New sleep habits
- By altering the ways your subconscious mind automatically approaches relaxation
and sleep, hypnotherapy can be capable of completely overturning your old
sleep habits for the better.
Insomnia
- Everybody at some point in their life will experience some problem with
sleep, be it too little or too much, being unable to fall aleep or frequently
waking, having interrupted sleep or waking up tired.
- If your sleep difficulties leave you tired during the day it is called insomnia. Insomnia may be chronic (long-term) or transient (short-term) and can range from mildly annoying to a serious precursor for depression and anxiety disorders.
- Friends and family are generally on hand with 'helpful hints', many of which do help many people but if you have come this far then it's likely that you have tried them all and need a more profound change than that.
Switching off
- Hypnotherapy teaches you a new depth of relaxation and a more
complete 'switching off' in your head when it hits your pillow. A completely
new sleep behaviour is then able to emerge that enables you to reenergise
fully each night. For some, the recovery of this full sleep potential is
life changing.
- To achieve the greatest success we will consider a whole range of sleep related factors; behavioural, environmental, dietary and the minds ability to slow down the thoughts at night. By dealing with all of these at the same time you become more able to make the transition to being a good sleeper without any other factors tripping up the process.
Some of the typical symptoms of insomnia are:
- takes longer than 40 minutes to fall asleep
- wake up too early
- wake up repeatedly
- unable to get back to sleep
- tired in the day
- only get to sleep with the aid of alcohol or pills
- frequent headaches
- irritability
- not refreshed on waking
- lack of concentration
Other sleep related disorders that hypnotherapy
can help with are:
- Enuresis (bed wetting)
- Nightmares and night terrors
- Snoring (and disturbance of the partners of snorers)
- Bruxism (teeth grinding)
Sufferers of the following sleep disorders may
find that hypnotherapy is worth trying:
- Sleep Walking
- Narcolepsy
- Hypersomnia
- Sleep Apnoea
For insomnia and serious sleep issues it is officially recommended that you have first sought medical advice via your GP
*Required disclaimer: Results, symptoms and treatment may vary from person to person, all individual cases are taken on merit.
Causes of insomnia are highly individual so their treatment is too. The most common methods of treatment are likely to be:
- Learn deep relaxation with hypnosis
(training in how to relax very deeply each night and how to 'switch
off' more completely)
- Hypnotic Suggestions
(these look to encourage your subconscious mind that it is good at sleeping)
- Stress management
(using hypnotherapy and NLP, your day to day stress levels can usually be substantially
reduced meaning there is less 'on your mind' at bedtime or any other
time)
- Hypnoanalysis
(Sometimes it is old, troublesome memories that are at the heart of
insomnia. These can be explored, if requested, by regression or discussion.
These memories may then be reprocessed from a better viewpoint,usually allowing you to remove
the disturbing effects they are causing to your sleep)
- Exploration of lifestyle and environmental factors
(a wide range of factors can be explored to help shift your life's overall
balance to enable easier sleep)
- Break the old cycles
(NLP techniques can be used to break the old cycles of sleep behaviour.
This generally makes it much easier to automatically adopt the new successful
patterns)
- Timeframe:
This really
depends on the unique individual and the sources of their particular
sleep problem.