Sleep Problems - Are There Ways They Can Be Solved Without Sleeping Pills?

Posted on March 27, 2008 in Health and Fitness by admin

Millions of people, who have difficult sleeping at night, rely on sleeping pills to solve their sleep problems. They do this even though the dangers of the regular use of sleeping pills have been well documented. The possible side effects include problems such as the following:

·Dizziness
·Allergic skin conditions
·Reduced concentration when driving
.Feelings of confusion
·Abdominal and muscle cramps
·Hallucinations
·Aggression
·Lack of co-ordination
·Abnormal dreams

And - most worrying of all - “weird behavior” is another possible serious side effect associated with sleeping pills. Recently there have been an increasing number of cases reported of people, who have been taking sleeping pills regularly, behaving in strange abnormal, irrational ways.

If people are aware of these possible serious side effects of sleeping pills, why do they continue to take them?

It is easy to understand why. Because they are desperate to find an effective solution for their sleep problems. Only those who have had to endure the misery of insomnia can know how frustrating it can be to lie in bed, hour after hour, tossing and turning, desperately trying to fall asleep but without success.

There is no doubt that sleeping pills are very effective. They enable you to fall asleep with ten to fifteen minutes of taking them.

Sleeping pills can be very useful as a temporary solution for sleep problems. If your regular sleep pattern has been disrupted by some particularly stressful event in your life, sleeping pills, used for short periods of 7-10 days, will enable you to re-establish your regular sleeping schedule.

But if you start using sleeping pills regularly, night after night, to help you fall sleep, you run the risk of seriously endangering your health.

If you are someone who suffers from insomnia, you are obviously envious of people who tell you they are able to fall asleep within minutes of going to bed. You wonder how do they manage to do this.

The answer is not as difficult or as complex to understand as it may appear. These people have programmed their minds - either consciously or subconsciously - to accept the fact that sleep is natural sequence of events in their day-to-day activities.

When they go to bed, they know they are going to fall asleep. It is an automatic response. It is similar, in some respects, to a conditioned reflex.

Their minds have been conditioned to accept the idea that going to bed is definitely going to provide them with the deep, comforting, relaxing feeling of calm.

In many instances the feeling is unconscious. It is something that they are not consciously aware of.

This conditioning process can be something that began in their very early childhood. They were fortunate to be born to a warm, compassionate family, with an affectionate, caring mother.

It is possible that their earliest recollections of being put in their cot to sleep by their mother was that it was accompanied by a soft, gentle song. This feeling of warmth and comfort has remained with them throughout their lives. When they see their beds they are reminded subconsciously of this warm, pleasant, comforting feeling.

In cases like these, this conditioning process was something ingrained and entrenched in their early childhood. It has now become an automatic, unconscious response.

What about the millions of people who were never fortunate enough to have a loving caring mother, who sang sweet lullabies to encourage them to sleep? Is it possible for them to actually “program” a similar response in their minds that will have the same effect?

With the introduction of the computer the word “program” has come to have a special meaning. It can be broadly defined as arranging a system of operating instructions for a computer. Once these operating instructions have been installed, the computer will respond in a certain pre-determined way.

Your brain can be “programmed” in very much the same way as a computer.

There are special techniques you can learn that will enable you to “program” your mind to accept your bed as a warm, soothing, relaxing place in which you are able to enjoy many hours of comforting, peaceful sleep.

You will respond in a special, pre-determined way and fall asleep as soon as you go to bed.

There are special techniques you can learn that will enable you to “switch off” immediately you go to bed and clear your mind of all distracting, disturbing, intrusive thoughts. You will be then be able to fall asleep without being sidetracked in any way.

These techniques are available to you. You will find details of them on the Internet.

There is no need to be envious any longer of those who boast they are able to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillow. You’ll be able to do the same!

The author of this article, Dennis Fisher, has been involved in an in-depth study of sleep problems and sleep disorders, for many years. Details of the work he has carried out in this field can be found on his website http://www.effectivesleepsolutions.com

Dennis Fisher is managing director of financial and investment Companies. In addition to his involvement in many different fields of business, his interests include an in-depth study of various schools of practical psychology. He has also been involved in the study of all aspects of sleep and sleep problems.

To find out more about powerful techniques that enable people who have suffered from insomnia to fall asleep without the aid of sleeping pills, go to his website: http://www.effectivesleepsolutions.com

Tags: harmful side effects, insomnia, Sleep Problems, tossing and turning

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