Lorraine Fisher provides excellent description of her bout with serious insomnia for eighteen months and how she was able to release herself from the problem via just a couple hours of hypnotherapy . . . I’d Hardly Slept in Eighteen Months . . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1092481/Id-hardly-slept-18-months-How-hours-hypnosis-ended-insomnia-nightmare.html . . .

The long-held popular view is that hypnosis is a form of
unconsciousness and that the hypnotherapist is able to access all those
thoughts and feelings that we are not aware of but affect our lives.

However,
experts now believe hypnosis is a wakeful state in which the attention
becomes focused, causing a diminished awareness of the surrounding
environment and a heightened state of suggestibility.

Batchelor
claims 80 per cent of his patients need between one and three sessions
to help them sleep again. Of the rest, half need more than three
sessions and the others don’t respond.

‘The effects are
permanent,’ he says. ‘If clients do return because their sleep pattern
has become disturbed once again, then it is normally because something
new has happened to cause that.’

Personally, I was willing to
try anything. Batchelor asked me to follow a crystal pendant he waved
in front of my eyes. Next he asked me to lie down and his gentle voice
calmed me.

As he coaxed me to breathe more deeply and told
me to relax each part of my body in turn, I began to go into a trance.
All I heard were odd phrases telling me how relaxed I was.

Then,
from being in a blissful state where I was so relaxed that I could
hardly move, the moment I heard Batchelor say ‘In a minute, I’ll bring
you round’, I was fully alert as he counted down from three.

A
slightly dizzy, lightheaded feeling remained for about ten minutes
after I sat up and I needed a big glass of water to quench my raging
thirst.

After the hour- long session, which cost £65, I left
with a CD to play at home to reinforce the treatment until my next
visit five days later. Batchelor warned that I might need two or three
sessions.

The night after the second session I woke up – but at
7am with sunlight pouring through the curtains. I felt elated. It’s a
fluke, I thought, until the same thing happened the next night, and
every night after that.

Whether you can receive hypnotherapy on
the NHS depends on your local Primary Care Trust. Chelmsford GP Les
Brann prescribes it for his patients but he warns it won’t work for
everyone.

‘With naturally short sleepers, no amount of therapy
is going to make any difference,’ he says. ‘And waking early in the
morning is often a sign of depression, so the GP would need to ensure
there wasn’t an underlying reason such as that.

‘The people I
would refer are those who normally sleep well but are going through a
bad spell for a reason such as a bereavement or divorce.’

Four
months on and I am still sleeping well. Insomnia was ruining my working
life and relationships but now I feel able to cope with the stresses of
everyday life. I am calmer, happier and just annoyed that the cynic in
me stopped me going to hypnotherapy sooner.

Oh, and I’ve thrown out all those herbal remedies.

Read the full article online.  Hypnosis is very very well suited to help folks with insomnia.  If you are in Taipei and wish help, see my webpages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com and contact me to schedule your initial session.

All the best,
Brian