Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume -3, Issue - 9, 1 March 2019 | Page 10

experience in terms of exploring their rich and powerful world of
metaphors and totally conceptual rich tapestry of imagination! How a child
interpret a stick or pebble is always unique - that is where the power of
using these imaginative metaphors for helping a child comes into play!
It reminds me an interesting episode of a kid cartoon “Curious George” which
is one of the favourite cartoon of my 6 year old son. In this episode George
the intelligent monkey catches cold later he dreams of having shrunk and
travelling inside his body and fighting all the bad germs within his body. Now
do you see the parallel it has with the process of miniaturisation as we use in
Hypnotherapy!
For starter it may just sound like a kid story but you know what it actually
works! And yes it works like wonder even as you tell as an interactive story to
a child , you can heal and remove pain from situations like toothache or pain
in the ear canal, which otherwise require immediate medical attention to
remove pain! From my personal experience I can vouch for the effectiveness
of these ‘Stories that Heal’ and can go a long way to heal and comfort a child,
without any chemical or external intervention.
Like wise these stories of fairies and Superheroes can be great tools to help
empower and heal a child’s emotional and mental issues like fears of dark,
Being alone, objects etc.., We can use these ‘Interactive Stories’ to help
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