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Sleep Problems Come From the Day Not the Night
15th March 2016
By Dawn Walton
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Many people struggle with sleep. Some struggle to get to sleep, some wake up multiple times through the night and others don’t get a very long sleep. Some people have all of these problems.
When most people try to address insomnia, they focus on the symptoms and not the cause. Countless remedies (medicinal and non-medicinal) are out there to help address sleep problems.
In my experience as a cognitive hypnotherapist, to address sleep problems effectively and permanently, you need to address the cause, not the symptoms; and the cause comes from the daytime.
Standard Sleep Cycle
In a standard 8 hour sleep cycle, you get about 2 hours of REM sleep and 6 hours of deep restorative sleep.
During the REM sleep, your subconscious is doing the filing. It is taking everything that has happened during the day, and filing it against the relevant memories that span your whole life. It is not an intelligent process; it is more about pattern matching. A dream is merely a window into this process.
In the deep restorative sleep phase, your body is repaired and batteries are recharged.
Previous articles by Dawn Walton:
- Addiction is Not Necessarily an Addiction for Life
- Fight, Flight… or Fun? Turning Anxiety into Anticipation
- Even Positive People Have Negative Thoughts
- Understanding and Overcoming Food Addiction
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