Sunday, September 1, 2013

Hypnosis for Students

This is something that I personally have worked on. Been teenagers who are naturally willing to test new things and having great degrees of curiosity, school students respond very much positively towards hypnosis. 

After all, hypnosis is not that somebody having supernatural powers putting  you in a trance by force but it is your own creativity, concentration and imagination power that helps you to give up your burdens.

All what I did was to help them find their strength.

 

"Hypnosis for Students


Two of my four children are done with school, one is in high school now, and one will be starting high school in a couple of years. I've had a lot of first-hand experience with teens and the kinds of challenges they face in today's school environment.


Students who learn self-hypnosis gain self-confidence and the ability to focus more readily. This leads to better concentration in school, better retention, reduced test anxiety, and a host of other side benefits like higher self-esteem. So I make it a point to teach self hypnosis to as many students as I can, even if they don't seem to need help in school.


For students who do have performance problems in school, I have an array of things I can help them with. If test anxiety is a problem, I help the student learn to relax during the exam and focus his mind on the subject. For students who are bright but lack motivation, I help them to work smarter instead of harder by harnessing their subconscious minds' ability to absorb and retain vast amounts of information, which improves recall and can help make study time more effective.

For a student who knows the information but has a difficult time recalling it, I can help her to find alternate ways of unlocking the file cabinet in her mind when she needs to.





Reality of Meditation.

 If you stand before a mirror, you will see your entire reflection as one.  That is ‘oneness’. But if that mirror is shattered into two or three pieces, you may see two or three noses, six or seven eyes and a large number of hands.  That is the nature of a shattered mirror. There is no ‘oneness’ in it.  One piece of the mirror reflects one way, another one in another way.  Each piece reflects light in its own way, making images, a number of abnormal images.  Dear Friends, our scattered thoughts create an even greater abnormality.  Nothing that falls on it is true. Just as how false the reflections of that shattered mirror were, even more so false is what is told by these scattered thoughts.  The entire world, finally, is a reflection that falls on our mind.  So, that reflection is a great absurdity.  The external world that we see, not only others, but even one’s own self is a great absurdity.  Why? One’s self is in fact a collection of reflections that appears in a mirror that is shattered to a countless number of pieces.  Therefore, what meditation does is to make one’s inner self an un-shattered mirror.  If at any moment, un-shattered thoughts enter an un-shattered mind, then what we hear, see, think, at that moment we will perceive as they are.  That is why it is stated in the Dhamma that a concentrated mind perceives things as they are.

 




'' Learn to forgive yourself too for all the mistakes you have made in the past, not holding onto these wounds by having guilt and remorsein relation to them; and also letting go of the wounds that have been created by others. Learn to accept yourself as you are,and learn to accept others as they are, without an image of how you or they should be.''  - Godwin Samararathne