- Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Adam Up
It has been 6 weeks since the previous edition of Adam Up and it feels like so much has happened since then.
We were away in the New Forest for the long Easter weekend while the sun shone, the football season came to a close and AFC Bournemouth got automatic promotion; my son and I have been to almost every home game this season and were there at the end when the team clinched promotion to the Premier League - we're excited bout some of the world's most famous footballers coming to Bournemouth next season. As they got
closer to promotion and the pressure was on, none of the players choked - and I've got an article on that very topic here today, which also includes one of my favourite quotes ever from Aimee Daramus.
My children have had extra dance classes as their upcoming show is about to happen, and they've been performing their moves at home in preparation, along with many ad-hoc music recitals (my daughter plays piano and my son drums, it is rarely quiet in our house. I've had a big teaching schedule, still in the throes of a big research project and I competed in an end of training block weight lifting competition
(pictures are on my Instagram account: @adam_eason). It's been a fun, busy time.
I'm looking for some assistance with a couple of things that I've mentioned lower down in today's edition of Adam Up, and I'm sharing a big bunch of new articles that have been published since the previous edition of Adam Up, covering topics of doom scrolling, forming your own opinion, raising energy levels, having an emotional Spring clean, what happens in your brain when you have fear and as today's email
subject line suggests... An explainer about why we love mysteries. Some of my all-time favourite television experiences have involved a sense of mystery whereby my imagination ran wild attempting to fathom what was going on.
In addition to article, I share a lot of infographics on some really interesting and stimulating topics on my IG account, Twitter and Facebook, you can browse through those anytime.
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Articles: What's New?
A wide range of new articles to help in varying aspects of life here today...
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All articles are founded in science and have references for you to explore should you wish:
1. Doomscrolling, also known as doomsurfing, is the trendy new buzzword that has been receiving a lot of attention lately. Doomscrolling is a relatively new phenomenon. It describes a person overindulging in social media usage or web surfing to absorb negative news. Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of it around
at the moment. While a typical surfer reads a balanced mix of positive and negative news, a doomscroller tunes in to bad and depressing news. Although this concept has been around for some time now, considering how incorporated into our lives the internet is today, doomscrolling really took off during the covid-19 pandemic when bad news became never-ending.
According to Kaz Nelson, a professor at the University of Minnesota, our brains are wired to look out for possible threats to know what to expect and how to protect ourselves. She says, “When we read upsetting news, the threat response is activated. This can be helpful if it helps us to be aware of true threats to our safety and health and motivates us to work to address or respond to the threat. This is why it is so tempting to scroll page after page. Our brain perceives that we are doing
something essential and productive.”
While there is a valid reason behind our compulsive need to check our phones to see the bad news every now and then, this constant need can be counterproductive. Not only does this habit of doomscrolling waste a huge chunk of our day, but the anxiety and depression that comes with the news can also be harmful to both our mental and physical health.
If you have spent the last 2 hours searching the web for bad news, the chances are that you have become a victim of doomscrolling. However, just because you have fallen down the rabbit hole of doomscrolling doesn’t mean you cannot put an end to it.
If doomscrolling were an Olympic sport, I suspect a couple of my clients would have got on the national team recently! I’ve needed to work in strategies to help them wipe it out for their own well-being as it contributed to some of the therapeutic issues we were working on – here, I wanted to share some strategies; those with good evidence to support them in particular. Here are a bunch of tips that can help you get rid of
this habit for good....
Full Article: How to stop Doomscrolling.
2. Plato was right when he said, “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” If you wish to excel academically, professionally, and personally, know that it is very important that you know how to think rationally and develop your own opinion on any particular subject matter. Not having your own opinion can lead to a lack of self-confidence and self-doubt. Thinking outside of the box
and having your own position on many matters can help you to ace your job interviews, produce high quality essays, and enjoy being effective in debates, and much more besides.
However, it is not always easy to form your own opinion, especially when you are swamped with other people’s opinions, mainstream media and social media. And this is here where critical thinking comes into play. It is a very useful skill, luckily one in which we can train ourselves. Critical thinking means collecting important information from a range of reliable sources and filtering through the relevant information to
establish your own informed position. This helps us withstand other people’s beliefs when they fight us on something. It will make you less likely to be influenced by others’ lines of reasoning and more likely to inculcate in you the habit of rational thinking. However, having your opinion doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing that makes us stubborn and hesitant to accept what other people have to say. Part of critical thinking is to form an opinion that you can logically back up. I have
written about how to think critically and how to think scientifically before, here I’m sharing a number of tips that will train you to form your own opinion...
3. I think it is a combination of many things, but many of my friends and clients are struggling with feeling tired and raising energy levels through healthy means. The pandemic effected many, having young children can effect many, and the demands of modern living – so many people are exhausted all of the time!
It’s okay. We have all experienced the struggle to get up in the morning. We have all been there. Experiencing spells of tiredness and feeling like our eyes will shut close at any second. At times like these, you wish you were more energised so you could make better use of the time. Sometimes we feel guilty for not being able to do more, and do it with more vigour! Sometimes low energy levels come with frustration. We often
feel frustrated due to our inability to do everything we initially planned for our day. Many of us feel completely depleted of our energy by the end of the day and have to chug multiple cups of coffee in order merely stay awake. Are you one of those people who overindulge in sugary sweets just to keep your eyelids from sagging? Don’t do that. Although the sugar rush will provide you with an initial energy boost, remember with the consumption of sugar (as with caffeine) often comes a crash, after
which you will feel more drained than before.
The reasons for your fatigue and sluggishness can range from unhealthy eating or lack of sleep to having a chronic condition or stress.
Luckily there are multiple ways through which you can naturally raise your energy levels and get rid of your fatigue. You don’t have to make drastic changes to your lifestyle to feel more energised. In fact, making small tweaks to your daily routine can make a big difference in terms of your energy levels. Here, I’m offering up a bunch of different strategies that will give your energy levels a boost...
4. Spring is here and it symbolises new beginnings, a fresh start, a renewal, or an awakening to many of us. Perhaps this is why we all give our homes a ritualistic thorough clean as soon as spring arrives to make sure our homes are perfectly clean for the start of the new season.
Spring clean means decluttering, getting rid of what is no longer required, cleaning the cobwebs in untouched corners, and reorganising drawers and closets. Just like the spring clean of our physical spaces has therapeutic qualities, spring clean for our mental health can have the same effects. It is important to understand that decluttering and cleaning up your mind is just as important as a spring clean for the house.
Giving the same attention to your mental health and emotional well-being as your house is equally important, if not more. It allows us to start the new season with a clean slate. So, with the weather finally warming up, let’s celebrate the arrival of many people’s favourite season by giving ourselves a psychological cleanup. Here are six simple ways you can get rid of any “mind weeds” or unnecessary stress that has been
bothering you in order to help you have a spring clean for your mental health...
5. The Science Behind One Of Our Primal Emotions...
Fear is one of our driving forces.
It can make us run faster, think more critically, and have way more strength than usual within mere seconds of spotting a threat.
It can also be paralysing, however, or make us think irrationally in completely normal situations.
From goosebumps to phobias, the different processes we can go through when we are afraid are proof that this is one complicated emotion.
In simplistic terms, this article aims to break down what happens in our brains when we see danger and start being scared...
6. Have you ever frozen in front of a room full of people while giving a speech even though you knew exactly what you had to say? Happens to the best of us. Despite rehearsing for days and committing the speech to memory, sometimes we stutter, stumble, or forget what we had to say altogether. The pressure that comes with high-stakes situations sometimes destroys our ability to do as well as we know we are
capable of; something often referred to as choking under pressure.
Choking under pressure is a very common phenomenon affecting many high-achieving students, athletes, and performers. This process is not just mental but physical as well. Choking under pressure in high-stakes situations can trigger neurological reactions that can hamper a person’s performance either through loss of motor function or loss of memory. When we are anxious, our body produces endorphins and adrenaline to calm us.
These two hormones act as a mild opiate.
Aimee Daramus, a clinical psychologist, says, “When you’re anxious, you’re also basically a little high and a little stoned.” This neurological response of our body to high-pressure situations causes distraction as well as memory loss which affects our performance.
7. The Information We Miss Is Often What We Are Most Interested In.
Throughout history, we have always been fascinated by mysteries.
Questions we don’t have the immediate answer to just seem to be more interesting than the ones we could figure out momentarily.
Here I explain why it is that we enjoy mysteries so much and what sorts of mysteries there are.
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Two Favours to Ask....
1. Could I ask a HUUUGE favour? If you have trained with me and my college and have something positive to say about it, or if you have ever written a testimonial for the college in the past that you can copy and paste, would you be kind enough to write a Google review about your experience here?
Small businesses like mine competing with lots of others out there need such reviews these days. I have really dedicated myself to the raising of educational standards in the hypnotherapy field, I seek to champion and disseminate evidence based approaches, and lobby to advance the field wherever I am able - but if people don't know the difference when they are seeking out hypnotherapy training, then it is so tough for me to get those messages across without independent accounts from those who
have trained with me and the Anglo European College.
Please use this link to visit the correct page and write a review: https://g.page/r/Cam5_tHYHM8REAg/review
This would be a really great help and I would appreciate it massively if you could spare some time to write a review. Many thanks in advance!
I asked this on social media earlier this week too, and had some amazing reviews shared, do go and have a read to see what people say about the training they received here.
2. One of the ways that many people first connected with me and my business was through my Hypnosis Weekly podcast. Not a week has gone by in the past few years that someone has not asked me if it will return. I am looking into making that happen and working out how to find the time, and what the flavour and focus would be and so on. In order to make it happen, I'd need a producer (and potentially a co-host) - who would be able to record, edit and publish the podcast each
week. The podcast is already set up with Apple podcasts and various other podcast providers.
There are some benefits I can offer (depending upon the person; training, events, exposure, a relentlessly dark, dry nihilistic sense of humour, pseudo-friendship) but it would ultimately be unpaid.
If that is something that would interest you, you have an interest in hypnosis, and have the time and inclination to immerse yourself with me, my quirks and a load of academics, authors, researchers and hypnotherapists each week with an aim of raising awareness and standards in this field, then PM me: ae@adam-eason.com and we can talk.
Looking to start (neé resume) at the end of Summer/beginning of Autumn this year once my current research is completed.
Hypnotherapist Development Hub:
Major resource for hypnotherapists... Never worry about supervision, CPD, business development and peer support ever again...
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The Anglo European College Hypnotherapist Development Hub:
This hypnotherapist development hub has just gone live and you can read more about it and subscribe monthly or annually by visiting the official page for it here at this page of the college website.
It is an online members area with live weekly offerings aimed at educating, developing and supporting hypnotherapists. This includes:
– Extensive digital resources: educational training videos available to stream, including our diploma course, advanced diploma, hypnotic coaching course, rapid inductions, science of self-hypnosis, additional specialist lectures, much more (similar to existing members area).
– Monthly specialist live lecture: Including a range of specialist lectures from academics, authors and experienced specialists. Attend live and get to ask questions and interact with leaders in the field, but if you are unable to attend live, the recording will be posted the following day for you to access and revisit.
This will count as meeting your official CPD quota with all major hypnotherapy associations if you attend half of these each year.
– Monthly group supervision: You can attend and receive supervision from and with me, or join the group to learn and develop accordingly. Our January group session was great and a number of students and hypnotherapists were able to observe the session too.
These sessions count as your official supervision requirement with the UKHC, GHR and NCH (as well as meet the requirements for most other professional hypnotherapy member organisations). Have a read of this article that explains how our group supervision sessions work: Monthly Group Supervision Sessions: Starting in 2022.
– Regular Peer Support Group: In particular, these sessions have a focus upon hypnotherapist business building – there’ll be a monthly presentation with a live discussion afterwards. This will include coaching, support, guidance and regular expert speakers. There will also be additional lectures and presentations of my own that I have recorded through the years adding to the business development section.
– Therapeutic Forms Depository: You will have access to and be able to download from a huge number of therapeutic forms used in cognitive behavioural, mindfulness based and ACT approaches to therapy.
This hypnotherapist development hub is an amazing resource giving ongoing support and you can subscribe monthly or annually by visiting the official page for it here at this page of the college website.
So you won’t have to worry about where to look for your CPD requirements, you’ll have your supervision requirements met, you’ll have access to resources we have never offered before, as well as LOTS of training videos and materials.
I’m aiming for this to offer a great deal of ongoing resource, support, guidance and importantly professional development to all who are part of it. For those looking to be part of something, and joining an amazing cause too, it will create a great community of us evidence based hypnotherapists seeking to raise standards in this field, seeking to shake off myth and misinformation, seeking to examine and understand the science, the research, the literature that informs this field with a view to
improving what we do and ultimately achieving greater results with our clients.
Useful resources for hypnotherapists:
Visit this page for lots of resources for hypnotherapists.
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.
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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, have a wonderful day, I send you much love and my very best wishes,
Buloo!
Adam Eason.
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