[Light Sleeper Treatment Malaysia] What makes someone a light sleeper?

What makes someone a light sleeper? 

For some people, the slightest noise awakens them at night. For others, the wailing siren of a passing fire truck doesn’t disturb their slumber. Just why, though, remains a bit of a mystery. Although many people are self-proclaimed light sleepers or heavy sleepers, researchers have found that little is actually known about why people react differently to noises and other stimuli during sleep. Genetics, lifestyle choices, and undiagnosed sleep disorders may all play a role. In addition, some studies suggest that differences in brainwave activity during sleep may also make someone a light or heavy sleeper.

Light and Deep Sleep During sleep, you alternate between cycles of REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) that repeat about every 90 minutes. You spend about 75 percent of the night in NREM sleep, which consists of four stages of increasing relaxation. 

Stage one, or the phase between being awake and asleep, is considered light sleep. 

Deeper sleep begins in stage two, as your breathing and heart rate become regular and your body temperature drops. 

Stages three and four are the deepest and most restorative stages of sleep, in which breathing slows, muscles relax, and tissue growth and repair occurs. 

Someone who gets eight hours of sleep a night may not experience as much slow-wave, deep sleep as the person who get six hours of sleep.

What Contributes to Light Sleep?

A small study, published in 2010 in Current Biology, suggests that differences in how sleeping people respond to noise may be related to levels of brain activity called sleep spindles. The researchers found that people whose brains produced the most of these high-frequency sleep spindles were more likely to sleep through loud noises. But more research is needed to confirm the results. Dr. Neubauer said that if someone is complaining of not feeling rested because of being a light sleeper, they should look at the factors that might be contributing to the inability to achieve a deep sleep.

Now, for the first time, sleep researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, led by neurologist Dr. Jeffrey Ellenbogen, have isolated the brain-wave pattern that predicts where an individual's brain has struck a balance between those demands — a window into how likely noises are to wake people from deep sleep.

For the three-night study, Ellenbogen's group invited 12 volunteers who reported being deep and healthy sleepers into a sleep lab with a comfy queen-size bed outfitted with enormous speakers at the headboard. The researchers recorded the participants' brain waves as they slept normally the first night, and then on subsequent nights as they were bombarded with 14 different noises — from the din of car traffic and the roar of airplane engines to flushing toilets and slamming doors — which were played at progressively louder volumes.

Ellenbogen paid particular attention to the patterns generated by the thalamus, a region deep in the brain that processes incoming visual and auditory stimuli. He found that the number of pulses, known as sleep spindles, generated by this organ and measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG), which records electrical activity in the brain, varied among the sleepers. Those with the highest number of spindles were able to sleep through more sounds without waking than those whose brains showed fewer spindles. "We wanted to know, if we counted the spindles the first night, did that predict anything about their subsequent sleep?" says Ellenbogen. "And indeed it did. More spindles meant they were more likely to be protected from sleep disruption."

How newmindcentre.com can help you? 

1) Neuro-Hypnotherapy:

Doctors at Harvard University found that hypnotherapy actually promotes faster healing. Get hypnotized. Many insomniacs have tried this with great success. Under hypnosis, you might work out any personal issues that are robbing you of sleep. A clinical hypnotherapist can also "program" you to sleep. Our neuro-hypnotherapy technique able to help you! Personalized self-hypnosis method to fall asleep will be developed based on your brainwave response.

2) EEG biofeedback therapy/Neurotherapy 

EEG biofeedback/Neurotherapy is based on the international standardized 10-20 electrode location system. it is essentially a way of teaching you how to self-regulate your own electrical activity in the brain. A powerful tool for helping people fall asleep and stay asleep. Over 3,000 licensed health professionals such as psychologists, therapists, and doctors now use this new technology daily with patients. As a group, they report significant and consistent improvements for client sleep problems.

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Based on your condition, I can help you to find the cause and suggest appropriate treatment.

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Source:

http://www.ehow.com/how_7828707_cure-light-sleeping.html

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2009401,00.html

http://www.clearmindofcolorado.com/research-on-sleep-disorders/

Insomnia Treatment: 'Hypnosis helped me get to sleep'

Suzie, a chronic insomniac, turned to hypnosis after acupuncture, yoga, herbal teas and a regimented bedtime ritual failed to get her to sleep.

Through internet research, Suzie learnt how hypnotism could tackle the deep-seated issues disrupting her sleep.

She went on a self-hypnosis training programme, which consisted of five one-to-one sessions at University College London's Hypnosis Unit.

However, tests carried out at the unit suggested that Suzie may have a low level of hypnotic-suggestibility, meaning that she could not easily be hypnotised.

Her consultant, Dr Valerie Walters, decided to work on self-hypnosis techniques in an attempt to lower Suzie's adrenalin level, improve her ability to relax, reduce her anxious thoughts and prepare her body for sleep.

Anxiety as a barrier to sleep

"It was clear that anxiety was a problem," says Dr Walters. "High levels of adrenalin make it difficult to sleep."

Dr Walters says the self-hypnosis techniques, which all involve mental imagery, are adapted to the individual's own strengths.

In Suzie's case, visual imagery and sense of touch were important in creating a comfort zone, and triggering "good feelings".

"The theory is that if she can relax in that place, she can learn to have that same feeling in other situations," says Dr Walters.

For Suzie, the self-hypnosis techniques were particularly helpful, such as the scenario where she imagines that she's blowing bubbles in a relaxing setting of her choosing.

"The exercises have improved my concentration," she says. "At work, I'll do the bubble-blowing exercises between tasks.

"They make me more focused on what I'm doing. I'd even do them on the train. I can feel an immediate relaxation."

Sleep relaxation techniques

Another relaxation aid was the "favourite place" exercise, which was also based on Suzie's personal experiences.

"I'm lying in a hammock in my parents' garden," she says. "I'm reading a book or sleeping. It's sunny and really peaceful.

"To reach my favourite place, I walk down some steps and feel the warm stones under my bare feet. I get in the hammock and feel the book. A cat wanders over with its tail in the air. Then a dog comes to rest near me."

Dr Walters says it's important to suggest details, such as touch, and "actually feel" the comfort of the hammock.

She also worked on changing Suzie's attitude to sleep. "Suzie saw her anxiety as a permanent thing," she says. "That contributed to her problem."

Suzie thought that she could only fall asleep in complete silence, but she lived in a shared household, so this belief raised her anxiety.

In one relaxation technique, you imagine that you're breathing through your feet. You feel the breath move slowly up the body, down the arms and out of the hands.

"Hypnosis provided me with answers," Suzie says. "But it's not an overnight solution. I've learnt techniques, and it's up to me to keep working on them."

Source: 

http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/insomnia/pages/hypnosis.aspx

Neuro-hypnotherapy is first of its kind in Malaysia developed by myself by combining technology and art of science which is best of two worlds. It is a safe, non-invasive, drug-free and painless procedure whereby one is able to determine the brainwave state while conducting the neuro-hypnotherapy. To analyse the brainwaves, I use the neurotherapy technology, whereby one can observe the brainwave going into different state such as delta, theta, alpha and beta brainwave while the suggestion is being given by the hypnotherapist during the therapy session, personalized self-hypnosis method will be developed based on the brainwave observation.
If you are interested in learning a personalized self hypnosis method, contact us now.

[Review] Anxiety management Malaysia: Neuro-hypnotherapy helped me to fall asleep faster and reduce anxiety symptoms

ST (40 years old), a highly anxious woman, turned to neuro-hypnotherapy when everything else failed. Through medical doctor advice, she learnt how neuro-hypnotherapy could deal with the issues that disrupting her sleep pattern. 
Before she was undergoing therapeutic sessions for her own anxiety symptoms, she obtained the score of 41 (High anxiety) on Beck Anxiety Inventory. At the end of her neuro-hypnotherapy session, her score reduced to 13(Low Anxiety) on Beck Anxiety Inventory.
The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is designed to measure sleep quality and disturbance over a 1-month period. All scores are combined according to the scoring criteria included with the form to produce a Global PSQI Score. Scores above 5 indicate clinically meaningfully disturbed or poor sleep. The global score on the PSQI was reduced significantly from 10 (very poor sleep quality) to 4 (better sleep quality).




ST:
I can't stop worrying about death and dying. I've been constantly imagining about death and how then everyone will care about me. I can't sleep because I'm afraid I'm going to die. My medical doctor told me to avoid taking sleeping pills because he knows how addictive they can be.
The other thing is I always have a horrible sharp pain under my shoulder, My medical doctor gave me painkiller and advised me to see a mental health care professional.

I met Hiro Koo during a corporate health talk. After the EEG brainwaves analysis session, I know myself better and able to find a way to treat the root cause of my issues. I choose the neuro-hypnotherapy because my issues can be managed without medications and no side effects.

The biggest difference before and after neuro-hypnotherapy? Well, now it takes me 15 minutes on average to fall asleep! Previously, it takes more than 30 minutes for me to fall asleep. I become happier, less fearful about death, less anxious and feel calmer than ever.
I also learned personalized self hypnosis method from Hiro Koo for pain management. I see a very noticeable improvement after a month of treatment. Absolutely no pain now with no noticeable side effects. I am impressed!

I would definitely recommend your services to any friend who need help. I am very pleased with neuro-hypnotherapy, which have significantly improved the functions of my health and quality of my life. I am very thankful to Hiro Koo for good help at the needful time.



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