APPLICATION
“SELF-HYPNOSIS”
TO
IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SELF-CONTROL
TOWARD
DRUGS
By:
I Putu Agus Apriliana
SUMMARY
The abuse of drugs of the youngster
is very apprehensive. Generally, drugs a
use by doctor in medication. In fact, the drugs have been abused by the
youngsters nowadays. Unfortunately, in has some dangerous impacts for
youngsters, such as mind disorder, health, negative behavior, and death. Until
this day, students who are suspected are thousands. Basically, the causative
factors are divided into two, namely internal factors and externals factors. The
internal factor is the factor that comes from the student themselves, it means
during teen-age period, the students have emotional changes, such as easily to
get angry and influence. Moreover, they get too emotional. So that, the high self-control
of students is needed to neutralize those symptoms. By doing that, the tendency
of drug abuse by the student can be minimalized.
Students’ self-control towards
drug abuse can be improved through subconscious mind. Its purpose is basically
to form, guide, and control the students’ behavior in avoiding drug abuse. The
main thing of those purposes basically comes from the students’ mind, namely
conscious mind and subconscious mind. Actually, the subconscious mind has great
contribution toward the ability to control human behavior, which is 88%. One of
the method to enter subconscious mind by using Self-hypnosis, so they can
reform their subconscious mind. After this process is over, students’
self-control are increased toward drug abuse indirectly.
As
stated above, the students’ self-control can improved through subconscious mind
interaction. To be able in communicating with subconscious mind, self-hypnosis
is used as its technique. Students who implement self-hypnosis are able to
understand communication and to stay focus in thinking. Because of that, before
doing the self-hypnosis practice, counsellor teacher act as a guide by giving
clear understanding to students about the definition, purpose, function, significance
of self-hypnosis. After the students are able to understand it, the practice
can be continued.
1. Preparation
The students are given the material about the danger of drug abuse
throught slide presentation. Besides that, students also given a video about
it.
2. Implementation
After all the material are delivered, then the students are prepared to
do the steps of self-hypnosis as the following below:
a. Counsellor
teacher leads the students to close their eyes together.
b. Students
are directed to control their breath
(Note: Students who are not serious in doing this, it will be seen from
their mimic and eye contact. If this happens, approaching the students to take
their attention is the answer. By doing this, the other students’ concentration
are not distracted.)
c. After
that, the students are directed to relax their body.
d. Then,
they are directed to make their position comfortable and relax. This process is
done for 5 minutes.
e. After
5 minutes or more, the counsellor teacher gives instruction in the form of
positives sayings that are repeated by the students in the comfortable and
relax condition.
3. Closing
After
the implementation process has finished, the counsellor teacher asks the
students move their hands firstly, then their body, and finally open their
eyes.
Basically, this self-hypnosis
condition is merely as same as condition in meditation and praying, but, the
process is little bit different. The students are expected to master those
steps, so they are able to do it by themselves. By implementing the self-hypnosis
everyday on the students, it will impact the improvement of their self-control.
The improvement of students’ self-control by implementing self-hypnosis can
minimalize the drug abuse. So, Indonesian youngsters can be the generation
without drug. Based on the important of drug abuse prevention in students, the
writer suggests the school authority through counsellor teacher to implement
this self-hypnosis technique in order to improve students’ self-control toward
drug abuse.
