Overcome ADD/ADHD with Hypnosis

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or ADD with hyperactivity (ADHD) is as common in today's schools as well, the common cold. If you would like to explore alternatives to drug therapy to help your child become more focused and calm and do better in school, then hypnosis is a comforting and natural choice. 

Adults and children alike can suffer from the effects of ADD and ADHD. Both are treated with similar medications including Adderall, Stratera, or Ritalin. These prescriptions tend to work only as long as they are in the body, so most children have to take time out of their school schedule to visit the nurse for a mid-day dose. There can also be a drop off

effect when the medication leaves the body that manifests itself as an extreme change in behavior based on the decreased ability to focus. Hypnosis addresses the core causes of the inability to stay on task by organizing thoughts and developing skills used in concentration.

Hypnotherapy designed to alleviate ADD and ADHD starts as other hypnosis sessions. First you are brought to a state of total relaxation. From there you are able to shut out all external stimuli and focus on the matter at hand. The dialog used to battle ADD and ADHD works on developing concentration by learning to focus on one specific thought or task at a time.

If you or your child struggles each day to stay on task and live a peacefully organized life, then hypnosis can help. The cause may be a condition known to doctors and psychiatrists as ADD/ADHD. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or ADD combined with Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) are conditions

diagnosed in approximately 5-7 percent of children. It is also becoming recognized as a disorder not exclusive to children, but in many adults. The growing pharmaceutical hold on those who suffer from these conditions is not the only treatment.

Symptoms of ADD and ADHD are an inability to concentrate and complete tasks. It is believed to be a chemical imbalance that causes these disorders. A hyper or extremely active child does not necessarily have a problem, nor does a scatter-brained adult. Much of a person's diet and the way they process information, can lead experts to the diagnosis of ADD or ADHD. Since hypnosis naturally works to organize and sort through thoughts and stored bits of information in the brain, it is extremely effective in helping those who have ADD.

Because hypnosis is able to help a person relax it can go into the depths of the brain where information is stored. Often the information stored there is vying for attention and comes to the conscious mind in the form of scattered and disconnected ideas. Likewise, throughout the day the brain is receiving millions of pieces of information simultaneously and unless it knows how to organize it quickly, it can cause distractions. Hypnosis, simply put, is the way to file all of these stimuli and keep order.

author: Steve G. Jones is a board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. 
Article Source: www.positivearticles.com 

Hypnosis With Children 

Hypnosis can be looked upon as a state of concentrated and focused attention that is very similar to daydreaming. It allows access to the highly suggestive subconscious by quieting or bypassing the conscious mind. The rational processes of the conscious mind are suspended while the mind itself is occupied by deeper and more significant feelings and images.

Children Do Not Fully Develop Their Cognitive Processes Until They Reach The Age Of 11 or 12. Until that age all information is uncritically experienced by the child rather than being processed and critically evaluated. This means that they go into trance much easier than adults

do. Their focus is very fluid and they can move in and out of trance states in a very natural and relaxed way.

All the current research shows that children have a much greater responsiveness to suggestion.

Because of their ability to suspend their connection to the outer world, children have an advantage over adults in their use of hypnosis. Children can become completely absorbed in the story and take from the story the things they need for their lives. This is much the same as what happens when a child hears a fairy tale and becomes completely absorbed in the story.  Metaphors like a brightly shining sun are easily taken into the mind of the child and become the sun shining brightly inside of them

It is sometimes perceived that children have short attention spans so many therapists have been hesitant to use hypnosis with children.

In reality, children go into a trance and respond so easily to stories that create images of the desired results. Trance is really easy for children and really wonderful things can be created for them. Hypnosis contains many processes than can be easily adapted into stories that work very effectively for children. They take from these processes the things they need for their own healing.