Getting Better Sleep

If you aren’t sleeping well it takes a toll on your ability to function during the day. Not getting enough sleep, or not getting good enough sleep saps your energy, distorts concentration and reasoning, makes us irritable and cranky, increases craving for carbs and sugars, increases stress, and lowers immunity.

Resolving the reasons why you aren’t sleeping well is one of the most effective ways of getting better sleep. For example, stress creates a state called hyperarousal that causes racing thoughts, muscle tension, and digestive issues. Lowering your stress will help you sleep better. Other causes of sleep issues include anxiety, worry, depression, and even being over-tired.

Sleep Hygiene

Sleep hygiene is a set of different practices and habits that can help you to have better sleep quality. These routines help set the expectation in your mind and body that it’s time to go to sleep. Here are some things that may be helpful as you build your sleep routine.

• Sticking to a schedule of the same bedtime and wake up time, even on the weekends, helps to regulate your body’s clock and could help you fall asleep and stay asleep for the night.

• A relaxing, routine activity right before bedtime, away from bright lights helps separate your sleep time from activities that can cause excitement, stress, or anxiety.

• Daily exercise can help your mind and body release stress and differentiate between sleep and waking times.

• Design your sleep environment to be a comfortable place to sleep. Consider the temperature of the room, light sources, and noises. Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive and use comfortable pillows.

• Avoid alcohol, nicotine, and heavy meals in the evening can disrupt sleep.

• Your body needs time to shift into sleep mode, so spend the last hour before bed enjoying a calming activity. For some, using an electronic device such as a laptop can make it hard to fall asleep, because the particular type of light emanating from the screens of these devices is activating to the brain. Using the blue-light filter on your device can help.

Hypnotic Suggestions for Sleep

Hypnosis is one of the most effective tools for relieving and managing stress, and it’s also a very useful tool for getting better sleep. I’ve shared some easy hypnotic techniques here to help you sleep better.

Revivification is the practice of remembering a vivid memory of an experience or event. This activates the subconscious mind, and allows you to apply past experiences to the present moment. Revivifying a previous experience of falling asleep and associating what we call an anchor or trigger to that memory allows you to use that anchor or trigger to fall asleep easier.

Start in a safe, comfortable place and take a couple deep breaths. With your eyes open or closed, let yourself remember a time when you slept really well. Let the memory be as vivid and detailed as possible. The feel of the pillows, the temperature of the room, the sounds or silence around you, and how wonderful it felt to drift off to sleep.

When you have that vivid memory in your mind, take a deep breath and, using one of your hands, press together a finger and thumb and let yourself relax even more. Repeat this process a few more times, letting the intensity of the remembered experience increase each time.

When you are ready for bed and getting ready to fall asleep, take a deep breath and press together the same finger and thumb. You don’t have to “try” to make anything happen here. Just let the feelings of that memory do their work.

Hypnotic Stories

Stories activate the imagination and the subconscious mind, where all our habits and behaviors come from.
Telling yourself a story will let you experience the things you’re imagining. Try this story model tonight.

“My friend John went to bed and at first he noticed that his feet felt tired and his hands felt tired and his breathing got tired and his eyes got tired and before he knew it, he was asleep.”

As you repeat this story to yourself you are setting a pattern to follow. Tell the story about someone else. You can include other body parts if you’d like, always ending with “before he knew it, he was asleep.”

Non-Awareness

Sleep isn’t something you can do consciously. The non-awareness set is all about getting the subconscious mind to do things. Read the paragraph below to yourself, or even record it and play it back as you lay down to go to sleep.

“I wonder what that arm has got to teach you about falling asleep at night? Maybe when you go to sleep at night as you sense your arm comfortably relaxing in the bed you’ll drift to sleep quickly and the hand can only relax down even deeper as quickly as your subconscious mind makes that happen, so that as soon as you feel yourself in bed and you feel the heaviness of your hand spreading into your arm then the subconscious mind can take over and the next thing you know it’s morning, you’ve slept all night and you’re feeling refreshed and alert.”

These are just a few example of how hypnosis can be used to help you to sleep and feel better.🍥

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