Can Hypnosis Improve Kids' Health?

The active and vivid imagination that children naturally possess may help make them receptive to the alternative-medicine approach known as hypnotherapy, or medical hypnosis. Hypnosis may help kids who are experiencing certain health or behavioral problems, such as stomach pain or anxiety, said experts who have studied hypnotherapy in children. "It is much easier to get kids into a hypnotic state — to bring them away from the here and now and give them therapeutic suggestion — than i