Waking Up in the Middle of the Night

One of the Four Kinds of Insomnia.

Another common sleep problem is the tendency to wake up, sometimes repeatedly, in the middle of the night. Many clients have come to me saying that they have no problem at all getting to sleep—that they can fall asleep quite easily at bedtime. The problem is waking up and then having tremendous difficulty falling back to sleep.

There are many theories about this issue, with some studies suggesting a failure to reach the deepest level of sleep, the rapid eye movement (R.E.M.) level. Once this pattern emerges it often triggers a certain thought process - a negative expectation. Thoughts such as: “Oh no, here we go again...” or “Now I'll never be able to get back to sleep...” occur and exacerbate the problem often becoming self-fulfilling expectations.

My program works by interrupting this pattern on a subconscious level.