Sleep problems

[Vyana]

I need some advice for my sleep problems. And when I tell someone about those, they most often don%rsquot even listen to the end of my sentence before asking %ldquoWhy don%rsquot you fall asleep then?%rdquo Now, the thing is that I do. That is not my problem. Normally I fall asleep within 15 minutes after my head hit the pillow. Sometimes, after working late and having no time to relax before going to bed, I might have a problem falling asleep. But that is rather seldom. Instead, my problem is that I wake up several times in the night.

Actually, I have had a problem with waking up early in the morning for some periods of my life. This has always happened when I have started to eat some kind of vitamins, especially those containing both vitamins and minerals. Since about ten years ago, a close relative of my wife has been living in our house, and she has the habit of waking up at 4 in the morning and also waking me up. Rather soon this became a habit, and I woke up at 4 even when she did not. Then for some periods of time I have been sleeping late and for some periods I have been waking up early. This year I have been sleeping rather good most of the time.

The problem I have today started about three weeks ago, after a period of very intense NLP studying and training. I wake up several times most every night and have problems falling asleep again. If I fall asleep at 22 I can wake up at midnight, then again at 2 and at 4, for instance. Each time I wake up I feel like going to the toilet, even if there should be no need for that. Normally I also have problems falling asleep again. My problem is not that my intellect is working overtime, trying to analyze why I cannot sleep etc, as is often suggested in books (at least not at a conscious level). It%rsquos more like a lot of things are happening in my body. It%rsquos not the normal energy movements in the chakras and the spine, though. I am used to that. It is more as if all parts of my physical body are very active (although the muscles are relaxed). I also feel warm.

Yesterday I had a so-called SCORE (Symptoms-Causes-Outcomes-Resources-Effects) analysis at my NLP coach course (I have in principle finished my NLP trainer education) and my trainer suggested that the cause might be stress, caused by the fact that my intense NLP training (master practitioner the second half of last year, both trainer and coach this year) had started a lot of subconscious processes and that my body was kind of %ldquowaking up%rdquo. One funny thing is, I was not able to prepare before this last course occasion this week, because every time I started doing that, I soon fell asleep. He perceived that as a proof that I had kind of got enough of NLP. Then of course, a lot of things have happened with my energy body, especially after my tummo initiation in February and that process has also been intense these last weeks. The resources I identified during the analysis was (1) asking for advice at this forum, (2) a session with Mystress (which is although not possible in the next two weeks), (3) relaxing meditation exercises (such as TM or yoga nidra), relaxation exercises or self hypnosis before sleep and (4) don%rsquot working late but doing something else before going to sleep. Before the SCORE session I also had a short session of gestalt therapy, where the part of me that was responsible for the process that keep me awake in the nights claimed that the process was good and wanted but promised to try and keep it calm enough not to wake me up and that the other part agreed to try to be more relaxed.

[Scott E]

What I do is sleep on an angle so that my body from the waste up is raised about 30 degrees. You can just put some blankets or some pillows underneath you for support. This is good if you have a sore throat. I have breathing problems and I find that this hinders sleep.

I sometimes also do a bit of physical exercise to get the blood and muscles out of stagnation and it gets the body tired. Be careful however regarding your body's physical limits. But the exercise is good.

: I need some advice for my sleep problems. And when I tell someone about those, they most often don%rsquot even listen to the end of my sentence before asking %ldquoWhy don%rsquot you fall asleep then?%rdquo

[Vyana]

Tonight, I went to sleep short before midnight and woke up again short before 4. As I was unable to fall asleep again, I was working with active surrender of the issues my body was working with. I soon realised those issues were mostly self confidence or maybe rather self esteem issues (I don%rsquot think I fully understand this distinction, as it is not normally made in my native tongue). In spite of the fact that I have been very successful in my work, I have most of my life been struggling with some kind of self esteem problems, probably originally caused by mobbing at school. Most of the time I have been very much aware of this, but the last 7 years or so these problem have been overshadowed by other problems. So, now I am back working at what have always been my main issues in my grown up life.

The main immediate effect of these problems is most often that they affect my achievements in intercourse with other people. In spite of the fact that I am most of the time a very good speaker, I sometimes feel as if I was drained of energy and nothing seems to work. One consequence of this is that I don%rsquot dare to market myself as a speaker. Sometimes I also allow people to walk all over me, even if there is no reason to do that at all. It is just as if I loose my energy and fail to recognise the obvious faults in other people%rsquos arguments. Then, on some occasions I feel kind of %ldquodrained%rdquo or blocked in company with others, especially on social occasions, and don%rsquot know what to talk about. Partly that is because I spontaneously tend to perceive most people as rather superficial and boring as they are functioning at a low energy level and are anti-intellectual and are obsessed by a very limited scope of personal ego issues (it is the combination of all these tree qualities that bores me); but most of the time I can overcome that, if I am not in this %ldquodrained%rdquo state. I plan to try and use NLP methods, such as SCORE and beliefs, to se if I can do something to improve my self esteem that way, which might make the energy work easier.

In my body these self esteem issues are mainly situated in two places; from side to side in my hip area and from side to side (or maybe just both sides) in my shoulder area, where they also involve my arms. In these areas, and in my neck, I also have muscle problems, probably caused by the fact that one of my legs are about 1 centimetre shorter then the other one, which was most likely caused by an accident that occurred when I was about three or four years old. When I breathe in energy through my upper chest chakra and out in my arms and hands, this upper area is strongly activated. Sometimes I also feel as if there is a pranic voltage between these two major areas (hip and shoulders-arms). Then, of course, I also have this feeling of insecurity, which might have been there all the time albeit I have not noticed it the last years as I have been overwhelmed by other problems.

Another area that is somehow touched by the heavy energy work going on in my body in the nights is my eyes. I have a problem with squinting. When I was a baby, both my eyes were facing outwards. That problem had got better when I was about 8 years old. But when I was 13 or 14 years old, my eyes wanted to squint inwards instead and that has been ongoing since then. My squint is suppressed and normally impossible to se, but it is tiring. I had a surgery in one eye about teen years ago and since then I have bee less tired, but I still have some problems left. Nowadays I often feel as if my eye problems is somehow involved in the ongoing energy work.