CAN CHILDREN BE HYPNOTIZED?
Indeed they can, and wonderfully so. Children go in and out of hypnotic mental states often in the games they play. In our clinical work with children, we employ a let’s pretend or make believe we are hypnotized technique which provides an exceedingly rapid method of hypnotizing children, as they make a game of it. When you watch children playing you can see that they are hypnotized almost naturally by pretending they are cowboys or pirates or playing with pretend friends. Children understand simple suggestions the best. Children tend to stay in hypnosis shorter periods of time, but they seem to also go in and out of hypnosis a number of times during a hypnotherapy session.
Indeed they can, and wonderfully so. Children go in and out of hypnotic mental states often in the games they play. In our clinical work with children, we employ a let’s pretend or make believe we are hypnotized technique which provides an exceedingly rapid method of hypnotizing children, as they make a game of it. When you watch children playing you can see that they are hypnotized almost naturally by pretending they are cowboys or pirates or playing with pretend friends. Children understand simple suggestions the best. Children tend to stay in hypnosis shorter periods of time, but they seem to also go in and out of hypnosis a number of times during a hypnotherapy session.
