Use Sleeping Hypnosis To Solve Your Insomnia Problem

If you have trouble sleeping at night you are not alone. What you may not realize is that self-hypnosis can help you with this problem. Sleeping hypnosis is designed to assist you in dropping off to sleep and sleeping through the night. Sleep is important so that you can function properly during the day. Without sufficient sleep you go through life like a zombie and live a life that hardly seems worth living.
Helping sleep problems with self-hypnosis is only slightly different than dealing with other kinds of problems. In dealing with sleep issues you do the induction as you normally would and then go into your script. You do not however count yourself out of the trance but rather allow it to continue and turn into normal sleep. This is possible because of the close similarity between the hypnotic state and normal sleep.
Begin your induction by slowing down your breathing by taking deep, slow, and regular breaths as you breathe this way imagine yourself traveling down in an elevator, as you pass each floor you see the number, 10, 9, the numbers go by slowly as you count down; your body relaxes more and more as you count down. By the time you reach the first floor you will be at some level of hypnosis. Whether it is a light trance or a deep one is not important.
Now you begin your script and your visualization, in this scenario you see yourself sleeping deeply all night long. As you lay there you imagine that you are having a pleasant dream. Perhaps you are on a beach at sunset and you can hear the relaxing sound of the waves as they go in and out. As the sun sinks away slowly you sink deeper and deeper into sleep. You continue the scene, your manufactured dream if you will and let it carry you deeper and deeper asleep. As long as any part of you maintains awareness acknowledge the dream and let it carry you away. If you have problems sleeping due to any sort of fear you can address those fears in the session too. In this case see yourself overcoming the fear and sleeping safely and peacefully as a result.
You simply keep up the dream and some suggestions about being relaxed and sleepy and you never enter the part where you exit the state. Rather you keep to the dream and relaxation suggestions. You know that you are safe and secure and that you will awaken in the morning refreshed and full of energy. These are the basics of sleeping hypnosis and your plan of how to deal with your sleep problems.

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Can Hypnosis Help Cure My Insomnia?

Yet again, you find yourself listening balefully as the clock ticks away relentlessly in the dark. Pretty soon it will be daybreak, and you'll be forced to rise out of bed and put another wrecked attempt at a good night's sleep behind you. Truly, is there anything else that's capable of driving us quite so close to the edge of madness as insomnia does?

So why can't you simply do what so many others manage every night of their lives, and just drop effortlessly into a rich, meaningful slumber? It may well be you have significant unresolved issues that understandably weigh heavily on your mind at night, but the harsh reality is, no matter how serious those issues, there is no reason at all why you should lose any sleep over them...

The truth is that all of your problems will still be there when you wake up in the morning, whether or not you enjoyed a great night's sleep - so why not grab it? Waking up feeling rested and refreshed is hardly likely to do you any harm...

Just so long as your doctor has ruled out any significant medical cause for your insomnia (and you must consult a doctor immediately if you are suffering pain, or have other undiagnosed symptoms) then you would be well advised to seriously consider using hypnosis to beneficially manipulate your pattern of sleep...

Hypnosis can be an ideal treatment for insomnia, because a hypnotic trance mirrors the gateway to sleep. In fact, it is frequently said that everyone experiences hypnosis at least twice a day - when they pass in and out of their night's slumber...

A calming and relaxing hypnotic audio track, containing positive suggestions that will help you get into the habit of dozing off comfortably, can be played last thing at night to great effect. It should finish by fading out, so that you will not be disturbed after you fall asleep. And don't worry that you haven't been brought out of hypnosis; it simply isn't necessary, and you should wake up quite naturally, feeling great...

Just make sure to use a music player that can be safely left on overnight. Also, beware of using one with annoying flashing lights that might wake you up in the early hours...

Another way that hypnotism can help you get to sleep is through the Law of Reverse Effect. You already have plenty of unwanted experience of what happens when you lie there, eyes tightly shut, praying forlornly for sleep to come - so why not try something different?

Next time you can't sleep, try thinking: 'This is great! I'm in a relaxed position, my body is getting all the rest it requires, and now I have all the time in the world to calmly and methodically think through some of those problems I never get a decent chance to work on during the day... '

Focus your mind on the most immediate of your unresolved problems, and then begin to think it through, all the time reminding yourself that, on no account and under absolutely no circumstances, must you curtail this valuable opportunity by falling asleep!

You might just be pleasantly surprised by what happens next...

Paul R Mather is a certified hypnotherapist and the owner of Cerulean Therapies, a company specialising primarily in helping people to quit smoking. For more information on using hypnosis to beat insomnia, please visit http://www.quitclever.co.uk/insomnia.php

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