March is National Bed Month and so a great time to talk about insomnia. Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms in the UK, yet it is often misunderstood and inadequately treated.
As someone who suffered from chronic insomnia for over a decade, I know how exhausting, debilitating and frustrating it can be. I tried so many things to help myself, but none of them worked – leading to more frustration and eventually despair.
But the good news is that it doesn’t have to last. I now sleep wonderfully well – and the change was almost instant, once I found the key. For me it was understanding the science of how the brain works – how I was successfully keeping myself awake night after night – in combination with self-hypnosis that re-trained my brain to do the opposite. And when I did that, so many other things improved, and my health overall has been transformed.
So I’m going to stick my neck out and say insomnia is Good Thing. Sleep is natural. Its when the body rests and repairs itself. If you’re not sleeping, there’s something wrong – insomnia is a symptom, not a cause.
My body was trying to tell me something – I just wish I’d discovered earlier that I did actually have the power to do something about it.
