Bedtime Stories can harm child development? For hundreds, even thousands of years, parents have known that bedtime stories help children relax and fall asleep more easily. They can also help develop reading skills and emotional development of children, but you may not know that bedtime stories also act as a form of hypnosis. In this case, the contents of some of the stories we share with our children may need to be reconsidered.
Research on brain waves revealed that about there are 4 wavelengths or types of brain waves, divided by speed is predominant Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta. Delta is the slowest of brainwaves, while beta brain waves are much shorter and faster.
As adults, we spend most of our awakening consciousness to the beta status alert. When we dream, however, in deep hypnosis, meditation, or "zone" as sometimes happens in sport or music, we enter the Theta state. It also occurs as we are drift into sleep and as we wake up.
Staff development specialists tell us that it is the most effective moments of repeating affirmations visualization use, or comments about our objectives. Because we are in Theta state, the positive messages pass the filters of the conscious mind and can be planted directly useful suggestions in the subconscious.
When a child is between the ages of 2 and 6, brain waves are predominantly in Theta state, which helps explain their rich imagination and creativity at this stage of child development.
Six to twelve years, the child's brain waves to accelerate the Alpha state.
As adults in the Alpha state occurs when we meditate, daydream or enter the U.S. light hypnosis or highway hypnosis as you could experience when you drift driving a familiar route.
Children between 2 and 12 are generally in the same condition as adults are brain waves during hypnosis, meditation or daydreaming. What exactly are the states where it becomes more suggestible.
What is even more important is that bedtime stories are the last thing your child will hear before going to sleep and to play in the subconscious part of their minds all night.
During the golden age of child development, they probably believed in magic, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, you have a golden opportunity to schedule them for maximum success. Or, conversely, careless words and negative influences can become harmful hypnotic suggestions which are powerful obstacles to the developing personality. Even when their children start to reach the age of reason, they usually go in and out of hypnosis quite regularly, using their imagination to have fun and spend time in their own little worlds.
Perhaps the best way to understand the importance of Bedtime Stories is to look back and remember some of your own favorite stories from childhood,
Sandra said Dye, psychotherapist and child experts, developers of :5-Step Parenting System - Stay Connected to influence.
As an adult, you might even notice that some messages in your favorite stories in your life have played an instrumental way.
What becomes evident is the need to be very aware of the suggestions we give our children that will affect their adult lives. Are you for example through bedtime stories, which suggests to your children that the world is full of opportunity or a scary place?
The Financial Fairy Tales series are examples of children's books have been written to help children around the discovery of the positive and life affirming message.
Posted on April 7, 2010.
