What About Sleep Problems? Insomnia?

Many of my viewers ask me about how to deal with Insomnia or sleep problems. Here's my spin on this super important topic.
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[@monicathrasher3561]

Absolutely no sleep efforts, rules, rituals. Start with accepting what sleep you get. When hyperarousal is experienced, befriend it. This will rewire your brain. Don’t feed the fear by trying to push it away. Watch TV in bed, do the opposite. I suffered for 15 years with wrong thinking. But God used it all for good!!

[@briechilli4496]

How did you cope everyday those 15 yrs ? Did you take sleep meds at all ?

[@ItsErnst]

wait so we shouldnt have sleep rituals? mine takes over an hour right now and i rarely wake up refreshed

[@monicathrasher3561]

@@ItsErnst no. Watch sleep coach school by Dr. Daniel. Our efforts make getting to sleep worse

[@Jamiet-lk8xq]

Don't have sleep rituals if the stress you or make you think about not getting good sleep.

[@Nicolebrooke777]

So you watch TV in bed?

[@lakshyamalhotra8867]

Thank you for showing up everyday relentlessly, I am grateful :))

[@PainFreeYou]

You are so welcome

[@BrendaRodriguez-bq1yh]

So... I fell asleep while listening last night. This was not the first time your soothing, calm presence has lulled me to sleep! The great thing is I can always go back and watch another time. Thank you for teaching me how to feel safe!

[@PainFreeYou]

Wonderful! I wasn't planning on this video being a sleep aid directly - but if it works. haha Why not?

[@skaa456]

Thanks, Dan for you tidbits on sleep. I never thought about my dread of having a bad night could be a bad visualization. I will certainly try to visualize good memories of sleep. I like your straight talk and that you’re relatable. 👍🏻

[@PainFreeYou]

Glad you liked the concepts shared.

[@thedude8526]

Im struggling with this right now. My symtoms have been switching from back pain, which I stopped caring about as much, and now its insomnia and sleep issues which is bugging me. Gotta do my best to just not get angry over it like I have been. I was so frustrated last night even though I knew that response would not help me.

[@katiedex24]

I had really bad insomnia after I had Covid. I realize now it was my belief about sleep. Once I stopped overthinking (took a couple months) sleep is natural eventually you will sleep. But the more you try to sleep it feels like a performance and the brain is scanning it like a scared child performing on stage. I still have sleepless night sometimes… it happens . The best way to move past it is to just accept that sometimes it happens

[@PainFreeYou]

Love this approach. Stressing about sleep ensures we stay awake.

[@valerie963]

@katiemullen5664 this is me right now. Doesn’t help that I have a cold but it’s also making me super stuffed up. Any more tips are super helpful!!

[@PainFreeYou]

@@valerie963 I don't have more tips. The ones in the video should do the trick. Being sick does make it a bit worse, but the mindset stuff will help.

[@valerie963]

@@PainFreeYou thank you. I normally don’t watch anything on my phone if I wake up like that because of what you mentioned but this video happened to pop in my feed. It’s the fearing that I’m working on. How we don’t fear being awake is a huge one!

[@Russellrodberg]

Thank you, this is a huge issue with me for most of my life, once i shut down the light, its like my inner hard drive starts thinking what i should do tomorrow about this and that, I use soothing meditation music, sometimes it works, I will try today what you suggested today.

[@PainFreeYou]

Also - write your todo list for tomorrow before you climb into bed. You can do this. And change the script from "sleep is hard" to "I fall asleep easily".

[@joaniemiller4362]

There are some good yoga Nidra KZbin out there for sleep . The mindful movement. It helps me. Relax app is good too . Nature scenes with soft ambient music. Helps me. I turn my screen light down too

[@noonespecial4171]

I swear by yoga nidra.

[@dr.amitabhamukherjee3601]

Another immensely helpful video. Vanquishing TMS is this man's life mission. We the foot soldiers are tagging along.

[@PainFreeYou]

Thank you!

[@sherylmarshall1444]

Thanks for this will try tonight ❤ you always have a video for each situation 😊

[@alexekrasnomowitz1280]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am a "poster child" of this video. I think I have a plan. Ill keep you posted. Snowbound in Jersey. ❄

[@PainFreeYou]

Snowbound here too. Even more today.

[@LilyOscar333]

That was wonderful talk on Insomnia and told in such plain clear English 👍 .. as we think we are. I will put your suggestions into practice from tonight. Thank you 🙏

[@PainFreeYou]

Wonderful!

[@sweetmountainbaby]

Hi Dan , it’s my pain that keeps me from sleeping 😢 I’m not fearful of sleep I would welcome it ❤

[@maatjederegt7434]

I am fortunate and thankful. Every evening I am looking forward to go to bed, safe and warm, to have a good sleep and being without pain.❤

[@PainFreeYou]

Wonderful!

[@cdracos1]

Me too , at least 10 hrs of painfree bliss , one day we will say the same about the conscious hours ! 😬

[@maatjederegt7434]

@@cdracos1 let's hope so!!👍

[@robynoram4816]

You are a wonderful coach. Thank you 😊

[@vietashroffoliver2521]

Thanks so much Dan, your soothing voice and wise advice is so generously given. I've been using gratitude and other hints to help insomniacs and it's working somewhat. I can choose how to respond. Thanks again for the reminder and reassurance.

[@PainFreeYou]

Wonderful!

[@zelialoana3986]

yor video are so soothing and so helpful, any day i have a bad day i watch you and go back to hope and positivity ! thank you so much !

[@PainFreeYou]

Thank you. Thrilled to be able to help.

[@DrsdrdsAnnaDame]

Thankyou so much Dan, great video. God bless you. Sending this to a lot of dutch frends. You are the best xxx love from Anna from Amsterdam

[@PainFreeYou]

Thanks Anna.

[@daphned311]

Love the snow and the message ! Thank you

[@PainFreeYou]

So glad!

[@dommccaffry3802]

If you worry about sleep , you will have sleep problems

[@PainFreeYou]

Exactly.

[@lennekevanrossum8422]

I will put this in to practice this night thank you sooo much for this I always wake up in the middle of the night and then I can not go back to sleep

[@PainFreeYou]

Sounds great!

[@lennekevanrossum8422]

@@PainFreeYou well first attempt failed haha tonight will do it again and again the good news is that I soothed myself made the fear less important smiled and told myself I am ok soo helpful these techniques thank you Dan am sooo grateful ❤️😘

[@PainFreeYou]

@@lennekevanrossum8422 Don't look at it as having failed. You did not fail. Your brain takes more than one try before it feels safe enough to let us sleep.

[@rosalindreay5936]

Going to start this now ❤

[@Jeronimo365]

Thanks Dan, it's 4.54 am here. 😂 School holidays end in ten days so hopefully those early starts whether I like it or not will reset my body clock, but yes, the Cortisol angle makes perfect sense. 👍🙏

[@PainFreeYou]

Glad you found this helpful.

[@cdracos1]

Two sleepless nights out of the blue was horrible , I couldn't pin point any reason .. Turns out the tea I was drinking just before bed time was not my usual decaf !!!! I got my boxes mixed up 😵😵😵

[@pramodsharma7284]

My problem start with when I wake up 3 am consistently 2 day . Before it's my sleep is very good . After this I fel in panick attack. Now I sleep properly but in day time I can't sleep.

[@noonespecial4171]

Menopause is something that causes pain, anxiety and insomnia.

[@elaineremains]

my experience is that sleep is a bad place because of what happened to me a child at night... this is not dislodged by blublockers and visualization of 'nice pillows'

[@PainFreeYou]

I'm not dismissing your childhood trauma. What I'm doing is offering ways to make sleep feel safer now in the present where those things are not still happening. You can do this.

[@elaineremains]

@@PainFreeYou i'll try, maybe... lol

[@sweetmountainbaby]

I’d be thrilled to get 3 or 4 hours sleep ! I’m grateful for any sleep I get 🦋

[@noonespecial4171]

I had 5 straight hours once a few years ago, I dream of that happening again

[@lennekevanrossum8422]

Just brilliant!!!! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@amiradancer3846]

Great video, thank you Dan. Beautiful snow, very soothing. I don't have sleep problems, except that I sleep to much. I wonder if I am in the "rest and digest" (parasympathetic) state or is it the "distraction state"? I really don't know. I often want to sleep during the day even if I have slept 10 or 12 hours because of the fatigue. The pain I can handle, because certain days I don't have it anymore so I trust more, whereas the fatigue is constant. Any suggestions? And I love Dr. Joe Dispenza :-)

[@PainFreeYou]

Fatigue is another TMS symptom. Same solution for fatigue as pain. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaetmHWkp815qpo

[@betsaification]

I always have wake up at 3 or 4 is that a habit Or the cortisol , blue light Good videos thanks 🙏🏽

[@wmurthy]

Amazing. Thanks so much.

[@PainFreeYou]

Thank you.

[@violetbrinkman7161]

Thank you

[@Pishgul]

Dan insomnia is really bad. Fear of pain wakes me up it is like a cycle. Vigilance kills me! What should I do? how to cope with it in work?

[@PainFreeYou]

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[@troutfisher7182]

Crazy neighbor i had for 8 yrs, slashed my tires with a chainsaw at 1 am. Shooting off semi automatic weapons in the wee hrs. Dogs barking all night every night. My brain will never feel safe in bed .

[@PainFreeYou]

Yikes. Sounds like a psycho.

[@RiaandBobby]

Thank you for the tips on sleep. Beautiful snow scape indeed. Would you have come across TMS issues relating to cold and hot weather? In the last couple of years I have experienced unpleasant sensations from being out in cold weather (especially wind) and very hot weather. The former hurts my face the latter makes my scalp and face itch. I suspect it is a conditioned response but would love your thoughts on it. Thank you.

[@lisab9734]

Great video. I can completely get on board with the reason for insomnia or waking with pain. But here’s where my doubt comes in... I have hip pain ( 1 leg shorter than the other from birth) , I wake up most nights with hip joint pain, it lessons as I move position or if I make my hip click. I’ve done the pain assessment and got 39. I mostly think the pain is TMS until the pain lessons when it clicks and then I think ‘ argh!!! My hip joint is rubbing my tendons, that’s why it hurts. This can’t be TMS” Can tms pain still make you have a bit of relief when you move position or pop your hip? X

[@PainFreeYou]

Lisa - Even Dr. Schubiner who is one of the top TMS medical doctors would say that we rule out anything life threatening. Being uncomfortable sleeping and feeling a click is not that. Then we rule IN this thing called TMS. If the characteristics of the pain, personality, pain history, stress indicates that it's TMS, then it's TMS. Case closed - end of investigation. Yes, it can still be TMS if you can do something physical and get a slight temporary relief. The cause is still TMS. The solution is a TMS approach. As long as you feel you have a physical problem with your body, the brain will continue to send pain to protect you from this supposedly "damaged" part of your body. It's false. The perception that there's a body problem is why the pain happens and persists. My approach is here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaetmHWkp815qpo

[@alekseym5257]

Lisa, 1 leg shorter than the other do not cause pain. I have shorter leg and a flat feet also from the very childhood. And never had leg pains (only restless legs syndrome, which is not painfull).

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I keep waking with gas. I got ibs after a virus. I slept 2 hours last night. CT scan all normal, blood tests normal. To make it worse, the health professions say ons cannot be cured esp. If I cannot sleep.

[@PainFreeYou]

The digestive system is suppressed when under stress. A virus can cause the brain stress and things can get out of balance. don't listen to the no cure BS. The body knows how to take care if itself. Your job is to not stress about gas.

[@wednesdayschild3627]

Thanks i had some good days.​@@PainFreeYou

[@wednesdayschild3627]

Was better, i had a flare w stress.​@@PainFreeYou

[@roddog4386]

What about if U wake up with head ache and loud ringing and U it's unbearable soothing don't work then what

[@PainFreeYou]

There is no downside to calming the brain and body. Symptoms don't go away immediately. They will go away once the credible evidence of safety outweighs the brains false perception of danger. DansFastStart.com

[@Jamiet-lk8xq]

Everyone try listening to a yoga nidra in bed.