Insomnia Hypnosis

The Two Don’t Go Together Since One Can Cure the Other!

Dr. David W. Sparks

For thousands of years, hypnosis has been used to treat patients suffering from chronic pain. In general, hypnosis is used to control physical function or response. Some believe that hypnosis delivers a person into a trance-like state, while the vast majority of scientists feel that the individual is simply better able to concentrate and relax or is more responsive to suggestion. Hypnosis is a technique to help someone reach a focused state — just like getting absorbed in a book. Hypnosis guides the person to enter into a relaxed state similar to daydreaming, where he/she focuses on the sights, sounds, and sensations he or she wants to experience. It involves relaxation, concentration, and a willingness to be helped. Despite popular belief, a hypnotherapist cannot make you do something you would not agree to do consciously.

Why are we discussing hypnosis? Very simple. It’s estimated that over 70 million Americans suffer with insomnia. The harder they try to fall asleep, the more they toss and turn. Your brain is an expert at having insomnia. It does not know how to do it any differently. If it did, you wouldn't have a sleep disorder any more. Millions of people try to self medicate with pills or alcohol, but end up finding out that these types of cures are worse than the disease. Worse yet, even though they may “fall asleep” they don’t get the quality or quantity of sleep that they need.

Our minds actually create the stress that leads to insomnia. However, that which the mind creates, the mind can cure. If you’re getting into bed often and experiencing your mind racing through countless thoughts…a phenomenon known as mindchatter, you are amongst millions and millions of like-minded people. You may have become edgy about the notion of falling asleep. You may be practicing avoidance behaviors like staying up and watching TV in hopes of drifting off. This is all a form of stress and some type of a hypnosis insomnia program could be very helpful.

There is nothing “unnatural” that you can do to bring on sleep that is healthy. No drugs, alcohol, sleep aids…nothing. The reason these aids don’t help is that they alter the patterns of brain waves your brain is naturally programmed to go through. You may be unconscious, but you’re not truly sleeping. Self-hypnosis insomnia therapy can bring safe, effective sleep without side effects.

Hypnosis, by the way is not sleep…it is a state of mental relaxation. It is not dangerous. It does not make you mean, if you are not naturally mean. It doesn’t give you super powers or the powers of suggestion to do things that you would not normally do. But effective self-hypnosis will enable you to accept the concept of relaxation…the knowledge and power that you can slow your brain down and focus on getting to sleep. If you’re successful, post-hypnotic suggestions will relieve stress and stimulate total assurance that you can fall asleep. In order to sleep deeply, you can teach your brain how to go instantly into an alpha state, how to use subconscious triggers to eliminate worry and anxiety and stay asleep once you are asleep. Hypnosis is very effective in curing chronic insomnia.Alleviating stress is vital for a hypnosis insomnia treatment to do its job, and hypnosis visualizations can train the unconscious to immediately turn off disturbing thoughts and feelings that create stress and anxiety. These serene feelings stay with you through the day so that when it is bedtime, you can fall asleep quickly and rest throughout the entire night without disturbance.

I am not a hypno-therapist, nor am I an expert in hypnosis. I do however know of many medical professionals who either practice hypnosis on their patients who suffer from mood and sleep disorders and I have a wife and child who totally overcame their problems with chronic insomnia through self-hypnosis. I’m not an expert, I’m an advocate. If you would like to learn about self hypnosis and try it, there are dozens and dozens of web sites that can teach you how to do it…let alone hundreds of books and tapes. In fact, in a large number of the articles that I have written on insomnia in this web site, I recommend Action Steps and one of those steps is a concept called mindfulness in which people learn to block out all pat and future thoughts in order to concentrate only on the present. In effect, this is akin to self-hypnosis. It produces relaxation and diminishes stress.

Try an adventure that may very well cure your insomnia. Try hypnosis.

In a few weeks we will be opening up a premium section in our web site entitled Actions Steps for Better Sleep and A Healthier Life. These steps incorporate some simple behavioral modification techniques to help solve your problems with insomnia along with some positive steps that you can take toward improving your wellness. We have some wonderful suggestions for diet and exercise. Think of this program as an "easy boot camp where you learn to go to war against insomnia". By the way, you can get this program for free with your purchase of one of my audiobooks entitled "Better Sleep in 7 Days".

Make sure you sign up in the Action Steps section and I will send you a sample of both the first day of Actions Steps for Better Sleep and A Healthier Life and Day 1 of The Better Sleep in 7 Days audiobook. We value your privacy and will not pass along your email address to anyone.

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