We all know that there are more and more people suffering from insomnia today than there were centuries ago. There are many drugs readily available in the market to help people get over their sleep disorder. But unfortunately, some of these drugs which are meant to be helpful and cure your health issues only bring about a bigger problem when you become more dependent and in some cases, even become addicted to it.

So if you do not want to take these drugs or pills to cure your insomnia, self hypnosis is a great alternative to help you sleep better. Here are some facts why self hypnosis for insomnia really works and some recommendations that could help you.

How Does Self Hypnosis Work for Insomnia?

Though at first when you think of it, you would be skeptical to try the method of self hypnosis to cure your insomnia but studies have shown that it truly works and is probably the safest way to deal with it. Because the method of self hypnosis involves relaxation and clearing your mind of all the things that are bothering you, it is somehow a method of meditation, which has been known to help you fall asleep fast and deep for generations3.

Aside from helping you clear your mind and relaxing your body, self hypnosis assists in curing insomnia because it teaches you to block out wandering thoughts, which is one of the most common and biggest problem of insomniacs. With self hypnosis in curing insomnia, you can learn how easy it is to shut your thoughts completely.

Buy and Download Them

If you are looking for records that could teach you self hypnosis for your insomnia, you may log on to www.hypnosishealthcare.com where you could buy a CD that is especially designed to teach you self hypnosis if you are having problems sleeping. You get free shipping if you are from America, Europe, Australia, and Canada and you will receive your order within five business days.

Another website to visit if you are looking for recordings of self hypnosis to cure insomnia is www.hypnosisdownloads.com where you could also view other recordings of hypnosis to help you deal with different kinds of problems. Download them and add them to your mp3 player, and hopefully you will not be that far away from reaching Dreamland.

However, as with everything, it is always recommended to consult your physician before beginning any kind of treatment – alternative or not.

Have you ever felt that your mind is running nonstop even if you are all ready to go to sleep? No matter how hard you try, you still can not get to relax and shut your thoughts out even if your body is aching to just rest and sleep?

Though this may be a common sign of insomnia or other sleep disorder, there have been numerous studies on treatments and medications for insomnia to help those people who are suffering every night. These insomnia medications have been proven to work, both as prescription drugs, herbal remedies and over-the-counter pills.

Over-The-Counter Pills

Over-the-counter medications for insomnia are proven to help you deal with your sleeping but should only be used for short term basis. Examples of these non-prescriptive medications that could be brought from drugstores, retail stores, or even grocery shops are Sleep-Eze, Nytol, and Sominex.

It is however recommended that these medications for insomnia should only be used as a short term aid to help you deal with your sleeping disorder because they could worsen the case. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has testified that antihistamine is the most common ingredients of these over-the-counter medications for insomnia and they are only relying on the sedating effects of antihistamine to help the person overcome the sleep disorder.

If you have experienced side effects of these non-prescription medications for insomnia like dry mouth, dry eyes, urinary retention, confusion, drowsiness the next day, forgetfulness, and constipation, it is best that you stop using these drugs and consult your doctor.

Herbal Medicines

Since over-the-counter medications for insomnia have proven to be effective yet could bring about harmful side effects, what you may want is to try herbal medicines that are especially formulated to help you with your sleeping disorder. However, the downside of using these herbal medications for insomnia is that they have not yet been thoroughly examined by the FDA - a regulation that is required for all prescription drugs.

Aside from that, though they are still considered to be over-the-counter, these are still pills that could trigger chemical reactions to your body. And of course, since they are herbal and natural medications, the safety profiles of them are still unknown because they are not thoroughly researched.

The bottom line here is, if you are having sleeping problems, self medication is not the best answer. The problem may be rooted deeply and really needs special medical attention that is why it is always best to consult your doctor.

My Story of Dealing With Tinnitus Since The Explosion In Sri Lanka in 1993

This site is about my personal journey with tinnitus, how I got it, the pain and suffering I went through initially after I got the ringing in my ears from a loud explosion in Sri Lanka in 1992 and how I now deal with it happily.

I’ve written this site as after 14 years of having extreme tinnitus I didn’t think there was enough good information out there for people who have this intolerable ringing in their ears and ways to reduce the sound..

Or at least information written by someone who has extreme tinnitus and can offer ways to deal with it from a personal perspective. Please be strong as there is hope of a total cure for tinnitus in the coming years.

Or at least information written by someone who has extreme tinnitus and can offer ways to deal with it from a personal perspective. Please be strong as there is hope of a total cure for tinnitus in the coming years.

Importantly it’s brought me in contact with a range of new natural treatments and indeed new friends who also have tinnitus and have found their own ways of dealing with it like Canadian concert pianist Paul Tobey who has written “A Practical Guide to Tinnitus Free Living”

The Extremely Loud Sound of My Tinnitus!!! For real.

(Click here once to hear the sound I’ve got in my ears all the time (except when I’m sleeping) and turn your speakers up to ten. I’m not kidding)

You can understand how that noise could have easily turned me into a headcase …… and why I needed to find ways to deal with this extreme noise. This site offers mostly free ways to do so plus very inexpensive ways such as Paul Tobey’s “A Practical Guide to Tinnitus Free Living“..

About Simon

My name is Simon Healy and you’ll find information on this site that will offer you ways to not only relieve the ringing but in some cases permanently reduce it so you hardly notice it. I am the Managing Director of a medium sized outsourcing firm called OutsourcingTo.uS as well as the CEO of a non profit organisation that works primarily in Asia building and managing telecentre ’schools’ for disadvantaged youth called OrphanIT.org

My Personal Tinnitus Story - “How It Happened” - Asia 1992 - Festival in Sri Lanka. Boy throws huge firecracker which landed next to my head and blew my eardrum causing an extremely loud and constant ringing in my ears (Tinnitus) which I’ve now had for 14 years.

Very few people aside from my close friends even know I have Extreme Tinnitus because quite frankly most people who don’t have it don’t understand it. The explosion that happened in 1992 changed my life irrevocably for the worse initially and later for the better when I came to grips with it.

In fact I doubt I’d have the wonderful life I now have if the accident had not happened.

I am lucky enough to live in a rainforest jungle in Byron Bay in Australia (seriously) and the noise outside my house is a cacaphony of cicadas, crickets, dozens of birds and ocean waves crashing in all day and night. I actually moved here because of my tinnitus in order to mask the sounds ….and it works like a dream. The important thing to remember is that even though I was close to total despair after a few years of living with Tinnitus I came to grips with it and turned the extrordinarily loud ringing in my ears into positive in my life.

I am currently the CEO of 2 successful businesses - One a ‘For Profit and the other a Non Profit or Social Business NGO’

My commercial business is called OutsourcingTo.uS and provides online marketing services for 100’s of clients in Australia and worldwide. My non profit foundation is called OrphanIT.org and it is a multi award winning international NGO which provides sustainable solutions to other non profit (primarily telecentres) worldwide.

Our NGO has raised and implemented programs that have assisted several thousand youth in developing nations helping them achieve a better standard of living for themselves and their families. We’ve been reviewed in the Harvard Business Review, won international awards like the GKP Youth Awards, the Stockholm Challenge and The Global Junior Challenge which resulted in a scholarship to Santa Clara and Stanford Universities in the USA.

www.OrphanIT.com
www.OrphanIT.org
www.SolvePoverty.com
www.YSEI.org

I’ve recently sold my education business which provided marketing services for several hundred universities and colleges in 15 countries. (See www.HyperStudy.com and www.EdMedia.info ) so now have more time to develop my own business, writing, travelling, working on www.OrphanIT.org and the new Youth Fund I’ve helped launch with some colleagues in Asia called www.YSEI.org

At the moment I’m writing a book about my experiences which I’m going to release in 2007 called “1000 Angels Singing In My Ears”. I’ve found for me THE most effective way of dealing with Tinnitus is to keep focused on what I’m passionate about in my life.

I’m also intending on making this site into the number one resource on the web for tinnitus patients with loads of information about treatments, forums, specialized masking consulting and ways you can overcome the terrible ringing in your ears.

If you sign up to my monthly newsletter you’ll receive regular updates from the book before it’s published. I’m also planning a series of short clips for YouTube which I’ll be releasing over 2008. I worked in film, TV and theatre for 10 years so I’m confident these clips will be of real value to Tinnitus sufferers worldwide.

They’ll be available in multiple languages and my objective is to offer you with relief, the right attitude and self help therapy to deal with your Tinnitus.

Paul Tobey’s powerful tinnitus healing methods.

This is my number one recommendation for healing tinnitus. It’s very similar to how I personally have found ways to deal with my extreme tinnitus but Paul has gone one steps further and put it into a package you can use right now to help you.

Paul’s two tinnitus relief programs for example will absolutely change forever the way you deal with your Tinnitus. Remember I know about treatments as I’ve been researching them for almost 14 years since I got the extremely loud ringing in my ears in an explosion in Asia and his eBook and audio seminar have done wonders giving me relief and healing just over the last few months.

His original healing product is called “A Practical Guide to Tinnitus Free Living“. This is an eBook and audio recording in which he shares some practical and truly enlightening information on how to live a 100% Tinnitus-Free Life.

Tinnitus cures and reduce ringing in ears I highly recommend his easy to use methods. Paul is a Canadian concert pianist, composer, entertainer, motivational speaker and former tinnitus sufferer himself.

I was almost in tears of joy when I finished reading his book the 1st time because I just wished I had this information so many years, anxious days and sleepless nights ago.

I spoke for a few hours with Paul on Skype in early March 2007 to understand more about his methods and he really does have a great system with some very easy to use ways to get rid of your tinnitus or at least make it A LOT easier to deal with. He’s an extremely inspirational and personable guy.

One thing that really stuck out in my conversation with Paul was his philosophy of focusing on what you want spiritually, mentally and emotionally and how the physical changes will follow. This is a guy who’s just walked over 800 kilometres on a trek through Spain over 60 days. Paul filmed about 60 hours of footage along the Camino de Santiago for one of his documentary projects. This was a journey of personal development for Paul and when you read his eBook you will see the sheer simplicity and beauty of Paul’s methods of dealing with Tinnitus.

Here is Paul’s site - “A Practical Guide to Tinnitus Free Living“.

Insomnia in children is not all that uncommon a condition and it often causes the child to have difficulty falling asleep and it is know to occur irrespective of the age of the child. The reasons why such a condition occurs in children are many and so are the steps that you can take to treat the problem.

A major factor to be considered is that children have a strong need for feeling secure. With change in circumstances, a condition could be created that the child cannot handle on their own and thus it leads to insomnia in children.

Averse to Change

Children are very averse to change and it is these changes that result in insomnia in children because it causes them to lose their safety blanket. Things such as moving house or even a divorce are major changes that can induce insomnia in children. What’s more, parents are often not even aware that these changes have led to the development of insomnia in children.

Children also like routines and when a routine is disrupted it will result in insomnia in children because children like to go to bed at fixed times and they need to also get up at times that they have become accustomed to. This helps establish a routine for them in which they feel secure knowing when to sleep and what time to get up. And, sleeping in their own beds and with their very own pillow and blanket are other things that children do not like having changed.

Insomnia in children is of two types with one being acute and which may be thought of as a short term problem while the other condition is chronic and which obviously goes on for seemingly ever. Acute insomnia in children may be caused by illness, stress and even medications. This can be remedied by making the child as comfortable as possible and these short term ailments will generally blow over in a few days, which mean that you won’t have to give the child medication for too long.

Chronic insomnia in children may result in a child staying up thrice in a week for as long as a month at a time and could be caused because of anxiety, depression and even due to pain or some discomfort, the treatment of which is best suggested by a doctor. Seeking medical advice should help you find the proper medication and along with plenty of rest, the child may soon get over his or her insomnia condition.

Insomnia in children is common and thus parents are not alone in their battle to help their children get over their problem, and because such a condition is not permanent, it can usually be dealt with easily and should hopefully will not take long to get the child to return to getting regular sleep once again.

Practically everybody suffers from insomnia at some point in their lives. For those who only suffer occasionally, it does not usually present a big problem. The problem begins when people suffer from chronic insomnia because this can interfere with normal, everyday living.

Insomnia cures can come in many forms and should be looked at seriously. It is always recommended that natural remedies be tried before beginning a prescription medication. The first thing you need to look at is trying to determine the cause of your insomnia. Take a look at anything in your life that has changed about the time you began suffering from insomnia. Maybe you have taken on additional duties at work and this is causing you stress. Often people do not associated lifestyle changes with their insomnia.

Natural insomnia cures can be achieved in about 80 per cent of the insomniac population. Improved sleep hygiene and sleep environment can help many insomnia sufferers. There are studies that show people rest better when their body and their environment are clean. Bathing in itself will provide a relaxing effect. Keeping your sleeping environment free of dust and clutter will also help you to relax better when you are in that environment.

Insomnia cures may also be found in herbal remedies in the form of nutritional supplementation. Many things may contribute to supplemental deficiency such as stress and anxiety, eating processed foods, and not staying on a balanced diet.

Foods Can Help You Sleep

Everybody knows the old saying “you are what you eat” but not a lot of people realize that the foods they eat can actually affect their sleep. There are certain foods that increase metabolism and will be detrimental to getting a good night’s sleep. On the other hand there are foods that increase the production of serotonin which helps promote restful sleep.

Insomnia cures which are natural will help promote better overall health than those that contain sleep medications. Taking a good look at your diet may be all that is needed to help you get the rest you need to function during the day. Eating carbohydrates which contain tryptophan tend to have a calming effect on the mind and body. On the other side of the scale a high protein meal can increase energy and keep the mind alert and awake.

The trick to finding insomnia cures is to research the “good” foods and find out what the “bad” foods are. High protein foods are best if eaten in the early part of the day when the higher energy level is needed. Large meals may also hamper good sleep. Eating a larger meal at breakfast and lunch, then having a small meal at the dinner hour will help the body balance out the needed energy it gets from the food.