Whether it's trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both, sleep issues cause problems for so many people. The good news is that hypnotherapy can be highly effective in improving sleep, allowing you to fall asleep quicker and stay asleep throughout the night! Sleeping, just like exercising, meditating, or anything else you do may regularly, is a habit. As we talked about in a previous blog (see Hypnotherapy for Habit Modification), hypnotherapy can modify existing habits and replace old, negative habits with new, positive ones. Difficulty with sleep can be caused by many different things, but most often trouble sleeping is linked to an overactive mind. Anxiety, worries, stress, or even looking forward to something can contribute to sleep issues.
Many people turn to sleep aids such as prescription medication and natural alternatives to help them fall asleep, or they may try exercising during the day, improving their diet, or limiting caffeine intake. While exercising, eating cleaner, and limiting caffeine are healthy and good ideas in general, for sleep, these remedies are often short-lived and mediocre. For improved sleep, the core issues causing the sleep problems needs to be addressed. Fears (for example, fear of loss of control, fear of the future, etc.) and free-floating anxiety are common impediments to sound sleep.
Not only is hypnotherapy a powerful tool for overcoming fears and anxieties, after one just one hypnosis session, the mind and body becomes acclimated to a state of relaxation and calm that automatically helps with sleep. I also use dream therapy to aid with sleep issues, which allows my clients to vent out their stresses or troubles in their dreams, allowing them to get the sound, deep sleep they deserve.
Sleep issues are one of the easiest challenges to treat in hypnotherapy, and the results are so worth it. With good, restorative sleep being one of the key factors to physical and emotional health, hypnotherapy is a treatment that is very much worth considering.
Simone Gordon, C.HT