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.

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

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

Melatonin, Serotonin and Stress Strategies
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Serotonin, the potent vasoconstrictor and neurotransmitter is found particularly in the brain and intestinal tissue and blood-platelets.

In fact, did you know that about 90% of serotonin is produced in the gut?

This webinar features the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and the enteric nervous system (gut).

Melatonin and serotonin are tied in with the enteric nervous system.  They’re independent, and they often don’t talk to each other.

Geraldine Gallagher, Melatonin and Serotonin

Our special guest this week, Geraldine Gallagher, is a Sydney kinesiologist, practitioner and instructor of kinesiology programs, both in Australia and overseas.  Gallagher has expolored many modalities and now teaches Neuro-training programs, mentors practitioners, and has presented conference papers in Australia, Italy, Belgium, England and Ireland.  Gallagher has studied homeopathy, is a qualified Master Practitioner of NLP and was the president of the Kinesiology Association of NSW for 5 years.  She has authored two successful programs Creative Nutrition and Essence of Change.

Twenty four years in clinical practise has enabled her to research a unique range of flower and gem essences specifically focused on overcoming common problems related to change (including stress and sleep) and they have a direct link to the ancient Chinese philosophy through the hexagrams of the I Ching.

This was a fascinating night with Geraldine, a long-time personal friend of mine.

Her understanding of sleep includes information on the two nervous systems (entheric and autonomic) and their relationship to melatonin and serotonin, the part the vagus nerve plays and the essences she has personally developed to help with sleep, stress, change, motivation, and many other aspects of life.

Her approach is unique and the proposed sleep solutions.

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

Hi Everyone

Yea, I know heaps of you have been asking me about the Sleep With The Experts Webinar Series that commenced in July 2009 and finished late August.

The series will be available for sale very soon.

And I know it has taken a while to get it to you.  We’ve been transcribing it word for word, because the information is that important.  And we are getting there!

Hopefully we will be finished all the transcripts by the end of next week.

They’ll all be available in .pdf form so you can download the lot from the internet.

And the Sleep With The Experts pack will also include the original videos produced from the webinar series.

So, be patient, we are working on the product, and will be telling you all about it as soon as we have uploaded the product so that you can access it.

Sleep Tight

Elizabeth