Nothing compares to the feeling of waking up in the morning completely refreshed after a restful night of sleep. With seven to eight hours of quality shut-eye every night, we’ll spend around a third of our lives sleeping. But many of us deal with daily stress and hectic routines, causing us to struggle to maintain a consistent sleep schedule.
Sleep issues and disorders like insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sleepwalking, sleep apnea, sleep paralysis, and night terrors can make a good night’s rest seem like a distant dream.
Thankfully, it’s possible to treat these issues and successfully restore your sleep cycle with Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). In this blog post, you’ll learn how sleep hypnotherapy works and how you can restore your sleep cycle with NLP and hypnosis.
Most Common Sleep Issues
Whether we’re binge-watching a series till the early hours of the morning or procrastinating by doomscrolling on social media, to some extent, we’re all responsible for creating bad sleeping habits and sticking to them. But that’s not to say we’re fully responsible. The stress and anxiety of our hectic lifestyles and the trauma of past experiences can also lead to insomnia and other sleep disorders, preventing us from a peaceful night of rest.
It’s easy to break some bad bedtime habits, but addressing the following sleep disorders often needs extra attention.
Insomnia
If you find it hard to sleep, lie awake for hours, wake up multiple times during the night and can’t get back to sleep easily, you may have insomnia. This condition is a result of certain beliefs and experiences, triggered by high stress or trauma, that tell the mind to remain alert, even when it’s time to rest.
Nightmares and Night Terrors
Nightmares are bad dreams that cause you to wake up, affecting both adults and children, while night terrors more commonly affect children. Underlying psychological issues, such as stress and anxiety, remaining in the subconscious, are often behind these sleep problems.
Restless Leg Syndrome
Restless leg syndrome affects your nerves and causes an irresistible urge to move your legs, disrupting your sleep and leading to daytime fatigue.
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, is when you get up and walk while asleep and have no recollection of it. It can be exacerbated by certain medications, stress, and alcohol.
Sleep Apnoea
Sleep apnoea is a condition where the affected individual’s breathing stops and starts while sleeping, often interrupted with a loud snort or choking sound, occurring 30 times or more in an hour. It’s the leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness and, if left untreated, can lead to cardiovascular issues.
Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis causes you to experience a brief loss of muscle control, either just after falling asleep or before waking up. Although harmless, it can be incredibly distressing, making you more anxious about sleep.
Sleep Bruxism
Sleep bruxism is a condition where you grind, clench, or gnash your teeth while sleeping. It’s often caused by stress and anxiety.
The good news is that all these sleep issues respond well to hypnotherapy. Learn how you can sleep better with my hypnosis for sleep issues.
How Does Sleep Hypnotherapy Work?
Sleep hypnotherapy uses hypnosis to address sleep problems, but this shouldn’t be confused with sleep hypnosis, which is a process that helps you drift off to sleep through a form of guided meditation.
While numerous studies have shown how powerful hypnosis can be to achieve deep sleep, sleep hypnotherapy goes beyond that.
Sleep hypnotherapy is more about changing the negative thoughts, anxiety, and stress that you may have around sleeping. When you’re in a hypnotic state, I can help you address the underlying reasons for your sleep disorders. With powerful and positive suggestions, I can gently release you from the issues that prevent you from getting a good night’s rest.
Implementing Hypnotherapy and NLP for Sleep Improvement
Here are some of the techniques I use to help with good sleep through hypnosis and NLP.
Positive Affirmations/ Reframing
This technique is used in both hypnotherapy and NLP to reframe negative thoughts into positive ones. Having a restful night of sleep is possible by changing “I can never fall asleep” to a more positive and supportive thought, like: “My body knows how to relax, and I will sleep soon”.
Visualisation
I can help you visualise soothing mental images to calm and relax your mind and body. Through calming mental imagery, you’ll learn to distract your mind from the worries and anxiety that keep you awake.
Anchoring
Anchoring is a powerful NLP technique that links a physical or mental stimulus to a desired emotional state, like relaxation. For example, you choose a calming word, such as “peace” or “calm”, and repeat it every night while practising deep breathing. Over time, this word triggers your mind and body to relax, helping you to unwind at bedtime.
How Dr Kamal Can Help You Restore Your Sleep Cycle
If you’re tired of feeling the fatigue that insomnia brings and are seeking a solution to your sleep problems, consider hypnotherapy. My insomnia hypnotherapy sessions combine hypnosis and NLP techniques to identify and address the problems disturbing you, so you can restore your sleep cycle.
With a clinic located conveniently in the heart of London on Harley Street, and the option to book an online consultation, I welcome you to connect with me over the phone or email to learn more about how I can help.
Learn to get uninterrupted sleep with hypnosis and guidance from me.