Overcoming Insomnia with Hypnotherapy
Hannelore Moebius
January 19 2024
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Duration:
19 Minutes
In this short workshop, learn tips on how to prepare for a good sleep and practice visualization to let sleep come to you!
Overcoming Insomnia:
People have sleep disruptions for different reasons. Everybody has some disruptions to their sleep at some point. If we attempt to force ourselves into sleep or worry about our sleep, our body produces adrenalin, which makes it even harder to sleep!
The following suggestions will help us overcome sleeplessness:
• No lights, TV, or Work in your bedroom!
• Re-establish a natural rhythm of your day.
• Get up ½ hour earlier than usual.
• Have a morning routine: bathroom, drink water, sit in silence, journal, listen to something inspirational, practice Yoga, walk, and have breakfast. • Move through the day. Avoid naps during the day!
• Have a nourishing mid-day meal/lunch.
• Take a brisk walk in the afternoon (which allows you to get some physical tiredness).
• Avoid black tea, coffee, and alcohol in the afternoon or evening.
• Have a light and early dinner.
• An hour before bedtime, calm down with slow breaths, Yoga stretches, and meditation.
• Be grateful for the day.
• Set an intention for the next day.
• Get ready for bed early.
• Calm down with slow breaths. Let sleep come to you. Repeat this Affirmation: "I let sleep come to me."
• IF you cannot fall asleep, or if you wake up, use the following technique, which is called "Theater of the Mind" or "Image Streaming." Studied by scientists, it is when one mentally describes and/or listens to their own sensory awareness to lull themselves to sleep. With this technique, we become aware of our internal space: Seeing, hearing, and feeling! •Imagine as if you are entering your mind's control room!
• Settle into a special reclining chair; see a control panel before you.
• Push that button to bring you into the most relaxing, beautiful place.
• Let sleep come to you!
Overcoming Insomnia:
People have sleep disruptions for different reasons. Everybody has some disruptions to their sleep at some point. If we attempt to force ourselves into sleep or worry about our sleep, our body produces adrenalin, which makes it even harder to sleep!
The following suggestions will help us overcome sleeplessness:
• No lights, TV, or Work in your bedroom!
• Re-establish a natural rhythm of your day.
• Get up ½ hour earlier than usual.
• Have a morning routine: bathroom, drink water, sit in silence, journal, listen to something inspirational, practice Yoga, walk, and have breakfast. • Move through the day. Avoid naps during the day!
• Have a nourishing mid-day meal/lunch.
• Take a brisk walk in the afternoon (which allows you to get some physical tiredness).
• Avoid black tea, coffee, and alcohol in the afternoon or evening.
• Have a light and early dinner.
• An hour before bedtime, calm down with slow breaths, Yoga stretches, and meditation.
• Be grateful for the day.
• Set an intention for the next day.
• Get ready for bed early.
• Calm down with slow breaths. Let sleep come to you. Repeat this Affirmation: "I let sleep come to me."
• IF you cannot fall asleep, or if you wake up, use the following technique, which is called "Theater of the Mind" or "Image Streaming." Studied by scientists, it is when one mentally describes and/or listens to their own sensory awareness to lull themselves to sleep. With this technique, we become aware of our internal space: Seeing, hearing, and feeling! •Imagine as if you are entering your mind's control room!
• Settle into a special reclining chair; see a control panel before you.
• Push that button to bring you into the most relaxing, beautiful place.
• Let sleep come to you!