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1. Age for child hypnosis

Age actually plays less of a role. The development of the child is decisive. By development the linguistic and mental development is ment. Linguistic development is important because, for example, a 3-year-old child cannot yet express itself as precisely as a 5-year-old child. The same applies to mental development. This is about whether the child can follow me or not. Some children develop these skills earlier, some later (I am not referring to a developmental delay). The fact that one child reaches a certain milestone faster than another is not a cause for concern at first. The environment in which the child grows up also plays a major role here. For example, a child who already has an older sibling may “talk” or walk earlier.

(If your child takes significantly longer to reach certain milestones, please have this checked out. Sometimes they just need a little more time, but sometimes there may be something more serious behind it).

2. Fields of application examples

A few (4) examples of what children’s hypnosis can be used for are staying alone, improving concentration (usually helpful for school if the child can already concentrate quite well, but to really finish a task to the end, sometimes there is a lack of concentration; perhaps the concentration is gone just before the end of the last task or patience is at an end), solving learning problems (as just described, e.g. having patience if the task is not solved correctly the first time etc.), weaning off pacifiers etc.).

There are of course other areas of application for child hypnosis. To list them all individually would go beyond the scope at this moment.

3. Prerequisites

There are (4) main prerequisites for child hypnosis.

The first is the child’s willingness to change. Because if the parents come with a whole list of things that (in their eyes) should be addressed on their child, but the child does not want to change the issues that the parents “have to criticize” because it does not see a problem in them, etc., hypnosis will not help. (In hypnosis, you are NOT without will, at the mercy of the hypnotist, under his power, etc.). If you want to know more check out the  prejudices, myths and beliefs.

Secondly, the willingness of the parents to support the child. This means that the child is not sent to hypnosis to “make xyz go away” so that nothing has to change in the (home) environment. It also means that the parents support the child in the change process (as best as they can). For example, doing the “homework” (i.e. what I give the child to do every day) together with the child, so that you as parents are an active part of the change (and don’t wait until I as the hypnotist have „removed“ xyz for the child).

The third point is the parents’ willingness to change their own behaviour and their environment. This means that as a parent you first have to see whether the problem might lie with yourself. (The whole thing is called mirroring. Animals do this too.) Sometimes the children are simply a mirror for the issues that the parents are still carrying around with them. (A bold example of this is when siblings are constantly arguing (no matter how small) and the parents are also arguing about every little thing, parents don’t have to be surprised why the children don’t stop arguing, even though they have been to the hypnotist).

And the fourth prerequisite is  openness towards hypnosis and its potential. This applies both to the parents and (to a certain extent) to the child. If, for example, the child does not believe in hypnosis at all, the change will not happen. However, if the child says on its own that it wants a change but needs a little support, the path is clear. It is exactly the same for the parents. If the parents do not believe that hypnosis can really help their child, they radiate this (therefore: there is no such thing as trying), which in turn is projected onto the child. This means that success (even if the child is convinced that hypnosis is helping him / her and the session was great) will be limited or even non-existent.

4. The purpose of child hypnosis

The purpose of child hypnosis is almost obvious. To enable the child to lead a carefree life from an early age. To resolve problems at an early age so that they do not have a negative impact on growing up.

5. Interesting to know

It is perhaps also interesting to know that the critical factor (CF), i.e. the part that can distinguish reality from fiction, only develops in children up to around the age of 5. From around the age of 12, the CF is then fully developed. (Parents should therefore be careful which media their child is allowed to consume. There is an age restriction on DVDs etc. for a reason).

6. Quote from Albert Einstein

“If you change the way you look at something, you change what you look at.”

This quote describes quite well what is achieved through hypnosis. It changes the way you look at something. This also changes on what you are looking at.

A simple example of this is, the optical illusion, where a word “changes” into another word just because you look at it from a different perspective. But not only the illusion just described, is a good example of this, but almost all illusions. Because if you change the way you look at an illusion (for example, the angle from which you look at it), what you are looking at, also changes.