Does Leah want to Play? Tina asks her swaddled teen.
Leah starts to cry.
“So, does my Leah want to continue playing?”
Leah shakes her head.
“Sorry baby, Mommy wants to play.”
Leah continued to cry.
“Mommy thinks little Leah is really only pretending to be a grown up teenager. She is rude and mean and doesn’t behave like a lady most of the time. Earlier today, she showed me she is whiney and has problems making it to the potty. Little Leah likes her binkie and loves it when mommy holds her and treats her like she is one of her little daycare babies.”
Leah continued to cry, but also shakes her head.
“Poor baby is unhappy. I guess she knows that mommy is telling her the truth and it is making her sad. But mommy will make you a deal. If little Leah show mommy she is a big girl, then mommy will stop playing.”
Leah continued to shake her head.
“You don’t want to do that. You just want mommy to treat you like a baby and stop all this nonsense.”
Leah shook her head.
“I don’t understand baby. I guess my little one is confused. Let’s take a moment.”
Tina held the swaddled little teenager closely and hummed a sweet little tune and she gently stroked her face wiping away her tears.
Leah was soon in a relaxed mood once again. There was a blissful expression on Leah’s face as Tina began her messaging.
“Poor baby is having difficulty with her life.” Tina whispered softly to Leah.
Tina could see Leah just listening to her voice as she continued to gently stoke her face and now the small portion of her exposed head.
Tina continued to repeat that phase. After 5 minutes she had said it about 10 times.
Tina sits quietly for a moment with Leah, finding it interesting that the swaddled teen has taken to being swaddled just like a newborn.
“I want you think of your life being a lot easier. Like when you are asleep or when you are getting ready for sleep.” Tina paused for effect. Years of experience told her that she could implant these little suggestions and they could stick if she did them just right.
“Think back to when life was easier. Think back to when you were younger. I want you to think of yourself as a 7 year old. Life was easier then wasn’t it?”
Tina pause and glanced into Leah’s face.
Leah slowly gave sort of rocking nod of agreement.
“Then imagine yourself back to when you were just as you were at 7. You will behave just like you did at that age till you fall asleep tonight and you will sleep just as you did when you were 7. Your body and mind will be sleeping like you did as 7 year old.”
Tina gazed at Leah.
Leah looked like she was absorbing every word. In fact she looked like she was delighting in the very thought of being 7 again.
“When you wake up in the morning, some of that feeling of being younger will trickle into your regular life. It will make you want to behave like that younger you. Won’t that be fun?”
Leah had the smallest little nod that could just barely be noticed as that blissful expression was still evident on her face.
“But that’s not all, being 7 is a lot of fun for you, but at 7 you remember how much easier life was when you were even younger. So each time you get ready to rest or sleep you will imagine yourself as 6 months younger. So then next time you will imaging being 6 ½ and the time after that only 6. That is until you think of yourself as only being very, very young so young that life couldn’t be easier. To help you on your way, you will notice the little children around you and observe with envy the ease of their life and you will have a desire to be more like them.”
“Hummm” Leah just moaned with a soft tone of delight.
I am going to lift you up and carry you to your bedroom and get you dressed. Once you are dressed I will snap my fingers and you will come out of this trance and be refreshed and be ready to act as instructed, though you will not recall any of these last few minutes. The last thing you will remember is mommy changing you after you wet yourself in the stroller.