Post a case of insomnia I treated.
Some people say that insomnia is a chronic and incurable disease. Although a little exaggerated, it can describe the despair of insomnia patients.
Insomniacs cannot be understood by family and friends. They will say: You are just too idle. ...
You just have a lot to do. .....
Why can't I sleep? Look at me. I fell asleep as soon as I went to bed.
Insomnia people are in a bad mood because of lack of sleep, and their family and friends can't understand it, which further deepens the symptoms.
Li Yue (a pseudonym) is a university teacher. When he came to my hypnosis studio, although he was dressed appropriately, it was hard to hide the fatigue on his face.
The first conversation with Li Yue was two days ago. One night two days ago, my mobile phone jingled.
Li month tells the story of his insomnia:
Every six months to a year, I will lose sleep for a while, especially when I go to other cities to give lectures and travel. I will worry at night before I go, and I will lose sleep when I go.
In other cities, my worries are really not superfluous. I will toss and turn until 2-3 am.
Even if I don't go to other cities, I can't sleep at home. Three days ago, I began to suffer from insomnia. Yesterday, I only slept for three hours. After listening to my friend's recommendation, I came to see Teacher Zhang.
I want to ask the teacher: Why can't I sleep?
"90% can't sleep is caused by psychological factors, and fear and fear of insomnia is a very important reason.
I began to worry that I couldn't sleep before going to bed at night. I drank some tea at noon, and I was worried: will I be unable to sleep at night after drinking tea? Lying in bed at night 15 minutes without sleep, I heard a voice in my heart: it's over, I can't sleep. Insomnia, how to go to work tomorrow? Have you ever had such an idea in your mind?
"Yes, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep." Li Yue said.
Many people think about these thoughts themselves from the beginning, thinking about them, and these thoughts are out of their control and they can't sleep.
"Can insomnia be treated?" Li month asked.
"Yes," I said firmly.
Two days later, Li Yue came to my studio.
Li Yue said, Teacher Zhang, this is really strange. I slept a little better after talking to you on the phone that day. It used to take three hours to fall asleep, but I slept 1 hour that day.
"This further proves that sleep is caused by psychological factors. When you know that insomnia can be cured, the big stone in your heart will fall a little and your symptoms will be improved. "
Then I asked Li some thoughts about sleep.
"What is the essence of sleep? The essence of sleep is to replenish energy. Is there any other way besides sleeping at night?
Of course, by listening to my hypnotic CD, you can enter a hypnotic state to replenish energy, 30 minutes each time, 4-5 times a night, and you can study and work normally the next day.
I used to be irritable and paranoid when I couldn't sleep, but now I don't need it. You just need to listen to my hypnosis CD to replenish your energy.
Don't sleep when you go back tonight. You listen to my hypnotic CD 4-5 times every night. This is today's task. Tomorrow you will find that you are not as sleepy as you thought.
Mission purpose: When you can't sleep again, you won't panic. You know: if you can't sleep, you can't sleep. You can listen to teacher Zhang's CD and replenish your energy. When you have such a state of mind, you won't be paranoid, but you can fall asleep. "
After a period of communication, the first treatment ended.
The next day, Li Yue came to my studio again. Li Yue was very surprised and said, I didn't sleep last night. I listened to the hypnosis CD five times, and I was not too sleepy the next day. Hypnosis is really amazing.
"I am very happy to have such a result. I believe that your confidence that hypnosis can cure your insomnia has improved a lot, which will help the next treatment. "
Next, I put her into hypnosis. Li Yue's hypnotic sensitivity is very good. Soon, he entered a state of moderate hypnosis. I injected several ideas into his subconscious:
"After lying in bed, I will naturally fall asleep."
"When you can't sleep, you will be very calm, because you know that the essence of sleep is to replenish energy. When you can't sleep, you can listen to my hypnotic CD and replenish your energy. "
After five treatments, Li Yue's insomnia problem has been completely solved. In the meantime, I gave him some advice to keep him going:
When you can't sleep at night, don't toss and turn in bed, it's very tired. You can listen to my audio, use the meditation method I taught him, or get up and read and watch TV.
2. Sleep at a fixed point and get up at a fixed point. Even if you can't sleep at night, get up on time in the morning and don't take a nap at noon, because taking a nap at noon can easily lead to insomnia at night.
After two months of treatment, I communicated with Li Yue again. My sleep was still normal, and I never suffered from insomnia again.
In fact, there are special books on insomnia and hypnosis.
This book is A Record of Hypnotherapy written by Zhang Ya, a psychological counselor and hypnotist of East China Normal University.
In the third chapter of this book, the story of Mingjun: Who keeps me awake at night?
Seeing this boy named "Mingjun", I can't help wondering if he will suffer from insomnia for a long time, because he has extremely serious dark circles. Although he is tall and burly, he looks like a piggyback and listless.
"Teacher Zhang, I have long wanted to do hypnosis ..." His voice was hoarse and he couldn't wait to say while rubbing his hands on the red sofa.
I listened attentively to his words and continued to encourage him to continue with my eyes.
"I've been insomnia for two months ... sleep itself is a nightmare ..." Looking at his pale yellow face and dull eyes, I could feel his helplessness and pain almost immediately.
"Every night after going to bed, my mind began to get excited. It seems that I can't stop winding. I usually fall asleep at two or three in the morning and wake up soon after falling asleep. A little noise in the dormitory will wake me up, and it is difficult to fall asleep after waking up ... I have tried all kinds of methods, counting sheep and listening to music. I've also been to see Chinese medicine, and I've been given Chinese medicine, but it seems that the effect is not very good. ......
Two weeks ago, I started running and ran around the playground twice. After I went back, I was probably very tired, and I could fall asleep soon, but once I woke up, I still couldn't sleep ... I analyzed the reasons myself, which was related to the pressure of my graduate school. Suddenly I feel that everyone around me is excellent, and I am far behind them. I think that's why I can't sleep. Even if I can't sleep before, it won't last more than two days. ......
I told my parents that they still think I make a mountain out of a molehill and my psychological endurance is too poor. Even when I was a graduate student, I felt a lot of pressure. How to bear the pressure when you come to society in the future? I think there is something wrong with my family system ... and I like a girl, but I don't even know how to associate with her. I feel really bad ... "
The anxious big boy talked a lot about his troubles in one breath. I watched him pour all the questions in front of me like a barrage, and I felt very confused and confused. I took a deep breath and realized how I felt at the moment. I have no idea.
When a case comes before a psychological counselor, it naturally has its specific mood and atmosphere, and its unique gas field will naturally infect the psychological counselor, so that the psychological counselor himself can feel the emotion of the case, and even some sensitive psychological counselors will feel the changes at the physical level.
"I realize your anxiety, confusion, no clue, and even feel a little headache. It seems that this series of problems is really unbearable at the moment! I really want to try to straighten this relationship out with you and see what happened, okay? "
Mingjun seemed relieved, hesitated and nodded firmly.
In the following consultation, Mingjun and I discussed several things that worried him most, and arranged them in order of priority. First, after going to graduate school, I feel that my classmates around me are very strong, and I seem to have a big gap with others in my professional quality. Second, the tension caused by insomnia itself makes him feel that it will be completely finished if this continues. Third, his parents said that his psychological quality was poor, which made him feel very anxious and felt that he didn't know how to survive in society in the future. Fourth, he doesn't know how to like it.
The first is the key, the second, the third and the fourth is to deepen anxiety.
Then the core of early hypnosis will be solved: Mingjun graduate students are under great pressure and feel that they are inferior to other students everywhere.
"Then think about it, is there any way to improve your professional level?" I communicate with Mingjun.
Mingjun scratched his head and said, I tried to make up for it, but I sat down to read a book and went to other places in less than half an hour. I was very tired. When reading, I feel that every symbol and every word in the book is fluttering.
Obviously, I can feel that Mingjun has lost his ability to control himself. He understands those truths, but he can't control himself all the time. This is the right time to use hypnotherapy.
The first hypnosis started like this.
"Let's calm down the whole body and mind and return to the feeling of reading. You feel that every symbol and every word in the book seems to be fluttering ... slowly return to this feeling, the feeling of quiet reading, quiet, quiet.
I gently guided him into a hypnotic state.
"Well, tell me, how do you feel and what hypnosis are you doing?"
"I feel very tired, very tired ... I seem to be reading a book ..." Mingjun's voice is very light, and I need to be close to him to hear it. I know he has entered a hypnotic state.
"How does your head feel?"
"... a big black net knotted in my mind ... I can't think, I can't think. "Mingjun expression is very painful.
"What kind of net is it? How was it formed? "
"At first, it was a rope, the earliest ... a yellow hemp rope, and then slowly grew many roots, many of which were intertwined and turned into a black net ..."
"Now let's not get rid of this net in a hurry, but try to get along with him and have a good look at his essence." I'm guiding the monarch.
"The rope seems to protect my mind ..." I don't know how long it took, Mingjun murmured.
"Do you understand what he wants to protect?"
"My thoughts move too much, as if to jump out of my skull, and the net should protect my brain from his harm ..."
"Now, take a good look at the protection of the net." I still guide the monarch.
"The net is very hard. If it weren't for him, his brain might explode. "
"Maybe, head and net can live in peace. Sometimes you really need the protection of the net, but the net knot is too tight, and your brain can't move at all. " I suggest that Mingjun may be able to have a balanced road.
Mingjun rolled his eyes quickly and didn't speak.
"I want to ask you to deeply thank this brain trapped in your head. If it weren't for it, your brain would explode and it would protect you ... At the same time, you can try to negotiate with this network to find out how to make your brain think effectively without overusing it. "
"Maybe I shouldn't ask so much for everything and think so much."
Maybe it's no big deal to make a mistake "
"Why don't I go by myself ..." Mingjun said to himself, and a crystal tear rolled down his cheek. "
This moment is very beneficial to the cure of Mingjun. He is feeling and growing.
Since I learned about the black net in Mingjun's mind and mine through hypnosis, Mingjun has let himself go more and more. He insisted on long-distance running and sitting still. Sleep is also improving, and I can fall asleep before midnight for several consecutive nights.
But this is only a relief, and it still can't completely eliminate Mingjun's insomnia symptoms. In hypnotherapy, if the essential reason of insomnia can be found, insomnia will be greatly relieved or even cured.
When Mingjun consulted for the fourth time, he began to talk about his family relationship.
"I talked to my father about my psychological problems last week, and he seemed very contemptuous. He said that he had been working for three years at my age, and the pressure was much greater than mine. He failed. " Mingjun said simply. "It doesn't seem to be a big deal for him."
"What makes you think your father is like this?"
"Feel very incompetent ..."
"When did this feeling begin? Do you remember? " My intuition tells me that such a father-son relationship is a topic that needs to be discussed with Mingjun. "
I put Mingjun into hypnosis again.
Under hypnosis, you can create any scene. I suggest that Mingjun's father is in front.
The scenes created by hypnosis are much more realistic than dreams and can be understood as another dimension of the earth. At this time, Mingjun's father was in front of him, and they could talk, hug and do anything possible freely. And the feeling of dialogue and hug is not much different from the real hug. (About 60% people can enter this hypnotic depth)
"If you like, I want you to tell your father what you want to say in such a comfortable hypnotic state."
Mingjun still didn't speak, just occasionally rolled his eyes.
After a long time, Mingjun spoke like a child: "Dad, I have always felt that I have embarrassed you ..." Without saying a word, Mingjun began to cry. His voice sounded like a teenage boy, and he said, you always ask me this and that, but sometimes I really can't, really can't! "
"I always show it to you. I really hope you are proud of me, but you are never satisfied, never ... Dad, am I that bad? Am I not worthy to be your son? "
"Dad, I want you to praise me or praise me. Am I really embarrassing you? "
"Dad, do you regret giving birth to my useless son?"
Mingjun mumbled what he always wanted to say in the face of the empty wall, but I know that he is having an important communication with his father now, venting his emotions. "
When Mingjun's sobs gradually subsided, I began to guide Mingjun to pay attention to his father's feelings: Mingjun, look up into his father's eyes ... Yes, you have just told his father so much, and he has been listening. What's his face now? What did dad think?
"Dad seems very guilty ..."
In all hypnotherapy, as long as a patient can tell his relatives what he really wants to say, there is no contradiction that cannot be solved, and there is no resentment that cannot be let go.
"Listen to what dad said." I continued to guide Mingjun.
"He said he felt guilty. In fact, he has always been proud of me, but he is not good at expressing himself. He said that he was very demanding of himself, but he didn't expect to put so much pressure on me ... "
The muscles on Mingjun's face relaxed, and I continued to guide him to chat with his father for a while under hypnosis before waking him up from hypnosis.
Unexpectedly, Mingjun woke up and said, Thank you, Teacher Zhang. I suddenly feel that all my thoughts are my guesses. Dad seems to be really satisfied with me, otherwise he wouldn't always take me to their company's parties. He also introduced me to many people. He is just not good at expressing himself and seldom praises himself. Thank you. I never seem to think of it that way before.
I sat on the sofa and looked at Mingjun, and my heart was full of joy.
Since the last hypnosis, Mingjun talked with his father, Mingjun's sleep has made rapid progress. Not only can he fall asleep in bed for half an hour, but he also wakes up early.
Now there is one last thing, which is to teach Mingjun to hypnotize himself. After mingjun mastered the trick of self-hypnosis, he was no longer afraid of insomnia. Even if he suffers from insomnia again one night, he can have a good sleep through self-hypnosis.
The case is over here. After many treatments and self-hypnosis, Mingjun finally solved his symptoms.