Better Sleep (and more of what you want)

I spent some time last year doing far too much, and needing to optimise the little sleep I was getting. The technique is actually very straight-forward, and its effectiveness surprised me. I’ll go over the concepts that relate to it in a subsequent post.

Here are the steps, with a suggestion in brackets. Following them, there is an example of the kinds of things that worked well for me.

Technique:

As you’re lying in bed, preparing for sleep:

1. Decide what you want (deep, satisfying sleep)
2. Imagine what it will be like as you do this (as vividly as possible)
3. Imagine what it will be like when you’ve succeeded (waking up feeling great)
4. Keep vividly imagining what it will be like for this to happen.

I find the transition from awake to sleep fairly quick when doing this, and whatever I focused on tends to come true.

The more information I put into the hallucination, the more I make it real in my mind, the more successful the suggestion!

Here’s an example:

I have only 5 hours to sleep, I need to emerge feeling refreshed and motivated, getting out of bed swiftly and doing some exercise.

I imagine what it will be like to have that kind of sleep; I imagine what it will be like when I have achieved everything (just finished the exercise) and feel good. I keep these ideas, these feelings in my mind.

Fairly soon, I fall asleep and the next thing I know, I’ve woken up, I’ve got out of bed and I’ve done some good quality exercise. All without any conscious effort!

Give this a go for a few days, find out how easy it is to programme your own sleep. When you’ve run up some experience, get back to me with any questions/suggestions.