When looking at the picture above, many people experience unpleasant sensations, even physical ones. Most of us remember what injections are, for many it is painful or at least unpleasant, and certainly for very few it is joyful and cool. But there is also a fairly significant category of people who are terribly afraid of injections, blood drawing and other medical procedures. This horror, inevitability and panic are familiar to them from childhood. And most likely they will be familiar to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. Each subsequent generation will become familiar with the horror of medical manipulation until someone decides to stop the vicious circle. Want a trick? I can teach you to react to injections in such a way that your children are not affected by the horror of vaccinations, and they can truthfully say with full confidence: “I am not afraid of injections! If necessary, I will inject myself!” (C) Remember, yes, the poem? As a psychologist and mother of two children, I tell you that the best courage to develop is from a very early age. Parents, remember that very moment when you bring an unsuspecting baby into the vaccination room, undress... and then he gets an injection? Do you remember what exactly is happening at this moment? Let me remind you: for the first couple of seconds, the baby looks at you in surprise, completely bewildered that this just happened, then the signal of the unpleasant sensation reaches the brain, and it begins to react. If he thought there was calm on your face, then he would react with indignation for a minute or two, if anxiety - longer and more acutely. With older children, approximately the same thing happens, but their perception is already influenced not only by your reaction, but also by past experience. Whether it was pleasant or unpleasant, mild or sharp, this is how the reaction will be completed. So, a simple life hack is based on these patterns of reaction. What you need to do to help your child undergo medical intervention: 1. Before the injection, warn him in a calm tone that an injection awaits him and that it is unpleasant, but necessary. Something like this: “Now the doctor will give you an injection. It’s unpleasant, but tolerable.”2. When the injection is given, and the child is bewilderedly waiting for an explanation from you, calmly explain that it was an injection, and it was unpleasant, but the pain will go away after some time. It is advisable to show your sympathy or regret with facial expressions. Something like this: “It’s unpleasant, yes, baby, but it will pass soon.” At the same time, it is important to call a spade a spade, and not say that it won’t hurt, that it won’t hurt, or that a mosquito will just bite. It’s also not worth catastrophizing and dramatizing pain, because medical manipulations are part of treatment or prevention, and periodically throughout life they will be necessary. It’s also worth remembering that not all children react the same way due to different innate characteristics of the nervous system and body, but pain without catastrophizing and denial, it is much easier and faster to experience than with them. I would like to finish today’s cognitive-behavioral life hack with the Buddha’s saying: “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice” (c). Remember this and be healthy and happy! Promotion for a consultation on parental tests (20 minutes online, during which I explain vulnerabilities and what to do, or offline I send recommendations for your case) - 1000 rubles🔥89086608201