If you’re having problems with sleep, you’re not alone. Almost 1 in 5 people in the UK aren’t getting enough sleep. Problems with sleep can affect how you feel physically and mentally, and how you feel can also affect how you sleep.
Sleep serves many vital functions, both physically and mentally. If you’re deprived of the sleep you need, your body may not have time to complete the phases of sleep needed for muscle repair, memory consolidation and release of hormones regulating growth and appetite. Not only do you wake up feeling tired, but you are also less prepared to concentrate, make decisions, or engage with the day ahead. Long term it can lead to burnout, and spiral into further mental health problems. Problems sleeping can lead to a vicious cycle as the more we don’t sleep, the more anxious, overwhelmed and tired it makes us, which in turns increases the chances of another bad night.
Symptoms of Sleep Disorder
Symptoms can include irregular sleep patterns, irregular breathing, restless limbs, finding it difficult to fall asleep, lying awake for long periods at night, waking up several times during the night, waking up early and being unable to get back to sleep, feeling down or having a lower mood, difficulty concentrating, or being more irritable than usual.
How can Solution Focused Hypnotherapy help with sleep disorders?
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help to improve your sleep patterns and reset your body clock. You will be given a relaxation track to listen to at bedtime every night which will enable relaxation prior to falling asleep. Often when we aren’t sleeping well, we find ourselves in the grip of a vicious cycle, as we start the day in our primitive mind where we are encouraged to be negative, so by the time we go to bed our ‘stress bucket’ is overflowing from all our worries, making it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep at night. This is why in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we get you focussing on the positive things in your life and help you to set goals towards more positive interactions and activities. After a solution focused discussion and identifying small steps to get you closer to your preferred future, we use guided relaxation at the end of every session to help consolidate these small steps and create new positive thinking patterns.