Improving Sleep

How to Use Guided Meditation for Sleep and Self Hypnosis for Healing

I hope you enjoy reading this info on how to get better sleep. If you’d like to learn my favorite sleep tips, you can get a free eBook and video by clicking here.

People who sleep well don’t understand the misery of bedtime insomnia, middle insomnia, and chronic sleep problems. You have likely found this page because you or someone you care about experiences ongoing sleep issues that cause suffering. If you can’t sleep no matter what you have tried, then you are probably looking for something different, something that empowers you and works at a deep level.

For the past 30 years, Dr. Dyan has created guided meditation for sleep to provide the best sleep sounds and suggestions and the best sleep hypnosis audios for people to do in the comfort of their own homes. She combines guided meditation for sleep, deep sleep hypnosis insomnia recordings, and anxiety and sleep meditation to teach people how to use hypnosis for healing at unconscious levels. These strategies can create huge impact naturally, without pills and without a much effort.

Because of Dr. Dyan’s expertise in the field of of hypnosis, people often ask:

• Can hypnosis help with sleep problems?
• Does hypnotherapy for sleep disorders really work?
• Is there a type of hypnosis for better sleep that I can do on my own, everyday?
• What’s the best sleep hypnosis audio that I can download?

Let’s start unpacking details about sleep, some stories about healing, and get all of these questions and more answered!

Sleep is the realm of the unconscious mind. Hypnosis uses the conscious mind to tap into the unconscious realm. For this reason, it makes sense that things like self-hypnosis for insomnia would make a big difference for symptoms related to sleep. Effecting a change and speaking to the unconscious mind, which happens when listening to the best sleep hypnosis audios, allows the busy waking mind to rest which also supports healthy, sound sleep.

Sleep challenges can cause or be caused by symptoms including:

The intention of this space is to provide you with as much information as possible, all in one place.  Here you will find creative solutions, resources, links to the best hypnosis sleep YouTube videos, and more.

Table of Contents

As you move down this page, you will first see a list of some of the most common issues and questions people have shared with Dr. Dyan throughout the past 30 years of her work as a psychologist and professional hypnotherapist specializing in sleep, anxiety, pain, immune issues, trauma, and health issues.

Be sure to check out the great story at the bottom of the table of contents. I think you will relate to and find inspiring.

• The 3 Types of Insomnia: Initial insomnia, middle insomnia, and late, or early waking, insomnia
• Sleep disorders may include: Restless legs snoring, sleep apnea, disordered breathing, and more
• Burnout and Sleep
• Pain caused by poor sleep or pain that keeps you awake
• Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia
• How does sleep affect memory and cognitive function?
• How does sleep affect physical health and the immune system?
• How does sleep effect relationships and what can you do about it?
• How does sleep affect mental health (sleep anxiety, depression and sleep, and how happiness sleep hypnosis can help)
• How to use self-hypnosis for healing sleep: An Inspiring true story

The 3 Types of Insomnia:

Initial insomnia, middle insomnia, and late, or early waking, insomnia

If you do an online search for insomnia, you will likely find it under the heading of sleep problems. For the first 26 years of her own life, Dr. Dyan had horrendous insomnia. It took her between 4-7 hours per night to fall asleep and she awoke multiple times each night and could not go back to sleep. She got trained in, and started doing daily self-hypnosis for insomnia, immune issues, and pain relief hypnosis in 1995. She had a dramatic and remarkable recovery within months (read more about my personal hypnosis story here).

She talks about this in much more detail in the free eBook and video that is available to you here.

In 2023, an analysis of global research estimated that,

“While approximately half of all adults are expected to experience some insomnia symptoms across the countries studied, one in 12 adults (approx. 8 percent) suffers from chronic insomnia.”

To receive a diagnosis of insomnia, a person must have three key symptoms:

Here’s another 3 for you: Insomnia breaks down into 3 types or timings in terms of sleep patterns. It can be useful to clarify when it shows up for you. I’ve often found that when people look to me for anxiety and sleep meditation, the anxiety part of it relates to worry about being exhausted when they can’t sleep.

exhausted when they can’t sleep.

• Do you have trouble sleeping when you first get into bed? That’s initial insomnia.
• If you wake in the night and struggle to fall back to sleep, than you’ve got middle insomnia.
• Waking up too early when you feel you haven’t gotten enough rest? That’s late insomnia.

According to the Mayo Clinic:

“Insomnia symptoms may include:

• Having a hard time falling asleep at night.
• Waking up during the night.
• Waking up too early.
• Feeling tired or sleepy during the day.
• Feeling cranky, depressed or anxious.
• Having a hard time paying attention, focusing on tasks or remembering.
• Making more errors or having more accidents.
• Having ongoing worries about sleep.”

What can you do to get the right kind of rest for overcoming insomnia? I think guided meditation for sleep, while relaxing, only truly transforms sleep when it utilizes hypnosis for healing. Hypnosis has been shown, on brain scans, to activate theta brain waves, the same brain waves that get activated in slow wave, stage 3 NREM sleep. That’s the stage where we start to get deep, high quality sleep. For this reason, the best sleep hypnosis audios can allow you to reset the unconscious while resting to tap into healthy sleep architecture and patterns.

Sleep disorders may include:

Restless legs snoring, sleep apnea, disordered breathing, and more

Sleep studies can be done in a lab or, more recently, with an at home kit. They can provide you will extremely important information about what’s going on in your body that may be causing you to not get high quality sleep. Without this valuable diagnostic assessment, you may not be getting the proper treatment to protect and support you.

I always recommend sleep studies for anyone who has breathing or circadian rhythm disorders. It’s important to create the most complete and empowering treatment strategy. That includes going body to mind AND mind to body. This means working with physicians when necessary and also using the power of the mind and perceptions. Doing so allows for the most holistic approach.

Here’s a great story that I heard from a woman who had been having long term problems related to restless leg syndrome:

She tossed and turned all night to the point that her partner couldn’t sleep in the bed with her because she would kick him throughout the night. She had tried for years, to control her symptoms but nothing had helped. A friend had convinced her to try my 9 Weeks to Sound Sleep Self-Hypnosis System. Although the friend said they are the best sleep hypnosis audios, the woman was not optimistic because she had never found relief from her problem.

After listening to those sleep hypnosis recordings, things began to change for her very quickly. There is a self-hypnosis in that set that gives a suggestion to have a dream that will tell you what your symptoms mean. This woman wrote me to tell me that she had an “Aha!” moment after listening to that recording:

She said that when she was growing up, she was very shy. At 13 years old, she had very strict teacher who required her to give presentations regularly in class. This girl would have terrible anxiety and couldn’t sleep several nights before each presentation. The nights leading up to those classes felt torturous for her. She would toss and turn all night, knowing that during class she couldn’t run out of there like she wanted to (her legs were retless!!). She started noticing the restless legs not long after that but didn’t connect the symptoms to her experience. The next year she changed schools but always had sleep problems after that. When she started doing the self-hypnosis audios in the 9 Weeks set, the metaphors of waves and polarities soothed her to sleep and she stopped having restless legs. Isn’t it amazing how the body holds symptoms, telling us an organic hypnosis story? When we listen and decode it, or speak back in it’s own language, we can tap into self hypnosis for healing our body naturally!

Burnout and Sleep

Burnout occurs when people find themselves in a cycle of exhaustion, feeling overwhelmed by all that they have to do, and not feeling like they can rest or sleep. These feelings of helplessness, difficulty concentrating, unhealthy, anxious or depressed, and more happen at physical, emotional, and mental levels.

The Sleep Health Foundation states that:

Burnout, much like insomnia, results from a lack or imbalance of rest in the work-life balance.

You can read more about burnout and what to do about it in my blog on this site.

How to use self-hypnosis for healing sleep: An Inspiring true story

Here’s a story about a real women, Joanna* who suffered profoundly and then healed herself. This is not a fairy tale. It is, however, a hero’s journey.

Joanna, a high-level business executive, built herself a very successful and lucrative career that led her to travel across the globe. Her creative ingenuity drove and inspired the people around her and continuously raised the bar for her to keep striving to accomplish more and more. From early on in her career, she had a high-level of responsibility and, with it, high levels of pressure. While the travel proved exciting, it also presented challenges to her sleep and energy due to the shift between time zones, long work hours, and ongoing difficulties in balancing career, family, relationships, and health.

Over time, Joanna began to notice increasing difficulty getting to sleep and she also started having middle insomnia. Other words, she had bedtime onset insomnia, when she first got into bed, and eventually began to also wake up several times in the night, sometimes to go to the bathroom, and then it took her a long time to go back to sleep. With both the early and middle insomnia, Joanna would lie awake, her body tired and her mind still going a mile-a-minute. It began to feel to her like a kind of awful loop: like an unpleasant, internally generated anxiety self-hypnosis or deep sleep hypnosis insomnia that she did not know how to break.

As Joanna‘s sleep problems became more chronic, she started to have more and more trouble concentrating. Additionally, she began to have daytime fatigue, aches, and pains. She started getting sick from sleep deprivation more often and noticed herself forgetting things and missing beats. All of this made her irritable and caused tensions in her relationships, especially with her partner.

Joanna saw her doctor who prescribed sleeping pills and some supplements that helped somewhat, but left her feeling hung over and somewhat anxious. She started getting depressed.

She began to think outside the box and tried everything from yoga retreats to meditation to homeopathics. Nothing really fixed it.

At the time, Joanna lived and worked in Australia. On one leg of an international flights, she found herself seated next to someone who was listening to something on a headset. While she tried to rest fitfully, this person seemed to sleep like a baby. When he eventually woke up, looking refreshed, they started a conversation about guided meditation for sleep and deep sleep hypnosis insomnia recordings. He said that he’d tried different apps, hypnosis sleep YouTube videos, gone to doctors and retreats, and had finally learned self hypnosis by using what he thought were the best sleep hypnosis audios. He said that he’d been listening to those recordings for 6 months and, though his goal had been to improve his sleep and health, he’d noticed that his overall happiness had also dramatically increased. He said he was sharper in meetings, calmer and more patient in his communication and direction with employees, his personal life had improved, and he finally understood why people used hypnosis for healing and meditation for anxiety and sleep!

That’s how Joanna got information from him about my sleep hypnosis audio set. Within three months, I got the following note from her:

“An amazing thing happened the very first time I listened to the ‘Everything Sleep Self-Hypnosis’ audio to go to sleep: I felt tears running down my face (and I’m not a crier!). It was as if I had come home. I hadn’t realized how tense or braced I was ALL the time. It’s like somehow that hypnosis allowed me to connected to my “real” self and I felt safe and free. I slept the best I had in over a decade that first night. Since then, I find that I can’t wait to do my self-hypnosis every day. Yes, I sleep so much better now, but I also live better now.”

Helping people improve sleep and fall asleep fast and naturally has been a driving force behind Dr. Dyan’s work for many years.

A lot of factors affect sleep and lead to insomnia, disrupted sleep, fatigue, snoring, sleep apnea, nightmares, feeling tired during the day, and other sleep issues.

Beyond just having a deep understanding of environmental and behavioral factors that can be modified, and mind-body components that hinder good sleep, Dr. Dyan has studied sleep architecture extensively. She understands the physiology of sleep and has found it very important to address both overt (e.g., circumstantial, cognitive, and behavioral) and covert (e.g., psychological, neuropsychological, subconscious, circadian, and nervous system/somatic) elements that relate to, and can transform, sleep and energy.

Dr. Dyan has over three decades of experience in using sleep hypnotherapy with clients in her office, in designing them successful hypnosis’ to help sleep, and in creating deep sleep self-hypnosis audios that address things that interfere with good sleep.

She has developed self-help methods for teaching clients to support greater harmony between the sleep-wake cycles by communicating with the unconscious mind in it’s own language. Dr. Dyan also works individually with client’s to heal relationships, traumas, behaviors, or events that disturb sleep.

In her experience, teaching self-hypnosis for sleep has been the #1 method for improving sleep and daytime energy with her clients because it is so effective and powerful. Learning self-hypnosis to help you sleep can also dramatically improve other areas of life including health, relationships, work productivity, communication, mood, lowering anxiety, lifting depression, and so much more. And the best sleep self-hypnosis recordings can work quickly and easily to help sleep.

Dr. Dyan has created a package of self-hypnosis downloads, that can empower you with self-hypnosis to help you sleep. The 9 Weeks to Sound Sleep Self-Hypnosis System package includes seven different sleep self-hypnosis mp3’s, a series of quick How-To Use Your Self-Hypnosis Videos, a full color eBook, and many exclusive bonuses.

*Name and certain details have been changed to protect the identity of the person.