Insomnia

Hypnosis for Insomnia

If you struggle to fall asleep, wake during the night, or switch off mentally, hypnosis can help calm the patterns that keep sleep feeling difficult.

We identify the thoughts, habits and emotional triggers that may be keeping your mind alert at night, then use hypnosis to help you respond differently to them.

The aim is to help your mind and body associate bedtime with calm, safety and sleep rather than effort, frustration or overthinking.

Hypnosis for insomnia can help with:

• Difficulty falling asleep
• Waking during the night
• Racing thoughts at bedtime
• Anxiety about not sleeping
• Light or restless sleep
• Feeling unable to switch off
• Long-standing negative patterns around sleep

Why can sleep problems become a cycle?

The more you try to force sleep, the more alert and frustrated you can become. You may start watching the clock, worrying about how you will feel the next day, or anticipating another difficult night before you even get into bed.

Over time, your brain can begin to associate bedtime with being awake, anxious or mentally active rather than naturally switching off.

Hypnosis aims to interrupt this learned pattern by helping reduce mental and physical arousal and creating a calmer subconscious association with sleep.

How can hypnosis help with insomnia?

Using the highly effective Surtees Method of hypnosis, we work with the subconscious patterns that can keep you alert at night. Rather than trying harder to sleep, the focus is on helping your mind let go of effort, quieten repetitive thinking and allow sleep to happen more naturally.

Many people describe feeling calmer around bedtime and less preoccupied with whether or not they are going to sleep, an important step towards rebuilding a more natural sleep pattern.