Can Hypnosis Help You Sleep?
by Brian Yalung on Sunday, October 12th, 2008
There are some people who go as far as hypnotizing themselves to go to sleep. Compared to the usual sleeping pills, hypnosis may indeed seem the better alternative.
But the fact remains on the matter of effectiveness that hypnosis can cover. Can it really help? Sometimes sleep is not all about turning to various alternatives to get the right amount of sleep. Some call it psychological while others look at it as something that has totally grown out of proportion. Whatever the case may be, it remains that sleep has its share of roughness when it comes to trying to get quality respite through various means outside medication and masks.
(Source) NST Online
August 11th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Yes, hypnotherapy can definitely help with sleep. A few years ago I was having trouble sleeping, so I devised my own self hypnosis technique to get to sleep. When lying in bed I imagined myself floating up from my body to the ceiling. I would stop and look at the room and myself for a while from this perspective. Then I would float above my house, and stop and look at the area around my house from this perspective.
Next the fun part…I would imagine flying on a journey…A journey to a nice and relaxing haven…usually a secluded beach. I would spend some time just enjoying myself there, and would find that I usually drift off to sleep. Even if I did not, I benefited tremendously from the rest and relaxation from this simple exercsie.
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August 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 am
If you think of “counting sheep” this has more than a small element of self-hypnosis. It involves using your imagination which helps access your right brain functions. Then, if you watch the sheep jumping over a fence your eyes naturally move from side to side as you watch each one jump, and this encourages left-right brain interaction and in effect, hypnosis. Add to that the fact of counting which is mundane and also means that your brain is now fully occupied with both an imaginative and a logical activity – there is no space left in your mind for it to wander elsewhere and so you now have absorbed focused attention – hypnosis.
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