Here’s Nic, have a listen:

He’s straight forward, easy to understand and talks about going beyond the

debilitating problems of anxiety and panic attacks.

We asked Nic to be featured on Sleep With The Experts for two reasons.  Firstly he is a medical researcher and editor of an international medical journal, and secondly, he personally suffered from and overcome anxiety and panic disorder.

I know, through my years of listening to people just like you, that anxiety and panic are  the reasons some people can’t sleep, never fall asleep fast and are desperate to know how to fall asleep.

We invited him on to the series as a sleep expert for these reasons. 

You’ll also find out about Nic’s extensive research into benzodiazepines during his period of searching for his solutions.

Here is one of a number of videos Rod Sherwin (our sleep expert from Week 8 of the webinar series) has up on You Tube.

You might like to go and check out more of his demonstration videos.

So instead of saying “I can’t sleep” when you are going to bed, or in the middle of the night, decide to use the strategy of tapping  to work your way through the problem, and find your sleep solutions this way.

And Rod’s demonstration was very clear during the webinar… you can actually tap away during the webinar itself, following his lead.  He was very practical.

The reason we featured Rod Sherwin as a sleep expert is his ability to teach people how to relieve anxiety to help them fall asleep fast. 

And if you wake in the middle of the night you can use his EFT techniques to fall asleep again, rather than experiencing the frustration of lying there, trying to sleep, with no strategies on how to sleep better.

Click here to find out information on just one of the 50+ food additives and colourings mentioned by sleep expert Sue Dengate in her presentation “Fed Up with Sleep Disturbance”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6huSqO84Gc

Sue Dengate also reported that MSG had been implicated (along with a number of other artificial substances) in a case of a child who suffered from sleep apnea and snoring.

So there are a number of reasons not to eat MSG.

When making this decision, be very mindful of the variety of words and descriptions that are used by manufacturers and fast food outlets.

e.g. apart from the descriptions and names mentioned in the video above they can also include

• flavour enhancer 621,
• hydrolysed/formulated,
• vegetable/plant/soy protein
• HVP, HPP
• yeast extract/s
• broth

And THEN there are the additives that are used to enhance the flavour enhancer MSG…  hmmm  now there is a new slant on it!

So watch out for 627 and 631 – E627 and E631.

When 627 or 631 are included in addition to MSG (under whatever name they have chosen to declare it as) then they boost the effective MSG up to fifteen times. (Source:  Sleep With The Experts, Sue Dengate, Week 2 webinar, 2009)

In your case will you find out how to sleep better and fall asleep fast just by cutting out all MSG from your diet?

That might be a very simple sleep solution. 

Organic food might be the only way for some people to safely know that they are avoiding all chemicals. 

We won’t go into the discussions as to whether all ‘organic’ labelling is fine…  but rather consider the broad idea that at least we know that with truly organic food, we might find the cure for insomnia, or at least one of them.

One secret to natural sleep remedies and natural sleep aids can be to educate yourself about the foods you eat, the perfumes you use, and how to read labels – which involves some competance with labeling laws and loopholes.   

This may sound daunting, and without Sue Dengate’s quality information I think it would be.

Chemicals, preservatives, additives, synthetic antioxidants, colourings etc are part of modern manufacturing because we are ‘moving away from the farm’ – but there are costs involved in our reliance on other people and companies to produce the foods and environments we live in.

You don’t have to go ‘back in time’ and refuse all processed foods, but you do have to be very careful about what you eat, and the chemicals in your life in order to fall asleep fast and sleep better and sleep deeper. 

Especially if certain food intolerances are your specific (and possibly ONLY?! problem).

The complex life just got more complicated.  No wonder we are wondering how to fall asleep!

It has been proven many times over that ‘other people’ and some companies do not have our best interests at heart. 

It is naive to think differently.

The last night of Sleep With The Experts wrapped the whole series.

Week 9 sifted down the 50-plus types of insomnia to a manageable and understandable 10 Insomnia Types™. 

Here are Elizabeth’s Ten Insomnia Types™:

Type A  – Difficulty Getting to Sleep

Type B – Difficulty Staying Asleep

Type C – Waking Too Early in the Morning

Type D – Drugs, Food Additives and Colourings

Type E – Varying Sleep Times (shift-work, jet-lag, circadian rhythm issues) 

Type F – Muscles and Muscular.  Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), twitching, etc.

Type G – Illness and Pain – includes sleep apnea

Type H – Mind Games (depression, anxiety, phobias etc)

Type I – Environment (snorning partners, overheating in bed, living on a train track etc)

Type J – Decisions, Decisions (mortgage, relationship, job, etc)

Elizabeth Shannon presents What's Your Insomnia Type?

The best part?

 I matched specific, practical and non-drug solutions to each Insomnia Type™.

If you were in on the webinar finale, you already know that many of these sleep solutions have never been presented to the public before, in fact some were launched publicly for the first time during Sleep With The Experts.

Obviously series wrap up forces you to think strategically, and get specific on exactly why you can’t sleep, and how you can’t sleep.

The training program goes into full detail of the types of sleeping problems, how to fall asleep and fall asleep fast. 

How to sleep better and stay asleep once you are asleep. 

How to prevent yourself from waking in the night and waking up too early in the morning. 

The other insomnia types include the sleep environment, health issues around sleep, the side effects of some drugs (both prescribed and recreational), muscle tension, restless legs syndrome etc.

And we haven’t forgotten the very important considerations with circadian rhythms and how they are disturbed with international travel, shiftwork etc.  These areas of sleep are becoming more and more public, as we all realise that some of our most vital occupations are subject to sleep deprivation, long hours of work and very little consideration of the consequences.  We rely on our ambulance drivers, medical doctors, nurses, air traffic controllers, pilots etc.

All sleep solutions provided in the training program are natural sleep remedies and natural sleep aids – and Elizabeth has matched the sleep solutions to each Insomnia Type.

And the home remedies for insomnia are not ones that you have normally heard about. 

Here is your passport to world-first information on how to sleep better.

Sleep Tight

Elizabeth

Rod Sherwin, Twitter’s TheTappingMan teaches Emotional Freedom  Technique (EFT) for better sleep, relieving anxiety and panic and controlling emotions generally.

Actually DURING this week’s webinar you can make a difference! 

Can you imagine the relief it will be to actually use EFT during the webinar to get results straight away?  Could it be this instant and that simple? 

We think so.  EFT is pretty amazing stuff, and no, it’s NOT logical.  If you’re a very left brained, analytical person, you’ll just have to ‘get over it’.  Sorry… but you’re missing out on some things!

Rod Sherwin is Mr Practicality – and he’s going to take you through some processes during the webinar so you know exactly what to do to relieve stress, anxiety, fears, phobias and worries.

And I know this stuff works, because I was introduced to it about 25 years ago, and I absolutely don’t understand why everyone isn’t into it.   

Rod Sherwin, Emotional Freedom Technique

Rod Sherwin is an Energy Therapist with over 8 years experience helping people create change in their life. 

While Rod’s primary technique is EFT, he also uses his experience with Energy Medicine, 6-Human Needs Psychology, Neuro-Associative Conditioning, Solutions-Focus Brief Therapy, Relationship Polarity, and Creative Problem Solving.

It’s the simplicity of EFT that confounds most people, because it isn’t logical at all… but it works.

So you have to embrace the unknown, put your left brain to sleep for a while, and learn how to move beyond anxiety, stress and bad emotional feelings.

Now I didn’t say out of your comfort zone.  It’s within everyone’s comfort zone!  In fact, it’s so easy I don’t know why everyone’s not doing it.  

There’s nothing new about these disciplines either. 

Meridian theory was catalogued by Huang Ti approximately 4,500 year ago.  The work has continued since then, with major ’westernisation and modernisation’ in the 1960s coming from George J Goodheart, founder of applied kinesiology.

John Diamond M.D., DPM, FRANZCP, MRCPsych, FIAPM, DIBAK was the guy to link the meridian system to emotions.  (He graduated as a doctor from Sydney University in 1957, and received his diloma in Psychological Medicine in 1962). 

The other ’father’ in this area is Dr Roger J Callaghan who began the discipline Thought Field Therapy (TFT) roughly 30 years ago, who states even now, that his favourite breakthrough is ‘psychological reversal’.

EFT, the work commenced by Gary Craig,  is a simple to learn and self-apply form of “emotional acupressure” that you can use to ease the stress, fears, worries and anxiety keeping you from getting the great night’s sleep you deserve.

And there are techniques included in the webinar that you can use, lying in bed, without moving much, to help you when you wake up anxious in the night.

You’re in for a treat!

Elizabeth

Webinar Week 7 – Unlocking The Secrets of Music and Sleep. 

We already know that music has an effect on us, but would you like to hold the secret on how the use music to:

• Distract from pain? 
• Achieve brain entrainment? 
• Obtain cathartic release of emotions? 
• Reduce anxiety? 
• Help restlessness? 
• Assist depression? 

Angela Sciberras teaches us how to consciously select music for our targeted results around falling asleep, sleeping better, distracting from pain, relieving stress and anxiety, catharsis from depression and grief, etc. 

Angela Sciberras - Sleep Music Expert

Angela Sciberras is a Certified Therapeutic Musician (International Healing Musicians Program USA with pioneer Stella Benson) (harp).  She is a Bachelor of Arts Music with honours in Ethnomusicology and a Kinesiologist/Neuro-trainer. 

Angela works in palliative and aged care, and has just completed her book Death the Door, Music a Key.  She actively promotes the inclusion of therapeutic music into the Australian health service through her speaking engagements and conferences.   

Sciberras says that 3 of the leading causes of insomnia are pain, anxiety and spiritual pain, each of which she has addressed in her work. 

Her information will also help musicians who attend the webinar who wish to help members of their family and friends with the methods she will teach. 

She explains exactly how melody, harmony and rhythm fit in.  And of course, that phrase she’s mentioned “Music Dosage”. 

This week is a bit of a departure from previous weeks, its a crescendo of information on music and sleep!  

Here are the other topics Angela covers during this huge 2 hour webinar:

• Breath matching, deep listening, intuitive listening
• The three strains of music – weeping, slumber and merry
• The five basic effects of music on the body: distraction, imagery, emotions, catharsis, relaxation.
• History of rhythm, music, singing, dancing, movement and how they relate to healing and wellness.
• Her experience with helping people sleep better, pain management, to sooth emotional pain, distractionary music in palliative care settings. 
• Specific power music suggestions including nature sounds, holosync, intonations, solo acoustic, speach, guided mediations, even humming, toning exercises, ahhh, etc.
• Music and colour and the Pythagorean understanding

This webinar was incredibly information rich!  

Amazing information beyond music, to sounds, vibrations and strategies to implement.

If Angela can help people fall asleep who are in pain, and haven’t slept for weeks, there’s hope for us all.

Elizabeth

Here’s Angela previewing some of the content of her week on Sleep With The Experts:

Sleep Better by Overcoming Your Sensitive Reaction Syndrome, Andrew Verity’s special topic for week 6 of the webinar series.

He contentiously told me beforehand that ”it’s as simple as changing from the awake state to the sleep state?” which I know will press a few buttons out there!  Sounds so easy!!

Too good to be true?  It can’t be that easy?  It’s a habit you can’t change?  You’re over the simplistic answers that don’t solve the problem?

Think again.  And from a completely new perspective.

Andrew Verity is just the guy to give that new perspective – as he talks Sensitivity and Change.

The perspective that he’s gained from 36 years in alternative health.

The perspective that’s drawn from a combination of naturopathy, homeopathy, iridology, cheirology, psycho-somatic analysis, applied personology and kinesiology.

The perspective of Neuro-Training – Andrew’s internationally recognised, new healing modality, that has recently been ‘institutionalised’ in Australia.

Andrew Verity, World founder of Neuro-Training

“I have spent many years learning alternative health areas and never found one that had it all.”  Andrew Verity

Andrew is an international teacher and consultant to the alternative health and kinesiology industry, based primarily in Tenerife, Spain.

So we are extremely excited to have him on our series… if you’re AWAKE (and have a pulse) you will definitely not miss this one!

Andrew Verity explains and empowers the listener with the following world-first technologies and understandings:

• An understanding of exactly what is important to your body, your subconscious mind, your nervous system and our genetics.
• Armed with this information he develops his hypotheses on exactly how each of those systems gets stressed, and
• finally, gives the viewer his techniques to overcome the Sensitive Reaction Syndrome in each of those areas.  This includes his unique “Options Generator” process, you can do at home anytime, micro-movement processes, and many more insights that certainly I have never heard of (and I expect most listeners have not either).

This is indeed world-class information, and fascinating, even if sleep is NOT your problem.

Elizabeth

You know that emotions affect your body and sleep patterns, don’t you?

And you now know that sleeping pills won’t solve your underlying sleeping problems?

You know that insomnia is always a symptom of something else, don’t you?

Would you like to know how to make friends with your emotions in order to avoid depression and procrastination and sleep better?

Week 4′s webinar addresses the emotions that stop us from falling asleep, and keep us awake at night (if we wake) and early morning, when we can’t get back to sleep.

Domenica Papalia, Pharmacist and Healer

Domenica Papalia started her career with 17 years as a clinical pharmacist – treating disease through hospitals and research teams.  Her exposure to human challenges included drug addiction clinics.

Domenica’s deep desire to assist people to overcome their challenges led her to the study and practice of advanced mind/body/energy principles and techniques where she has more than 12 accreditations.

Domenica has helped hundreds of people across more than 10 countries to untangle their emotions.

Now, let’s make that YOU.

Domenica’s thorough investigation covers the following areas:

• Sleeping pills, withdrawal, addiction, adverse effects, effectiveness, myths.  She investigates whether they might do more harm than good.
• Sleep phases/cycles
• The dangers of sleep deprivation
• The range of emotions that keep us awake and effect our health generally.  From shame and guilt and apathy, to neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, peace…  Anger, sadness, fear, joy.
• Exactly how emotions effect our body and sleep – naming the exact parts of our physical body that relate to emotions.
• How to use emotions to self diagnose and empower yourself to find solutions.
• 7 ways to a better night’s sleep.

Domenica effectively mixes the traditional and complementary medical models to give new perspective on the problem of insomnia and emotional inbalance.

Elizabeth

Nic Lucas’s expertise for Week 3 of Sleep With The Experts was Anxiety.

What’s the great thing about Nic’s take on Anxiety?  He is a medical researcher, and editor AS WELL AS  a success case study on anxiety.  So what he had to tell us was excellent, and practically based.   

Anxiety is widespread and affects people from all walks of life.

It affects your day, and your nights.  Understanding that anxiety is more than often a behavioral problem than a medical problem can be the first step toward recovery.

Nic Lucas - Anxiety and Sleep Disorders

Nic Lucas is a public health researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney where he is undertaking his PhD in the reliability of diagnostic tests.  He has a masters degree in health science, a masters degree in pain medicine, and a grad. dip. in clinical epidemiology.  He has lectured here in Australia and internationally on pain medicine, neurobiology and research methods and he is an editor of an international scientific journal.  He is also a qualified osteopath – and has been in private practice for 10 years, treating people who primarily present with physical pain.

In his late twenties, Nic developed panic disorder, and then generalised anxiety disorder and was affected by this problem for 4-5 years.  During this time he did not take medication and received no formal psychological therapy.  

He has been free of anxiety for 7 years and has written a book and developed an online program for anxiety sufferers.  This was prompted in part by the large number of patients Nic sees in his private practice who confide to having ‘anxiety’ for the first time – and who have never sought help.  Nic calls these, “the invisible sufferers of anxiety”.

This webinar had an amazing response from the audience, especially those who were secretly suffering from anxiety and/or panic.

Nic built hope for the listeners, and ways to get passed anxiety and panic – straight from his own personal experience.

What amazed me personally was the level of complex research that Nic had done around all aspects of anxiety – the drugs, the solutions, the evidence-based studies, the myths debunked!

His personal, open and frank style, dealing with the hardships and the personal challenges was both warm and practical.

I hope you enjoy Nic’s take on going beyond anxiety and panic.

If they are your problems, this may be your sleep solution.

Elizabeth