Insomnia: a problem or a symptom?

Insomnia can be a result of stress, undue worry or concern over the vicissitudes of life or the result of repression (a mental defense mechanism). Or of unresolved emotional trauma.

Hypnotherapy can help with getting to sleep by:

·               Re-educating your mind to expect to enjoy a good night's sleep

·               Teaching new relaxation techniques to help your mind and body to slow down at the end of the day. Sleeping becomes much easier in this state.

·               Helping you to learn techniques to remove some of the noise from a racing mind. Insomnia and most sleep problems are a very modern phenomenon and representative of the pace of modern life

·               Helping you to understand some of the causes of insomnia and sleeping problems.

Generally, hypnotherapy clients' sleep problems fall into two categories. The first is simply not being able to fall asleep at night. The second involves waking up at an inconveniently early hour and not being able to fall asleep again. Learning effective self-hypnosis skills can help you to significantly improve your sleep patterns and can help with indirect effects of insomnia and sleep problems such as daytime anxiety and bruxism (teeth grinding during the night).

It is recommend that you make use of the additional information you will be given as a part of your therapy and take the time and effort necessary to become skillful at this. It will be worth it! The moments before sleep are scientifically measurable as 'hypnotic'. If you can learn to achieve this comfortable, daydreamy state at will, you will become a sleep expert. Imagine the benefits this will bring to your daily life - more energy and enthusiasm, better health, confidence and motivation.

By specifically dealing with repressed or emotional issues one can often alleviate the side effects of insomnia etc.

Chronic insomnia and sleep disorders

Many people experience a bad night's sleep for various reasons, commonly because they have something on their mind. However, if your sleeping problems continue for more than a couple of days at a time, you must go and see a doctor, to check that your sleeplessness isn't a more serious condition requiring medical treatment.