This Might Help You Sleep



Some health problems are relatively simple to solve, but poor sleep unfortunately isn't one of them. There are many causes of poor sleep, so one solution isn't going to help everyone. And, to complicate matters, poor sleep often is the result of not one problem, but two, or even three. On the positive side most of each of the individual causes of poor sleep are simple in and of themselves. The trick then is to pull apart the layers of poor sleep and solve each of them.

Having said all that though, there are a couple of things that help most people who have sleep problems. For some of you these will be all you need. For others these tips should provide some relief, at the very least.


Firstly, when you can't sleep, notice your breathing. Notice if your In-breath is longer than your Out-breath, or visa-versa. These are two different types of sleep problems. If the In-breath is longer, likely you are obsessing, and if the Out-breath is longer likely your poor sleep is the result of anxiety. There are simple ways of treating both of these.

If your In-breath is longer take homeopathic Sulphur, and use a little mental discipline; stop obsessing. Go to a health food store and but some Sulph 30, or Sulph 12, or as close to that as possible. Take one dose 20 minutes before bed, and one more dose just as you are getting into bed. Keep the Sulph beside your bed and take a dose if you wake in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep.

If your Out-breath is longer, do the exact same thing with homeopathic China.

If your Out breath is longer, note how often you are not present during the day. Note how often you are daydreaming. Daydreaming is not harmless. Be present, try to daydream a little less. Daydreaming leads to anxiety and can eventually lead to serious heart problems.

Also, from a general health point of view, it isn't a bad idea to have your blood sugar checked. And, have your thyroid tested. The blood sugar test is to rule out diabetes. Once you have ruled out diabetes, which will be the case for most of you, then do something somewhat counterintuitive. Eat as though you are diabetic. Eat more protein. Don't go to bed hungry, and don't go to bed full. The reason I say that is many people have sub-clinical blood sugar problems. These won't show up on a glucose fasting test, but nevertheless sugars aren't being digested and assimilated as well as they should. If you eat as though you are a Type 2 diabetic and you find you sleep better, then likely you are one of these people.

If you have treated yourself as though you are a Type 2 Diabetic and found you sleep better, then do one more thing. Every night before you go to bed, take one dose of homeopathic Capsicum. This should help further.

This will be especially true if you are feeling a lack of joy in your life, or if you are feeling emotionally flat. If that is the case, for one week take three doses a day of Capsicum, not including your one dose before bed. Then after the week, continue with one dose at night for another week. For one week each month for three or four months do a week of three doses a day of Capsicum. Take each of these doses 1/2 hour after eating.

There are also two simple breathing techniques that help a person fall asleep, or fall back to sleep if awoken during the night. The first one is something that can be done at any moment of distress, the second is specific to sleep.



General Breathing Technique:

Notice your breathing. Is your In-breath longer than your Out-breath, or is the Out portion longer than the In Portion? Also, note if any gaps exist at the end of the In, or at the end of the Out portions. That is, do you hold your breath in, or do you leave yourself breathless for a few seconds?

Gently, easily eliminate any gaps that might exist between the In and Out phases of breathing. Then, gently, easily equalize the In portion and Out portion. Make them the same lengths. Don't worry if each breath is longer or shorter than another breath, just make sure each breath is equally weighted in terms of inhalation and exhalation. So, it doesn't matter if one breath is eight seconds from start to finish and the next is twelve seconds, just as long as you inhale as long a time as you exhale, and there aren't any gaps between inhalation and exhalation.

Don't force this, or count in your mind. Just move gently towards this equalization.

Next, once your breathing has been equalized think 'So' during the In portion, and 'Hum' during the 'Out'. Do this for 12 full breaths.

Often that will put someone to sleep. There is a valid reason for this, but it takes almost a book to fully explain it, so I won't go into the full explanation here. Give the above a try though, not only when you need to sleep, but at any moment when you are obsessing, or anxious, or in fear.





Specific Sleep Breathing Technique:

Very briefly, thought forms in eight stages. Errors in each stage result in different types of diseases, because errors in thinking lie at the root of most, if not all, of our diseases. Errors in combinations of these stages likewise form more complex diseases. Different medicines work on these different stages of thinking. Everything is medicine. Sitting in the sun is medicine. What you think is medicine. Food is medicine. Different attitudes are medicine. Stones are medicine. Sounds are medicine.

In some way the most powerful medicines are the ones that are least intrusive. The most powerful medicines are the ones that least overshadow the person and yet gently nudge the person towards health. Sometimes an overshadowing medicine is necessary, or seemingly is necessary; a painkiller, for example, overshadows the person, but at the right time and right place can be very, very appropriate.

From my perspective sounds are the most powerful of all medicine, yet the subtlest. The first breathing technique touches on sound as medicine with its use of 'So' and 'Hum'. This second technique uses sound to help put you to sleep.

For my alternative health practice I test medicines of all types. I do this by taking my pulse after having taken the medicine and noting how my pulse have been affected. I then compare this to the pulses I have felt of people with different diseases. In this way, I can see what medicine can affect which disease.

One day I attempted to discern the effects of the following particular sound on my pulse at the end of my meditation. I never did so, because I fell asleep. I thought I must have been more tired than I had realized. A few days after, I tried it again during my meditation and again fell asleep. A few days after that I was awake in the middle of the night and tried it and once again I fell immediately asleep. Over and over, each time I tried to use this sound and then test my pulses I failed, because each time I fell asleep.

I thought, 'Aha, I'm on to something.

Since then I have tried this with many people and it works very well in many, many cases. But it does not work with all people fully. However, it is well worth a try. I would be surprised if it does not work at least somewhat with everyone, as this has been my experience to date.

To start, use the General Breathing Technique right through until the end of the 12 breaths using 'So' and 'Hum'.

Next, begin to think the following three sounds in the following way:

Think 'Yeh' during an In breath.

Think 'Shew during the Out portion.

Think 'Ah' during the next In breath.

Then, think nothing during the next Out breath.

Repeat until you fall asleep.

Yeh (In), Shew (Out), Ah (In), pause (Out). Repeat for five to ten minutes.

Yeh, has an 'e' sound like the 'e' in get. Shew is as it looks. And Ah is the aah of an exhalation, but not necessarily elongated.

Please note, when you think these sounds they are not clearly pronounced. They are thought quietly. They are a faint idea. This is not a clear strong repetition.

For those of you who try this, please let me know how it went. This will help me modify it to make it more helpful for more people.

You can reach me at steve@asimplemethod.com or go directly to the website at www.asimplemethod.com

At the website you will find the technique itself of Simple Method. Please feel free to download it and give it a try. It is a general technique to help break disease as it forms. And, it helps restore Peace, Joy, and Inspiration to a person who has temporarily misplaced these three essential qualities.

Good luck with all of this.