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Children
Hypnosis with children can be very easy!
- Self Confidence
- Focused attention
- Bed-wetting
- Spelling and learning problems
- Anger in Kids
- Trauma in Children
- Fears and Nightmares
- Eating Healthy
- Overcoming Limitations
- Bullying and
- Abuse
- Stutter
I thrive in working with kids and teens. I am a true believer in empowerment and encouragement. My initial strategy is to develop rapport, instill self-confidence and help raise their self-esteem to achieve desired outcome.
Kids have better imagination than most adults!
Hypnosis is basically a technique of giving direct or post hypnotic suggestions while the child is in a relaxed focused state of trance. Working with children, Direct suggestions and Post Hypnotic suggestions can last as little as 2-3 days or several weeks until a new behavior takes place of the suggestion.
Hypnotherapy and guided visualization involves the use of regression and analysis techniques to find the cause of a symptom. In cases of ADD (attention deficit disorder) the symptom could be described as the need for attention. The analysis used would enable the subconscious mind to find the cause and the therapy would create new behaviors to achieve the same need.
“My son’s fear of the dark was gone after just two sessions.” Linda P
The actual event that he was referring to was a real fear that happened when he awakened during a sleep over, fell out of bed, and his friends screamed due to the sound of the fall. His mother had described this event to me before the session! Upon bringing this forth and some post hypnotic suggestions, today our little 8 year old has no problem with darkness, nor sleepovers at friends house! How does it work?
Hypnotherapy is safe, enjoyable and enlightening. For children it is like having a guided daydream.
With children, the world revolves around them until experience helps expand that world. As they are the “center,” then everything is where they are. If there are problems in the family, they take on those as their own. If parents are having trouble in relating well, their children can become fearful and guilty, as if they were the cause or should have prevented it in some way. This is what creates “Adult or Mature Children.”
When a child finds out that he/she isn’t bad or broken, and doesn’t need to be fixed with medication, behaviors can then change. When a child can go into his/her brain and find the “controls” that relax the mind, or focus the mind when it’s needed, they can take responsibility for the excess energy and slow it down on demand. One thing to keep in mind is that the cause, and the method to create the change is different for every child.
The doorway between the conscious and the unconscious mind is the imagination. For children, it’s relatively easy to reach at the deepest levels, in a much quicker time than required by a good many adults. Stories, adventures, visualization, imaginative games, role-playing, magic, puppets, and costumes work most effectively with children. Any tools that one’s stimulate the imagination should be at the hypnotherapist’s disposal.
How can children be hypnotized?
Actually, there is not an ideal state called hypnosis. It is basically a relaxed focused state of concentration. This might be a stretch for some, however with children it is not necessary to have a deeply relaxed state. They are basically in a trance most of the time. Up until the age of 8, most kids have a brain wave pattern that shows alpha wavelength about 80% of the time. Alpha is similar to a hypnotic trance.
That’s what make believe is all about! We call it visualization. For children it is most of their waking state.
What can a parent do to assist in the process?
There are many things that adults do that increase the problem. Certainly they don’t consciously want to, it’s just that they may not understand how the subconscious mind works. Parents and teachers must understand the power of their words. Repeating suggestions of what you DON’T want the child to do, will only create more of the same problem. STOP running around.
Why can’t you just stop being noisy?
You are always bouncing off the walls.
Why are you always trying to make me crazy?
You will never settle down and focus on your school work.
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the child may overhear a parent say to another adult:
We have tried everything and he is still out of control. I don’t think anything will work.
We are trying a new medication and hopefully that will help.
His teachers cannot keep him in control.
These statements that are overheard carry a lot of truth and validity. The child who overhears you talking to another can feel very hopeless and useless. Let your child overhear you saying something great about him, phrased in a way that might just direct his or her brain to do feel the way they need to feel!Therapy includes informing the parents and caregivers of the power of their words and actions. Another aspect of Hypnotherapy addresses the willingness of the parents to find new ways to empower the child.
Some children can be taught to build a machine (imaginary) in their brain to help them focus, relax, learn, or be more successful at sports. When children are taught about these brain machines they feel more in control and instead of feeling broken, they can create what they DO need to succeed.
We encourage our parents to come in during the initial consultation and perhaps therapy. Although having parents sit out in the reception area (where they can hear everything) is highly recommended. This gives kids a sense of power that they can do this on their own.
Children can be difficult, yet easy to treat! We will find the best way of treatment for your child or recommend other means than can better serve their special needs. They are our priority - Let us help Your child be free of obstacles.
