hypnosis for an end to performance anxiety in young people
hypnosis for kids for an end to test anxiety
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for children age 8 to 13 years old |
listen to and read a brief excerpt
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incredible performance, too
a 25-min. hypnosis experience for kids 8 to 13
$36 CD
MP3 download $27
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performance preparation & excellence
without performance anxiety
test-taking preparation & excellence
without test anxiety
available on CD & MP3 only - not on tape
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a description of the recording
Hypnotically presented guided imagery and suggestions in the form of child-friendly word weavings that are intended to be experienced as fun and spacy-weird-interesting. They are designed to promote a deep sense of self confidence in the young listener as well as motivation for preparation.
The recording is designed to produce positive results with just one or two listenings and stable, positive, enduring results after only a few listenings and two or three performance successes. With several listenings and several successes, the young listener should be able to achieve a sense of pride in overcoming this anxiety that can result in better performance and/or test-taking skills (including beter motivation for studying and preparing for performance and test-taking) than he or she would have had if he or she never had the struggle to contend with in the first place.
This hypnosis recording focuses on reducing self-consciousness, negativity, anxiousness, worry, stress, self-doubts and self-critical self-talk that can make it hard to think about and prepare for performance or testing and that can interfere with test-taking (by interfering with concentration, causing heightened distractibility and causing memory problems) and that can interfere with performance (by interfering with concentration, increasing distractibility and interfering with the ability to "get in the zone"). This hypnosis recording is for kids 8 to 13 and for all forms of test anxiousness and performance anxiety (anxiety about sports performance, artistic performance, public speaking, acting, etc.).
headphones for maximum effect
Like other Head-Cleaners recordings, this hypnosis recording weaves together two separate recordings -- one presented in the left channel and one in the right -- to create a more entrancing, interesting hypnotic effect. Headphones are essential if you intend to listen to both sides at once to get full effects... BUT headphones are not essential. For the child who is uncomfortable with the dual voice presentation format, either side (right or left channel) can be listened to separately (either with one side turned down via balance control on the player or by simply moving one side of the headphones away from one ear).
two complete versions of the hypnosis recording
In addition to other dualities involved in Head-Cleaners hypnosis tapes and CDs, all recordings also comes in two versions -- one that is just voice without any background sound and one with the voice(s) accompanied by a background sound that sounds a little like far away airplanes passing by in the distance from one earphone to the other. Every Head-Cleaners CD comes in a double CD case with two CDs -- one CD has the background and one doesn't have the background. Every tape comes with the no-background version on one side and the background version on the other. All Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes are best (I think) with the background sound. However, because some people find any hint of airplanes anxiety provoking and distracting from the hypnosis experience -- and also because a few people have asked to have their own music playing softly in the background while they listen to a hypnosis recording, both versions come packaged together.
hypnosis is interesting, fun, neat, cool
Kids generally think hypnosis is fun, neat and cool. They need less reassurance and are usually better subjects than adults. If you are anxious about the idea of hypnosis, do some reading or talk to someone -- but try not to convey your anxiousness about hynosis to your child. You will get best results by presenting this as something very interesting and fun. If you have any concerns, read the transcript of the recording so you know everything that will be said. If your child is at all anxious and would like to read the transcript, that's fine, too. Reading it won't hurt the effect of the hypnosis and it will help the effect if the listener would otherwise be anxious about what was going to be said.
wanna read the transcript?
The wording of this hypnosis recording is kid-friendly and upbeat and parents are invited to
email Dr J to request a look at the transcript
to see what actual wordings will be heard by their child. Again, also, if your child is at all anxious and would like to read the transcript, that's fine, too. Reading the transcript will not hurt the effect of the hypnosis and it will help the effect if the listener would otherwise be anxious about what was going to be said.
ages 8 to 13 - what about kids other ages?
The recording was designed for kids. The age range of 8 to 13 is a rough estimate of the appropriate ages, based on my experience with anxious kids over my past 50+ years. If your anxious child has a good vocabulary and is only 6 or 7 -- or if he or she would not be offended if, at age 14 or 15, you suggested he or she try a hypnosis recording labeled for kids 8-13, give it a try. You can easily check out the transcript (see the paragraph above) to see if it is okay for your anxious but younger child and you can simply ask your 14, 15 or 16 year old if he or she would like to try the recording -- and in either case, you can give it a try and get your money back if you find it doesn't work out. As noted below, one or two listenings to this hypnosis recording will tell you if your child is going to like it or not. With regard to older kids and adults, there are other hypnosis recordings (see below) created for adults and older teens. You can also ask for a transcript of those if you'd like to try to compare.
ages 8 to 13 - what about adult use?
This hypnosis recording is okay for adults to use for performance anxiety and test anxiety issues. It won't harm maturity levels. But there are other Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings made for adults and older adolescents that address performance anxiety ("Performance 2" and "Performance Perfected", and test anxiety ("Test-Taking Talented, Too").
how often does one listen?
Results can be expected after only one or two listenings. Nothing in life is one-size-fits-all and your child should feel positive about listening to the recording within one or two listenings or just send it back for a refund. One or two listenings can help with a performance or a test that is still weeks away, but if there are to be several performances or tests (if he or she is in a baseball league with weekly games or if there is a test every week in biology that seems to be a source of worry) then expect the child to need refresher listenings once or twice every week or two.
listening places
Listening should be done laying on a bed or a couch or in a big soft chair in a place where your child will not be interrupted -- and will not be expected to keep track of time or keep his or her attention on anything else -- for half an hour or so. Because the telephone is one of the very important things in a lot of kids lives, it is best if the phone could be taken off the hook in another room for half an hour -- or the ringer turned off anywhere where it might be heard. Brothers and sisters and parents that cannot be expected to keep it in mind that the child is not to be disturbed for half an hour should be locked in distant rooms or sent on long errands. Superfluous noises (e.g., loud neighbors or passing cars) are not generally a problem for most listeners to hypnosis recordings. Listening should not be done when operating any kind of machinery or when attention needs to be kept on time or things happening.
listening times
Listening should be done when the child is not exhausted and likely to fall asleep. Many listeners will believe they fell asleep. This is common with hypnosis (the term "hypnosis" basically means "sleep like state"). If the child does fall asleep while listening, he or she will not get benefit from the part of the recording slept through. You can basically tell if your child fell asleep or was just hypnotized by whether he or she "wakes up" as the recording ends. If he or she awakens at the end of the recording you can assume he or she was aware and listening, even if he or she reports having fallen asleep.
sleep... sleep.... sleepy
After one or two listenings when awake, further listenings at bedtime can further reinforce effects and will aid your child in getting to sleep. What they sleep through won't be effective but what they do hear prior to falling asleep can be expected to "sink in" even better. (Information and thoughts a person experiences right before sleep are encoded better -- whether hypnotized or not.) Going to bed twenty minutes early might result in an excellent night's sleep and a strong impact of hypnotic suggestions.
listen to and read a brief excerpt
catalogue page ~ home page
questions?
Feel free to email me or call if you have any questions at all. Email is checked frequently throughout most days but it can be missed. If you don't get a response to an email within a day, email me again. Put the word QUESTION in the subject line to make it light up red in my emails so it is less likely to get missed. Contacting me by phone is more personal but sometimes more difficult. I have an answering machine and a secretary and a chaotic, intense schedule.
Special Note: Performance 2 (for adults and older teens), Performance Perfected (also for adults and older teens) and Incredible Performance, Too (for kids) are different from most of the other Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings. They are intended to provide and foster a mostly "in the zone," "specific-circumstance," "certain-amount-of-time," "powerful-but-temporary," effects. Though they can be listened to in the days before a performance or event during which the listener wants to be "in the zone," they are not intended to be used to accomplish an enduring, long term reduction of self-consciousness. They are intended to reduce negative self-talk, self-consciousness, etc. ONLY for the duration of the event, performance, presentation, or whatnot, that the listener has in mind. This is very different from most other Head-Cleaners hypnosis tapes and hypnosis CDs which are intended to provide effects that are less intensive but more enduring. Self-critiquing, self-monitoring and self-consciousness are essential parts of functioning. The brain will not let you turn off self-monitoring and self-critiquing permanently or long-term. Everyone needs to be self-conscious and self-critiquing most of the time.
If you want enduring effects - a reduction in general anxiousness or self-critical attitudes, an increase in hope or a decrease in worry - other Head-Cleaners recordings (e.g., Healing Tree 2, To Be Comfortably Confident, Self To Self Partnering, Relax...Relax, Who and How You Hope To Be, A Tool To Aid With Panic and Fear, Two Voices To Imagine) would be more appropriate.
email:
drj@head-cleaners.com
phone: 701-252-7788
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Take Note: In self-helping it's important to tell helpful from hurt. It's important to give yourself permission to consult a professional if you need one. Just as its important to get to a doctor if you're severely injured, and in borderline cases of injury it's better to waste the time it takes to go see a doctor than risk that you should have -- and just as one should not goof around with bandaids when an artery is gushing -- it's important to consult a psychologist,
psychiatrist or other counselor or physician -type professional if you believe you might, in fact, need one. Better safe and not sorry -- a stitch in time saves nine. If it turns out its a false alarm, the professional will tell you. If you think you need to go with a significant other and your 'other says "no," then go by yourself. Take a look at the comments on finding a therapist for some tips. Again, better safe than sorry -- a stitch in time saves nine.