Help Wakeful Clients Get Rest with the Go Back to Sleep Hypnosis Script

Restless periods in the night happen to everyone at some point, and usually such episodes pass of their own accord. But occasionally a pattern of waking up in the night can get so firmly established that it will have a damaging impact on mental and physical health. As waking up is not an activity under our conscious control, it can be difficult to know what to do to change this pattern.

The Go Back to Sleep Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help people who find that they wake up too often at night learn how to train their minds and bodies to fall asleep again naturally.

The script opens with a pre-talk that explains the basics of healthy sleep patterns. The client is reminded that sleep occurs in several phases of deeper and lighter periods, and that waking up in the middle of the night is a natural part of the sleep cycle.

The importance of relaxation techniques as a tool for encouraging sleep is discussed, and the client is assured that the hypnosis session will prepare their body and mind to more easily ease back into a restorative sleep state after waking.

The induction begins by asking the client to become "open to the possibility" of getting back to sleep faster than usual, and feeling better in the morning as a result. The client is reminded that no one can recall the instant when their body descends into sleep, and that it's only after waking that anyone knows they have slept. An embedded command anchors the concepts of deep sleep in the client's unconscious mind.

The client is ushered into a deeper calm through the use of a progressive relaxation, which guides the client to experience relaxation throughout their body.

During the trancework portion of the script, the client is reminded of their own history, when they were able to sleep in the back of a car or in their bed at home, where they felt cozy.

The client is guided through a process to remember the sensation they felt in their younger years, just before they began to dream.

The client is reminded about animals, who spend the winter in states of hibernation, curled up amid the din of a busy forest. In these states, animals are able to rest despite noisy weather patterns, like thunderstorms. Even if an animal in hibernation is awoken, they find it easy to fall back into a deep slumber so that they are fully rested when spring comes. An embedded command anchors this concept in the client's unconscious mind.

The full script continues.

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Get Back to Sleep is also available as an MP3 download.