Hypnosis.. and sleep walking...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on July 16, 2010 at 3:22am

Yes - Hypnosis can help people break the sleep-walking habit

It could be as easy as a post hypnotic suggestion: When you are sleeping your mind and brain will notice and gently wake you up the moment your feet touch the floor and thus break the sleep walking pattern... Blah, blah, blah...

Michael E.

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on July 16, 2010 at 8:06am

The key is to make the judgmental mind suspicious of movement that is more than just rolling over, while asleep. Have it analyze (meaning waking the analytical mind) what is happening when there is suspicious movement.

John

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Permalink Reply by Martin and Shelley on July 16, 2010 at 8:41am

Hello Karena. As Michael and John have said, yes, hypnotherapy can help.

We met someone last week who we treated for sleep problems (including sleepwalking) some years ago, and they confirmed that they had not had any significant problem since. It is one of the more interesting cases we have had, and since he has said he is happy for it to be discussed, I shall summarise what happened:

A gentleman in his late twenties contacted us about what he called his sleepwalking problem, unhappy that his doctor had basically said in her opinion there was nothing wrong with him. We explained that the usual course of treatment was to give suggestions along the lines of "you will get as much benefit as possible from however much or little sleep you do have", while investigating to find out what the underlying cause is, if any.

The first session went very well generally (the usual questions and answers,explainations, demonstration and suggestions), but no clear reason for the problem was apparent. During the second session, we determined that the reason for the walking was down to just one cause, but the kind of questioning that normally identifies what that exact reason was had drawn a blank.

We then established that the cause was a kind of disturbance, but the client considered it 'normal', both consciously and subsonsciously. To cut quite a long story short, it turned out that the disturbance was a boat going past: the client had not considered it relevant to mention that he lived on a houseboat, having done so for many years, and a change in traffic patterns was causing his house to shake "more than usual" - a large boat going past. The remaining session just worked through why his mind had decided sleepwalking was the thing to do when this happened, that nothing else would cause this inappropriate response in future, and that (unless he had good reason to awake), that future unintentional disturbances would not cause probems again.

I hope this helps, even if it not may not be entirely typical!
Regards
Martin

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