Insomnia
Falling asleep sounds easy, and for many of us it is easy.
IT CAN BE EASY FOR YOU TOO!
The reality is many of us struggle with our sleep patterns on a regular basis. We lay in bed at night tossing and turning, our minds racing with worries and lists of things to do. The clock becomes our number one enemy, causing panic and stress. You talk to yourself saying, ‘I will never be able to function tomorrow if I don’t get some sleep’. Or worse, ‘it’s too late to sleep now I may as well get up’, all the while telling yourself how dreadful you are going to feel, how tired. It is all so frustrating; you know how exhausted you are going to be by the end of another day, with yet another sleepless night looming.
Does this sound like the patterns you are running night after night?
The causes for insomnia can be many.
- Anxiety, fear, stress
- Clinical depression
- Pain, physical and emotional
- Drugs: Recreational and prescription, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol.
- Hormones: menopause symptoms, menstruation.
- Post traumatic stress disorder.
- Disturbance of the circadian rhythm, e.g. Shift working of jet lag.
- Abuse of over the counter or prescribed aids can produce rebound insomnia.
- Noise, light, heat.
- Nightmares, sleepwalking.
- Grief and loss.
- Internal time clock.
How would it be for you to go to bed knowing you were in for a good night's sleep? To awaken feeling refreshed and energetic, forgotten what that feels like?
So, how do you make this happen?
When you get to bed, ready and willing to go to sleep, your unconscious mind revs up and starts sorting out all the things you have been working on during the day, turning them over and over, reworking events, reliving the day all over again. It’s hard to let the thoughts come in and flow out so that sleep will come. Instead we join in the party and get right into the worry, stress and anxiety.
No wonder you can't sleep!
Each time this happens you are reinforcing this habit for your unconscious mind, so when you get to bed the next night your unconscious mind just slips right into gear and starts the whole process all over again.
Insomnia becomes a habit, and you find yourself dreading nightfall and another frustrating night ahead. As you worry more about it so the habit becomes more ingrained. You become more exhausted, more stressed, more tense and just know that sleep is just not going to happen for you, and so the circle is complete!
Hypnotherapy can help you to break that habit and regain that elusive night's rest, every night. Allowing you to wake up feeling alive, rested and ready to tackle your day every day.
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