Today’s post is a last in a series I have been covering concerning  Hypnosis for children. Today I will cover some of the drawbacks, but yet still some of the positives.

Hypnosis for young people to resolve or tackle some concerns or difficulties regarding  behavior or health is  referred to as hypnotherapy.  In hypnotherapy,  young children use their daydreams to  transform their  behavior,  feelings and  additional symptoms.  Not necessarily    everybody under the sun can be a hypnotherapist.  A  qualified  health and psychiatric profession is required to put children, also adults, into hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy or  employing hypnosis for  treatment options used to be  unspeakable.  Most  individuals and patients alike,  have a tendency  to  believe  that hypnotherapists would require their patient to go walking around and cluck like chickens when hypnotized.  One significant  negative aspect of this procedure, is the  shortage of  assistance  it has endured as an different  treatment method.

But currently, things are starting to shape up for hypnotic treatment.  There are medical groups who are starting to recognize the potential of hypnotherapy in treating illnesses and dealing with disorders.

In 1958, the American Medical Association, already recognized hypnosis as a form of treatment.  The American Psychological Association has acknowledged hypnosis as treatment years ago.  The National Institute of Health expressed it support for hypnotherapy as a method of relieving pain for cancer patients in 1995.

But still regardless of the medical endorsements, there is still a prevailing outlook that hypnosis as a treatment is negative and images of funny people on hypnotic state conjures up to our mind.

Another disadvantage of hypnotherapy is that there are children or people who cannot be hypnotized at all.  Children who show psychotic symptoms are not compatible with hypnotic treatment.  While children or teen-agers using drugs or alcohol also prove to be poor hypnotic patients.

Hypnotherapy is best recommended for children ages 5 and above.  Children, unlike adults, are more in touch with their imaginative side.  This could be either beneficial or detrimental in the hypnosis process.  That is why different approaches should be used based on different age and characteristics.

Hypnotherapy can also be done by parents to their children.  Experts say that children with ages seven to eight are in the hypnotic state most of the time even when there is no hypnotist around.  On these ages, children take in suggestion very seriously.  Parents who tend not to be too sensitive with what they say to their children  may say some remarks which can be both hurtful and have some effect on their self-esteem.

This is why  children who are undergoing hypnotherapy tends to be sensitive to what is around them remember that hypnotherapy and its positive effects can be turned into rubble when negative energy surrounds the child.  Parents should be sensitive with what they say and suggest to their children.

Sometimes a hypnotherapist may forget to remove the suggestions of the hypnotic sessions.  If a child is undergoing therapy for pain management, this could pose a problem.  When under these kind of treatment, children may run into accidents or serious problem which may cause serious injury and not get any proper treatment.  It is important for parents to take note of these when sessions for hypnosis of children is done.

It is important to remember that these disadvantages of using hypnosis for children is more of a social prejudice.  There are some people who regard hypnosis as control or manipulation of one’s mind and body which is completely untrue.  Hypnotherapy when properly done could render positive and massive results.  Most of our fear about hypnotherapy is rooted on how it was viewed in the past, which is mostly myths.

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood; CMH
Certified Master Hypnotist

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Some health benefits of hypnotherapy include procedures for nervousness, fears and phobias, reducing suffering and stress, self-confidence building, treating depressive disorders, addressing reduction of excess weight, putting the end to cigarette smoking and even to improve the overall performance  in athletics or academics.

Hypnosis makes use of the deep relaxation as its main element. Deep relaxation enables the mind to be more receptive of changes since the mind opens up during this time. This period of deep relaxation is not a sleeping nor an awake period of time. This is induced by a person skillful in therapy and hypnosis. The mind is awake during this time, unlike what myths say, that the mind during this period is completely unconscious.

Unlike what most people and doubters say that a hypnotized person is unable to control their own actions, children have the command on their own action. Receptivity is important. You cannot hypnotize a person who does not want to be hypnotized.

This is the same for hypnotism for children.  Even if the parents like to have the children undergo hypnotherapy, it is important to make sure that the children understand this process and able to get their full attention and cooperation.  Although the mind is open during the period of hypnosis, the subconscious would still not accept the suggestion if it conflicts with the person’s values and beliefs.

Since hypnotherapy invokes deep relaxation, it is said to reduce blood pressure, stress, anxiety, and pain.  It could even change habits like smoking, alcohol consumption and eating too much.

Hypnosis can even help in reducing predetermined nausea and vomiting brought by treatment for cancer or pregnancy. It is important to remember that children or people who have mental illnesses should not undergo hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy for children can resolve problems like bedwetting in children or teenagers.  It can also reduce nightmares  and night terrors.  It also addresses fear or phobia of animals or even school.  It also helps children who are having difficulties at school and with behavioral problems.

Results showed that children who took hypnotherapy are more confident, they have an increased self-esteem, reduced stress, tension and anxiety.  Children are also able to get rid any of their negative emotions which affect their school performance or social interaction.

Being a good parent does not only mean that we should provide the physical and material needs of our children.  Giving them emotional and mental support and be able to provide the best possible future to our children is our responsibility.

Hypnotherapy is an alternative medication.  And alternative medicine is being used by almost 40 percent of Americans nowadays.  Alternative medication can render very successful results, sometimes much better than taking prescribed drugs and medicines.

Hypnotherapy or hypnosis for children is an option which you can try to help your children face their problems.  There are people testifying on its phenomenal results, but also there are critics saying that there are not enough evidences showing significant results.  But surely, something drug-free, calming and enjoyable is something worthwhile to be used for the children.

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood ; CMH
Certified Master Hypnotist

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Realistically, hypnotism is not bad at all. Research has revealed hypnotism helping children and older people deal with chronic discomfort, insomnia, constant worry, unhappiness, weight gain and fears or phobia. Presently, hypnosis is being applied in pain relief.

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 when combined with other alternative forms 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- hypnosis recorded less migraine occurrence than those children who are thinking medication.

Using hypnosis for children could show complications once the hypnosis is 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 forgets 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 in 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.

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood; CMH
Certified Master Hypnotist

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Divorce is one of the most traumatic events that could occur to a individual. When a child is concerned in the split, numerous complications could come about, and its influences on the kid could be huge. Occasionally, children with poor esteem can be attributed with the parent’s separation and divorce. Hypnosis for children is one of the few techniques being used these days to aid children in coping with a traumatic incident such as a divorce.

Younger children do not really understand divorce and most of the times decide not to thinks or act about it.   In most cases, the older children or adolescents also show composure upon the announcement of divorce.

But still there are some children who think that the relationship is falling out because of his behavior.  This is the perspective of a child.  He would foster this feeling, developing an image that he is unlovable and cannot have the ability to also love.

Children will develop this feeling upon seeing that their parents are having emotional difficulties.  They are not used to seeing their parents stressed out and emotional like this.  When parents are preoccupied with their own emotional problems, they tend to forget to provide the comfort, guidance and protection that they need to give to their own children. Psychologists refer to this as the stage of “diminished parental capacity.”

Another problem children encounter would be the sense of  loyalty the child is forced to reckon with.  The child feels that he or she is expressing disloyalty when he loves both parents.  Children of divorced parents often feel that their parents resent them because they came or are a product of both of them.  In subconscious level, when parents show dislike or venomous reaction to each other, the children feel that they are also disliked.

Hypnotherapy would be able to help children cope in quickest, most successful and drug-free on the complications of the parent’s slip.  Hypnosis is valuable for helping children picture himself as an individual who can be loved and accepted.  The  great thing about children is that they have wide imagination which can be used to visualize that they are lovable and acceptable.

Sometimes children are put into a position where they fill the void that was emptied out by the spouse.  Sometimes the spouse will fill the child with troubles or talk about work, while some single parents would take their children out to adult dinners.  Although the child seems to enjoy these moments that they share with the parents, it is important to remember that they are children and should not be concerned with adult problems.

Hypnotherapy enables children to relax and find their inner peace.  This helps the children to become children again and experience their childhood rather than be affected by adult problems.

By undergoing hypnotherapy, the children are put into deep relaxation or daydream.  All the fears, anxiety, depression, grief, weight, bad feelings and resentment are all “blown away”, making the child free from negative thoughts and emotions.

There are also hypnosis recordings to which your child can listen to.  There are different CD compilations talking about divorce that will help children go through the difficult time. Aside from addressing the negative feelings, there are also hypnosis recordings and methods that would address self-esteem and self-confidence building.  Hypnosis for children is not the only thing that would help your children get through with the difficult moment, but it is the support, understanding and love that you extend to them that would matter.

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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 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. Behavior 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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Ancient Egyptians has been using hypnosis to relieve pain and cure diseases. They would have healing temples which are called Temples of Sleep. Those who are sick are given suggestions while induced to sleep. This suggestions are to direct their mind that they would be healed of their illnesses. Ancient Egyptians, aside from healing through sleep, has also used hypnosis to endure prolonged physical pain. They used this as we use anesthesia right now.

Hundreds of years later, in 1765, Franz Anton Mesmer introduced animal magnetism. He stated that man could influence a magnetic fluid which could help in the healing process. His thought became an influential school. There were salons were he would apply magnets in people’s afflicted body parts.

After a few years, Le Marquis de Puysegur, believed the magnetic power the Mesmer is talking about is actually present in his own mind and transferred through fingers to the person sick. He discovered that you could induce a very deep sleep where the person who is sleeping will follow the command. This is referred to as the perfect crisis or the profound sleep.

During this time hypnosis was referred to as mesmerism. In 1837, Dr. John Elliotson cited that hypnosis can be associated to voluntary and involuntary movement which he claims to be linked to the mesmerism theory. Dr Elliotson claimed that there is a doctor in India who has been amputating legs with the aid of hypnosis. The doctor saving lives if India is named Dr. James Esdail. And upon on his departure from India, it was said that he able to perform 300 operations and 19 of them is amputation.

Dr. James Baird saw a French man named La Fontaine in his mesmerism demonstration. After experiencing this, he put it into practice and were able to put the patients into a deep sleep that would make them accept any medical suggestion made by the doctors.

Actually during World War I, hypnosis was used by the Germans to make sure that their soldiers were able to recover from shell- shock. This would enable them to return immediately to their trenches.

Hypnosis started to gain interest among practitioners in the medical field. Sigmund Freud was said to be the firs proponent of hypnotherapy. Originally, Freud started studying hypnotherapy in late 1890s until he shifted into a new practice or method on 1905. Freud stated that suggestion can be made in an attempt make treatment speedy.

Dr. Milton Erickson is one of the few people who greatly influenced hypnotherapists. He has accomplished a lot of books and research about hypnotherapy. Dr. Erickson’s study became the foundation of NLP or the neuro- linguistic programming which became widely used in trading and marketing.

Currently, hypnotherapy are used on only on adults but also with children. Hypnosis for children were proven to have resolved some issues concerning behavior and health disorders. Hypnotherapy was formally endorsed by the British Medical Association in 1955. Three years after, the American Medical Association did the same. They endorsed hypnotherapy as a form of treatment.

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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, bedwetting and pain.

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