Richard Shane Shares Tips on Overcoming Insomnia How do you stay motivated? Dr. Richard Shane, a behavioral Sleep Consultant for New West Physicians, Colorado, shares his insights with being an innovator and sleep expert. His own experience had been his driving force and motivation for him to find a solution to a problem faced by many millenials today.

Key Questions Asked:

How did Richard become a sleep consultant? What would be the very first step to take in order to overcome difficulty in sleeping? Why is tongue relaxation very important? How does Richard maintain momentum? What is the right mindset to achieve long term success? What obstacles did Richard had to overcome during the early stages of his business? What else should people know about becoming insomniac? What are Richard’s thoughts on giving back to the community?

Richard has a masters degree in psychology, a PhD in health and human services and over last thirty years, he has developed a system of incorporating both the mind and the body for psychotherapy.

Highlights of Lessons Learned:

First Step to Overcoming Insomnia

What doesn’t work:

People try to quiet their mind, but it just creates more struggles so then people turn to meditation, and meditation is very good for life improvement but sometimes it’s too difficult for using with sleep.

People use deep breathing, well deep breathing again is excellent for daytime relaxation but it’s too much work for sleep.

What works:

We need something much simpler, and what I’ve discovered is that there are just a few body sensations that are involved with the body feeling of falling asleep and in this method that I have developed, you don’t have to quiet your mind ‘cause that’s what causes trouble. This is in the midst of whatever going on your mind, this is simple ways to get the body feeling of falling asleep and when that happens, mind becomes quite itself and I call these body sensations the physical triggers for sleep and soon I can actually teach one of these physical triggers to your listeners.

Tongue Relaxation

The tongue is actually the most complex muscle in the entire human body and all the subtle movements in need s to make and so it basically a center, a cluster of nerves, all centered in the tongue so when you relax this cluster of nerves, that spreads relaxation through your nervous system.

Complete Healing

Yes, people can experience complete healing but the impression to express complete healing creates pressure which makes sleep difficult. Richard points out to people is that what they’re after is just the first step, the beginning of healing, and that happens for most people the first night.

And all people need is the beginning, because then that changes their whole experience, then they’re no longer anxious about sleep, then they begin to welcome sleep and deepening the healing, they’re just progressing the healing at their own rate, it turns into the complete healing.

Challenges During the Early Stages

Paving his own road to success. Being an innovator became a challenge for Richard because it involves developing a sleep method that’s very different from other sleep methods. Establishing himself as a sleep therapist in a medical community. Having a vision of helping other people who are also suffering from insomnia helped Richard gain the trust and establish his reputation within the medical community.

Maintaining Momentum

The factor that holds Richard through all of the hard times was knowing that for whatever reason, life has shown him secrets - answers to how to sleep well. These answers all go down to knowing that sleep is the most essential survival function. When people sleep better, it changes their entire lives so that was like a very bright light end of the tunnel, pulling him through the challenges that come with being an innovator.

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Episode #57: Richard Shane Shares Tips on Overcoming Insomnia