Sleep.  Can YOU do it?  I do it every day AND I powernap.  Sleep has always been easy for me to do.  I think I must have learned it from my dad.  Dad used to sit down in a chair, when he wanted, and be soundly sleeping usually within 5 minutes or less.

What is sleep?  I dunno.  It's a thing our body does.  I think it's still kind of a mystery.  However, whenever I need a little sleep, I can powernap for say, 5 minutes and voila! I feel like I've slept for a couple of hours.  How do I do that?  I dunno.  I just sleep.

Do you need to RELEARN to sleep?  Nah.  You just need to redefine what sleep means to you. We are naturally designed to sleep when we feel tired. 

One time Dad was telling me that when I was a baby he would lay me down in my crib and I would sleep in that same position pretty much the entire night.  He told me that at first he would check on me several times a night (probably because I was so darned cute, delightful, wonderful, you know, like you) and hold a mirror to my nostrils to see if I was still breathing.  Isn't that funny?  Dad couldn't understand why sleep was so easy for me and yet he did it, too.

The point of all this is that sleep is a big, big deal.  We ALL need to sleep.  It's part of our body's energizing process. 

When I was first married to my keeper husband (yes, I had a practice one, but that's another story) he RUDELY snored so loud (How loud was it?) I couldn't sleep for 8 years.  That was before I was a hypnotist. 

We were still in the military then and you other vets know you need to be well rested on duty or you could get court martialed.  Anyway, as soon as I learned about hypnosis, almost the first program I wrote for myself was Sleep While Someone Else Snores.  First, I had to figure out how I was sabotaging myself.  It was simple.  I realized that I felt ticked off because I told myself to think my hubby was denying me of sleep ON PURPOSE by snoring.  He wasn't doing that on purpose, he was doing it NATURALLY.  In his case, he didn't have a serious hidden problem causing him to snore.  He has pretty much continued snoring, but, I no longer hear him.  How did I do it?  What's the key, the secret, the idea I'm going to reveal to all you great guys and gals?

I was TELLING myself to think the snoring sound had power over my ability to sleep.  Isn't that interesting?  So, to sleep next to my honey-bunny (26 years this year we been married - 2007) I told myself the snoring sound meant that he was signalling me he was sleeping soundly next to me.  When people find out that the snoring sound is no threat to them, and retrain their mind and brain, AND redefine what the snoring sound means to THEM, they stop associating the snoring sound as an attack.  In other words, they sleep! 

So, if you need to sleep with a snoring person, and you are a NON-snoring person, change the definition of what the snoring sound means to you and you can retrain yourself to sleep.  Relax.  Go to bed. Repeat after me...."That snoring sound is the same thing as a lullabye to me.  That snoring sound is the same thing as a lullabye to me.  That snoring sound is the same thing as a lullabye to me. Snoring sounds SO relaxing to me.  I feel so relaxed when I hear snoring......"  See?  Saying and BELIEVING statements like this, you'll be able to retrain yourself to easily sleep while next to your snoring lamby-pie.

It's okay if the snoring sound comes from your dog or some other source than your husband.  Just tell yourself the snoring sound is simply a signal that your loved one sleeps this way.  When you ACCEPT instead of CRITICIZE, you've got it made.