- Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Adam Up
Spring sort of seems as though it is arriving here on the south coast of England, but it has been so cold and wet these past few weeks, this year's Spring is going to be SOOO welcome....
I went skiing with my son and my brother and nephew in half term this year and it was wonderful to see how quickly my son was able to pick it up and ski with relative ease down challenging slopes. There was
something really wholesome about being up in snowy mountains and skiing watching your family skiing down in front of you. It was during one of our apres ski bar visits one evening when my son explained to me the word 'Rizz' and how him and his friends use it, this term got a mention on one of my articles in recent weeks that I wrote about charisma and is included below in today's edition of Adam Up.
Another article I'm offering is one that I've been keen to write for some
time now. Given that I make a lot of sci-fi references in my classes, in my articles and books, I thought I'd write about how science fiction in films and books can actually be really good for your mental health and well-being. This is supported by research I'm delighted to say, and so I'm sharing that in this edition below today too.
I've been sharing video snippets from trainings and recording shorter clips myself too - one of the clips from last Christmas is from a class when I
was asked about my favourite joke, which I duly shared. It's a proper Dad joke, but also contains NSFW language that I'm warning you in advance about.
Today, I'm offering further articles about how to cope with rejection and stop giving away your power, I hope you find them of personal benefit and stimulating. I've also included a number of new videos that I've posted since the previous edition of Adam Up covering topics relating to neuroscience, hypnosis, psychotherapy and
more besides.
I also make a brief mention of my upcoming intensive hypnotherapy diploma and announce that it will be the final time I run the course in this format this year. My evidence-based meme of the week returned in 2024! the latest one is included here today also...
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Articles & Videos: What's New?
A wide range of new articles to help in varying aspects of life here today...
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New videos:
1. Adam discusses the importance of understanding the relationship between the hippocampus and amygdala and leads into discussing how basic memory reconstruction approaches can start to control experiences of anxiety and depression when the brain is lit up with happy
memories.
Watch Video: The Relationship Between the Hippocampus & Amygdala.
2. Adam briefly describes how to adopt a “positive cognitive set” and hypnotic mindset to respond better to hypnosis and suggestions. Being such an active agent is far superior than
simply being a passive recipient when it comes to responsiveness when hypnotised.
Watch Video: How to be More Responsive to Hypnosis.
3. I got asked to share my favourite joke while teaching a class recently. This is it. For me it conjures up hilarious imagery, but I also
love the phonological ambiguity in it (though realise saying so can neuter the joke entirely!)….
Watch Video: Adam’s Favourite Joke…
4. As someone who has suffered with depression and a sense of hopelessness that can be experienced with it, I often discuss my love for helping instil a
sense of hope within others, it is a wonderful part of being a clinical hypnotherapist. In this brief clip, I mention how this can begin within assessment while we discuss outcomes and goals for the hypnotherapy sessions. And yes, the films and literature I love and was raised on included Star Wars and Lord of the Rings which have themes of hope working through them.
Watch Video: Instilling Hope.
5. Adam discusses how avoidance and escape from anxiety or irrationally fear-inducing scenarios creates negative reinforcement of the problem. Here in this example, the person who became uncomfortable at the top of a lift of a tall building, then finds comfort and reward by escaping and thus reinforces the fear and anxiety.
Watch
Video: Negative Reinforcement of Anxiety and Fear.
6. If you have followed my work in the past decade or so, you’ll know I have offered up videos, articles and spoken at events offering a strong critique regarding the use of regression in hypnotherapy. My position has softened slightly
in recent times with the emergence of a number of evidence-based approaches to hypnotherapy that advocate the advancement of self-compassion, acceptance and understanding the perception we have of ourselves and the narrative we tell ourselves about our own lives.
Watch Video: Hypnotic
Regression as a Means of Advancing Self-Compassion.
7. Adam explains that a response set is whereby the upcoming hypnotherapy technique or intervention is explained using psycho-education, universal metaphors or with cultural references such as sharing themes from his favourite sci-fi comedy TV shows! The response set creates effective expectation and informs the rationale of the process about to be engaged with.
Watch Video:
The Response Set in Hypnotherapy Sessions.
New Articles:
All articles are founded in science and have references for you to explore should you
wish:
1. “Charisma is not something you’re born with, it’s something you develop by embracing your own unique qualities and connecting with others on a deeper level” – Richard Branson
My son talks about having the Rizz. It makes me feel old that I had to ask him what it meant. Ever heard the Gen-Z slang, Rizz? The last year was all about rizz, an internet slang word for Charisma. Charisma is the quality to
charm or fascinate other people in turn gaining their attention and identify with you. While the contemporary buzz around the word might put it in a rather frivolous light, charisma is an important life skill.
Unlike Rizz (focused on one’s ability to charm the opposite gender), Charisma does not imply being the best known person at school or being the most popular person in the room but someone who is able to get along with people, communicate what they have on their minds effectively,
and in the process gather support from other people. To make the most out of our experiences, both professional and personal, one is bound to interact with people – Charisma makes the process easier.
The most potent traits of a charismatic person have been most described as someone who maintains a balance of two qualities: competence and warmth. If someone is good at what they do and at the same time exude warmth making people feel good about “themselves”, people are often drawn to them.
Charisma has long been understood as a natural gift often associated with conventionally attractive or wealthy people but as I mentioned earlier, Charisma is a life skill, and can be learnt.
This article offers a number of Science-Backed ways to increase Charisma...
Read Full Article: 10 Science
Backed Ways To Increase Charisma
2. “It is perfectly alright to feel sad and down during setbacks or stressful periods – it doesn’t mean you are weak or have failed. The real problem comes when you go down and stay down.”
– Dr Enitome Bator
Coping with rejection is the mental and emotional process of understanding that rejection does not imply we are worthless but rather is a signal for us to
acknowledge our negative thoughts and build constructive strategies to bounce back from our setbacks.
The culture we live in is rejection-phobic and makes us fear rejection more than required. Being slightly scared of rejection or losing out on something important to us is of course normal and acts as a source of motivation for us. However, when we begin to either completely avoid taking the risk to do anything out of our comfort zone from the fear of rejection or sulk too much
on a past rejection is when we need to re-valuate our lives and our relationship with rejection. As the famous saying goes, rejection is just redirection – hence, there is no need to stop trying if you are rejected but there is only a need for reframing one’s thoughts, actions, and goals.
When we are rejected, it triggers our most primal instinct of wanting to belong and being accepted as a part of community. The isolation and agony that comes from this instinct not being
fulfilled can be intensely painful but at the same it makes us human. Feeling bogged down when rejected is not a sign of weakness; however, what our life would look life in the future is dependent on how we choose to cope with the rejection and stand right back up.
This article offers 12 ways to cope with rejection...
Read Full Article: 12 Ways to Cope With Rejection.
3. “One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” – Arthur C. Clarke
If you have trained with me or studied with me online, you’ll be aware that I tend to make reference to sci-fi films and literature a fair
bit to illustrate my points in class or in the clinical environment, and I do so for a wide range of reasons. Today I wanted to extend that a little bit further and explain how science fiction can actually be good for your mental health and well-being.
Aliens, light sabres, super fast space travel, time-machines, spaceships are all part of what you may call Science Fiction. In simple words, any form of fiction that deals with scientific technology, extraterrestrial beings, or alternate
realities comes under the umbrella of Science Fiction. It is important to note that Science Fiction is commonly confused with fantasy fiction. For instance, the famous series Harry Potter or my beloved Lord of the Rings would be considered pure fantasy rather than science fiction as it is not rooted in the semblance of scientific possibility or a futuristic world, whereas Star Wars set in a different galaxy exploring an alternate world using spaceships would be categorised as science fiction.
Given that Science Fiction may majorly rely on vivid imagination and unreal scenarios, some people pass it for being frivolous and silly; however, most well-written science fiction has more to say than it seems on the surface. Science fiction tugs at a primal itch in us which is curious to understand the unknown and imagine the impossible. This creates space in us for what lies beyond us, expanding us as people at a fundamental level, bearing real psychological benefits for us
In this
article, I’m offering up a number of ways in which science fiction benefits us psychologically and why you should definitely put the genre on your book list...
Read Full Article: The Psychological Benefits Of Science Fiction.
4. “You have the power to heal your life, and
you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.”
― Louise L. Hay
We might not be in control of our lives and fate, but we are in control of the narrative we build around it. However, to build a strong narrative requires mental strength and consistent action. Once what we think of our lives and ourselves is what matters most to us, we claim agency and power. The
moment this narrative shakes, and the opinions of others crawl in, we begin to lose inner peace and often our power as people. You might wonder, what does losing your power look and feel like? What are the signs?
Giving away your personal power can manifest in low confidence, being constantly overwhelmed, or being preoccupied with what others think of you. This might hinder you from taking risks, expressing yourself and living actively. This begins to affect your relationships and world views
at large making you a passive and reclusive person who is unable to fully exercise their agency. A good starting point always is to start thinking about what makes you feel powerful, energised, and good about yourself and do more of that. Cancelling out bad habits is not enough, building good habits is key. Habits that hold us accountable and force us to take responsibility of our lives no matter what the situation or circumstances may be.
This article offers a range of ways in which one
can claim their personal power...
Read Full Article: 12 Ways To Stop Giving Away Your Power.
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Upcoming Events and Latest News:
The end of our intensive diploma... & mentioning the UKHC this edition...
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It is the time of year where we are just about to announce the speaker line-up for the 2024 UK Hypnosis Convention. A couple of weeks ago I made a number of special announcements on the convention social media feeds explaining that Dr David Spiegel will be lecturing at the event,
former world-famous escapapologist turned hypnotherapist (and married to a famous actress) Jonathan Goodwin will be joining us, and our gala dinner will have 3 live hypnosis performance pieces being offered at the end by 3 very well know hypnotists, mentalists and stage performers. It promises to be a very exciting event again this year.
The reason I mention this at all, is that the early bird discount disappears as soon as the schedule is announced. This discount of 20% is the
largest discount offered and is not available again. For more information about the event visit the website link above, and if you wish to take up the discount on tickets use the code EARLYBIRD at the checkout.
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In just over a week, I will be running my intensive hypnotherapy practitioner diploma. It is two 9-day tuition blocks run in Spring and Autumn each year. I originally created the format to cater to those travelling in to my classroom from overseas, meaning
that there would be less travelling than if trying to join me for my weekend course. However, it became popular with UK based students too.
With our monthly course being live-streamed and able to be studied online, there is slightly less call for the intensive format now, so it will be the final year I offer it this year before I switch to offering an evening class format of the course live online in 2025.
If you wish to be a qualified hypnotherapist by September this year,
and want to study the intensive format of the course, we also have a discount offer available that you can message me for further details of. You can download a course prospectus from this page of the college website if you do not have one already.
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Additional Resources: Lots of self-hypnosis and hypnotherapy resources...
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Embark on a journey of self-improvement through the powerful practice of self-hypnosis?
How to do that though?
Over the years I’ve made a lot of resources available to help people learn all they can about self-hypnosis. I thought I’d put as many of them as possible all in one place for easy access and to have somewhere to send people when they ask me about exploring and learning about science-supported,
research-informed, evidence-based self-hypnosis.
Visit this page: Learn Self-Hypnosis.
Useful resources for hypnotherapists:
Visit this page for lots of resources for hypnotherapists.
Big Updates in our Hypnotherapist Development Hub.
1. Finding and Understanding
Hypnosis Research: The recording of the webinar I ran last week on this topic is now available and accessible in the hub.
2. Hypnosis Audio of the week: Hypnotherapists benefit from self-care and hypnosis too, right? And we often neglect ourselves or find it tough to work with colleagues or other professionals to receive hypnosis sessions. Therefore, I decided that I'd add a section to the hub that will include a hypnosis audio track for yu to use
every week. I have added a few tracks already to start the year off. I am simply adding sessions that I think are stimulating, enjoyable and beneficial, and highly recommend that you engage with them in the way you'd advise a client to do - that is to be an active agent in the process and not be passive; collaborate with the audio, adopt your hypnotic mindset. Importantly though, find some time to spend with yourself each week with a hypnosis session and enjoy some time for
yourself.
3. Latest diploma footage: The latest footage of the updated and current diploma course is now live and added to the hub - for the first time, you'll see a recording of me conducting a regression session demonstration.
Our latest monthly CPD webinar featuring Dr Sue Peacock presenting about hypnosis for migraine relief has been included. We have Dr Rachel Gillibrand and others speaking on some really interesting topics in the hub
later in coming months that our members can join live too.
There is so much more included and that can be accessed in full if you are a member of my Hypnotherapist Development Hub. Visit the link here for full details on how to subscribe to it monthly or annually.
In recent weeks, my social media output has been filled with video clips of me squatting at the gym, lots of evidence-based memes citing the latest hypnosis research, photos from my life and loads of articles from our
vaults and some other bits and pieces. You can follow and keep up to date here: The evidence based hypnosis meme of the week is below....
Evidence based
hypnosis meme of the week. 2023 study found hypnosis helped improve overall sports performance of volleyball players.
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Any Questions Or Help Needed -
Get In Touch:- Do feel free to contact me if you need help or more information about our courses, seminars, or anything else. I am very accessible and love hearing from you. Email or Web Contact You can reply to this email and use that email address, or visit my personal website or college website and use the contact pages there to send a message - I'll always reply within one working day and if you do not get a reply within that timeframe, I won't have received your message. Do leave a message if we are not available and we will call you back. Adam: 01202 526977 or 0044 1202 526977 (outside UK) That's it for this week's edition, how did I do? I shall be back soon; in the meantime, look after yourself, and keep yourself safe and well during these times, I send you much love and my very best wishes,Buloo!Adam Eason. What Does ‘Buloo!’ Mean Adam? |
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