Insomnia
Sleep won't come?
You dread another night of lying awake,
fretfully tossing and turning for hours. You drank your glass
of warm milk, and you've counted several hundred sheep, goats,
zebras, and even ostriches. But it's one o'clock in the morning
again and you're still wide awake, staring unhappily at the
bedroom ceiling. You worry that if you don't get to sleep soon,
you'll wake up bleary-eyed and you'll feel groggy and exhausted
all day tomorrow. That makes you feel even more tense and anxious.
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False Friends
You've already discovered that sleeping
pills aren't the answer. They may induce sleep for a few hours,
but unfortunately all drugs, including caffeine, nicotine, or
alcohol, distort and disrupt the natural sleep process. They
leave you irritated and frustrated throughout the following
day. No easy answers there!
The body's toleration of sleeping tablets builds up over time,
so that increasingly large doses are required. Not many people
realise that these tablets will, if taken on a long-term basis,
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Habits and
expectations
Many of us have an irregular pattern of
sleeping and waking up. Perhaps you are unable to fall asleep
because you spend too much time in bed. Maybe you don't go to
bed and wake up at the same times everyday. Or maybe you nap
too often, too long, or too close to your bedtime. These bad
habits can confuse your body, and can cause you to stay awake
when you should really be asleep. Or it may be that advancing
age has reduced the amount of sleep that you actually need,
and you are lying awake worrying needlessly about not getting
your 8 hours. If this is you, stop trying to sleep, because
trying keeps you awake anyway, and adjust your time in bed and
your expectations accordingly. But for people of all ages, 8
hours is not a standard requirement; people vary a lot in how
much sleep they need, and if you can function comfortably on
5 hours, that just gives you an extra 3 hours per day to use
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The menopause
Women who are undergoing the menopause
often find that the imbalance of hormones, particularly deficiency
in natural melatonin, disrupts their sleep patterns. If you
are in this situation, and you find yourself wide awake and
lively at bedtime, or you wake up completely after a couple
of hours, it is better to be up and active until such time as
you are tired. If, however, this leads to tiredness next day,
a good plan is to do some deep relaxation - body asleep, mind
awake, if fact 20 minutes in this state can be as refreshing
as two hours of sleep. This is a technique that I can teach
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Worry and stress
Nothing is quite as disruptive of sleep
as worrying about your situation, about the events of the day,
and indeed about your failure to sleep. If this is you, perhaps
you should have a little talk to yourself, and decide to change
the things you can change and accept the remainder. But if you
find that this is very difficult to do, I can help you to resolve
long-standing issues and reprogram your thinking about them
and about sleep.
If you live life in the fast lane, stressed all day and mind
churning at night, there are self-hypnosis routines that, if
used regularly, can drastically reduce your daytime stress levels,
promote a more relaxed approach to life in general, and make
it much easier to relax at bedtime. I can teach you these routines.
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Here to help
If you feel that we can help you in any
of these ways, please call for a free consultation at which
we can assess your situation and plan an answer to it. Two to
four sessions, backed up with CDs that we can provide, will usually be all that is required to reprogram the subconscious
mind into a more suitable sleeping pattern.
Many of my clients have been helped here by listening to the
Deep Relax brain entrainment recording from Mindvoyager.
Some have even had difficulty in staying awake until the recording
ends. |
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