What if there's a simple way to turn off nightmares ?  

By Lori Hammond

Coach and Professional Hypnotist. Giving you simple tools to stop overwhelm and harness joyful forward momentum.

Have you ever woken up from a bad dream and found it impossible to fall asleep again?  

(I sometimes do.)

Do your thoughts ever run away with you to the point that it feels like a nightmare inside your head?

(My thoughts sometimes do that.)

If I could show you a simple way to turn off nightmares would you be interested? 

I'm talking about the nightmares that happen in your sleep as well as the nightmares that we create in our own minds by overthinking about potential scary "what if" situations

I'm going to share 1 thing that has stopped my overthinking, waking-state nightmares (also known as anxiety or outright paranoia)...

And I'm going to share 1 thing that has given me relief from nightmares when I sleep, which is something I've struggled with since childhood. 

Please don't mistake what I just said to suggest that I've arrived. I haven't. 

Sometimes I still struggle with those things and when I remember the tools I'm about to show you, it stops daytime and nighttime nightmares in their tracks. 

Thing 1: Body Awareness Hypnosis

If you've ever tried to turn off overthinking using your mind then you already know it doesn't work. 

"You cannot control the mind with the mind." - Tim Ferriss

"When the mind isn’t where you want it to be, use the body to co

ntrol the mind." - Andrew Huberman

Body Awareness Hypnosis works because it bypasses the logical,

overthinking mind and tunes into the body as the antidote to overthinking.

Two things cannot be in the same place at the same time so the instant you

bring peaceful awareness to the body, it crowds out overthinking thoughts.

You can use Body Awareness Hypnosis as you fall asleep at night or during the

day to train your mind to shift away from anxious overthinking.

And guess what? I'm giving you the Bedtime Hypnosis audio that lets you get good at Body Awareness Hypnosis really quickly. (It's at the end of this email.)

Thing 2: Face Your Monster

I recently listened to a

conversation with Jordan Peterson and Roland Griffiths that snapped me out of

my nightmare trance almost immediately.

Here's the essence of what they said... (it's worth reading carefully)

Nothing in consciousness can hurt you.

If you dream of a scary image or a demon, get interested in it.

Be curious about it. 

So it's terrifying.

It's a construct created by you,

for you,

to terrify you.

Be interested in it and be curious about it, although the hair on the back of your head may be standing on end.

Ask it what it's doing there.

If you choose to run from it, then you’ll always be running from that demon. That’s going to annihilate you until you’re exhausted.

Or you may choose to fight it... but fighting it makes it real. 

So instead of reifying an image in your mind (making it more real and scary), take the demon and be really interested and curious about it. 

Ask yourself “What positive thing can I learn from this?”

Because the guarantee is that, whatever it is, it's not going to stay the same. When you investigate it, it's going to start changing.

It actually might become more terrifying...at first...

but it can't...

it can't and won't continue to be scary.

It's going to dissolve, and it may dissolve into something disgusting or beautiful or transcendent or silly, but it's going to change.

And, and your job is just to stay with the experience and recognize that you're empowered to approach whatever emerges in consciousness.

It is a hugely empowering experience for people to know that they have literally faced the dragon.

You have faced the greatest terror, whatever form it's taken, and you've come out recognizing that...

YOU ARE SAFE

You're empowered.

And that can be a life-changing experience in and of itself because after you really have been there with the demon, that worst demon of your dreams and faced it down and looked at it in its eyes and realized it's actually nothing other than an object of consciousness, nothing other than yourself...

Then what obstacle can life put up that will strike fear in you?

You become free.

So now, if I wake up in a cold sweat because of a scary dream, I close my eyes and go look at that scary thing. I observe it with the hair standing up on the back of my neck while I tell myself...

"I am safe. This is an object of consciousness...I'm doing this to myself."

And guess what? 

It works. 

Since I began doing this I've been experiencing more and more peace at night. My dreams are becoming more and more pleasant. 

You can experience the same results when you practice Thing 1 and Thing 2...

And it is a practice. Please don't expect to be good at it right away. 

Recap

Thing 1: Use Body Awareness Hypnosis to crowd out overthinking. (I'm gifting you my Body Awareness Hypnosis at the bottom of this email.)

Thing 2: Bravely face the construct of your imagination that's been haunting your dreams (waking or sleeping) by observing it with curiosity and saying, "I am safe. This is an object of consciousness." Then watch it transform before your very eyes. 

Be brave. 

You're on the brink of freedom.

I'm cheering for you. 

Love,

Lori

P.S. You can bookmark the link below to easily find the Body Awareness Hypnosis Audio any time.

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