Insomnia Hypnosis - How to Stop Insomnia with Hypnosis - Hypnotize Yourself to Sleep!
The inability to sleep can be the worst of all human experiences. Your body needs the rest as does your mind but for whatever reason you cannot shut down for the night.
Sleep deprivation is a serious condition with potential ramifications that can be deadly; do you personally know of someone falling asleep at the wheel and ending in a ditch?
The following tips are designed to help you get to sleep through hypnotizing your mind. Having had this problem occur in my life over the years I have developed a number of procedures that help me go to sleep.
My definition of hypnosis, though a non-medical definition, is taking your attention off whatever it is that is consuming you and focusing on something else; quieting your mind by directing your thoughts to actions or views that divert you from your daily reality.
To help you hypnotize yourself, prepare your body beginning in the afternoon for your night of sleep. Select a time when you will cut off all caffeine, or other stimulants that will keep you awake at night.
When you get home from work, have a light supper that fills you but is not loaded up on calories your body will want to burn off during the night. Take a walk after dinner and breathe deeply while you walk.
Clean out the cobwebs of your day by eliminating your daytime stresses from your life. If you watch television, try not to watch programs that will make you restless or agitated. The same is true for reading. I find that reading will keep me awake if the reading matter is exciting and engrossing.
When you lie down to bed, don’t watch TV in bed; there is too much on it designed to get us restless and agitated. Restful music would be a better choice if you need it.
When you lay down, begin to do deep breathing. Envision that you are going to breathe all the way from your toes into your brain. Sometimes this breathing alone will put me to sleep. If so go with it.
On rare occasions I take Tylenol PM if I have aches and pains upon going to bed. It seems to help just enough. I don’t believe in using sleep medications because I think we can train our brains to go to sleep with enough practice.
Years ago I took a class on Creative Visualization where I learned the following. When you close your eyes you have a blank dark screen on which you can create anything at all. In the class we created a room that we could go to where we could solve any of our life problems, or create a vision for our future.
In this breathing state begin to go into this mind’s screen, that vision you see when your eyes are closed. Continue to breathe deeply as you do this.
If you are rehashing a problem from the day you can choose to think creatively about how you are going to solve it. You could choose to see it in a different perspective and gain some light onto possible solutions.
In this space you could choose to count sheep, possibly the oldest bit of creative visualization around to help people sleep. Whatever you want to see in your mind’s screen you have the ability to create it. Perhaps you want to envision yourself on a forest path.
In this state you have the ability to hypnotize yourself to sleep. Perhaps you want to see a gold pocket watch in front of you, swinging from side to side. Simple words such as, “You are going to sleep,” “ You are very tired and you are going to sleep” should help immensely. Be kind in what you say though, don’t stir yourself up with negative thoughts such as, “ I can’t do this.” Learn to breathe deeply and let go.
Last, if your insomnia lasts for many days, you should see a doctor and visit with him or her about sleep apnea. You may be waking up a lot in the night from snoring and you may be in danger.
If you do need a CPAP machine to control your sleeping breathing, it will help so much to keep you sleeping all night long. Also because of its gentle rhythm from you breathing into the mask, it will put you off to sleep rather quickly.
Pleasant dreams.
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