Advice

Children are naturally incredibly receptive. They are, if you like, in a trance most of the time as they are highly focussed on one thing or another, hardly ever calmly taking in everything that is happening around them.
There is no need to hypnotise children – they are already there! They are constantly absorbing at a subconscious level. Every negative thought you have about them is conveyed to them, they are incredibly sensitive to your moods and to everything you say. In fact, you are constantly ‘hypnotising’ them, in the true sense! I mean that honestly. The work of a therapist is to de-hypnotise people so that they can get rid of all the negativity they have been surrounded with! As you get older, you can more easily learn to discern what you are taking in, but as a child you really don’t have any choice – your are in learning mode by design!
You can take advantage of this receptivity and help them by encouraging them and believing in them. For specific learning, here is an example of how it can work. Use a little story-telling …. (I will use ‘he’ instead of ‘he/she’ to make it easier).
Start off with a story about something he has learned in his life…
e.g .“When you were very little, and you tried to walk, you didn’t just get up and walk – you fell down a lot of times, but you always got up again and we were Soooo proud of you when you took your first step, and then your first few steps …. You have learned SO much in your life. And when you learned to talk… at first you only had a few words you could say, and then you learned more, and more, and you remembered them ALL. And now you have so many words that you can say that I can’t even count them! And you even learn new words every day too, don’t you?”
(some discussion is bound to follow. Make sure that you have anchored the state that he CAN learn things! – and you are anchoring them for yourself as well –reminding yourself that your child is normal, clever, capable of learning what he needs to learn in this life – remembering that every time you say something even slightly negative you are conveying to him that you think he can’t learn, that he has a problem. He WILL take his cue from you! YOUR attitude HAS to be one of assuring him that he will learn whatever he needs to, when he is ready and that he CAN if he wants to…. )
Okay, moving on then ….you can beging to talk about something that your child loves to do, that you know he feels proud of his achievement. e.g. “Can

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