The first step towards getting over bereavement for everyone is to accept the fact that the person is there no more. The quicker people accept it, the easier it is to heal the wounds of separation. Adults don’t like to expose their kids to deaths and are reluctant to bring them to funerals. But they don’t realize, is that acceptance is a milestone in dealing with grief, especially bereavement.

Dealing with grief for children is a bit difficult, because they are not apt in explaining their feelings in words. Therefore, their feelings are being shown in various ways, usually in the shape of stress. Some children go quiet and pretend that nothing is wrong; some children become aggressive, while other children become unruly and cry a lot.

Children require a safe environment to release their emotions, a place where they know that what they say will not upset the ones they talk to. It can be very hard for children to talk to adults they know and therefore professional therapy, especially hypnotherapy, is of great help for kids who face bereavement of one of their family members or close friends.

Hypnotherapy is very effective in healing medical and emotional problems, especially in children. It has been known to help them overcome their phobias, attitude problems, emotional stresses and boost their positive attitude.

According to the British Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, “In therapy, hypnosis usually involves the person experiencing a sense of deep relaxation with their attention narrowed down, and focused on appropriate suggestions made by the therapist.” The relaxation reduces stress, enhances concentration and lightens the mind.

Hypnotherapy works with the sub-conscious mind; hence it ensures that all the negative impacts of unpleasant experiences do not hamper them in any way in later life. Many people put their grief in a secret compartment in their brains which remains in the sub-conscious. It suddenly pops out when there is an emotional trigger and often causes people to act absurdly over something that happened when they were little kids. This is why it is more important for kids to cope with their grief at the right time and as accept the change as quickly as possible. Acceptance leads to adjustment and absorption of the fact that someone is permanently gone from their lives.

There are about 11 hypnotherapy clinics in and around Ealing, London. Hypnotherapy professionals provide a neutral and safe environment for kids to open up and release their feelings.

There is no specific time period for any child to cope with grief, because everyone does that at their own pace. Hypnotherapy ensures that the negative impacts of bereavement do not hamper their daily life and routine and dormant grief might not attack them in later life. In addition to hypnotherapy, various activities designed for kids, like drawing, keeping a memory box, performing rituals of funerals, and allowing kids their space to remember and talk about their deceased loved one, also helps a great deal in helping them cope with the trauma of death.

Hypnotherapy has proved to be one of the most practical and successful therapies to date. Children with bereavement issues can easily benefit from the devastating and destructive consequences emerging from losing a loved one.

Author Bio: Gemma Bailey is co-founder of NLP4Kids. NLP4Kids is an international organisation, which provides therapy and workshops to tackle issues such as self esteem, confidence, bullying, exam stress, phobias, eating disorders and so on. Please visit http://www.NLP4Kids.org for more information.

Category: Education
Keywords: NLP,children