Sleep issues can be both frustrating and over time lead to various health issues. Without a good restorative nights sleep, our behaviours and concentration can be affected.
Sleep is important in all aspects of health, from energy to concentration, to mental wellbeing to physical body repairs… to name a few. All of these help us lead a happier and balanced life, so if you don’t get enough sleep you can feel “off colour”, fatigued short temperedor anxious... In other words off balance! So getting quality sleep regularly is very important.
The good news is with hypnotherapy and other interventions, sleep issues can be resolved quickly and effectively, and you will be given a personalised audio track for any future needs you may have.
Please note: You should always consult your GP with any problematic sleep issues to rule out any underlying conditions first, eg. Sleep Apnea
Teach our bodies that relaxation is a good thing to do…
Sleep.org, a great organisation dedicated to the positive benefits of sleep quote :
"For people with insomnia, hypnosis may help to allow both the body and mind to relax and let go of the anxiety that not falling asleep can create. A sleepwalker, on the other hand, could learn through hypnotic suggestion to wake up when his feet hit the floor. Hypnosis may also increase the amount of time that you spend in slow-wave sleep (deep sleep) by as much as 80 percent. That’s key because deep sleep is important for memory and healing so you wake up feeling restored. People who use hypnosis to help solve sleep problems usually see results within just a few sessions, so you don’t have to make a big commitment."
9 out of 10 of our clients that visit us for any type of issue, comment on the increase in the quality of sleep that they get if we are treating them with hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy has been clinically shown to help induce and improve sleep, as well as inducing a state of deep relaxation. If we concentrate on breaking unhelpful sleeping patterns, and teach our bodies that relaxation is a good thing to do, getting better sleep is simple and quick. Utilising CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), in conjunction with clinical hypnosis makes the results quick and long lasting.
Hypnotherapy has many clinical studies and we see it everyday, where the process helps sleep both directly and indirectly. As qualified clinical hypnotherapists, we can give you the following benefits:
- Invoke deep relaxation, something many of us in modern society struggle or cannot remember how to do.
- Quietens the conscious mind to allow thoughts and worries to be in the background rather than the forefront of our thinking
- Extend the periods of quality sleep, so that our bodies have more chance of restorative work.
- Provide useful bedtime patterns of behaviour to allow falling asleep to once again become an automatic process.
How big are sleep issues in the UK?
Check out the facts below which show that you are not alone!
23%
of people in the UK struggle to fall asleep every single night
15%
struggle to fall asleep at least once a week
148%
rise in monthly NHS prescriptions for Melatonin from June 2014 to May 2019
87,990
prescriptions for Melatonin issued in May 2019 at a cost to the NHS of £2.6 million
How we can help…
Hypnotherapy is the main therapy we use for sleep issues, as it has been proven many many times to be hugely effective for inducing and improving sleep patterns. As mentioned above, Hypnotherapy helps in all the areas a person may struggle to sleep. Sometimes we will introduce Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to examine intrusive thought processes, especially if they are affecting your day as well as your night routines. Combining the conscious exploration of CBT with the unconscious communications of hypnotherapy gives you a powerful combination to quickly resolve sleep issues. Luckily our bodies quickly learn that relaxation is a good thing to do, and we begin restore and feel better very quickly
For further information, or to chat about your particular problems please call or message us. We will be happy to speak with you and help you with a plan to resolve your issues.
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night, is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck