sleep disorders and sleep problems

I am losing all feeling in my...

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I am losing all feeling in my left leg.

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While you are thinking about your left leg, make one quick try at lifting your right leg.

You will find you can not lift it. It will be so relaxed that all you will feel is a tug at your hip.

Note: You have seen the principle of this exercise demonstrated every time you drive a car, play a piano or typewrite.

At one time you consciously told your muscles to do a certain thing such as put your foot on the brake under a given set of circumstances.

Now, even though your conscious mind is on something else, your subconscious mind makes your muscles act automatically.

If you drive a great deal, you will probably find that when you are a passenger in someone else's front seat, you will "put your foot on the brakes"-that is, press the floorboards.

After you have practiced this Round Robin exercise you will find your reactions are as automatic as driving a car.

RIGHT ARM A.

Think of your right arm.

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You will find you cannot lift it....

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You will find you cannot lift it. It will be so relaxed that all you will feel is a tug at the hip.

Note: Again give only one quick try, just enough to convince yourself that your suggestion has been accepted.

As you give yourself these suggestions allow yourself to get the feeling of heaviness and numbness creeping into the limb as you talk to it. As you continue, you will find it easier and easier to get this feeling.

RIGHT LEG A.

Think of your right leg.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it.

Under your breath say these exact words to yourself: "My right leg is becoming very heavy . . . and very numb.

Now it is so heavy and so numb that I have lost all feeling in it from my hip to the bottom of my foot.

My right leg is so heavy and so numb that I cannot lift it no matter how hard I try.

" B.

Now quickly think of your left leg.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it. Say under your breath, "My left leg is be coming very heavy and very numb.

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If you persist in trying to lift...

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If you persist in trying to lift it, you will bring your active intelligence back to considering the arm and thus be able to raise it. Now whether your arm was raised or not in this exercise, go on to the next step in the Round Robin.

LEFT LEG A.

Think of your left leg.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it. Under your breath say these exact words to yourself: "My left leg is becoming very heavy . . . and very numb.

Now it is so heavy and so numb that I have lost all feeling in it from my hip to the bottom of my foot.

My left leg is so heavy and so numb I cannot lift it no matter how hard I try.

" B.

Now quickly think of your right leg.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it. Say under your breath, "My right leg is be coming very heavy and very numb.

I am losing all feeling in my right leg.

" C.

While you are thinking about your right leg, make one quick try at lifting your left leg.

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all feeling in my left arm ....

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all feeling in my left arm . . . from my shoulder down to my finger tips.

Now my left arm is so numb and so heavy I cannot lift it no matter how hard I try.

" B.

Now quickly think of your right arm.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it. Say under your breath: "My right arm is becoming very heavy and very numb.

I am losing all feeling in my right arm.

" C.

While you are thinking about your right arm, make one quick try at lifting your left arm.

You will find that you cannot lift it. It will be so relaxed that all you will feel is a tug from the shoulder muscles.

Make only one quick attempt to raise the arm.

Note: Aside from being the key to complete relaxation and sleep, this exercise demonstrates an important principle in sleep therapy.

If your conscious mind gives you a suggestion which you believe implicitly, and then turns to something else, your body cannot help but automatically respond to the suggestion.

Therefore, when you tell yourself your arm cannot move and you believe it, you cannot move that arm.

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The Round Robin requires no "will power"...

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The Round Robin requires no "will power" other than perseverance and continued practice.

It requires no education, no unusual concentration.

The result of applying this exercise, in conjunction with the Sleep Exercise, will be an ability to relax and sleep anywhere and under any circumstances for the rest of your life.

The first time you do this exercise you will experience some relaxation.

As you practice, the degree of relaxation will increase.

Eventually you will be able to relax completely.

Now here is the ABC Round Robin.

Don't be deceived by its simplicity.

It will work! Lie flat on your bed with your arms relaxed at your sides and your legs comfortably stretched out.

If you are doing this at an office simply make yourself as comfortable as possible.

Close your eyes and keep them closed all during the exercises.

To do them, you will have to memorize the following: LEFT ARM A.

Think of your left arm.

Concentrate all your thoughts on it.

Under your breath say these exact words to yourself: "My left arm is becoming very heavy . . . and very numb.

I am losing

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By learning how to control your thoughts...

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By learning how to control your thoughts scientifically when you want to relax and sleep, you will learn how to control the daytime thoughts which are really behind the emotional upset that keeps you from sleeping.

Therefore, when you learn to relax and sleep through these methods, you will automatically be opening the way to a happier daytime life, too.

The simplicity of what you are going to learn will surprise and may even dismay you.

Don't be deceived.

Auto-suggestion is simple; it works.

Relaxation is simple; it works.

You are going to learn to relax and to sleep.

You are sincere or you would not have bought this book.

Since you are sincere you will practice, no matter how skeptical you are at first glance.

And since you will practice, you cannot fail! Here is the ABC Round Robin.

It is your basic exercise and its purpose is to enable you to relax.

You will need to practice it for one to four weeks.

While it is unlikely to take you as long as four weeks to learn it perfectly, even if it does, you will always thereafter be able to use it to attain complete relaxation.

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The hypnotist can say to you, "All...

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The hypnotist can say to you, "All the nerves and muscles of your body are so relaxed that when you awaken you will feel as though you have slept for hours," and you will awaken refreshed because your conscious mind was not contradicting him.

You say you have a bad memory? A hypnotist can put you to sleep and say, "Remember!" and you will remember things that happened when you were three years old.

Why? Because your conscious mind, which says you have a bad memory, is asleep.

Without your conscious mind to contradict the hypnotist you do what he tells you.

In the sleep exercises you are going to learn, you will take the place of the hypnotist in giving orders to your subconscious.

You are going to do that by giving yourself positive suggestions designed to relax you and put you to sleep.

Not everyone is a good hypnotic subject, but everyone with practice can become expert at relaxing through these exercises.

Remember that inability to sleep well is not a disability in itself; it is simply a symptom that you are not thinking the kind of thoughts which contribute to your happiness and well-being.

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The only contact the hypnotist has had...

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The only contact the hypnotist has had with the subject is through his mind.

The reason the subject cannot move his arm, then, is that he believes the hypnotist.

It may seem silly that he believes he cannot move his arm simply because a few words were spoken to him, but the words were spoken with such conviction that he does believe it, despite all logic to the contrary.

If you are convinced that you cannot sleep for some reason or other, you have more or less hypnotized yourself, illogical though it may seem, just as the subject in the above example hypnotized himself into believing that he could not move his arm.

Actually you can sleep as well as anyone in the world, and all you have to do is believe it. You may have said negatively to yourself, "I can't sleep because my husband isn't home," or "I can't sleep because the neighbors are noisy," or "I can't sleep because I am worrying about the mortgage.

" It isn't the half-empty bed, the noise or the mortgage which really keeps you awake; it is just your belief that they do.

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All the muscles and nerves of your...

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All the muscles and nerves of your body are completely relaxed and you are going deeper and deeper asleep.

" That's all there is to the "miracles" hypnotists perform.

Practice saying the above paragraph slowly and with conviction while your subject is gazing at a blue light, and you can probably hypnotize one out of six people yourself.

As you can see by studying that paragraph, the hypnotist didn't put his subject to sleep at all.

The subject put himself to sleep by believing what the hypnotist told him.

If the hypnotist says to his subject, "Your left arm is as rigid as a steel bar and you can't move it," the subject will be completely unable to move that arm.

It is important for your understanding of this course in sleeping that you know why the subject cannot move his arm.

Is it because the actual physical structure of his arm has changed? No, because obviously nothing has happened to change it. Is it because the subject no longer has the use of his muscles? Again no, because the hypnotist has not touched him.

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Yet a hypnotist uses nothing but words. There...

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Yet a hypnotist uses nothing but words.

There is actually no such thing as a hypnotic gaze.

Nor is it true that the hypnotist has extraordinary will power.

All he has is an overwhelming conviction born of wide experience that you will do what he tells you.

Every hypnotist in the world uses the same procedure to put his subject to sleep.

First he asks him to gaze at a light or a moving object or into his eyes, anything to put a slight strain on the subject's eyes and make him want to close them.

Then he says, "Your legs are growing heavy . . . very heavy . . . Your arms are growing heavy . . . very heavy . . . Your entire body is growing heavy and you are going deep, deep asleep.

(Slight pause.

) Now your eyes are growing heavy . . . very heavy . . . They are growing very tired and very heavy and you are going deep, sound asleep.

Breathe deeply . . . Breathe deeply.

You are going deeper and deeper asleep with every breath you take.

Nothing will awaken you until I awaken you.

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