Alternative healing for children

Pat feels a special calling to reach out to children in crisis, and assist them in empowering themselves to cope with life in the tumultuous world around them. In 2005 Pat's husband died suddenly, leaving her with seven-year-old triplets, and a daughter of eleven years to raise alone. This life changing event brought about an even greater faith in the complementary health fields. With the insights of her years of training, Pat and her children have managed to make peace with this loss and take from it the gifts that the experience gave.

 

She has developed her own method of combining the various therapeutic modes to help unlock the stumbling blocks that often hold children back academically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. “I strongly believe that a child with a healthy self-esteem and good emotional intelligence will cope with the challenges of childhood and adolescence so much better.”

 

 

Alternative healing can greatly help if your child or teenager is struggling with any of the following:

 

• General unhappiness
• Moodiness
• Depression
• Anger and defiance
• Recurrent illnesses
• Weight problems
• Learning problems
• Lack of self-confidence,
• Lack of direction/motivation (teenagers)

 

Pat feels that as parents we owe it to our children to help them find ways of correcting negative situations. In a perfect world every child receives enough love, nurturing, encouragement, gentle guidance, healthy food, quality education, time for laughter, play, sleep and perfect healthcare and is protected from violence, loss of loved ones, worry, fear and abuse. But we all, including our children, experience situations in life that challenge us. No parent, no matter how dedicated, loving or kind, can protect their child from life. Children learn most by example, so by giving a healthy holistic example of how to deal with their life issues you are giving your child a positive model for the future.

 

When a child enters Pat's practise for the first session, she gently allows the child to guide her and establishes a working bond with the child. After consulting with the parent/guardian of the child prior to the first appointment, she presents various options to the child. Most children are immediately attracted to, and want to choose from, the Aura-Soma bottles.

 

This is a wonderful ice breaker, giving Pat an opportunity to connect with the child, build up their confidence with the gifts and talents that their selection highlights, and lightly touch on possible challenges. Generally Pat can then work easily with the child, and through story telling and use of some neuro linguistic principals (NLP), help the child access the memory or series of events that is at the core of their struggles.

 

From this point, by means of visualisation (which children generally achieve very easily) and NLP, a healthy and helpful image of the future is built up. The child's self image is worked on extensively, leaving the child feeling empowered and able to cope better with the challenges that life may bring. Healthy habits for dealing with challenges are also taught.

 

There is no 'average' session in the holistic healing of children. Some children respond well to Reiki and massage. Rei-massage is also performed on children, if that seems to be what the child indicates they need. Rei-massage is where the healing powers of human touch is combined with the specially attuned energy of Reiki. Some children ask straight-out to be massaged when they see the massage bed!

 

Children who are verbally strong respond well to counselling or the process described above. Some children are not good at expressing themselves yet and some children, who are generally outspoken, clam up when strong emotions arise. This is where kinesiology and Aura-Soma are relied upon for insight and guidance during the healing process.

 

Report-backs to parents/guardians do not take place in front of the children. Pat will either report back by phone, or will set up a separate appointment if necessary. As with any situation involving a child, parents have the greatest influence over their children's lives, beliefs and choices. It is therefore essential to have a good working relationship between the parents or guardians and the holistic health facilitator.

 

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