Wingwave® for Children and Teenagers

Young children are very sensitive to their environment in their primitive years and the development of a child’s psyche can start as early as in the womb. They have the ability to sense the emotions and psychological state of their mother even before they have fully formed.

As a child develops they construct their unique model of the world by use of their sensory navigators to interpret and disseminate information. They look to the people who surround them as role models and use experiences as learning opportunities to measure between safety and danger. As they begin to understand language and behaviour, they form beliefs and values by drawing on what they see, feel, hear and touch.

In its infancy the psyche of a child or adolescent teenager is much more sensitive to emotional stress compared to adults. This is because in childhood the brain is still developing and may struggle to process a stressful experience or trauma in the same way an adult would. If a child experiences stress either at home or in school, it may be that their subconscious mind is unable to fully process the emotion surrounding it, resulting in a secondary problem such as erratic behaviour, anxiety, outbursts of anger or consistent nightmares. For this reason, early intervention with wingwave® is highly beneficial.

Although we cannot protect our children completely from stressful events, we can help them tap into their resources and reconnect them once more with their confidence. A great benefit is that children are naturally very curious and love to experience and learn new things, this makes it easier to give them the opportunity to try the wingwave intervention. The method is gentle, yet effective and can also be used playfully.

Here is a story about Marcel who was thirteen years old and was experiencing learning blocks:

Thirteen year old Marcel introduces himself to his Wingwave® Coach with the following words: “I hate books. Reading is so boring and no fun at all.” Marcel doesn’t like to read, and just barely manages to get by with what he learns during class. It is a cause for concern as his parents worry he may fall behind.

Fortunately, Marcel grasps information easily, he is a fast learner, and has a very good memory. Marcel has his own aquarium at home and knows many Latin names of all kinds of fish. His mother states that he was an avid reader at the age of five and was able to read before he started school. But by the age of eight, his enthusiasm for reading stopped for no reason.

The Wingwave Coach asks Marcel to bring his school books to his first appointment. Using the O-Ring test (myostatic test) the coach tests the reactions Marcel shows when looking at his books, and separately tests when holding and reading them. All of Marcel’s muscle reaction tests show a weakness. As a result of just a few sets of an “awake” REM phase” waving intervention, the weak reaction to his books changes and Marcel’s o ring test becomes strong.

At this point the Coach uses the muscle reaction test to find out the reasons for Marcel’s book phobia. Finally Marcel reveals an explanation for his phobia: Marcel liked his school teacher a lot and always wanted to please her. Because of his advanced reading skills, he always had his hand up in class. The teacher’s frequent reaction was, “Not now, Marcel, you already know everything. Now it’s someone else’s turn.” So Marcel developed the emotional association between his reading abilities and rejection, and decided to hold himself back. This holding back resulted in a reading and writing shortfall.

After this unfortunate past experience was treated with “waving,” Marcel was able to work with his school books again. One year after Marcels’ Wingwave Coaching session, his performance had increased and he excelled in his love of reading.

As a result of wingwave coaching children can enjoy the best possible development, build on their strengths and feel confident even in challenging situations.

For reasons that are basic to survival, traumatic experiences long after they are over can continue to take priority in the thoughts, emotions, and behaviour of children, adolescents and adults. Fears and other strong emotions accompanied by intense physical reactions may recede into the background, but events and reminders may trigger something in the unconscious that can often seem confusing. This is typical in PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Due to the stored away memory, the mind can often lose the link leaving a person to be confused as to why they have may have a sudden panic attack.

The limbic system also called ‘the emotional brain’ controls many of the most fundamental emotions and drives for survival. Researchers are finding that chronic moderate stress or shorter term high stress can be much more harmful to the brain of young children and teens than it is to adults.

Some of the problems that may occur whilst parenting your child can be quite overwhelming as you want to support your child the best you can! But if you’re unsure what the underlying block is, then you can’t be expected to solve the problem. Wingwave coaching is ideal if you’re a parent who is compassionately trying to help your child but having little success, and feeling slightly helpless at the same time.  The condition for wingwave coaching is that your child is ready for help and can rely on a supportive family environment.

If you think that your child may benefit from wingwave® coaching or would like to chat further about how wingwave may help, feel free to get in touch or complete the contact form below.

A little bit of science:

The level of stress a child undergoes is very much down to the environment and conditioning they experience whilst growing up.  On the extreme end, stressful experiences such as neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse can affect the normal development of the brain, including the size of the areas that help us control our responses to danger (the limbic system). If an event has been too stressful for an adolescent or infant, the memory may get stored away unprocessed but re-triggered unexpectedly causing a child to become upset, scared, angry or fearful.

If a pregnant mother experiences trauma or stress during pregnancy, the emotion surrounding this can very much be passed on to the unborn child. In addition, if a child is brought into a stressful environment, they can be sensitive to the feelings and stress of their mother/father/sibling etc. This is because the human body is surrounded by a magnetic field which is responsible for sending, receiving, and interpreting information from one stimulus to another. We naturally do this on a daily basis with our surroundings.