sleep disorders and sleep problems

If you do take a pill after...

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If you do take a pill after doing the Robin and the Sleep Exercise, before you fall asleep say to yourself: "The pill I have taken will enable me to sleep immediately.

I took it of my own free will and not because I was compelled to. As I practice relaxation I will want these pills less and less and without them I will go to sleep quickly and deeply.

Soon I will be so skillful at relaxing that these pills will be completely unnecessary.

When I awaken in the morning I will feel relaxed and happy and I will not worry about not sleeping.

" This last-minute suggestion before falling sleep will help you to sleep the next night.

7. Few habits that are so disturbing are so easily cured as the sleeping pill habit.

It may take you two to four weeks, but if you practice every day and maintain a positive, optimistic frame of mind, you cannot fail to cure it. Mrs.

D., normally an optimistic girl, was married to an ambitious young man who owned a small ice cream and confectionery shop which he was determined to build into something substantial.

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Your addiction is mental, not physical. 3. Practice...

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Your addiction is mental, not physical.

3. Practice the ABC Round Robin until you can really feel yourself relax, but do not practice it at night until you are an expert.

Meanwhile, feel free to use your sleeping pills.

4. Never allow yourself to feel depressed over having taken a pill.

If you think about sleep or pills during the day give yourself a positive suggestion such as: "Tonight when I go to bed I will be so sleepy and so tired that I will immediately fall into a deep, refreshing sleep.

All the muscles and organs of my body are functioning perfectly and my mind is working perfectly and there is no reason why I won't go deep asleep when I go to bed tonight.

" 5. Learn the Sleep Exercise when you are confident that you can relax with the Round Robin.

Then do the Robin and the Sleep Exercise at night.

This should put you to sleep 1. easily and quickly, but have your pills handy and feel free to take one if you doubt your ability to go to sleep.

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The first night she tried this formula...

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The first night she tried this formula she was apprehensive about the result and, rather than risk a dreary failure, she took a pill.

As she was going to sleep she repeated the formula as she had been instructed.

She reported that as she was dozing off she.

had a sudden feeling that she would never need to take another sleeping pill.

In the morning she awakened with the same feeling.

This sudden burst of confidence proved to be justified.

After a lot of skepticism, a false start and three or four weeks of practice, Mrs.

F. had broken the sleeping pill habit.

To break the sleeping pill habit: 1. Don't try by will power because it can't be done, since there is really no such thing as will power.

Being forced to choose between sleeping pills and sleepless nights, everyone would choose sleeping pills eventually.

2. Though you may have acquired the habit, sleeping pills have no physical hold on you that can compel you to keep taking them.

You can sleep without pills as easily as any one who has never taken one.

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At night Mrs. F. was to put the...

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At night Mrs.

F. was to put the sleeping pills on the night stand, as she had always done.

If she felt like taking one she was to feel free to do so. Under no circumstances was she to fight the desire to take a pill.

Sleep would come as a natural consequence of the type of relaxation she had learned.

If for some reason she didn't sleep and took a pill she was to say to herself: "The pill I have taken will enable me to go to sleep immediately.

I took it of my own free will, not because I was compelled to. And I am now getting so expert at relaxing that these pills will be completely unnecessary.

I am physically and mentally able to sleep without pills.

When I awaken I will be relaxed and happy and I will not worry about having taken a pill.

" By giving herself this conditioned sleep, Mrs.

F. could feel that whenever she took a pill she was using it to break the pill habit.

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In two weeks she was back and...

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In two weeks she was back and admitted she had attained an amazing degree of relaxation from the Robin.

Now I gave her further instructions.

After she completed the Robin in the morning she was to say to herself: "All day today I will be completely relaxed.

When I go to bed tonight I will be so sleepy and so relaxed I will immediately fall into a deep, refreshing sleep.

" When convenient intervals presented themselves during the day she was to do the Round Robin and say the same thing to herself.

Whenever she found herself thinking about sleeping pills she was to say: 'Tonight when I go to bed I will be so sleepy and so tired that I will immediately fall into a deep refreshing sleep.

All the muscles and organs of my body are functioning perfectly, my mind is working perfectly, and there is no reason why I won't go deep asleep when I go to bed tonight.

" After I had given Mrs.

F. these instructions, I taught her the Sleep Exercise.

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But under no circumstances was she to...

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But under no circumstances was she to try it at night.

Meanwhile she was to continue to take the pills when she wanted.

A few days later she came to my office and said she was giving up the whole thing.

The only time the Round Robin had worked had been the first day in the office; it wouldn't work at home.

On close questioning she admitted she had practiced it at night upon going to bed rather than in the morning, since she had to get right out of bed in the morning.

The Round Robin never put her to sleep, or even relaxed her, and she ended up every night taking the pills.

I explained that the Round Robin didn't work because her hysterical conviction that she was an addict was stronger that the half-hearted suggestions she was giving herself to relax.

Her mind was on taking a pill and getting to sleep.

I re-emphasized the importance of practicing in the daytime and persuaded Mrs.

F. to set her alarm earlier and use the extra half-hour to practice the Robin without any idea that it would put her to sleep.

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This may have been repeated several times...

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This may have been repeated several times and the insomniac finally may have drugged himself unwittingly to death.

Even without its fatal effects, the sleeping pill habit would still be vicious, because dependence upon drugs undermines people's confidence in themselves.

The feeling that you are a drug addict may cause serious complications when you are also losing sleep.

When Mrs.

F. was told the cure to her sleeplessness consisted of the Round Robin and the Sleep Exercise, she was so skeptical she wanted to walk out without even trying them.

I reminded her that she had tried talking to herself and it had brought no results.

On the contrary, I pointed out her talking to herself had brought amazing results in the form of sleeping pill addiction.

Mrs.

F. had simply been hoping to find a cure which lay outside herself.

She no longer trusted her own mind to make her do the right thing.

She was persuaded to try the Round Robin in my office and admitted afterwards that she felt more relaxed.

She was told to practice it until she became expert at relaxation.

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She got some comfort from this explanation...

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She got some comfort from this explanation and was impatient to learn the "natural method.

" First, however, she was shown that the use of sleeping pills had caused no physical changes in her body which would make her constitutionally unable to sleep without pills.

She had no craving for the pills.

Her addiction was not physical but mental.

As long as she was convinced she needed the pills, she would continue to need them.

And she would continue with pills until another method was found to put her to sleep.

So her problem, like that of every other sleeping pill addict, was simply to learn to sleep without pills-the habit would break itself.

The sleeping pill habit kills scores of people each year.

When you read in the paper that someone has been found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills, it's not always (as you may think) a case of intended suicide.

Here is what probably happened: A sufferer from insomnia took a dose of sleeping pills; still unable to sleep after trying for a while, the insomnia-sufferer became so drowsy as to forget having already taken a dose of sleeping pills; so he took more.

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If, indeed, she had been able to...

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If, indeed, she had been able to forego the pill it would have been a hollow victory for she would not have slept.

The very presence of the pills on her night stand shouted: "You can't sleep unless you take a pill!" Since her thoughts were constantly on sleep and sleeping pills this barrage of suggestions, day and night, resulted in an irresistible compulsion to take a pill.

You cannot overcome a bad habit through will power.

A habit can be overcome only by substituting another habit.

Mrs.

F had no chance to substitute a more desirable habit.

She had no choice: either she took the pills or she stayed awake.

Since she couldn't stay awake forever she simply had to take the pills.

When she came to me as a patient, I explained to her that she had a choice of going to sleep by natural means or going to sleep with pills.

On being asked which method she would prefer, she rather impatiently said "the natural method.

" Obviously then, what she called her "will power" was functioning fine.

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Unfortunately while Mrs. F. was developing a dependence...

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Unfortunately while Mrs.

F. was developing a dependence upon sleeping pills, she also developed a morbid fear of becoming a narcotic addict.

She tried "will power" to break the habit.

Each day she told herself: "I won't take a pill tonight.

Even if I stay awake all night, I won't take a pill.

" And, of course, each night she would take one or more pills despite her solemn vows.

She was in danger of a severe breakdown because she felt she lacked the "will power" to break the sleeping pill habit.

The average person who is convinced he has no "will power" is convinced that he is a sub-average human being.

Mrs.

F. was in vital need of assurance that she was not lacking "will power.

" It was explained to her that there is no such thing as "will power.

" On the contrary, everything she did under the name of will power to break the sleeping pill habit only entrenched it more strongly.

When she told herself she wouldn't take a pill "even if she stayed awake all night" she was actually concentrating on staying awake all night-telling herself she would stay awake without the pill.

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