| Best regards | | | | If you or your child struggles each day to |
| | | | stay on task andlive a peacefully organized |
| Steve Jones | | | | life, then hypnosis can help. |
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| Overcome ADD/ADHD with Hypnosis | | | | The cause may be a condition known to doctors |
| | | | andpsychiatrists as ADD/ADHD. Attention |
| Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or ADD with | | | | Deficit Disorder (ADD)or ADD combined with |
| hyperactivity | | | | Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) areconditions |
| | | | diagnosed in approximately 5-7 percent |
| (ADHD) is as common in today's schools as | | | | ofchildren. It is also becoming recognized as |
| well, the commoncold. If you would like to | | | | a disorder notexclusive to children, but in |
| explore alternatives to drugtherapy to help | | | | many adults. The growingpharmaceutical hold |
| your child become more focused and calm anddo | | | | on those who suffer from theseconditions is |
| better in school, then hypnosis is a | | | | not the only treatment. |
| comforting andnatural choice. | | | | |
| | | | Symptoms of ADD and ADHD are an inability to |
| Adults and children alike can suffer from the | | | | concentrateand complete tasks. It is believed |
| effects of | | | | to be a chemicalimbalance that causes these |
| | | | disorders. A hyper or extremelyactive child |
| ADD and ADHD. Both are treated with similar | | | | does not necessarily have a problem, nor |
| medicationsincluding Adderall, Stratera, or | | | | doesa scatter-brained adult. Much of a |
| Ritalin. Theseprescriptions tend to work only | | | | person's diet and theway they process |
| as long as they are in thebody, so most | | | | information, can lead experts to thediagnosis |
| children have to take time out of theirschool | | | | of ADD or ADHD. Since hypnosis naturally |
| schedule to visit the nurse for a mid-day | | | | works toorganize and sort through thoughts |
| dose. | | | | and stored bits ofinformation in the brain, |
| | | | it is extremely effective inhelping those who |
| There can also be a drop off effect when the | | | | have ADD. |
| medicationleaves the body that manifests | | | | |
| itself as an extreme changein behavior based | | | | Because hypnosis is able to help a person |
| on the decreased ability to focus. | | | | relax it can gointo the depths of the brain |
| | | | where information is stored. |
| Hypnosis addresses the core causes of the | | | | |
| inability to stayon task by organizing | | | | Often the information stored there is vying |
| thoughts and developing skills usedin | | | | for attentionand comes to the conscious mind |
| concentration. | | | | in the form of scatteredand disconnected |
| | | | ideas. Likewise, throughout the day thebrain |
| Hypnotherapy designed to alleviate ADD and | | | | is receiving millions of pieces of |
| ADHD starts asother hypnosis sessions. First | | | | informationsimultaneously and unless it knows |
| you are brought to a stateof total | | | | how to organize itquickly, it can cause |
| relaxation. From there you are able to shut | | | | distractions. Hypnosis, simply put,is the way |
| outall external stimuli and focus on the | | | | to file all of these stimuli and keep order. |
| matter at hand. Thedialog used to battle ADD | | | | |
| and ADHD works on developingconcentration by | | | | Steve G. Jones is a board certified Clinical |
| learning to focus on one specific thoughtor | | | | |
| task at a time. | | | | Hypnotherapist. |
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