For the past five years I have had the good fortune of being part of the health curriculum at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.
Nikki Marafatsos, the health
educator, has developed a unique approach that incorporates a group of guest
speakers to share with students different viewpoints related to stress
management and overall wellness.
My entertaining talk introduces hypnosis, and its
applications for stress and confidence.
I then perform a basic hypnotic induction for volunteers.
Mrs. Marafatsos solicits feedback from her students
about my talk and demonstration, which she then shares with me. The comments are thoughtful, insightful and
(brutally) candid. It’s exactly what one
would expect from a group of high performing teenagers.
Three years ago I published a blog post entitled Teens
Talk Hypnosis: The Good, the Bad and the
Boring. It continues to be one of
the most popular articles on this Web site.
I thought the time was right to once again share
feedback from Whitman’s health students.
There is a lot of good…some bad…and (interestingly) a high level of
interest in learning the practice of self-hypnosis.
The
Good
I enjoyed the experience. It opened doors for me to manage stress and I
even used the strategy last night when going to sleep.
The guest speaker was very interesting. It was very weird to get hypnotized, but afterwards
I did feel very good. I think this is a
good to tool to se while playing sports or trying to sleep.
I enjoyed the presentation! It was a really interesting way to combat
stress. Thinking about the active mind
versus the unconscious mind is new to me.
I definitely want to use hypnosis or meditation in a daily routine.
I really loved the presentation and it actually
worked! Really cool!
He is a cool guy.
I was very attentive to what he had to say. The hypnosis seemed to actually work on
me. I feel pretty weird. Overall, it was a great experience.
It gave me a lot of new techniques to help with not
only stress, but also sports.
He was very good and informative. It was interesting to see how strong the mind
is.
He is super cool!
I think that hypnosis is something that actually helps to relax and was
kind of fun to watch.
Yesterday, I actually was able to sleep well, and
have a productive day. While being
hypnotized, I felt stress free.
The
Bad
He was very entertaining and uplifting, but he
talked a lot and sometimes too fast.
He seemed to talk a lot and was kind of funny. He could have explained what he did the
volunteers after.
It was a good presentation, but he could have talked
more quietly.
It was interesting, but kind of creepy. It could be useful maybe, but I am not sure
ow to do it on my own.
I thought the presentation was interesting, but he
talked way too much.
The techniques he used seemed legit and
helpful. He could improve on his jokes.
The class was calm.
The presentation was alright, but I didn’t really like the speaker. I don’t really see how it calming it can be
if you are being screamed at by a speaker.
The
Interested
It was interesting, but I wish I remembered how to
do it to myself.
I liked his soothing voice, but I won’t be able to
do it to myself.
It was good except he did not tell us how to do it
so we can repeat it or gain something from it.
He didn’t involve everyone and he didn’t teach us
how to help manage stress ourselves.
I really enjoyed it.
I didn’t learn how to self hypnotize though.
Great speaker and good presentation. Curious to know how to do it yourself.
The feedback I would give is explain more how we can
employ similar techniques without a hypnotist.
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