“We spend a third of our life sleeping, and yet we talk very little about sleep, except when it malfunctions.“, is surprised Kévin Finel, specialist in self-hypnosis, judging it surprising that we have never learned to enter sleep. You should know that our sleep is based on a four-step cycle – drowsiness, light sleep, deep sleep and finally REM sleep – which occur several times during the night, in 90-minute cycles.
To fall asleep well, everything will be decided in the first phase of sleep, the drowsiness stage. If too many negative thoughts or concerns pile up in the brain at this time, sleep cannot proceed to the next stage.
You have to see thefalling asleep as a path to sleep : the more familiar it is, the more quickly it will make you fall into light sleep, then deep sleep.
When you fall asleep, first measure your state of arousal on a scale of one to ten. Then become aware of your senses: what do you feel when you are about to doze off? What images, what colors come to you? What sounds do you perceive? Assess your arousal state again, then repeat the cycle as many times as you need before drifting off to sleep.
Explore your brain’s abilities with self-hypnosis, Kevin Finel, April 12, 2022, ed. Leduc, available for sale on FNAC.com And Amazon.co.uk
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