Of course stress and sleep are related.

The cure for insomnia is sometimes complicated.  For one person the secret could be home remedies for insomnia (as simple as listening to their favourite sleep music, meditating to relax, high quality herbal teas, vibrational essences – similar to Bach flower remedies, etc).

But for others the cure for insomnia might only be found by investigating 10 food additives and colourings that they might be sensitive to, learning a tapping procedure to reduce their anxiety, resolving issues from the past (that they may or may not even remember!), etc. 

And all this can be done, thankfully.

Sleep solutions then, come in many forms – that’s why we have set up this complete training program, and called in a variety of sleep experts.

What you can be sure of, is that they are all natural sleep remedies or natural sleep aids and include conversations and explanations on home remedies for insomnia too.

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.

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

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

The ground-breaking Sleep With The Experts webinar series was broadcast from Sydney Australia commencing July 2009.
The 9 week training program featured 7 guest experts, and delivered world-class information on natural sleep strategies including:

* The 50+ food additives and chemicals that are associated with sleep problems, including disturbed sleep, anxiety, depression, bed-wetting, snoring, sleep apnea, ADHD, nightmares, sleep walking, sleep talking, etc. The information was provided by nominee for Australian of the Year, Sue Dengate.
* Anxiety and how to overcome it – presented by Nic Lucas, medical researcher and editor of an international medical publication, who cured his own anxiety without medication.
* Emotions that keep you awake. Presented by Domenica Papalia, 17 years experience as a pharmacist, combined with 12 qualifications in natural and energy healing.
* Melatonin, serotonin, the vagus nerve; the autonomic and the enteric nervous systems. Stress reduction strategies. Geraldine Gallagher, international lecturer and 5 times President of the NSW Kinesiology Association.
*Better Sleep by Overcoming your Sensitive Reaction Syndrome. The Neuro-Training perspective, presented by the founder Andrew Verity. Verity is an international teacher and consultant to the alternative health and kinesiology industry. His 36 years in alternative health included iridology, kinesiology, homeopathy, Cheirology, Psycho-somatic analysis and applied personology.
* Sleep Music, presented by Angela Sciberras, Bachelor of Arts Music with honours in Ethnomusicology, Kinesiologist/Neuro-Trainer and Therapeutic Musician (International Healing Musicians Program USA).
* Anxiety and stress relief using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Rod Sherwin, twitter’s TheTappingMan, teaches EFT from the basics to practitioner training. He combines his 8 years experience with a wealth of other health modalities.
* What’s your Insomnia Type? It’s the subject of Elizabeth Shannon’s upcoming book, where she distils industry information and matches natural solutions to each of the insomnia types.

Hope you enjoy it, it’s coming very soon.

Kindest regards

Elizabeth