Hypnotherapy - Sleep Disorders

Generally Insomnia is a sympton rather than the cause of a problem.

The mind is responding to some underlying factor either in the present or resulting from some past experience. Learning what these factors are begins to resolve the sleep difficulty.

Often a habit is set up following some initial cause and leads to the disrupted pattern response. This habit pattern then become the trigger for insomnia even after the initial cause is removed.

Hypnosis is used to deal with either of these factors by either learning what is happening in the unconscious mind; and also reprogramming it to overcome the habit-pattern.

Trying too hard to go to sleep is the best way of staying awake. Commonly known as 'the law of reversed effect'. Using muscle relaxation followed by self- hypnosis, a tranquil peaceful scene may be imagined and all thoughts of 'trying' fade into the distance.

We all have the ability to sleep. We have 'unlearned' that ability due to some experience or experiences in the past. Re-learning our ability to sleep may not require the sledgehammer tactics of nightly sleeping tablets with all their inherent defects. Perhaps using your own resources to relax would be a more useful strategy to finding the Land of Nod.