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First - A Special Message For Hypnotherapists?
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Hello , and welcome to this week's Adam Up,
Before I get on to this weeks article about hypnosis convincers I am going to remind you about my new course for trained hypnotherapists.
There is a reason...
I don't want you to miss out on my early bird special hefty disciodeals for this course which end next Wednesday (without exception)
Are you already qualified as a hypnotherapist?
Do you want to become an evidence based cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist? Then read this page on my website, because due to popular demand, I shall be running a 5 day intensive certification in Cognitive behavioural Hypnotherapy in 2013: http://www.adam-eason.com/seminars/cognitive-behavioural-hypnotherapist-certification/ There are two very important points to make. -
If you did your training with Adam Eason - there is a large discount for you for this course. So get in touch with Adam to arrange your course place.
- As usual we have an early bird offer - again a large discount - but you have to sort that out before Wednesday 12th December directly with us.
To do so please contact Adam as soon as possible via our online support desk to secure your discounted place on this course.
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Do You Need Convincing That Hypnosis Works?
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I tend to think the best way to learn self-hypnosis is to be hypnotised by a professional and learn from there. The methodologies are familiar to hypnosis professionals and are a discussion for another day, because today I want people ot help convince themselves of self-hypnosis.
Today, the most common thing I am asked by people who have read my books or listened to my audio tracks, especially those teaching themselves is how they can tell if they did actually get into hypnosis. They ask how they can tell if they are doing things right and making suggestions work, so todays Adam Up article is a series of experiments to fine tune your skills, enhance your belief and develop self-efficacy.
Within the therapy room, hypnotherapists can feedback or ratify an individuals on-going experience and give clear indications that they are in hypnosis. Likewise, hypnotherapists can use a variety of convincers and elicit a wide range of 'hypnotic phenomena' that gives the client some evidence and proof that they are hypnotised.
At a lecture last year, I watched Professor Irving Kirsch discuss how the positive expectancy and belief of the client enhanced their hypnotisability and responsiveness to suggestions and this can be read about and explored in many books on the subject. It therefore makes sense that we work out ways of enhancing our own belief in our self-hypnosis skills to enhance the beneficial responses we are looking for.
One of the greatest contributors to the field of self-hypnosis is Emile Coué, whose method of autosuggestion was enhanced and developed for individuals learning it by teaching them a set of experiments to practice with. This enhanced their own degree of self-efficacy and made them more responsive to auto-suggestions as well as developing skill with the method.
Though Coué's method was not strictly known as self-hypnosis, it is considered a major contribution to the field of self-hypnosis and the parallels are great.
Today, I thought I'd share with you Coué's series of "waking suggestion" experiments. They are very similar to suggestibility tests that are employed by street and stage hypnotists as well as those used in the consulting rooms of hypnotherapists.
These experiments require an engagement of the imagination and often result in what is referred to as ideo-motor, ideo-reflex or ideo-sensory responses. That is, when you truly engage the imagination, there is a physiological or sensory response to that which dominates the imagination; it creates a response of some kind that just will may be difficult to elicit.
With the experiments, it is important to avoid the 'effort error' that Coué often referred to. One of the biggest obstructions to successful outcomes with these experiments is trying so hard that it induces anxiety.
Convince yourself of the outcome with a gentle assuredness. Use your belief - believe in the successful outcome occurring and assume success. This is going to advance the responses you get and not impede your progress.
Prior to starting any of these experiments, make sure you are in a place where you are going to be undisturbed and can focus, concentrate and are able to engage without distraction.
Be sat in a receptive, progressive, attentive posture, with your feet flat on the floor and your arms not touching each other.
Coué stated, as was central to his work, that if you engaged the imagination strongly enough, where will and imagination conflict, imagination prevails.
He would give examples of people using their will to unsuccessfully get themselves back to sleep when having insomnia, or failing to overcome problems when using too much forceful will that exasperated the issue at hand instead of helping. Having educated about this,
Coué extolled the virtues of the imagination and suggestion.
The work of Bandura that I mentioned in recent weeks in my writing about hypnosis for running demonstrates the need for self-efficacy - that is, the belief in our own ability to do something, making it far easier to do and done more effectively.
With this in mind, again I reiterate the importance of gentle convincing and assuring to yourself, believing in what you are doing as much as you can.
In order to fine tune your own self-hypnosis skills and become more responsive and develop your belief in your own self-hypnosis, have a go at these particular experiments:
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Salivating ... |
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This is a process that I have been using to demonstrate the power of the imagination against the will and determination alone is referred to by Coué in 'My Method'.
If you simply told yourself, and tried to will yourself to dribble, you may not get the desired result. However, with this experiment, you imagine that you are taking a chilled lemon out of the fridge, it gets sliced in half and then quarters. You pick up one of the quarters bring it to the mouth and sink your teeth right into it. Imagine the texture, the juices running in and around the mouth, under the tongue, make it all as vivid as possible and notice how your mouth responds.
This demonstrates an ideo-reflex response, which is the effect of that suggestion and your imagination influencing the autonomic processes of the body.
You salivate and develop a sensation within your mouth as you engage your imagination.
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Chevreul's Pendulum... |
This was used by Coué a great deal - there is a full step-by-step guide to using this process here on this website. You might also watch this clip we put together a while back on how to use Chevreuls Pendulum:
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Hands Locked Together... |
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With this experiment, you clasp your hands tightly together and hold your arms out straight. You now convince yourself that you cannot pull your hands apart, that they are stuck together. You imagine that they are stuck together and convince yourself of it.
Coué would recommend that individuals tell themselves "I will open my hands, but I CANNOT, I CANNOT!" while simultaneously imagining the hands to be stuck tightly together.
The words are then repeated over and over in the mind in a convincing manner, using a tone that is as if the words are believed in.
Note the linguistic pattern here too - you start off by telling yourself "I will open my hands" before you say "I cannot!" When you say "will" it presupposes that this thing will happen in the future but is not happening right now - and so lends itself well to the notion of your hands being stuck together.
Coué would often stand by and also add suggestion that the individual's hands were locked tighter. That is him giving suggestion though. In order to derive a real self-induced response to this process, you engage your imagination and continue to tell yourself your hands are clenching tighter and cannot be separated as long as the imagination is fixed on the idea convincing you that they are stuck.
When you have convinced yourself that they are stuck, then tell yourself "I can open them" and imagine them coming apart to free them accordingly.
The use of "I cannot!" and "I can" is to be used with the other experiments here that follow too:
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Arm Or Leg Catalepsy... |
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When I say catalepsy, I am referring to either your leg or arm remaining solid, stuck and remains in position regardless of external stimulus. For example, you imagine that your arm is a steel bar, or made of a solid material that means it cannot bend and again you use a similar type of linguistic pattern with yourself "I will be able to bend my arm, but I cannot, I cannot!" While simultaneously imagining the arm to be solid and incapable of bending.
The same process can be applied to the leg. You imagine that one or both legs are totally solid and because they are rigid, you are unable to walk. Convince yourself with imagination and strong belief.
Not totally dissimilar to this, you can also create a tightly clenched fist and suggest to yourself that it is locked tighter and tighter and use similar language and convincing imagery as used in the previous experiments.
Once you have tested this and convinced yourself of each of the experiments, give yourself permission for the limb and arm to bend, loosen, relax, tell yourself "I can bend it and loosen it" and then feel a sense of development and happiness with your progress.
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Sticking Hands and Fingers... |
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You may have seen video clips of me doing this type of thing with clients and students over on YouTube. Coué uses similar experiments within his own work - getting something stuck to the hand or getting the hand stuck to something; let me explain...
You can do a pen stick, or a card stick (something used by my friend James Tripp a great deal) whereby you take a firm grip of a pen or a playing card between the finger and thumb and imagine the fingers to be locked in place, and the card or pen to be stuck in the hand. Again, you state the same kinds of linguistic patterns to yourself and convince yourself of the card or pen being stuck there: "I will drop the pen, but I cannot, I cannot now!"
When I do this with clients or students, just as Coué would do, the client/student is told that the more they try to drop the card/pen, the more rigidly locked the fingers become and the more stuck the card is. The fingers squeeze tighter and you imagine them being stuck firm and fast with as much purpose as you can imagine.
A similar process is to press your palm onto a leg or a tabletop and imagine that it is stuck tight and cannot be moved. Imagine it stuck with glue, convince yourself with language.
Just engage in these imagination experiments and convince yourself of the right outcomes, assume they are happening and when the imagination is vivid, and with the right level of belief and expectation invested, you'll start to get some evidence and proof that you are hypnotising yourself and convinced of the effects of your self-suggestion, imagination and self-hypnosis skills.
Enjoy doing some of that stuff and train up your skills and belief.
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Joke Of The Week |
Actual Medical Chart Notes
- Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
- Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
- On the second day, the knee was better, and then on the third day it disappeared.
- The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
- Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission.
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Healthy-appearing decrepit, 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful
- The patient refused autopsy.
- The patient has no previous history of suicides.
- Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
- Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40-pound weight gain in the last three days.
- She is numb from her toes down.
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Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
- I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
- Skin: somewhat pale but present
- The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
Very funny!. Thank you to everyone for all the jokes you people send in, keep them coming and lets keep laughing. We do have a group dedicated to jokes and funnies in the new
hypnosis hub, so come and read the stuff that goes on there.
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Articles Of The Week
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Here are a selection of articles that I enjoyed reading this week related to the fields of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and other forms of personal development. Some may have just amused me or made me smile. If you ever come across any related articles that you think may feature well, then get in touch with me and we can share them here: More next week.
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Can You Provide A Better Caption
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We also have a group for Caption Of The Week in the Hypnosis Hub. Adam is going to post up a picture each week and we are looking for the best captions.
To join in please go and join the free Hypnosis Hub at:
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Hypnosis Hub Forum
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Please do come and join us in the new Hypnosis Hub, - if you are a professional in the field, you'll get more business using this forum,
- if you are curious the hypnosis field, you'll learn more,
- if you are student of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, you'll get support and resources...
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We have new dates for my self-hypnosis one day seminar.
They also carry with them Continued Professional Development (CPD) credits with the GHR and NCH here in the UK if you are a member of either.
The seminars have been fully booked up this year and we are offering these extra dates in response to popular demand.
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MELANIE RIVERA
Having just completed Adam's 10 month diploma course and thoroughly enjoyed it, it brings me great pleasure to write this review. I just want to say that if you have decided that you would like to embark on a career in hypnotherapy; and you are now at the stage of deciding on the right training school for you...
Search no more, Adam's course in my mind is the best of the best! From beginning to end you will be hypnotized by the way in which Adam delivers his course material to you. I found Adam to be a very fun and charismatic guy; he will have you in stitches laughing! He is a brilliant teacher, very clear and easy to understand. For me the whole course has been like a personal journey towards a successful ending. Adam demonstrates many of the techniques so you really get to sample how talented he is as a hypnotherapist. I have to say that on more than one occasion when Adam did a class demonstration; I noticed some big changes take place in my own confidence and in the rate of my learning... I put down this down to benefiting from being in deep hypnosis myself during his demo.
Adam is very attentive and very observant, he doesn't miss a trick. He seems to distribute his attention towards each individual at the right time, as a result you really feel like you get a very personalized learning experience. I might add that this course isn't a 'cake walk'... Prepare to 'work your socks off!' In terms of homework, you really have to be committed and keep on top of it. I can honestly say that it is all worth it and, having completed Adam's course, I do feel competent enough to embark on my career as a hypnotherapist.
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GARETH MORGAN
(pictured here firewalking) Adam is unique trainer or, as I like to think now, my mentor. With a perfect balance of seriousness and fun mixed together, he creates an enjoyable and learning atmosphere which keeps you wanting more. I spent over a year looking at different courses and chatting to other trainers and I can honestly say that I made the best choice that was right for me.
Adam's knowledge and passion for the subject surpasses that of anyone else I have met in this field, and Adam is very generous with his sharing of that knowledge. It is obvious from the beginning that Adam knows what he's doing and that you have made the right choice in joining the course. Prepare to amaze yourself in the things you know and can talk about with others confidently as you progress through the course, I did and I still do today. If you want an enjoyable learning experience with a trainer that really does want you to be the best you can be, then take that next step. To sum up the course in three words, Creative, Enjoyable, Diverse.
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HELEN JOHNSTONE "I attended the 10 month course which ran from October 2011- July 2012. The course is interesting, fun, fast paced, encouraging, confidence building, skill packing and very professionally run by Adam and his team. Realistically, it required a lot of committment in time and effort, which in reality was easy to give with the knowledge and new zest for learning that Adam's enthusiasm brings. Adam and his team were of constant support to me throughout the course and I feel lucky to be able to consider them to be good friends and confidantes now.
I have qualified and feel confident that the knowledge,confidence, skills and practical experience I have gained during this course will serve me very well in practice"..
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GEORGE WATSON - GLENROTHES, FIFE, SCOTLAND "I booked up to Adam Eason School of Therapeutic Hypnosis in 2010, and I really did not know what to expect, I was very interested in Hypnosis, but what is taught throughout the diploma course is by far the best around. Adam's very unique style is very uplifting and thorough and I leave his school with much more knowledge and well trained in clinical hypnotherapy. If you want trained to the high standard that Therapeutic Hypnotherapy should attain then look no further than Adam's School" |
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