Hypnotherapy is the process of using hypnosis to treat any disease, addiction or disorders. Currently, hypnosis are used for children to overcome any anxiety, fear or other issues that can affect them as they grow. Most of children, respond to hypnotherapy pretty well, which is why this technique is pretty much getting attention and used by experts to resolve juvenile concerns.
Hypnotherapy is attributed on resolving bedwetting, thumb sucking, eating problems and other problems. It is even attributed in releasing stress and pressure children experienced. They say that children can be hypnotized as early as 3, but children above age 5 are found to be more responsive to hypnosis.
Actually all people can benefit from hypnosis. There are pregnant women suing this to reduce early morning sickness and nausea. It can even be used during labor so that the pain would not be that painful.
A hypnotherapy technique mostly used for children would be the “blow away” technique. In this technique or method, the children are induced into a hypnotic state asking to blow away any negative feelings. Other techniques would include relaxation and mental images which is somehow related to a daydream or a child’s fantasy.
The number of sessions needed by a child depends on the development and progress that can be seen. But on the average, 4 to 8 session are needed to make positive changes. The changes brought by hypnotherapy can be permanent. Not until, there are negative forces or influences that the child can feel. This would bring the effects of the session to rubble. If this cases or situations ever occur, then there would be reinforcement or back up sessions to help the child strengthen the positive traits that were built-up in the past.
Children with the following problems can be helped by hypnosis:
- Children in pain, like those who are undergoing treatment for cancer.
- Children who is often anxious and breathes quickly and shows faster heart rate.
- Children who have been wetting their bed at night time.
- Children with asthma.
- Children with different problems or disorders like ADHD or parents who are undergoing separation or divorce.
Not giving attention to the children’s difficulties eventually led the students to fail in their schoolwork, lack if focus and ability to concentrate and social withdrawal. How they relate with the family members and the friends also change. These behavioural problems, like fear and anxieties, tend to show through their mannerisms. It could manifest with twitching, hair pulling, nail biting, asthma attacks, etc.
Most people had the impression that when somebody undergoes hypnosis they do not know what they are doing. When children undergo hypnotherapy sessions, the expert hypnotists make sure that the children know what they are saying to them and what they are going to do is actually for their benefit.
Hypnosis is also effective because it uses three elements that reverberate on the individual. The three most important elements of hypnosis are relaxation, increased concentration and focus on the goal. When all of these elements worked together, the results can be very positive.
Although it is still not that popular among pediatricians, it is starting to gain trust. According to a study written by Michael Castleman, it cited that Johns Hopkins is recognizing hypnosis for children something valuable for addressing problems like migraines or headaches, anxiousness, bed-wetting and pain.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Weight Loss & Hypnosis For Children
Who does not want to lose weight? Whenever we look at ourselves in a mirror how we wish we could shed some pounds. The same would be with our children. One of the methods being used nowadays is hypnotism for children to help them lose some weight.
Obesity and complications and diseases brought by being overweight are some of the common problems that not only adults are facing. Statistics are showing that approximately 22 million of children worldwide with the age of 5 and below re considered obese.
Adults are also not safe from the statistics. There are 58 million people considered to be overweight,40 million are obese and 3 million are very much obese. Based on this gloomy data is that we are suffering from our disregard of our health. There is relatively 76 percent increase of patients who have Type II diabetes.
Actually most people are gaining weight by simply not paying attention to what is being ingested by the body. Actually, losing weight is no miracle. It has to be worked on and the regimen should be strictly followed.
Actually, experts do not see eye to eye on what is the best and fastest way to lose weight. This is why before attempting any weight loss regimen it is important to consult with your doctor first.
Using hypnosis in losing weight, you do only focus on losing the symptoms of being fat but the focus is on the goal. Hypnotherapy totally changes what you think about gaining weight and losing weight. It does not simply dictate you to lose weight but this change your perception and thoughts about gaining weight.
How do you use hypnosis in helping children and parent, alike to lose weight?
- To lose weight the reason for being overweight should be addressed. And you should not think that losing weight can be done over and over again. Since in hypnosis, it is said that the mind or the subconscious reacts to what we feed to it. So if we think that we are not going to lose weight ever again, it means that we are not going to gain weight again. We are getting rid of the excess weight permanently
- Approach your relationship with food with a different perspective, you are totally removing the old habit you have and shifting into a new “relationship”.
- Patience is important. Imagine, that it took time before you ere able to build-up all the fats you have stocked in your body. It would be a while before you can shed the excess fat.
- Do not deprive yourself. Once or twice a month of guilty eating would not make your fat.
The discipline you need to follow to make this weight loss program succeed relies on self-hypnosis. If you are doing hypnotherapy with a hypnotherapist, make sure you are open to the suggestions. Most suggestions would be about previous experiences, how you cam change perception and sensation. It could even have an effect to the emotion, thought and behaviour.
Using hypnosis for weight loss, you too can learn just how good it feels to take back control over your diet and yourself and to enjoy eating foods that are good for you and help your body to perform at its best every day. The benefit of hypnosis with weight loss, that it can be used by different ages. Hypnosis can be used with children and adults alike. When you try this method, you do not have anything to lose anyway, just the pounds.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Positive Parenting: In Relation To Use of Hypnosis For ChildrenF
The use of hypnosis for children is starting to be a common method in dealing with children who are having difficulties in advancing into adulthood. Aside from using hypnosis to deal with different behavioural and health problems, hypnosis parenting or using hypnosis with your children at home is also starting to get known.
Hypnosis parenting, experts claim, is a method o positive parenting. What are ideas behind this parenting and how do they work?
Hypnosis is not ordering or becoming authoritative to other people. This is something that we should understand and be clear about. Hypnosis, unlike what we commonly know, is not about making people do something which they would not remember or stop doing. Hypnosis is about suggestions.
Experts said that our children are already suggestible from their parents. Almost all parents are familiar with their baby’s emotions and facial expressions. Actually, if we smile in a baby and make eye contact it is highly possible that would be smiling back. Children learn from the parents through the parents’ actions and expressions. If a parent want to teach something to their children, it is important to show an example that we are also following these rules that were set out for them.
Hypnosis parenting is not only applicable when you want your children to do their homework or do household chores. You can only use hypnosis to help them with difficulty in sleeping or nervousness and tension before exams, school presentation or a game.
How to do this?
You can start by talking to them before they go to sleep. Make sure that they are comfortable and make them close their eyes. You could start telling a story which would show the protagonist succeeding in the challenges that he faced. Use positive images when telling a story. This would help your child ease the tension. Aside from helping your child ease out the tension, the parent and the child also got the chance to spent some bonding moment together.
What the parent say have an impact on how children feel about themselves. An example would be the behaviour they show. If the child is refuses to follow certain rules in the house, and you get a heated discussion over it, more probably that the child would still be the same.
You could replace the heated discussion with random positive statements, like saying that the child are improving much on their behaviour and acknowledging their efforts to behave. The child will feel better and eventually will believe that he is indeed behaving well. Soon enough, the child will change his behaviour for the better.
These simple suggestions helped the children’s mind or its subconscious to accept and believe in them. So if the statements made or the statements that a child can hear are all negative, the subconscious would believe it and the child will follow it in real life.
But if positive statements are heard by the child, even if they are randomly dropped statements, the subconscious perceive this as the truth and would eventually translate into their actions.
Hypnosis for children can even be used in encouraging them to do household chores. All you want to do is look at them straight into the eyes and ask them to do the household chores. A little bobbing of the head, would encourage your child to agree to do the job delegated to them.
Hypnosis parenting, experts claim, is a method o positive parenting. What are ideas behind this parenting and how do they work?
Hypnosis is not ordering or becoming authoritative to other people. This is something that we should understand and be clear about. Hypnosis, unlike what we commonly know, is not about making people do something which they would not remember or stop doing. Hypnosis is about suggestions.
Experts said that our children are already suggestible from their parents. Almost all parents are familiar with their baby’s emotions and facial expressions. Actually, if we smile in a baby and make eye contact it is highly possible that would be smiling back. Children learn from the parents through the parents’ actions and expressions. If a parent want to teach something to their children, it is important to show an example that we are also following these rules that were set out for them.
Hypnosis parenting is not only applicable when you want your children to do their homework or do household chores. You can only use hypnosis to help them with difficulty in sleeping or nervousness and tension before exams, school presentation or a game.
How to do this?
You can start by talking to them before they go to sleep. Make sure that they are comfortable and make them close their eyes. You could start telling a story which would show the protagonist succeeding in the challenges that he faced. Use positive images when telling a story. This would help your child ease the tension. Aside from helping your child ease out the tension, the parent and the child also got the chance to spent some bonding moment together.
What the parent say have an impact on how children feel about themselves. An example would be the behaviour they show. If the child is refuses to follow certain rules in the house, and you get a heated discussion over it, more probably that the child would still be the same.
You could replace the heated discussion with random positive statements, like saying that the child are improving much on their behaviour and acknowledging their efforts to behave. The child will feel better and eventually will believe that he is indeed behaving well. Soon enough, the child will change his behaviour for the better.
These simple suggestions helped the children’s mind or its subconscious to accept and believe in them. So if the statements made or the statements that a child can hear are all negative, the subconscious would believe it and the child will follow it in real life.
But if positive statements are heard by the child, even if they are randomly dropped statements, the subconscious perceive this as the truth and would eventually translate into their actions.
Hypnosis for children can even be used in encouraging them to do household chores. All you want to do is look at them straight into the eyes and ask them to do the household chores. A little bobbing of the head, would encourage your child to agree to do the job delegated to them.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Treatment of Pains & Hypnosis For Children
The word hypnosis seems to conjure bad images for a number of people. I’m sure we have watched something, whether it is a movie or an animation, about people falling or doing evil things because of being hypnotized. So when you say, hypnosis for children, parents tend to be overprotective.
Actually, hypnotism is not bad at all. Studies have showed hypnotism helping children and adults deal with chronic pain, insomnia, stress, depression, weight gain and fears or phobia. Currently, hypnosis is being used in pain management.
Unlike the deep sleep that we know, people under hypnotism or hypnotherapy are conscious on what they are doing and what they can hear and understand. Hypnotism can be used to treat diseases and disorder, it is called hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy is used in pain management.
There are three strategies in using hypnosis in pain management:
Physical relaxation – focusing on relaxation while feeling the pain, reduces the pain to vibrate and escalate. When tension is mixed pain, this heightens the pain. Muscle tension tends to pull on the muscles where it is hurting.
Sensory alteration – this strategy changes how we perceive the pain. Focusing to a different feeling will eventually filter out the hurt that you are experiencing.
Distraction – focus is shifted to other things to remove any attention to the body part feeling the pain.
Actually there are studies showing how effective hypnosis is in pain reliving. Hypnosis with combined with other alternative form of medication like acupuncture can relieve chronic pain patients. This can also be used to help children who are in the hospital undergoing painful treatments. Self-hypnosis against pain can be learned and be performed by children. There are studies showing children who can do self- hypnotism recorded less migraine occurrence than those children who are thinking medication.
Using hypnosis for children would show complications once the hypnosis lifted or removed. Some side-effects would include confusion, fainting, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and anxiety. Most of the side-effects are short-termed but there are some patients who experience stupor, psychological problems, and some patients even display recurring episodes of the previous shock. Based on these experiences, it is imperative to investigate on the background on profile of the patient and screen those who are susceptible to the mentioned side-effects.
A problem may also occur when the hypnotherapist forget to lift the hypnosis. The patient may sustain serious injury or any complication without the patient even knowing or feeling it at all.
Over the course of applying hypnotherapy to children, studies and practices showed that children find it easier to face painful medical procedures like bone marrow aspiration, cancer patients, postoperative pain, chronic headache and remove anxiety tin children who would undergo surgery.
Actually, if hypnosis history is traced, it would show that during early period, hypnosis is used to help patients who would be undergoing agonizing surgeries before anaesthetics were discovered. When anaesthesia was discovered in the middle of 19th century, chemical induced painless surgeries were favoured over tradition hypnosis. When chemicals and anaesthesia is useless or not enough in relieving the pain, this is when self-hypnosis is used.
Studies have showed that hypnosis for children was able to help them remove any pain and help them undergo medical procedures or simply just live their life. But more importantly, we must identify that it is really, well sometimes, just in the mind.
Actually, hypnotism is not bad at all. Studies have showed hypnotism helping children and adults deal with chronic pain, insomnia, stress, depression, weight gain and fears or phobia. Currently, hypnosis is being used in pain management.
Unlike the deep sleep that we know, people under hypnotism or hypnotherapy are conscious on what they are doing and what they can hear and understand. Hypnotism can be used to treat diseases and disorder, it is called hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy is used in pain management.
There are three strategies in using hypnosis in pain management:
Physical relaxation – focusing on relaxation while feeling the pain, reduces the pain to vibrate and escalate. When tension is mixed pain, this heightens the pain. Muscle tension tends to pull on the muscles where it is hurting.
Sensory alteration – this strategy changes how we perceive the pain. Focusing to a different feeling will eventually filter out the hurt that you are experiencing.
Distraction – focus is shifted to other things to remove any attention to the body part feeling the pain.
Actually there are studies showing how effective hypnosis is in pain reliving. Hypnosis with combined with other alternative form of medication like acupuncture can relieve chronic pain patients. This can also be used to help children who are in the hospital undergoing painful treatments. Self-hypnosis against pain can be learned and be performed by children. There are studies showing children who can do self- hypnotism recorded less migraine occurrence than those children who are thinking medication.
Using hypnosis for children would show complications once the hypnosis lifted or removed. Some side-effects would include confusion, fainting, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and anxiety. Most of the side-effects are short-termed but there are some patients who experience stupor, psychological problems, and some patients even display recurring episodes of the previous shock. Based on these experiences, it is imperative to investigate on the background on profile of the patient and screen those who are susceptible to the mentioned side-effects.
A problem may also occur when the hypnotherapist forget to lift the hypnosis. The patient may sustain serious injury or any complication without the patient even knowing or feeling it at all.
Over the course of applying hypnotherapy to children, studies and practices showed that children find it easier to face painful medical procedures like bone marrow aspiration, cancer patients, postoperative pain, chronic headache and remove anxiety tin children who would undergo surgery.
Actually, if hypnosis history is traced, it would show that during early period, hypnosis is used to help patients who would be undergoing agonizing surgeries before anaesthetics were discovered. When anaesthesia was discovered in the middle of 19th century, chemical induced painless surgeries were favoured over tradition hypnosis. When chemicals and anaesthesia is useless or not enough in relieving the pain, this is when self-hypnosis is used.
Studies have showed that hypnosis for children was able to help them remove any pain and help them undergo medical procedures or simply just live their life. But more importantly, we must identify that it is really, well sometimes, just in the mind.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Myths Regarding Hypnosis for Children
Hypnosis for children is done to help children combat cases of pain, insomnia, depression brought about by divorce or death. It can also be used to fight excessive weight, night mares and even lessen asthma attacks. There are significant advantages or contributions that hypnosis can do for children.
Unfortunately, amidst all these gains and benefits, there are still some people who believe in hypnotic myths. The following are some of the myths on hypnosis and what we can say about them.
Myth1. The person under hypnosis has no control over his mind and actions.
Hypnosis is induced in a tie when the person is still conscious and able to take and understand suggestions. Children who are undergoing hypnotherapy can comprehensively talk with the hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy is done when the person is in deep relaxation and not in deep slumber. Things are said as a suggestion and not as an authoritative command. People who have undergone hypnosis would definitely remember what transpired during the session.
Myth2. Hypnosis is an evil act. It can be compared to voodoo in some levels.
Hypnosis is not at all connected to any evil or Satanic acts. Hypnotism intends to help people of their emotional, mental and physical problems not injure them with any satanic and demonic ritual. Actually, hypnosis is a natural state that people undergo in different times a day.
Myth3. Hypnosis only affects those who are weak in personality.
Hypnosis is something which happens naturally to our lives. Actually, children ages 7 to 8 are said to be more prone to lapse into hypnotic stages. Their mind is more creative and more imaginative. This enables them to enter into a daydream or deep relaxation even during class or any time of the day. Anybody can induce into a moment of self-hypnotic state.
Myth4. You can get stuck in a hypnotic state.
Hypnosis is not a limbo where souls get stuck and unable to go to the next realm. Hypnosis is a state of awareness and consciousness. Getting into the hypnotic state enables the children and adults, as well, to get to know their deeper feelings and thoughts.
Myth5. Hypnosis can be used as a truth serum, extracting the truth from other people.
A person could not go into hypnotic state if that person would not allow the hypnotherapist to. Before children undergo any hypnotism, therapist would talk to them and explain what it is that they would do and how it would help them. Upon hypnotism, if a suggestion is in contrast with the principles of the client, they would not accept the suggestion. So if the person being investigated would not give the answer to the question, then hypnosis could not do anything about it.
Myth6. Hypnosis is not accepted by the medical community.
The British Medical Association accepted hypnotism as a treatment in 1955, while the American Medical Association endorsed it in 1958. The National Institute of Health endorsed hypnotherapy as one of the methods to relieve pain to cancer patients in 1995.
Myth7. Hypnosis therapy results are not as good as the other traditional therapies.
According to American Health Magazine published in August 2006, 36 percent of patients who go to psychoanalysis would experience results after 600 sessions. Behaviour therapy would show 72 percent recovery rate after 22 sessions. Hypnotherapy showed 93 percent of recovery after just 6 sessions.
These numerous myths smear how people regard hypnotherapy and how safe it is to hypnosis to children. But what is important to know is the truth behind all myths.
Unfortunately, amidst all these gains and benefits, there are still some people who believe in hypnotic myths. The following are some of the myths on hypnosis and what we can say about them.
Myth1. The person under hypnosis has no control over his mind and actions.
Hypnosis is induced in a tie when the person is still conscious and able to take and understand suggestions. Children who are undergoing hypnotherapy can comprehensively talk with the hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy is done when the person is in deep relaxation and not in deep slumber. Things are said as a suggestion and not as an authoritative command. People who have undergone hypnosis would definitely remember what transpired during the session.
Myth2. Hypnosis is an evil act. It can be compared to voodoo in some levels.
Hypnosis is not at all connected to any evil or Satanic acts. Hypnotism intends to help people of their emotional, mental and physical problems not injure them with any satanic and demonic ritual. Actually, hypnosis is a natural state that people undergo in different times a day.
Myth3. Hypnosis only affects those who are weak in personality.
Hypnosis is something which happens naturally to our lives. Actually, children ages 7 to 8 are said to be more prone to lapse into hypnotic stages. Their mind is more creative and more imaginative. This enables them to enter into a daydream or deep relaxation even during class or any time of the day. Anybody can induce into a moment of self-hypnotic state.
Myth4. You can get stuck in a hypnotic state.
Hypnosis is not a limbo where souls get stuck and unable to go to the next realm. Hypnosis is a state of awareness and consciousness. Getting into the hypnotic state enables the children and adults, as well, to get to know their deeper feelings and thoughts.
Myth5. Hypnosis can be used as a truth serum, extracting the truth from other people.
A person could not go into hypnotic state if that person would not allow the hypnotherapist to. Before children undergo any hypnotism, therapist would talk to them and explain what it is that they would do and how it would help them. Upon hypnotism, if a suggestion is in contrast with the principles of the client, they would not accept the suggestion. So if the person being investigated would not give the answer to the question, then hypnosis could not do anything about it.
Myth6. Hypnosis is not accepted by the medical community.
The British Medical Association accepted hypnotism as a treatment in 1955, while the American Medical Association endorsed it in 1958. The National Institute of Health endorsed hypnotherapy as one of the methods to relieve pain to cancer patients in 1995.
Myth7. Hypnosis therapy results are not as good as the other traditional therapies.
According to American Health Magazine published in August 2006, 36 percent of patients who go to psychoanalysis would experience results after 600 sessions. Behaviour therapy would show 72 percent recovery rate after 22 sessions. Hypnotherapy showed 93 percent of recovery after just 6 sessions.
These numerous myths smear how people regard hypnotherapy and how safe it is to hypnosis to children. But what is important to know is the truth behind all myths.
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