You are getting sleepy...

Hypnosis can help with sleep patterns and insomnia by relaxing the mind. It's like being in a trance while waiting for sleep. Relaxation techniques and focusing on breathing can help achieve a deep and restful sleep. It's important to let go of daily thoughts and imagine pleasant places or memories to help induce relaxation. If you wake up during the night, engaging in quiet activities can help you relax and fall back asleep. Sleep is a habit and can be improved by creating a relaxing environment and allowing yourself to drift off to sleep naturally. Sleep patterns are always changing. People find that sometimes they go to sleep easily and don't notice it, and other times they wake up during the night, but it doesn't really matter. Hypnosis changes habits, and sleep patterns are another type of habit. Your mind is very powerful, and you might not have thought of all the ways your mind can help you to go to sleep. Hypnosis works well for insomnia, and it is really easy to just relax yourself until you drift off to sleep. Some people like to hypnotize themselves while they are waiting for sleep, so that they are in a lovely state of trance. That's good too, like imagining drifting around in a boat, or lying in the shade on a warm day. Time passes silently, and just relaxing and drifting can be so pleasant. When you are drifting that way, let your mind roam, think about your goal, go over things you like to remember, or you can look forward to the future. Imagine how great things can work out. Think about what would be the best possible outcome, or bring to mind the place you most enjoy relaxing in. Imagine you are there, in a pleasant place to relax and drift, as time goes by, when you are relaxed, time doesn't matter. Relaxing the mind is self-hypnosis, and there are many good ways to go into relaxing trance. When you learn one way, or another way, or try out other ways, you can teach yourself how to go into trance anytime. Time just floats by in a dreamy way, and sometimes you don't know when you are asleep, and when you are dreaming of sleep, so settle back now, get comfortable, and close your eyes. Now take a deep breath, and hold it, and just let it go. Ahhh, that's good. When you are ready, take another deep breath, and as you do, lift your shoulders up, and as you breathe out, let them slow down and relax. Now lift your arms slightly, and on the next breath out, let them drop back naturally, and relax your whole body. And I wonder if you could imagine what it would be like if your arms and legs had become so heavy that you just could not move them, but they felt as if they were made of lead. And just allow that heaviness to grow. And now, I would like you to focus on your breathing, just become aware of the gentle in and out of your breath. And as you think about your breathing, with each breath out, just allow your body to relax more, and with each breath out, say to yourself, in your mind, under your breath, relaxing it all. And with each breath in, say to yourself, calm and at ease. Continue breathing gently, in and out, allow the natural pattern of breathing to take over. And breathing in, think, calm and at ease, and breathing out, think, relaxing it all. And continue on breathing gently, enjoying the feelings, letting go. And your mind will drift here and there, and that's okay. And if any day-to-day thoughts come into your mind, you can just stack them off in a corner somewhere, they're not important now. Just allow the breathing to continue, calm and at ease, relaxing it all. It's easy to learn to relax like this. I wonder if you can remember a long time ago, when you were little, being at school, when you were being taught, and remember how you had to write things on the blackboard, or maybe it was a whiteboard you remember, or even writing in a book. And now, imagine yourself back in that room, and you're on your own, and you are doing an experiment, learning something new, and you can write a number on that board. Imagine writing the number 99 on the board, and then the experiment is to notice how relaxed you can feel. Imagine now that you are wiping out that number, that you can get it to fade and disappear somehow, and as it disappears, notice the feeling of relaxation starting, and then imagine the number 98 on the board, and notice how you can relax a bit more as that number is wiped away, and continue now going down the numbers, down and down, and as each number vanishes, you can get more and more relaxed, and as you get more relaxed, you can notice how it becomes easy to forget to text the next number, or to just let it go, to allow that relaxation to take you down, deeper and deeper, and as those numbers fade, it's nice to allow your body to relax even more, and your mind can be free to drift away, thinking about school days, holiday, friends, fun, things you used to do that you enjoyed, long summer days, cozy winter nights, and thinking of places long feeling out of the present is a gift to learn, or you can think of some words about sleeping, there are many words that have something to do with sleeping, think about words like slumber, and dozing, and resting, and snoozing, and now think of other words that have something to do with sleeping, and keep the list in your mind, keep going over that list as you think of more words, and just keep that list in mind, and you start on another list of sounds that have something to do with sleeping, snoring, breathing, ticking, chiming, cooping, keep adding more sounds to those lists, as you go around each sound in your mind, as you go around each sound in your mind, imagine those sounds in your mind while going over the list of words to do with sleeping, and now, bring to mind imagines of things that have to do with sleeping, bedding, pillows, blankets, duvet, slippers, hot cocoa, and collect those images into a series of images, and keep adding more images to that collection of images, and go over the images while hearing the sound and listing the words, and then add to that feelings, feelings to do with sleeping, bedding, satin sheets, warm blankets, bodies beside you, and add as many feelings as you can while you recite the list, and hear the sound, and see the images, and feel the sensation on your skin, and on your back, and on your head, and feel how nice it is to just let go, let your body relax, and your mind relax, and nothing to do but just drift off somewhere totally at ease, and now, relaxing down into a deep, restful sleep, that's right, and think back now to when you were little, and children play the imagination game, and remember when the world was full of wonder, and everywhere was an adventure, and imagine there's a little path that you can follow, and imagine that path going somewhere dim and dark, and imagine there is an opening, and behind that there are steps going down, and you can count the steps, there are 10 steps, imagine looking down the steps, and going down the steps in your mind, and each step leads you down, and down, deeper and deeper, and breathing gently now with each breath out, and imagine going down one step, and each step down takes you into deeper relaxation, more and more relaxed, and you can count down in your mind each step as you relax more, and more now, and as you go down, you can relax those numbers right out of your mind, and as the numbers disappear, that path appears in your mind, and can lead to so many places, so many strange things, one night it might be lovers entwined and sleeping happily, on another night you might notice a dog dozing by the fire in a castle, or a guard sleeping quietly by the door, and you can join them in letting everything go, and when you least expect it, it will be another day, and the night has come, and when you get used to relaxing that way, you will be surprised by waking up in the morning, because the last thing you remember is breathing softly, or numbers disappearing, or a list of words, and you feel so refreshed, and once you know how, it is so easy to drift away, it just seems so natural, there are some days when things are on your mind, and you wake up and sleep is huge, and that's okay, everyone has nights like that, it's just part of the normal cycle of life, when that happens, think of what you can do, you can get up, no point in lying there, and do something quiet that normally absorbs you, a hobby, reading a book, quieting a meeting, or looking through photos, and as you can absorb in the text, the hobby, whatever seems right to you, you will find yourself relaxing more, getting sleepier, ready to go back to bed, to a lovely warm bed, and a relaxing sleep, and really, before you know it, it's morning, and feeling refreshed, stretching, and remembering how you enjoyed that occasional night time instant, and there are many ways to use your own night power, to go into sleep now, deep, deep, restful sleeping, is a habit, a way of thinking, a way of experiencing what you enjoy, about relaxing, and letting go, and people get used to sleeping lightly, or trying to stay alert, maybe they had a reason, and that's their mind doing what it can to keep them safe, and that's a good thing, and you are safe now, so you can allow yourself to relax, and sleep, anytime you want to, you can remember sleeping like a child, the child can sleep anywhere, just close your eyes, relax body, muscle loose, and limp, and floppy, and imagining playing, or absorbing some activity, you can be like that child, sleeping now, and then, and then, when you sleep, every little noise, the house creaking, the wind outside, passing traffic, reminds you of the world breathing gently, and each breath takes you deeper into sleep, safe, comfortable, warm, and relaxed, I wonder if you have seen someone needing, someone needing, people can design such intricate patterns, all the strands of different colored wools, different ways of stitching, all the products of the mind, and if you don't like the design, then you can imagine staring again, unraveling all the strands, pulling the wool gently, all the stitches coming undone, the wool reappearing as it was, rolled up into soft, fluffy piles, and then, a new design can be needed, same wool, same method, but a new outcome, a new outcome, something warm, and something personal, that you can enjoy, new every day, release, and sleep, and now, imagine yourself lying in bed, snoozing, dozing, drifting away, warm and comfortable, and feel yourself lying there, and allow yourself to feel a warm glow of satisfaction, knowing how to deal with this problem, allow a little smile to form in your mind, and look forward to endless nights of dreaming, peaceful, and then, imagine yourself in the morning, a long time from now, staring, stretching, having had a wonderful, peaceful sleep, many, many hours of blissful, lazy rest, and how good you will feel then, and for now, allow yourself to drift off, and enjoy a really good, nice sleep, nothing will disturb you, and snuggle down into a comfortable position now, and as long as some part of your mind is lazily listening to the outside world, inside you, your mind is totally relaxed, and thinking about nothing, exactly as it should be, as it should be, sweet dreams, and happy hours.