I would conceptualise therapeutic hypnosis as probably one of the most flexible and effective interventions available to help people get better sleep. Published peer review literature and a wide body of research demonstrates the evidence to support the benefits of hypnosis in aiding sleep. There are many effective interventions/techniques available that are easily implemented with clients.
The following is a short list of sleep disorders on which hypnosis can have a positive beneficial effect, ultimately leading to a healthy lifestyle. Hypnotic intervention can be as flexible as needed to meet the client where they are at and take them to where they want to go to.
· Restlessness and Difficulty Falling Asleep
· Insomnia for Long Periods of Time
· Waking-UP and Not Being Able To Return To Sleep.
Providing services to clients can be based in the context that interventions are modelled and developed from a bank of available research and knowledge based evidence.
The overwhelming evidence is that hypnosis can help clients overcome insomnia, enjoy better rest, avoid waking up, or any other sleep related problems. In marketing –“sleep hypnosis” services – great emphasis can be placed on sleep contributing to a healthy lifestyle. The value of hypnosis therapy is that clients get to make the change they have come to therapy for, comfortably and easily. During the intake of a client, the therapist has the ability to structure a hypnosis session that truly meets the clients needs and alleviate that which brought them to the therapists office in the first place.
Key Learning Points
Sleep Quality can affect the length of Chronic illness, heart disease, mental health, alcoholism.
90% of depressed people have poor sleep quality
Poor sleep can contribute to a propensity to do suicide.
Good sleep is essential to memory consolidation.
Poor sleep contributes to hypertension, depression, seizure disorder, migraines.
Sleep drive is just like hunger except that unlike hunger where you can consciously refuse to eat, in the case of sleep, your body can force you to sleep when it deems it necessary.
5 Step Relaxation Process
· Training in Relaxation
· Give Direct Suggestions
· Anchor Sleep – head to pillow
· Future Pace Sleep
· Rehearse Sleep
Sleep Mind Traps with Clients.
· Sleep Distractions – Nite time pee.
· Ruminating thoughts.
· Daily Regrets, FOMO.
· Difficulty disconnecting.
· Overwhelm.
Ultimately the goal is to develop a healthy lifestyle, where being able to sleep is a major contributory factor to that healthy lifestyle.
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Aidan Noone
00:25 - 00:50
And a very warm welcome to you to session number 22 of the professional hypnotherapists podcast. I wish to acknowledge at the outset, that the work on the help of Dr. Richard the whole area of sleep and sleep disorders and a hypnotherapeutic interventions that help us gain a better sleep using hypnosis. Thank you, Dr. Richard
Aidan Noone
00:57 - 01:58
Hey you, yes, you I'm talking to you. I bet you're surprised to hear that, that I'm talking to you because when I say the word you, you pay attention powerful, isn't it. We use the word you to capture your attention on this session of the professional hypnotherapist podcast. We have a change from the normal format and the changes that it's only me today, and I am your host Aidan Noone. And today I want to talk to you about sleep. We all need sleep. Everybody has to sleep, whether we like it or not, we all need sleep. So we're going to talk about sleep today.
Aidan Noone
02:01 - 02:50
So no matter where you are today, whether you're at home, maybe you're in the kitchen, preparing dinner or lunch or breakfast or whatever, or perhaps you're driving, or maybe you're in your office are on an oven on a break. I may be in work somewhere. So wherever you are, I would just say to you that this podcast is for you, especially for you, and more, especially for you, if you have difficulty sleeping and not only difficulty sleeping, but also difficulty remaining asleep or awakening up at night in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. I would say that this podcast is probably very valuable to you, but of course you can decide that in the end.
Aidan Noone
02:53 - 04:07
And firstly, just let me mention to you the European association of hypnotherapists and that organization was founded in 1996 and it's the professional and ethical body for hypnotherapists and all our members subscribe to a code of ethics and professional conduct. So they're there, we're here to protect the public and all our members are abiding by that code of ethics so that you know that when you contact a hypnotherapist, that's registered with the European association of professional hypnotherapists that you are in safe hands and good hands. So that's what I would say to you so that if you're having any issues or concerns that you would like to talk about visit the website, that's EAPH.ie and pick your hypnotherapist there. And usually you would get a free consultation.
Aidan Noone
04:07 - 05:28
So let's begin and not the outset I said to you that we're going to talk about sleep and sleep in relation and connection with hypnosis and hypnotherapy. And indeed, how can hypnosis help us achieve a rest for a rejuvinating sleep I would say, and I was conceptualized that therapeutic hypnosis, this is probably one of the most flexible and effective interventions available to help you to get better sleep. And it's not just me who saying that because there are published peer review literature and a whole wide body of research that demonstrates the evidence to support my assertion. My opinion today, there are many effective interventions techniques available that are easily implemented to help you to get that better sleep. And all of our registered and ethical hypnotherapists can teach you these techniques to help you to get that better sleep. The following is a shortlist of sleep disorders in which hypnosis can have a positive, beneficial effect, ultimately leading to a healthy lifestyle.
Aidan Noone
05:28 - 06:11
And that's what it's all about. It's, it's all about getting healthy rest so that you have, and live can live and have a healthy lifestyle. Hypnotic interventions can be as flexible as needed to meet you where you're at and to take you to where you want to go to in terms of getting a better night's rest, a better night's sleep. So let's mention a few of the problems are area problem areas that people have that you may have when you're trying to sleep. You may have, you may be restlessness and having difficulty falling asleep
Aidan Noone
06:11 - 06:37
insomnia or long periods of time, waking up and not being able to return to sleep. Now, the, that list is merely a summary and it's by no means exhaustive. You may be a shift worker. You may work on a hospital, medical staff, maybe you're a student you might be studying for your leave insert or for your AA levels.
Aidan Noone
06:37 - 08:01
Or you may be a mature student because sleep is essential for what we call memory consolidation and other words that whatever you study during the day or whatever you're doing during the day, the brain, the mind needs a time when it can compartmentalize that when I see where I can store it and make sense of it. And if you're not getting a proper night's sleep memory consolidation is seriously affected truck drivers, or indeed anyone who drives for a living airline flight staff. Since we're all going back now to flying after COVID restrictions people with anxiety, people with hypertension, in other words, high blood pressure people with work-related stress paper, with difficulty disconnecting from the things that happened during the day. Maybe you have ruminating thoughts or other such interference. People with diagnosed insomnia are non 24 sleep difficulty, which is connected to the circadian rhythms or narcoleptic people, or indeed anyone with a sleep issue.
Aidan Noone
08:02 - 09:11
And I'm saying is that hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help you to achieve and get that restful sleep. And there are various techniques that will help you to do that. The over whelming evidence is that hypnosis can help clients can help you overcome insomnia, enjoy better rest, avoid waking up or any other sleep related problem. And so the value of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is that you can make the change that you want, that you have come to therapy for comfortably and easily so that when you consult with a registered, registered, an ethical hypnotherapist, that the therapist will have a very detailed intake from you so that they can help you, whatever it is that you're presenting, what presenting with. But specifically with regard to sleep, they will want to ask specific questions to help you achieve that level of sleep. That is a healthy and rejuvenating for you.
Aidan Noone
09:13 - 11:01
by asking those detailed questions, the hypnotherapist has the ability to structure a hypnosis session that truly meets your needs and your desires. And two alleviates that, which brought you into the therapist office in the first place. Now, the words that you achieve your goals of gaining better sleep better rest here is a list of again, of the sleep disorders that hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help you with obstructive sleep apnea, sleep apnoea central sleep apnea, insomnia hypersomnia parasomnia REM sleep behavior disorder, non 24 sleep disorder shift work. Narcolepsy reasons Research has shown that if you are getting less than six hours sleep, you have a very, very high chance of developing heart disease so that sleep quality can affect the length of chronic diseases. As I say, heart disease, mental health alcoholism, and as we may know that 90% of depressed people have poor sleep quality, poor sleep can contribute to our propensity to do suicide. Good sleep is essential. As we previously mentioned to memory consolidation, poor sleep contributes to hypertension, depression, seizure disorder, and indeed migraines.
Aidan Noone
11:04 - 12:40
Now the sleep drive is just like hunger, the hunger drive, except that unlike hunger, where you can con consciously refuse to eat in the case of sleep, your body can force you to sleep when it deems it necessary. So that many, many drivers out there are driving and they're tired. And when you drive and you're tired, you have a propensity to making decisions that are not good for you. In other words, you may have an accident and in that case, your body can force you to sleep when it deems it necessary and may deem it necessary if to sleep in a very dangerous situation because it's excessively deprived of sleep. So how can a hypnotherapist help a client who presents to them with sleep Well, there are many interventions that can help you. And probably one is the five step relaxation process where you are trained in relaxation to help you to use visualization or muscle relaxation, or where you're trained in self-hypnosis or where the therapist, the hypnotherapists can give you direct suggestions whilst relaxed and hypnosis.
Aidan Noone
12:41 - 14:06
And indeed you can anchor asleep. In other words, anchor sleep so that as soon as your head hits the pillow or rests on the pillow, you can just drift off into this deep relaxing sleep. That's one suggestion, or we can use future pacing, or we can rehearse sleep. All of these things can be achieved in hypnosis. There are a number of sleep mind traps that you need to be aware of, for example, sleep distractions so that if you go to bed at night and you don't have a Pee before you go to bed, what it means that you have to get up during the night and half a Pee indeed, many, some people are of a certain age, have to get up and have a Pee anyway, or maybe it's time to learn that you can't drink so much, much, many liquids later on in the evening, which will prevent you from having that restful sleep, ruminating thoughts, daily regrets, forma fear of missing out on something, difficulty disconnecting with thoughts, with activities, or just been feeling overwhelmed.
Aidan Noone
14:08 - 15:31
Ultimately, the goal is to develop a healthy lifestyle or being able to sleep is a major contributory factor to that healthy lifestyle. many of our hypnotherapists will teach you techniques, as I say, and train you in, for example, the Herbert Benson protocol or the Jakobson relaxation protocol, maybe use creative visualization, autogenic training mindfulness, direct suggestions. As we previously mentioned, just to come back to the five step protocol, the five relaxation process. Now autogenic training as published by Schultes in 1932 is essential in this process. We can demonstrate a cause and effect relationship. So as you relax your eyes, for example, you can become aware of a sense of comfort developing within you, and you can't even do this snow. If you're listening to this podcast in a safe environment, just imagine just close your eyes and relax your eyes and become aware of that sense of comfort developing within you.
Aidan Noone
15:33 - 17:14
And another one is, as you focus on your breathing, now you can become aware of a calmness surrounding you and self hypnosis is a tremendously powerful technique that are hypnotherapists that EAPH hypnotherapists can teach you. And this is a tremendous skill to have. For example, when you go to bed at night, imagine feel the comfort as your head touches the pillow, and that can be assigned to your unconscious mind that sleep is imminent. And now you can anchor this and expand the feeling and the awareness so that it can encompass your entire body. You have made a choice, and that choice is to learn, to get better rest and learning, to use your body to its greatest potential for learning to sleep profoundly. And that's a direct quote from Dr. Richard Nongard, and like any other habit, maybe you have gotten into the habit, the bad habit of not being able to sleep or doing the things that prevent you from having that restful sleep.
Aidan Noone
17:14 - 18:23
So that for example, our hypnotherapists can help you and teach yourself hypnosis. So that over the next 21 days, for example, you're going to rehearse and practice all of these techniques that you will be taught practice with the intention of learning the art of relaxation and the skill of relaxation that any interruptions of the mind are just merely a passing thought and allow them to be sold. And that's it for today's session of the professional hypnotherapists podcast. I want to thank you sincerely for being here with me today, and please know that you can pop over to a P H dot I, where you will find solutions for you right there from our many qualified and ethical hypnotherapists that's EAPH.ie I've been your host, Aidan Noone until the next time. Thank you.