I'm following Paul McKenna's program "I Can Make You Sleep." Is it as effective as he says? I will be doing all the exercises and listening to his CD every day for 2 months to find out.
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Merry Christmas everybody.
I won't be doing the usual post today, but will do as soon as I get the chance. Here's wishing us all a peaceful festive season and plenty of restful sleep.
I don't know if parents (especially mothers) are more prone to this, or if it's something that affects everyone, but many, many, many of us do not value ourselves enough. And this affects our sleep. Undervaluing ourselves, like most of our hang-ups, starts in childhood, because it's very easy for kids to interpret adults' action as being about them. I remember many years ago my sister and her family came to visit on their way to and from somewhere else. On their outward visit my husband was away with work. I explained to my niece, then aged about 4, that he would also be away when they came back. Her face showed what she was feeling. I can't remember exactly what she asked me, but at that age the word, "Why?" would have been in it, and so I explained that it was just because of he had to go away for work and that he was very sad to be missing everybody. Instantly she was happy again. This is just one example of the way children can so easily think th...
I have insomnia. It's not constant, but it has been a night visitor on and off most of my life. Right now it's on again and this time it's affecting my health so I would like it gone for good. Two evenings ago I dug out my copy of Paul McKenna's book, I Can Make You Sleep. I tried it to follow his suggestions before, a year ago or maybe more, but it didn't work. Or at least it didn't seem to, but at the moment I am so exhausted it seems worth another go. Rereading the book I've noticed several mistakes I made. McKenna says that most people are cured of insomnia by following his method. But some are not, so there's no guarantee. But, reading on, I discover that it turns out almost everyone who didn't get vastly improved sleep didn't follow his instructions to the letter. They missed out an exercise, or tried it a couple of times and then gave up. Just moments ago I read an article in which a journalist had tried listening to his hypnosis CD for...
Oops, yesterday I missed out on posting. I was busy with many other things, as most people are this time of year. Today hasn't been much different! Days 15 - 16 So how are things progressing? Last time I posted things didn't seem to be progressing much, but I have now realised that whenever I wake in the night and can't immediately get back to sleep it is because there is some insight I am not quite noticing. When I get it, then I get back to sleep. This has happened three times now. So I hope that (a) I start to notice the insights more quickly or (b) I can train my mind to save them for daytime. I guess the thing is that when we wake in the night our minds are in that borderland between sleep and wake where the barriers we erect during the day are down. So things we manage to block out at 4pm come right to the surface at 4 pm. This is the value of McKenna's theatre of the mind exercise where you ask the unconscious mind if it has something to show you so that it ...
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