Sleep issues?

You never forget your first... and that's how it was with the first patient I helped with sleep issues. It was five years ago. I was a relatively new Neuroemotional Technique (NET) practitioner at the time. A patient came in, explaining that although his back and allergies had drastically improved since commencing chiropractic care, he felt he would be doing much better if he could just sleep through the night. I asked him to elaborate and he explained that, night after night, he would wake up sporadically all night long. He no longer had his achy back to blame, and was somewhat perplexed by his inability to sleep. I asked if he wanted to check it out and he agreed. What came next caught me by surprise, but taught me a very good lesson about sleep.

It turned out that, as a child, this man was woken up nearly nightly by his abusive alcoholic father and you can only imagine the atrocities that ensued. Sleep was not safe to his subconscious mind. How could it be? And it occurred to me in that moment how vulnerable we are when we fall asleep... and how much something interfering with our safety could interfere with this seemingly automatic function. When the mind feels that staying awake is imperative to staying alive, which one do you think it will choose?

This particular patient, like most, was well-aware of what had happened in his childhood, but had no idea how it was affecting his health in the current day. Using NET, we were able to reset these circuits and let the programming of the past go. The threat was gone, but the body had remembered, and the timeless limbic (emotional) brain had been trained well. NET didn't make the mind forget, but it allowed healing of past traumas to take place so that his body could let go and allow him to get the rest he so desperately needed.

Not all sleep issues are caused from such traumatic origins, but I do believe there is a stress component the majority of the time. Wouldn't it be great if everyone could rest easy?

Sweet dreams.