Falling Asleep the Natural Way

Falling off to sleep is like falling in love – you can’t force it. It either happens or it doesn’t. Think about this for a minute, have you ever remembered falling asleep before? No. When your mind becomes silent and tranquil (and your body also relaxes), you just drift off easily and effortlessly to sleep.

When we are falling asleep, our brain waves naturally slow down in frequency from the beta level through alpha, theta and then delta. But how can your brain naturally slow down when you’re constantly thinking about things – grinding the gears of your mind round and round is not conducive to falling off to sleep.

So why does this happen? To answer that question, let’s touch briefly on where our thoughts come from. Thoughts, in the form of pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells and internal dialogue (self talk), are all generated from within us and come from our Unconscious Mind. Our Unconscious Mind is that part of our mind that:

• Runs and preserves our body (fights bacteria, digests our food, beats our heart etc…),
   
• Is the domain of the emotions (generates emotions – the good and the bad),
   
• Stores all our beliefs, values and memories from our life,
   
• Represses memories with unresolved negative emotions attached to them and
   
• Presents these memories with unresolved negative emotions to the conscious mind for resolution.

“Wait! That’s what’s happening to me” I hear you say… which is happening at 1.35.am!

When you are thinking about something constantly, it’s just your Unconscious Mind wanting you to listen and learn something. In NLP, we believe that your Unconscious Mind has the answers you are looking for. It just wants to know you are listening and prepared to acknowledge what it is trying to tell you. That’s why it’s not letting you go to sleep yet.

With this technique you’re not necessarily going to resolve your problems right there and then, but just the fact that you are listening and respecting that part of you, it may just go ahead and resolve the issue all of it’s own accord. So if you are ready to learn this effective technique and gain the benefits... lets go!
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"The Prioritisor" - Time Management

Do you have a problem managing your time? Do you find there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything done? Are you spending too much time doing things that aren’t so important and never getting the more urgent things done?

Imagine for a minute that you were able to use a simple technique that would help you feel a sense of achievement everyday. Just imagine getting all the urgent tasks of the week done on time and still have hours up your sleeve to do other things.

Sounds good right? Then read on.


Most people when they write “To Do” lists struggle to get everything done in one day and end up feeling a sense of failure – like they haven’t achieved anything! Have you ever experienced days like that? Often people try to get everything done in one day starting at the top of a list and trying to work their way down it without prioritising each task. Then they wonder after doing ‘heaps of stuff’ (that’s an NLP technical phrase by the way), why they feel like they haven’t achieved anything!

NLP is about having the end result or goal in mind before embarking any activity. It’s also about having a simple and effective strategy or step by step process for achieving excellence.

So here’s a really quick and simple way that I find helps me get what I need to get done during the day (and the week), and to feel good at the end of each day about achieving everything I set out to do.

Click here to go to the simple process to find out how to easily manage your time!

Overcoming Overwhelm

A Mind Map of Your Life!

Our unconscious mind will not let us rest if we do not gain accomplishment or progress with our thoughts. It is said that we have over 90,000 thoughts a day and out of those 90,000, most of them we thought yesterday!

By not only writing down your thoughts, but also generalising your life into its different areas, this can stop you feeling overwhelmed for a number of reasons.

1. When we write down all of our thoughts and put them into different "life areas", we can become aware of how our thoughts are linked to others and so we realise we may not have as many things to do as we feel when these ideas are just floating around in our mind.

2. You may also find that you are buliding a great relationship between your unconscious mind and your conscious mind because when you start to write down what is in your conscious awareness you will then become susceptible to new ideas and concepts you may not have been initially aware of.

3. Writing down your thoughts and in this case also your goals and ideas, is a great way to "declutter" your mind. Once you have your thoughts on paper your unconscious mind will stop throwing too many thoughts your way that you won't be able to handle.

...so give it a go!

CLICK HERE to go to the simple process and to access the free template of a mind map.