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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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.

Sincerely,

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood; CMH
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