Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, Special Mega Annual Issue 15 June 2019 | Page 29

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 1