When you are trying to train a dog that cannot hear, you will need to use sight to communicate with it. You can create your own hand signs, but it's a good idea to use established dog hand signals instead. In order to teach your dog these hand signals, you will need to learn them yourself. You only need to learn a few hand signals at a time. As you progress with training your dog, you can learn new signals and then teach them to your dog. Understanding established dog hand signals benefits your dog because many veterinarians, groomers and shelter employees also use them. When training your deaf dog to understand hand signals, you should start using a few hand signals for things the dog does every day. An easy way to start is to use the first letter in sign language for everyday activities. For example, make a "w" in sign language before giving the dog water or make the letter "f" before you give the dog food. During obedience lessons, you should still use voice commands with your dog. A deaf dog won't hear the command, but it will respond better because your facial expressions and body language will be more natural and expressive. Dogs can read human facial expressions, and deaf dogs may rely on these more than hearing dogs. When using hand signals with your dog, use facial expressions to reinforce the message. Smile when they do well, frown or make a sad face when they misbehave, and act excited when they are playing. When training a deaf dog, you should encourage good behavior instead of punishing bad behavior. Reward your dog with a treat, toy, pat on the head, or verbal praise when it does what you ask it to do. Withhold those rewards when your dog does something you don't want repeated. Restrict obedience lessons to about 15 minutes when training deaf dogs. This will keep the sessions fun while not going beyond your dog's attention span. However, you want to do these short training sessions often and consistently. Several sessions a day will help your dog learn your commands more quickly and easily. If your dog still needs positive reinforcement, consider giving it a pat on the head or some other type of physical affection instead of a treat. After your dog is reliably responding to commands, you should transition from treats to praise to limit your dog's caloric intake. You can teach your dog more than just the signs used for formal commands. After it has mastered some basic commands, continue to expand its vocabulary by making up more signs for everyday items that it uses and activities that it likes to do. For example, teach it signals for common objects, such as "toy," and for daily activities, such as "walk."
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One-sentence summary -- Learn hand signals to teach to your dog. Pick a few hand signals to start with and use consistently. Accompany hand signals with the appropriate voice commands. Coordinate facial expressions with the hand signals. Use positive reinforcement training. Limit the length of training sessions. Expand your dog's vocabulary.

Mix water into sand bit by bit, until it is damp but firm. It should stick together enough to hold shapes. You can purchase sand at a hardware store or home improvement store. Press your fingers and hand into the sand in the hand shape of your choice. Carefully pull your hand out again, without making any extra holes. You should be left with a hollow in the sand that holds the shape of your hand. Tie a candle wick or braided cotton string onto a dowel, and lay the dowel over the bucket. Adjust the wick so it hangs down into the hollow left by your hand. If you want the candle to burn with the fingers pointing upward, the candle wick needs to touch the bottom of the hole. Follow the instructions above to melt the wax. As soon as it has melted completely, carefully pour the wax into the hollow left by the sand. Wear gloves when pouring hot wax. Depending on the type of wax and the size of your hand, this can take anywhere from 2 to 8 hours, but leaving it overnight is a good idea just in case. Once the wax is set, you can dig out the sand around it, or place a plastic bag over the mouth of the bucket and slowly tip the whole thing over. You may need to trim the wax hand if it's seeped out of the original hollow, or scrape it slightly to uncover the wick. Once that's done, your hand candle is complete.
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One-sentence summary -- Fill a bucket with damp sand. Stick your hand in the sand. Dangle a candle wick into the hole. Pour hot wax into the mold. Let the wax set. Remove the candle.

There are a number of ways to start off a session of analytical therapy (also known as imagination therapy), but getting the subject into a receptive state is essential. Try having them lay on a comfortable couch/sofa and close their eyes. They are not to go to sleep at any point. Use a soft, relaxing tone at all times when speaking to the subject. You can attempt to have them count down slowly from 100. For more tense patients, you can have them intentionally and systematically tense, hold, and then release each of their muscles. Controlled breathing also can work. The subject places their hands on their chest and belly--sometimes the hypnotist can do this part--while the subject breathes slowly in through the nose and out through the mouth. Once your subject is in a receptive state, you need to narrow the sets of imagery you focus on. You can try some interesting experiments as long as you are careful. Select positive images like a holiday party, a graduation, a wedding, or a combination of multiple images in sequence to draw a correspondingly positive response out of the subject. If they need to relax, you may help them "construct" the images out of features the subject associates with positive emotions and memories. If you are helping a case of trauma, you may have them search for pleasant images to supplant horrific ones. There is a great deal of flexibility here, so this needs to be tailored to your subject's needs and perhaps discussed before the session. With so much range, you can make the mode of expression part of the experiment. Maybe having your subject drive their images around in a vehicle, or make a movie of their happiest memories would be something you can attempt. Perhaps having the subject going on an adventure within their own images could be quite an experience to try. Find a creative way to discard negative images in a symbolic way that allows the positive images to remain in place. Consider something literal like tossing the bad images in a trash can or projecting them on a screen so there is room in the mind for the pleasant imagery. Your subject is in a receptive state, but not asleep. You are guiding them. Steer the subject's images in a positive direction, but observe their responses carefully in case they are resisting. Maintain the calm steady tone of voice throughout the session. Suggest imagery that mixes positively with their existing responses. Be prepared to bring them out of the hypnotic state in the case of an adverse physical reaction. For experimental situations, you may take some time to find what techniques and images work best with the subject. And neither hypnotist nor subject should expect an instant cure, especially in trauma cases or when dealing with prolonged pain suffering. Establish from the outset that the hypnotic technique can take many sessions. Schedule a regular time/interval for the sessions. Both parties should bring up issues if they feel the sessions are not working as they expect.
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Use a relaxation technique. Target the visuals you want to use. Choose how you want these visuals expressed. Talk your subject through the process. Use multiple sessions.