A couple of years ago, I receive a call from a woman whose son habitually pulled out his eyelashes and wanted to know if I could help. Her husband was on their son’s case to stop this habit every time he looked at his son’s uneven eye lashes. They had already tried the medication route but she concluded that he was not taking the medication as prescribed; in fact, she discovered pills on the floor and hidden under cushions. During the first session, I found out that their son exhibited some obsessive compulsive behaviors, only one of which was the eyelash pulling. I used a procedure called “Parts Therapy” where we find the unconscious mind’s purpose of the behavior, then integrate it with the conscious mind so that both minds will work as one. We discovered that it all began when his sister broke his snow globe a few years prior, and he was angry at her for doing this. Once he was able to understand that he did not need to be angry with her any longer we were able to continue with the rest of the intervention.I had him go into a deep trance state, where he was able to create anesthesia in his hand and had him increase it as we moved the anesthesia from his right hand to his left hand, to his left foot to his right foot and back at his right hand, the hand he used to do pull his eye lashes. I gave him the suggestion that, just as he easily created the anesthesia in his hand and could no longer feel it, he could now no longer ever feel the need to pull out his eyelashes. He was also given a new behavior- of moving his hand through his hair instead- because if a behavior is removed, it is always good to replace it with another, but the suggestion was also given that he would probably never have the need to use his new behavior. To finish off the session, I had him see himself as no longer needing to do this behavior, starting from when he got home from our session, into the next day, and through his life. I received a phone call about a year later from the boy’s father, who said he was quite pleased with how his son was doing. If you have a child who is pulling out his/her hair, it (quite literally) only takes one session to do the work and a follow-up to make sure that the behavior has stopped.I suggest that you call a hypnotist in order to take care of this problem and better yet work with someone who has some knowledge of NLP because this is an easy problem to take care of from the hypnotic point of view. 

According to a study conducted by Peter Jensen, Director of the Center for Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University, there has been an increase in the number of children aged 6 to 18 years taking anti-psychotic medication- from 50,000 children 1990 to 532,000 nationwide in 2000; and that excludes those who take stimulants for ADD and antidepressants, which are the most commonly used psychiatric drugs!  In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs estimated that eighty percent of all medication use in children is off-label. When one considers that the efficacy of these drugs nor their long term side effects is not known, especially given the number of years the drugs are taken, we must ask ourselves, “Why we are allowing this to happen?” There are cases of children who have definite psychiatric problems for which medication is indeed required, however for too many children, medication seems to be the easiest way to get them to behave in a manner more conducive for the adults around them.  Continue »

To whom this may concern,

Our son Antonio has lived in a residential program for 6 years. All treatments and therapies were never enough to allow him to even visit his siblings in the last 18 months. Continue »