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Visualization to Sleep Well
Visualization (or Guided Imagery as it is often called) is very powerful. It really can change things.
Creative visualization is a method of imagining something creatively. Because the brain can't distinguish the imagined scene that you present to it in your thoughts from a real occurrence, it tends to act on the picture it receives from you as if it were reality.
Creative visualization is a bit hard to understand when you first hear about it. It is easy to dismiss it as fanciful new age stuff, but many studies show that it works. In fact if you have ever watched a stage hypnotist you have seen how easy it is to deceive your mind!
Here is a short description of how to do visualization yourself.
How To practice Creative Visualization
Find somewhere comfortable and make sure you will not be disturbed for a little while. Turn off your cell-phone, put the cat out and relax.
Take deep relaxing breaths so that your tummy, not your chest, rises and then falls as you slowly breath in and out. Put your hand on your abdomen and feel it rise and fall. Continue to breathe deeply into the pit of your stomach and as you exhale let your body relax. Imagine, that is visualize, all your tension being released and floating away with each exhalation.
Once you are relaxed begin to imagine yourself as you would like to be when you have been able to sleep. Imagine yourself going to bed and lying down and then falling asleep. See yourself staying asleep all night and waking up in the morning refreshed. Make this as real as you can.
See yourself in other situations that you know will be so much better when you are not tired. For example see your self feeling full of energy and enthusiasm as you spend time doing those things you are having trouble with now. Only you know what these are, and it is worth taking some time to think about them.
As you imagine yourself sleeping and living let yourself float into the imagined you in those scenes.
This is just a brief introduction to creative visualization. There are dozens
of books and articles about using this technique. You can read a little about it
and see see some book recommendations here:
Creative Visualization
The first Sleep Sound audio uses visualization
to send you to sleep.
