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Guided Imagery as a Natural Stress Reducer for Sleep and Relaxation
If occasional or chronic sleep problems occur, you need something to help you get to sleep at night. Guided imagery healing for relaxation can can assist you in getting sleep you deserve.
The Problem
It’s usually the same old story - you lay in bed, your mind consumed with worry that you won’t be able to fall asleep, then thoughts of what tomorrow morning will be like if you don’t get any sleep start spinning around in your mind. Your anxiety grows with every click of the clock. You look over to see what time it is, and it’s midnight – “oh crap” you say to yourself, what if I don’t get to sleep? I have a big meeting tomorrow (or fill in your own here important thing here), what will I do?
The hours continue to tick away, your restlessness increases, your mind spins even faster in fear of losing even more sleep, and now it’s 4 o’clock in the morning! Dang (or more serious expletive)! Finally, the alarm clock rings, you have to get up to get your day going, you look in the mirror at your tired and bloodshot eyes and think to yourself, this can’t keep happening like this!
The mind can be tricky sometimes when it comes to getting our needs met. Especially when we need something as important as sleep! The question is why does the mind continuously fight itself? Why can’t we just think - I’m going to fall asleep now, then peacefully drift off into slumberland?
At the deepest level, your subconscious mind is calling the shots. Because you usually sleep good when things are going well for you, lack of sleep happens when things are not going so great. Problems in life in upbringing, health, relationships, finances, etc, can all bring up worries and fears. Your subconscious sees these problems as potential future threats to your safety and security. If it sees these problems as serious threats, then fight or flight response kicks in. This is what essentially disturbs sleep patterns.
The Sleep Solution
Your subconscious mind does not know the difference between a real and an imagined event, and this can be a very good thing. When you are watching a movie, and a scene from the movie scares you, your body goes into reaction, creating adrenaline and getting your body prepared for defense. Same goes for if you are watching a heartwarming scene and you feel all soft and warm and relaxed, your body is soothed and naturally with ease.
The key to getting a better nights sleep is in letting go of the disturbing patterns, and introducing new relaxing patterns. Yes, you can do it yourself, but a lot of the time it works even better to have a professional such as a hypnotherapist work with you to get beyond your critical mind (the intellect that tries to figure everything out), and go straight into your subconscious mind where you can create new healthy sleepful patterns.
Good sleep and relaxation audio programs will also do this. They introduce guided imagery to take you out of your patterns of insomnia and sleeplessness, and then take you into new healthy patterns of sleepfulness. Typically a thirty minute audio program will work wonders to relax and de-stress you. Try it out – what have you got to lose?
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