Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume -3, Issue - 9, 1 March 2019 | Page 8

HYONOTHERAPY FOR CHILDREN
“STORIES THAT HEAL”
“Baba (Father) I am a Superhero,
Exclaimed my little son, with a towel
wrapped around his shoulder. Smiling
at the antics of my little ‘Super hero’.
I recalled the days not so long ago
when my daughter would stand holding
anything from a stick to a pencil as her
magic wand doing her fairy spell !!!
Children in their early years create and
live a unique world of their own
imagination. They can create amazing
props out of insignificant stuff, and
weave their own world of stories around
them. This amazing power of childish
imagination combined with almost
absolute lack of any prejudice or
preconceived notion makes them
amazing candidate for healing via aid of
Hypnotherapy. But hold on before we
venture into the details of using Hypnosis
as a tool to help and aid children, Here
are a few ground rules and facts that
must be considered as per my
understanding and personal experience
with children:
1. Children between the age of zero to
fi v e a r e o p e r a t i n g f r o m t h e i r
subconscious mind, as their
conscious mind that is, the power to
discern is yet not fully developed.
2. Above five have started to question
certain things but they still are under
the heavy influence of adults so they
are still very open to all the suggestions given to them, since they learn
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