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Hello Welcome To This Week's Adam Up
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Firstly, a warm thank you to all those of you who sent messages in different formats wishing me well on my birthday while I was on holiday last week. It is very kind of you to have spent some time doing that and I appreciate it greatly.
In addition to the recent release of my new self-hypnosis programme "The Science of Self-Hypnosis': The Evidence Based Way To Hypnotise Yourself" we have a number of new single hypnosis audio tracks and the process I am sharing today is one such new audio track we have on offer.
Go check it out at our hypnosis downloads store.
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Releasing Unwanted Pressure
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Back in 2012, I spoke for the first time at the Change Phenomena conference hosted by the brilliant 'Head Hacking Team'. I attended that entire event, as a spectator as well as speaker.
In recent times, in many forums, it has become fairly fashionable to dispute the efficacy or even the existence of self-hypnosis, despite the historical context of the subject, the evidence and my own years of subjective experience of using self-hypnosis myself and teaching it at seminars and to my clients for 15 years.
I am biased about the subject, of course As an author of a book on the subject, creator of lots of self-hypnosis audio tracks and programmes and teacher of the subject, I have a bias. Though the objective evidence is something I weigh up with as much neutrality as I can. I am digressing...
So as I made my final preparations in the days leading up to the event, I started to worry that the audience may be tough on me and my subject.
Having arrived early and got myself a prime seat in the lecture theatre of the prestigious Guys Hospital, the initial worries turned into pressure, the sensations increased, and not just because I had consumed more than my usual weekly allowance of caffeinated drinks in that morning already...
The other speakers were adept and being approved of greatly by those I chatted to in the intervals
I was on straight after lunch, the time when most people are ready for a nap...
More pressure....
I had committed myself as doing a potentially risky demonstration, and I started to catastrophise...
More pressure...
More caffeine....
As I sat listening to my own introduction delivered by Anthony Jacquin stood at the lectern, I needed to let off some steam before speaking, otherwise it may impair my presentation.
The reality is that I know my subject well, I train and speak regularly on it, I was being irrational due to a particular set of stimulating circumstances.. And my wife will confirm how peculiar coffee makes me get sometimes.
I sat on the front row facing away from the other delegates, closed my eyes for a while and ran through a fast, rapid process which I am sharing with you here today. I am a regular, practicing self-hypnotist and so that sort of mental speed with this kind of technique is something I can get away with every now and then, but of course, as I say on a regular basis here, repetition and practice would have made for a smoother and more effective use of this process.
This particular process does rely you the user knowing what a pressure cooker is... They are not that common today, but we had one at home when I was a youngster, so I am quite familiar.
If you have not seen one before, here is what they look like:
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Essentially, they cook food by being locked tightly shut so that no air can get in or out and thus creates a lot of pressure. They are airtight. Not too dissimilar to what goes on inside a bottle of fizzy pop if you were to shake it while ensuring the lid was kept tightly shut.
If you just casually took off the lid of the pressure cooker, you may lose your head as the lid flew upwards and into the ceiling. So it has a very strong locking mechanism to keep it closed and then a release valve to lessen the pressure before it is all unlocked and the food is taken out. I am sure you see the metaphoric use of such. Continued Below... |
Adam Introduces The Evidence Based Way To Hypnotise Yourself In This Video - On Special Offer This Month
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Steps To Use Self-Hypnosis To Release Pressure and Enhance Comfort
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Step One:
Make sure you are sat (if possible) with your arms and legs uncrossed in a place where you'll be undisturbed for the duration of this technique. 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:
Start to tune in to your body and really notice the sensations within it.
Scan through it and detect how you feel and get a sense of how you know you have any pressure or stress in your body.
You may find that simply being aware of your physical experience of it lessens it or increases it in some way. Just notice that if it does happen, no need to try and change anything just yet.
Be mindful of how you are feeling and scan through your body. Become aware of how your body does the process of stress or pressure, how that manifests itself, just watching it and being aware of it for now.
Use this process to deepen your hypnosis, tell yourself that every sensation takes you deeper into your mind. Then when you are tuned in, aware of your feelings, move on to the next step.
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Step Three:
Start to imagine that your mind and body possess the qualities of a pressure cooker. Think that your body has similar qualities of a pressure cooker and that it is currently like an airtight vessel.
When you have that notion in mind, then start to imagine that all the issues of life that have contributed to your physiological stress, or pressure or emotional distress of any kind are being projected upon you; like heat firing up the contents of the pressure cooker.
Imagine that your own issues are being magnified and exaggerated, beyond any rational way of being, but without letting it become too uncomfortable - just enough sensation for things to be useful for you here.
You are likely to notice some difference in how you are feeling, and as soon as the sensations get to a stage where they are notable, but not too uncomfortable, then move on to the next step.
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Step Four:
This is the fun part and the part where we get to change and let go...
Find the release valve of your mind. Imagine it in whatever way is best for you. Locate whereabouts it is in your body or perhaps it is just imagined in your mind. Become aware of its size, shape, colour, details and adapt it to your own liking.
Once it is there in your mind, all set up and ready to be utilized with maximum effect, start to let the pressure out. Let the pressure out of the valve in whatever way is right for you.
Watch the old, unwanted pressure being released - maybe you imagine it as steam, or just a colour of some kind (maybe a coloured mist?) or perhaps it has a sound that is omitted (some might imagine the whistling sound of a kettle that has boiled, for example), you choose whatever is the best way for you to imagine and engage with the action of that pressure being released.
As it is released, notice the relaxation and comfort spread through you as even consider letting out a deep sigh as you do that now.
Distance and dissociate yourself from the old pressure.
Notice how different you feel as you let go... Perhaps you imagine your body physically relaxing, perhaps you focus in on and notice the difference in your body as the old pressure dissipates. Notice how you can tell a difference has happened and when you have really noticed the difference, ideally having let go of all (or as much as is possible) of the unwanted pressure, then move on to the next step.
Step Five:
With the pressure released, imagine a typical situation or circumstance in your life when you may find yourself under some pressure. Notice the sights, sounds and feelings and really imagine that you are there; be there. Let the pressure felt be just enough for you to notice a change in sensation.
Really be there in that place. Engage in it, and then as you notice any pressure build, just use the same mental valve to let go of that pressure and feel a physical difference.
Tell yourself that each time you practice doing this, it becomes a more readily available tool that you use outside of the hypnosis session and enhances your ability to use this process whenever you need to, simply by engaging your imagination and letting go using your release valve.
Tell yourself that this process inherently lowers and lessens the old responses to those situations, but that this is a useful tool for you to use when needed in real-life terms too.
Then move on to the final step.
Step Six:
Take a moment to reflect upon the process, remind yourself of how things are going to be different in your life in the future and then take a good, deep energising breath, wiggle your fingers and toes and open your eyes.
That is the process I used, it served me beautifully well and it is a metaphor suggested to me by a colleague and fellow hypnotherapist who uses this with clients.
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A lawyer joke this week: Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law. Hahaha, I enjoyed that one.
Thank you for all those of you who write to me with jokes and who post them in the Hub, I love reading them and seeing them each week.
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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
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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 ...
Enjoy releasing any unwanted pressure this week...
I thank you for reading... Goodbye for now.
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We are constantly adding new material to our Platinum Members Area - this richest of resources of hypnosis training.
This week we also added Insomnia Hypnotherapy Seminar
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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Hypnotherapy For Children
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"Before embarking on Adam Eason's 10 month diploma, I had looked at plenty of other courses. The thing about Adam is that he is prolific, and there was seemingly limitless blogs, video clips and free audio to sample his work and get a feel for his approach.
I liked what I saw, but embarking on the diploma course represented a significant investment of time and money and for me and I felt that I wanted to meet the man before parting with my hard earned readies... just to be sure.
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Within moments of meeting Adam I knew that the persona portrayed in cyberspace was indeed the authentic Adam Eason. I enrolled and paid in full that same day, and I have never once looked back.
Adam is a man mountain of the hypnosis world. Hypnosis is a hard concept to define and many exponents seem to promote it on its mystical and magical qualities. Adam's approach is quite different - Thoroughly evidenced based, logical, practical and extensively researched. Adam is the 'credible hulk' in this field.
His enthusiasm and knowledge for the subject, is in my opinion, unsurpassed. Having just completed the diploma course I can testify that this enthusiasm is contagious. To aspire to be a geek is but for the few, but to a man (and a woman) my fellow students and I are delighted to be considered 'hypno-geeks'. It is a badge of honour. I have made some wonderful new friends and I look forward to sharing our stories as we set off on our own individual paths.
The course has been a wonderful experience; perhaps the single most significant personal development activity that I have undertaken - and I do not say that lightly.
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The workload is heavy for sure, but I wanted it to be so. Who would want to be a lightweight when sitting one to one with an expectant client in need of a helping hand?
During the Course, each student was closely supervised, as there was always a teaching assistant, of the highest calibre, on hand to oversee every practical exercise that was undertaken. We were even assigned a mentor who was, and remains, happy to provide support and advice outside of class.
If you want to train to be a professional hypnotherapist, or simply wish to learn more ( a lot more) about hypnosis, then I would highly recommended this Diploma course." |
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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,
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.
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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Patricia Worby
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Patricia Worby,
Therapist, Southampton "Studying with Adam has been both personally and professionally transformational. This course is for anyone serious about studying Hypnotherapy at the highest level. The homework is extensive and rigorously marked; Adam is never unfair but always honest in his feedback. His teaching is passionate and informed by his wide knowledge and experience. By the end of the course you will have had a thorough grounding in the subject - with a particular focus on Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy which is Adam's passion.
I took this course as I wanted to challenge myself in an area in which I am not confident - my choice was vindicated."
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