How Your Brain Cures Insomnia Without Help

Forget about sleeping pills, teas, herbs, light devices, sound machines… and who knows what other gimmicks there are out there to sleep better.

Your brain can cure your insomnia on its own!

All it takes a little encouragement.

Neurofeedback is a process during which you learn to control your brain activity and the frequencies of your brain waves, measured in hertz.

A therapist connects an electroencephalogram machine (or EEG) to your brain that displays your brain waves.

As you concentrate and try to change your brain waves to the desired frequencies that treat the specific condition you want treated, the machine gives you positive or negative feedback according to whether you are managing to hit that frequency or not.

When you hit the required frequency, the achievement of being able to do so intentionally serves as a great reward for your brain to try to repeat this feat in the future.

In other words, the more time you spend on the desired frequency, the more your brain is rewarded for it, and the better it will become at functioning at that frequency.

New research from the University of Salzburg in Austria, published in the journal Brain, suggests that this treatment may work for different reasons than is usually thought.

They identified the brainwave frequency of 12-15 hertz as one that many previous studies proved worked for insomniacs.

They subjected each of their 25 insomniac subjects to 12 sessions of real neurofeedback therapy and 12 sessions of placebo neurofeedback therapy.

Before, halfway, and after both the real and sham treatment sessions, the volunteers slept in the laboratory while the researchers measured their brainwaves on an EEG to see whether their sleep really improved.

They found participants reported their sleep improved after both the placebo and the real neurofeedback, suggesting that it was something other than the treatment that was responsible for the perceived improvement.

The researchers speculated that the caring and empathy from the researchers made the insomniac participants feel they were sleeping better than before.

The only problem in this case is that the researchers found no improvement in their subject’s sleep on the EEG, even though they reported feeling like they were sleeping better.

It is difficult to know what to make of this result.

The positive effects of feeling like you sleep better without biologically sleeping better will probably wear off with time, leaving you as tired as before.

As well, many experts will argue that 12 neurofeedback sessions are not enough to cultivate the new brainwaves to facilitate better sleep.

But there is a much simpler, home technique to train your brain to sleep deeply and fall asleep in 9 minutes (or less)… test-drive this trick sleeping for yourself here…