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I am delighted to say that we now have dates for my seminars that I am running at various locations around the UK. 

Next February I am coming to London, we have a Heathrow destination that is incredibly accessible. I'll be running my Self-Hypnosis seminar and Rapid Inductions there. 

AND...

There'll be a further trip to London next June for my five day Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist Certification training course. 

Next May I visit Scotland and will be running my Science of Self-Hypnosis and Rapid Inductions Seminar. 

Then the same two seminars in Manchester next July. 

If you want to do both days in a particular location (they are all the day next to each other in each location) we'll offer you a healthy discount (get in touch with us if you want to arrange a group booking to get your special deal) 

You can find more information about all these events at my Eventbrite and my website. 

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I hope to meet lots of you along the way. 

When I was young, one of my best friends at school, a very close friend of mine got caught smoking. This was a cardinal sin. As a means to put an end to this flirting with the tobacco weed, his Dad sat him down and handed him a packet of 20 cigarettes. 

Puzzled, my friend was not sure what to do... His Dad instructed him to open the packet. He then handed him a lighter and told him to smoke a cigarette - which he did. They chatted and my friend thought it was great that his Dad had accepted him as a smoker and that he had understood. As he stubbed out the cigarette and thought this chat was coming to an end. His Dad instructed him to light up another one straight away... Uh-oh. 

He then had to smoke the entire packet, every single cigarette, back to back, until he was green at the gills, coughing, wheezing, and eventually throwing up... 

His Dad hoped that this would deter him from ever smoking again. 

I bet you know someone with a similar story, don't you?

Ever meet a drug addict that had a traumatic overdose? There is a similar belief that this somehow scares and educates the mind not do that behaviour again... It does not necessarily always work, but many people think that it does. 

I once listened to a music track so much that I ended up transforming my utter love for this song into getting totally bored of it... I mean, it got to the stage where it did not excite me and did not offer up any stimulus anymore... And that is just what we do want! 

I would like to ask you a relatively simple question... many people have compulsive behaviours that they would like to change, especially certain habits that are compulsive... So answer me this, which of the following are compulsive behaviours: 

• Someone who smokes 30 cigarettes a day and has done for 40 years.
  
  
• Someone who smokes a pack of 10 only at weekends when they go out drinking with friends, has done so for a couple of years.
  
  
• Someone who eats 5 bags of crisps in front of the TV every night. 
  
  
• Someone who eats one chocolate bar at 3pm every afternoon. 

I know that you know the answer here... 

They are all compulsive behaviours. In psychiatry a compulsion is defined as a drive that causes a person to perform actions, often of a trivial nature and repetitive nature, against his or her will. 

Do you have any such compulsions? I bet if you thought about the patterns involved in your daily life you'd notice that you have many. Of course for most of us, our compulsions are fairly non-threatening and innocuous, however some people harbour compulsions that cause problems and they really need to be stopped. 

Yet attempting to stop such compulsions can cause us discomfort and so we just keep on comfortably letting them happen. 

The field of NLP has a wonderful technique for dealing with unwanted compulsive behaviours... It is called the compulsion blowout... 

This week, I have combined that technique and process into a self-help, self-hypnosis technique that anyone can do for and to themselves. 

A compulsion is an urge, often irresistible, to behave in a particular manner... And like I already said, it is often against the individuals will... I mean, someone knows that smoking 30 a day is harmful and may want to stop... Someone might know that grabbing two huge cream cakes every day at 1pm when they walk past the bakers is unlikely to help the waistline reduce in size... Yet they carry on doing it... 

Compulsions are different to habits. habits can be consciously controlled to some extent, and what's more there are many habits that are productive and useful, aren't there?    Compulsions however are not within your conscious control.. They are dark and sinister and happen as if by some evil force lurking deep within you... And they are all non-productive... 

The process that I am offering up today desensitises compulsions... Ranging from biting fingernails, to smoking, eating and even obsessing about a partner or the cleanliness of your bathroom...

Step One: 

Induce hypnosis. You can induce hypnosis in any way you desire or know of. You can use the process in my science of 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:

Heavy Arm Self-Hypnosis Induction Method

Using eye fixation for self-hypnosis

The Betty Erickson Self-Hypnosis Method video clip

Hand to face Self-Hypnosis Method

Using Magnetic Hands for Self-Hypnosis

Once you have induced hypnosis, move on to step two.

Step Two: 

In this receptive state of mind, choose a compulsion that you wish to eliminate... Ideally you thought about it a tad prior to knuckling down to do this. 

Ideally, it should be a compulsion that has an external trigger... Something external that sets it off. For example, in the example I gave earlier, the person sees the bakery and feel compelled to go and buy 2 cream cakes... If the compulsion is biting finger nails, the stimulus might be the finger nails growing to a certain length, or an external stimulus of some kind. 

Give this some thought in some depth and then move on. 

Step Three: 

Now we want to think of the primary trigger. The primary and main thing that sets off this compulsion... 

So think in even more depth and ask yourself some questions, roll the compulsive behaviour around in your mind... What circumstance or factor triggers the compulsive behaviour? What is the main that thing that always happens that tells your unconscious mind that it is time for that compulsion to occur. 

In a receptive state of mind, it should be really easy to identify. move on once you have the primary trigger. 

Step Four: 

Ok, just think about that trigger... With it fresh in your mind, think about which of your senses gets used the most in relation to that trigger? 

So, in the cake eating example, the shop gets seen first, the cakes are on display, it is very visual, there is a visual quality to it... When biting fingernails, the sensations might be quite a bit more specific... Such as a tingling sensation or a pressure felt inside the body that connects the behaviour to your reality and starts it happening. 

It might even be as simple as having a consciousness about that a certain thing... Really get a detailed idea in your mind about what senses are attached tot hat trigger and how that trigger works. 

Step Five: 

Here comes the fun... 

Whatever was the main sense, the main sensation... Start to turn it up. Use your imagination and really increase the sensation as much as you possibly can. Turn it up to the highest possible level. 

if someone has a sense of the nails sticking out, then imagine them protruding really far, very far indeed. If seeing the cakes then starts a feeling in the tummy... Turn that feeling up, maybe until it gets to a queasiness of some kind...  If there is a certain pressure sensed in the body, imagine it getting closer and closer to actually exploding! 

You get the idea here. Whatever the sensation is, keep turning it up and up to the point whereby it could blow up, or erupt in some way! 

Step Six: 

Repeat the above step and turn up the sensations to the extreme. Really turn them up massively until you start to get the sense of this becoming boring... Or feeling that it is trivial, or even to the stage where it is not triggering the compulsion... By turning the sensations up to dramatic, extreme levels, you are desensitising the compulsion trigger, making it more and more difficult to be triggered off in the first place! 

This is fabulous stuff... Who'd have thought that turning up the sensations of what you do not want could be so useful?! 

Step Seven: Tell yourself that you intend to take some action to test and prove to yourself that you have blown this compulsion away, that you have blow it out! Think of something you could to show yourself and plan on doing it as soon as you can.

Step Seven: 

Wiggle your fingers, wiggle your toes and open your eyes. 

Then think about and remind yourself about that action. be sure to go and do it. Test it as soon as you possibly can. go with a deep rooted determination and vigour to prove to you that you blew out that old compulsion. The sooner you take that action, the better the result will be. 

Joke Of The Week

There are two muffins sitting in an oven. 

One looks at the other and says, "Boy it's getting hot in here." 

The other muffin goes, "Eeek!  A talking muffin!"

Hahaha.. Love that one! Please keep them coming folks, I love receiving the jokes each week. 

Articles Of The Week

Here are a selection of topical articles that I enjoyed reading this week, often related to the fields of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and other forms of personal development. Some may have just amused me or made me smile. My personal comments about them are in brackets and just because we feature an article here, it does not mean they represent my own views - most often, they do not! 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:

- Michael jackson was quizzed under hypnosis

- Hypnosis delivers pain free birth says Mum

- Watch Laura Duncan race Ferrari 360 at Knockhill after hypnotherapy cures her fear of driving

- The virtual gastric band, is it possible to think yourself thin? 

- The Hypnotist Bandit is making headlines

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Bulooo!

Adam.