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Hello Welcome To This Week's Adam Up
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Keith here: I am rudely butting in at the start of this Adam Up (I didn't tell Adam I was going to do this) I am not a hypnotherapist but of course as I deal with all of Adam's material a little has naturally rubbed off on me.
The great thing is that I totally get his cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy and evidence based approach to hypnosis which sits well with what I learned during my own clinical and psychology training in nursing.
I do have the pleasure though of being able to observe all that is going on at arms length as Adam's business partner and I like what I see in his School of Hypnotherapy.
Adam has just finished his latest very successful Diploma Course and I know that the participants have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of training with him. I also know how hard Adam works for his students. He is passionate to help them succeed and keen to develop them and to help them grow their businesses once the formal training is over.
Some of you regular readers of Adam Up may not always get all the way down to the bottom of the page (it is a long way down there) but I would encourage you to do so today as I have added three testimonials that Adam has received from students on the course that has just been completed. See them at the bottom of this edition.
They amazing comments speak for themselves!
OK - now let me hand you back the man himself.
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End Of Course Happenings!
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It has been a wonderful week. The sun has continued to shine while in the midst of this heat wave we are experiencing here in England, and on the south coast in particular it has been unbelievably hot and wonderful.
Additionally, here at the Adam Eason School of Therapeutic Hypnosis, it was the final module of this year's monthly diploma. As well as presenting certificates at the end, we have our annual Summer Dinner Dance which was a real hoot. We danced and sang and had a lovely time.
Immediately prior to dinner, a small section of those present took part in our own version of the Harlem Shake. A hypnotherapists version of the internet meme, and I think (albeit highly biased) ours is as good as any that can be found at YouTube.
For those who have not seen it, here it is:
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Insomnia - Boredom and Sleep
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In the afternoon of the Saturday, prior to the evening event, I gave a lecture about using hypnotherapy to treat insomnia. The footage will be posted in our Platinum members area in the next couple of weeks. The irony of this lecture being that it was an incredibly hot day to be in a room with no air conditioning and many of those in the audience were struggling to keep their eyes open.
I blamed it on the heat and lack of breeze coming in through the open windows and not my own presenting style!
Even more ironic is that so many people complain of an inability to sleep when it is so much warmer in the evenings at home and I have had lots of message from people, and seen many people saying as much on Facebook.
Whilst discussing it with some attendees in the bar after the lecture, we recalled what it was like at University or at school when fighting fatigue or incredibly boring subject matter. I have also been researching and writing for many hours a day as I complete my latest book. Whilst reading a section of a 1970s book by Arnold Lazarus about mental imagery in preparation for this lecture a few weeks ago, Lazarus himself described using scenarios which were incredibly boring to help lull back to sleep and explained similar scenarios he used with his clients to teach them how to get to sleep too.
As I mentioned in class on Saturday afternoon, many people who experience insomnia often report substantial improvement when they use specific mental imagery processes. These are the kinds of processes that are often advanced and enhanced when combined with self-hypnosis.
The classic 'safe place' type of mental imagery has been shown to help people get to sleep. The individual engages the imagination and takes a journey to their safe place of their own design; a place where they are absolutely secure, comfortable and can enjoy sensations of safety due to being so secure in an environment that cannot be breached.
However, a place of complete and utter boredom provides us with a brilliant way of overcoming insomnia too. I am going to use a lecture scenario here today, but you can adapt it to be any environment where you are doing something you find to be totally boring, maybe even imagining doing something you dislike, or struggling with boredom at work, in a classroom, or any other circumstance - then apply similar steps to those I am presenting here today. Who'd have thought that being bored would ever come in so useful?
So if you are lying staring at the ceiling in a warm room over the next week, or if you ever struggle to get to sleep, follow these simple steps while lying in bed.
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Steps To Use Boredom To Drift Off To Sleep:
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Step One:Induce hypnosis. You can do so by any means you desire or know of.
You can use the process in my self-hypnosis book, use the free audio at this website to practice or have a look at the following articles as and when you need them; they are basic processes to help you simply open the door of your mind:
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Step Two:
Imagine being sat in a reclining arm chair. Let it be made of your favourite material, upholstered in a way that you like, and although it is in an upright position, it is comfortable and relaxing to sit in.
The comfortable chair is in the centre of a lecture hall or lecture theatre of some kind.
Notice the sights around you; the colours, the shade of light, the people around you and the décor of this place. Notice the sounds; the sounds of people moving, breathing, sounds that are distant and those that are closer, most importantly notice the sound of the droning voice of the lecturer. Notice the feeling of boredom, how do you know you are bored? What are the signs? Really notice how you know you are so bored.
All the sights, all the sounds and all the feelings take you deeper into hypnosis, deeper into the boredom and you relax more and more physically. Once you have really got this boring scene in your mind, move on to the next step.
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Step Three:
Try to focus on the lecturer and the lecture being given. As you listen to the lecture, the voice becomes a monotonous drone. It just goes on and on. It becomes harder and harder to make out the words, it just blends into a moving set of tones, a noise that makes you feel even more bored.
The sound seems to make you feel sleepier and sleepier. Convince yourself that you are there. Believe in the scene.
Notice how you fight and struggle to stay awake, maybe even attempt to shake off the weariness. The boredom grows and it starts to effect your physically.
Heavy feelings spread through you, weighing you down, you imagine your eyelids getting heavier and that heaviness seems to be in your limbs and your head and neck and your head droops from time to time and you struggle to lift it up.
All the time, the sights, sounds, feelings take you deeper and deeper in to hypnosis, making you more physically relaxed, and bored...
Move on to step four.
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Step Four:
As you gaze vacantly around the place, feeling restless, trying to fight the boredom and fatigue you feel, you notice the other attendees in the lecture have their eyes closed or their eyes are closing slowly. You notice that most have their chairs in the full recline position.
You recline your own chair, and hold your head so that you can vaguely make out the lecturer and you continue to struggle to listen to the droning as it starts to fade... The droning starts to fade.... It fades more and more into the background.
The sights in front of you are fading, they are getting darker and dimmer and you can see less and less detail.... You notice your eyes are closing gradually and surely. You fight it, you try to fight it and not give in.
The heaviness in your body is spreading and deepening. All the energy seems to be draining from you.
You continue to struggle, you struggle to keep focused, you notice the deeper feelings spreading through your body as your senses drift and drift... When ever you are ready, you surrender to it...
Step Five:
Sleep.
I struggled to stay awake just writing that process. Practice it and use it in helping you get to sleep.
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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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If you want to train to be a hypnotherapist, there has never been a better time, we are thriving in this economic climate! If you'd like to train, check out here for a course prospectus
, dates and application form for this year's diploma, fully approved and accredited in several countries... The spaces are going at some pace right now though... My training school is one of a few in the UK to currently offer the externally verified HPD (Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma) which matches government occupational standards and is the equivalent of National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 4
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Learn Self-Hypnosis!
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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NEW COURSES AVAILABLE IN 2014
FIVE DAY
Intensive Certification in
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
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Please remember to tell friends, family, colleagues and anyone else you know how they can receive Adam Up each week and let them know that they get a free hypnosis session, a five day personal development course and a 50,000 word eBook 'The Happy Brain Manual', when they register from my homepage. If you are on Twitter, I publish some absolute gold material if you are interested in the fields of hypnosis, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis, do come and follow me: http://twitter.com/adameason
Do come and join us in the members area if you wish to learn more, I mean much more about the fields of hypnosis, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis. There's over 60 hours of video footage, even more audio material, hundreds of articles to read, and lots of free eBooks too. You get massive savings on all my audio programmes in there too. Our Platinum Section is revamped and relaunched
and now has many hours of training and tuition video from my diploma course, go have a read about it.
I'll be back next week ...
In the meantime, enjoy taming the inner critic in your mind ...
I thank you for reading...
Goodbye for now.
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PLATINUM MEMBERS AREA
EVER BIGGER AND BETTER
SEE OUR JULY SPECIAL OFFER
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We are constantly adding new material to our Platinum Members Area - this richest of resources of hypnosis training.
PLEASE NOTE - The many hours of video recorded at the Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy Course recently run in Bournemouth has been added to the Platinum area.
We recently added footage from a seminar ran in April this year: My own presentation about how to use hypnotherapy with children and the presentation from Jill Harrington relating to counselling skills for hypnotherapists will be available by this weekend.
For those of you that are members, I hope you enjoy it.
If you are interested in hypnosis or are a student or a professional in the field of hypnosis, then our platinum area is a mighty resource. As well as it containing many hours of footage from my hypnotherapy diploma course, rapid inductions and hypnotic phenomena seminars, it has several additional lectures and footage as well as audio guides.
The Platinum Membership is something we are incredibly proud of here and we add to it regularly. Our next 10 month hypnotherapy diploma is going to be recorded in full and added to the area later this year too.
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Jill Harrington -
Counselling For Hypnotherapists
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Adam Eason -
Hypnotherapy For Children
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Jill Aldridge
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Jill Aldridge,
Hypnotherapist, Poole, Dorset. "I genuinely believe that Adam Eason and his diploma course in hypnotherapy are unique. I am yet to meet another hypnotherapist who even comes close to possessing Adam's incredible wealth of life-experience, almost unbelievable depth of knowledge, and astonishing skill as a hypnotist and a hypnotherapist. On top of that, Adam is a thoroughly nice man, who gives his time, patience and understanding generously to everyone he meets. He also has a great sense of humour, and peppers everything he does with entertaining stories, fun humour, and lots and lots of laughs.
This course is a LOT of hard work, but it gives you the most thorough and comprehensive knowledge and set of practical skills, which genuinely leave you fully-equipped to go straight into practise as a hypnotherapist. Adam's course covers many different techniques and approaches to hypnotherapy, but his own evidence-based cognitive-behavioural preference (which the course leans towards) really rings true for me, and helps to give this field an ever-increasing amount of credibility.
Adam is a brilliant teacher, an extraordinary hypnotherapist, a highly successful author, an accomplished runner, a great father, and much much more. Doing his diploma course is the best decision I have ever made, and was worth every single penny."
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Riggie Freyer
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Riggie Freyer,
Tennis Coach & Hypnotherapist, Germany. "If you're looking to combine Hypnosis, NLP, Cognitive Bavioural Therapy and many other therapeutic methods into a fantastic toolbox to become a competent therapist or coach, you've come to the right place.
Apart from being very professional, authentic and caring, Adam provided us with a wonderful, fun-filled learning environment throughout the course. To me, he seems to be like a therapeutic Lexicon which you can tap into at any time to enchance your own competency as a therapist.
I also benefited personally from learning a vast array of cutting-edge information which
enhanced my personal growth tremendously.
Every month I looked forward to another weekend of training with Adam and his team.
The course was worth every penny!"
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Fiona McGill
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Fiona McGill,
Hypnotherapist, Basingstoke, Hampshire "
When I was researching hypnotherapy courses, I came across quite a few, one being Adams. I looked thoroughly through all of the websites and the various prospectuses and decided to choose Adams course because the prospectus was in a lot of detail and outlined the various parts of the course. It also seemed to be the most interactive and practical course which I think is extremely important in this line of work. A mixture of both theory and practical is needed to gain a well-rounded perspective and skill set in order to work as a hypnotherapist. Another main reason for choosing to study with Adam Eason was because the course was taught by himself rather than a company providing teachers for the course. This made it seem more personable and showed his passion and love for the subject.
The course was utterly fantastic, it was the best decision I have made in my life. Even as a young person looking to begin a career I felt comfortable and well suited to the course. The content exceeded my expectations and the course covered a lot of subjects and problems that we would see clients for. I also believe that because Adam has a set of course assistants who were fabulous and have previously completed his course, it provides the students with extra support and guidance and because they have completed his course they understand the process we are going through.
Adam is a fabulous teacher and his personality really comes through in his teaching. He used his knowledge and experience to guide us and help us to become the best therapists we can be. He provided detailed feedback during the homework calls and about our practical work. his explanation of the techniques was clear and thorough. He made the course extremely enjoyable and a great learning experience.
The mentor I was supplied had completed Adams course the previous year and was already a thriving hypnotherapist. This really hit home that we can start a successful business if we put our mind to it. Helen was a fantastic mentor and was always around to provide support and help. She was able to provide guidance about all aspects of the course and in relation to starting a business. When I sent Helen an email, she replied extremely quickly which was helpful. She was willing for me to run through my case studies with her and provide my rationale for using certain therapies; she listened and helped me become a more effective therapist. Helen has a vast amount of knowledge and already has a great level of experience which has really helped me progress on the course. She has inspired me to carry out additional research and continually motivated me to complete my homework on time. Until module 4 I had only completed a small amount of the homework tasks but with the help of Helen, the other assistants, Adam and more friends on the course I was able to finish my HPD by the end of the course.
With each module of the course, I felt more comfortable and capable in delivering therapies to clients, it is a great help working with others on the course and delivering hypnotic techniques in order to practice and gain feedback.
I would recommend the course to anyone interested in Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. Being a part of Adams school not only means getting a hypnotherapy qualification, it also includes the opportunity to attend peer support groups, business developments groups, self-hypnosis and rapid induction courses. Adam has a great deal of experience and provides the most comprehensive on-going support to people who attend his courses. I believe that had I have completed another course, my journey would have ended after the course finished and I would have only be taught the course material, Adam has run extra courses and support groups for members of the public as well as students which has been fantastic in helping us be a part of the hypnosis community.
This course has been a life changing event and I have made lifelong friends. I cannot thank Adam and the assistants enough for everything they have given me. I will continue to be friends with everyone and progress onto being a successful hypnotherapist."
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