Would a Baseball Player Wet His Bed?
Article by William C. Smith, BCH, CI -- www.hypnosisrc.com
 

First thing to realize, he's probably embarrassed to be talking about it anyway, embarrassed his teammates may tease him and his friends might make fun of him.  And it took courage for him to consider Hypnosis for help with this problem.  Now, let's talk about Blaine, the bed wetting baseball player and how Hypnosis helped him.  Blaine is nine years old.  He loves baseball!  He would love to go to sports camps and spend nights at his friend's house, but can't.  He's afraid he'll be embarrassed the next morning.

His Mother called me and asked if I could help him using Hypnosis.  She liked the way I explained how we would be working on SELF TALK, self Hypnosis, and CONFIDENCE in all areas to help Blaine move beyond this problem.  I asked her to make a sentence, using the word "problem" in it to tell me what we would be working with.

She said, "Blaine's problem is he wets his bed."  I suggested, instead of saying "Blaine's" problem, how about saying "THE" PROBLEM.  When we say "my problem" we're saying it belongs to us.  Anything that "belongs" to us, the SubConscious Mind wants to keep and get more of.  Do you think Blaine wants to keep and get more of this problem?  And then I explained how Hypnosis works with the SubConscious Mind along with the Conscious.

Right away she realized they were going to get a new approach.  His parents had taken him to physicians and counselors and had tried alarms that would wake him up, etc.  Hypnosis was suggested by one of my other clients - I had helped her 11 year old daughter to start waking up in a dry bed a couple of years prior.

When Blaine and his Mother came in for their first Hypnosis session, we started talking about what Blaine enjoyed doing; school, family, sports, etc.  We didn't jump into the "bed wetting" problem just yet.  He needed to RELAX and get COMFORTABLE first. 

Then we discussed what he wanted to use Hypnosis to CHANGE.  Blaine said he wanted to stop wetting his bed.  He and his Mother were both surprised when I told them; I really didn't want to do that.  I explained, that would be focusing on the problem.  I believe in focusing more on SOLUTIONS instead.  So we agreed to work on helping him wake up in a DRY BED – and dry pants – he had to wear special underwerwear to minimize the consequences.

I asked Blaine who his favorite pro BASEBALL PLAYER is.  We talked about why he was his favorite.  Then I said, "OK, now for a SERIOUS question, Blaine.  How EXCITED would you be if you won a contest and got to spend a day with him, including having dinner with his family, and spending the night?" 

His face went from excited to a worried look.  I asked him if he would be worried he might embarrass himself if he spent the night.  He nodded.  Then I asked if he would ALLOW me to help him use Hypnosis to put this problem BEHIND him so he would NEVER need to worry about that embarrassment again.  He agreed and we got to work.

During his first Hypnosis session, I offered suggestions about REMOVING obstacles and FINDING solutions, EASY solutions, like reminding him how NATURAL it was to go to sleep and to wake up – without him having to think about it.  How he easily plays his BEST BASEBALL – NATURALLY.  How he naturally BREATHES without having to think about it.  And how NOW, he could go to sleep, WAKE UP if the need arises, take care of the need, go back to sleep, and then wake up in a DRY BED – without the need of the protective underwear.

The next Hypnosis session, Blaine told me he thought he was making some progress.  His Mother disagreed saying he had still wet the bed every night.  I told them both, let's CELEBRATE the PROGRESS that Blaine is working on the SOLUTION, but maybe the DRY BED results weren't quite there YET, but the dry bed WOULD  come.  Blaine looked relieved.  Even though the Mother agreed, I could still see some doubts in her eyes.

I insist on a parent being in the room with us when I work with young clients.  Why?  I want the parent to learn the tools I'm teaching my young clients and I want them to help REINFORCE the work we do together, rather than sabotage the work we do with negative comments.  This situation was a perfect example.

Blaine and I talked a little more about baseball.  And then I asked him to start thinking about this problem (after the first session, we never talked about bed wetting again – only "the problem") in BASEBALL terms.  EACH morning, he would EVALUATE his PROGRESS either as a STRIKE OUT (wet bed) or a HOME RUN (dry bed).  He and his Mother liked this idea.

With each session, he made progress and on his last visit, I read the progress reports from Blaine and his Mother.  Both of them proudly wrote that Blaine had FIVE consecutive HOME RUNS in the last six days since our last visit – he had never had two consecutive dry nights before.  We did some future pacing during this session seeing himself putting this problem BEHIND HIM once and FOR ALL and USING the TOOLS he LEARNED during our visits to IMPROVE his baseball game AS WELL.

Please go back and re-read the article, noticing the words in ALL CAPS.  These were emphasized during the session and were instrumental in how I helped a baseball player stop wetting his bed.

"Use your words carefully, because the words you use today will influence your clients today and twenty years from now."~Milton Erickson

Article by William C. Smith, BCH, CI -- www.hypnosisrc.com -

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