so this belief raised her anxiety.
In one relaxation technique, you imagine that you're breathing through your feet. You feel the breath move slowly up the body, down the arms and out of the hands.
"Hypnosis provided me with answers," Suzie says. "But it's not an overnight solution. I've learnt techniques and it's up to me to keep working on them."
Ref: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/insomnia/Pages/hypnosis.aspx
How We Get To Sleep
Let's examine how a person who has no difficulty getting to sleep actually does it. Most people are unaware that someone who lies down in bed and "goes to sleep" actually moves through four different stages, the last of which is unconscious sleep.
The four stages of sleep are:
1. Thinking
2. Fantasy
3. Hypnoidal
4. Unconscious Sleep
Stage 1 - Thinking
When we get into bed, we start thinking about the events of the day or, possibly, what will happen tomorrow, or any myriad of things.
Stage 2 - Fantasy
Whether the person is consciously aware of it or not, his thoughts eventually turn to thoughts ASSOCIATED with relaxation. (Perhaps thought of a future vacation or activity in a place that person already associates with feeling relaxed.)
Stage 3 - Hypnoidal
As both the mind and the body relax, the muscles release tensions, and the person enters a light stage of hypnosis, known as hypnoidal. When a person enters this state of mind, he is still conscious, yet he also experiences time distortion and some amnesia. We actually must enter this hypnoidal stage because it is what enables us to attain the last stage. (No one, for instance, can honestly say, "Last night I fell asleep at 11:34 p.m. and 17 seconds.") It is the amnesia and time distortion aspects of the hypnoidal stage that make it impossible to identify the moment of transition from hypnoidal to unconscious sleep. We simply "drift" from one to the other.
Stage 4 - Unconscious Sleep
We are not consciously aware of anything going on around us.
People who have difficulty getting to sleep
This person has great difficulty transitioning from thinking to fantasy, or he simply stays in the thinking stage way too long; usually because he is worried about something or doesn't know how to control his own mind.
Now that we know about the four stages, the strategy for someone having difficulty initially getting to sleep is to skip the thinking stage altogether. Therefore, when the person gets into bed to go to sleep, he needs to begin visualizing or imagining the fantasy stage. Remember, the fantasy stage needs to be thoughts associated with relaxation.
One way to develop a fantasy stage is to reflect upon some real experience where you really were feeling relaxed. This could be when you were on a vacation or involved in some activity that you associate with relaxation. One of my clients visualizes riding north on Pacific Coast Highway, while another visualizes an imaginary round of golf on one of his favorite courses. Yet another visualizes being on a beach on the island of Maui. It is important that you use your own experience because you already associate that occasion with relaxation. It is most important that you stay in or maintain that fantasy thought process. That will eventually draw you into the hypnoidal stage and then into unconscious sleep.
Alternative method for getting to sleep
Yet another way of understanding how we get to sleep is to recognize that the combination of stages 2 (fantasy) and 3 (hypnoidal) result in the person actually hypnotizing himself. A person may not be consciously aware that that is actually what he is doing, but, in fact, it is.
How to use Self-Hypnosis to get to sleep
Self-hypnosis (like meditation) is possible because of two Dominant Laws of Suggestibility. (These laws of suggestibility, of which there are five, are literally how we learn everything.) The Laws of Association and Repetition are what make self-hypnosis possible.
Ref: http://www.hypnosis.edu/articles/insomnia
Try Self Hypnosis Technique to get peaceful sleep throughout.
You may also like: Self Hypnosis Technique
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