Hello - And Welcome To This Week's Edition Of Adam Up Coming up in this
week’s edition of Adam Up is what I consider to be one of the most important things I have written about and one of the most personal articles I have written in a very long time. it is about what I mean when I say “I live life in the slow lane.” Also this week, I wrote a bit of a quirky article, just a small one to answer the most popular question I have been asked
over the past year or so. It is not a question about hypnosis. It is not a question about running. It is this:
“What does Buloo mean Adam?”
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Hypnosis Weekly
This week on Hypnosis Weekly, I interviewed Gemma Bailey, the founder of NLP4Kids and she offers lot of very interesting information.
Tomorrow’s latest edition features the one and only Bob Burns, talking about his pioneering ‘Swan’ therapeutic application.
Do have a listen to this week’s edition here:
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As you’ll read later on in this edition of Adam Up, I have now been running this business in the hypnosis and hypnotherapy field, earning my living solely from this field, for 18 years.
LinkedIn highlighted my work anniversary and a number of people sent me congratulations. It naturally caused me to reflect somewhat on this past 18 years as a
hypnotherapist, author, hypnosis and hypnotherapy trainer.
As I reflected this week, I realised how wonderful it is to earn my living being a hypnotherapist. I get to feel like I am doing some good in the world, I get to support other people and earn a full-time living that supports my wife and two children. I love that. I get to be part of a community of other hypnotherapists all striving to develop the field, all
sharing a desire to help others and I enjoy the fact that so many of my closest friends today are fellow hypnotherapists.
SO much has changed.
Even in the past few months a LOT has has changed. I decided that I wanted my hypnotherapy training college to be less about me personally and more about developing educational excellence, building a college that will help to develop the
entire field of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
We are welcoming other lecturers, I am teaching in more locations, and we are doing all we can to make our training more accessible to people with a keen interest in these fields.
Firstly, if you have not seen the new college website, go and have a look, read about our vision, our mission statement, the college ethos and the courses we now run.
COURSES AND SEMINARS THIS YEAR
Our diploma course is a leading light and we offer so much resource to our students that makes our course
different to others out there.
Keith sent out a message or two this past week to anyone interested in the latest dates for our hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course.
Do come to the website, download a college prospectus and know that all early bird offers for those newly announced diploma dates expire this
Saturday.
Likewise, I’ll be in London, Edinburgh, Manchester as well as my hometown of Bournemouth teaching this year.
I’ll be teaching the - Science of self-hypnosis one day seminar (half price till Saturday),
- Rapid inductions
one day seminar
- Hypnosis for running one day seminars,
and again, we have early bird offers that expire Saturday for any of you that would like to join me for these one day events.
We cram information into them, we cram in plenty of practical skills and we do all we can to make it a highly enjoyable, rewarding,
fun and beneficial day in class.
I hope to meet you along the way.
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Keith Watson adds a comment.
Adam didn't know I was
going to add anything here.
Well done Adam coming of age in your profession - I have been working directly with Adam for about 10 years and I can tell you how passionate about this field of hypnosis he is (oh - and about running as well).
I love seeing all his students graduate and they all seem to grow in themselves as they develop all the skills and techniques involved in helping others.
I am myself from a nursing background and I am delighted that Adam has developed his hypnotherapy using
Cognitive Behavioural techniques as that sits well with a research approach that makes sense to other professions.
If you are wanting to train as a hypnotherapist or develop your skills further I am delighted to always recommend Adam - he will get you opening your mind and developing your own unique
I know there are only a couple of days left for the early bird offers mentioned here but just get in touch with me if you think you are missing out. http://support.adam-eason.com |
How To Find Out How To Come To Self-Hypnosis Seminar For Half Price - Only Till Saturday |
I am bringing one of my favourite one day seminars to - London (near Heathrow for those of you who live abroad) in February,
- Edinburgh in May
- Manchester in July
It is my One Day Self-Hypnosis
Seminar which is an educational day which is great fun and teaches you so much about mind. It is ideal for newbies to the subject through to hypnotherapists wanting CPD updates.
In fact this offer is so generous that I am not joking when I tell you that you will be getting a place for just about the cost to us
from the hotel. See I said I wanted to meet you.
This page has 7 Steps in how to find out about our
College. The step 7 is what I am pointing you towards... So take action and see you soon. |
Stop Beating Yourself Up
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On the main part of Adam Up this week. I consider this to be one of the most important things I have written for a while, it means a lot to me and I hope you take the time to read it. It is about how I live life in the slow lane. |
I read an article yesterday with a quote that leapt off the page at me, here it is;
“Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at
a time, not all at once.” — Unknown
You may not know this, but I’ve been running marathons for 15 years. Yes indeed, I ran my first back in the year 2000. (I wanted to start singing then… “won’t it be strange when we’re all fully gro-oh-oh-own…” Google the song by Pulp or ignore my reference and read on)
Running has helped me find time to think when I have
needed it, it helps my mental and emotional well-being, it relieves the small stresses I have from time to time, it helps me put things into perspective, it helps me to connect with my body and engage in the moment, and it makes me feel and actually be healthier than I would be without it. When I first step out into my run, it welcomes me. It is a familiar, warm welcome that I get from my run. It welcomes me back to the road and to the trails the same way that my children welcome me home when I
get in as they run in and hug me and want to wear my running hat, drink from my water bottle and look at my running watch.
Running is a big part of my life, it is a big part of who I am — I am a running author, I am a multi marathon runner, I feature in a lot of running press, running is part of my every day routine, and yet it is changing for me in coming months. I am becoming an ultra runner. This Summer, after my Spring
marathons, I will be running a 60 mile event, and then later this year I shall be running all four Bournemouth marathon festival races one after the other (the 5km, the 10km, the half marathon and the full marathon) and next year I am going to race a 100 mile event.
One of the main reasons for me wishing to run ultra marathons is because some of my priorities have changed. I am less interested in how fast I can run, I am less
interested in my mile splits for each run, I am less interested in how impressed people might be at my marathon finish time. I am more interested in taking my time, enjoying the experience of pushing myself and exploring my endurance. I am more interested in how I feel. I am more interested in taking it easier, and realising that finishing is the goal, the journey is the goal.
Running gives much. Especially to those who give to
it. I have run over 200 miles in the past month. I got a special badge for it over at Strava. It was like being a cub scout again, and I was equally as proud. The main reason I was proud is because I enjoyed it, and I did not really feel like I had run over 200 miles. There have been some faster runs I have had to do to get into the marathon shape I choose, but I have just loved the longer, slower runs along the empty sea front as the sun rises on the bitterly cold mornings of
January.
The other love that I share here with you is that of the world of hypnosis, and in particular I have a true love of self-hypnosis. Just like running, my love for self-hypnosis has rewarded me richly, and just like running, many of the gifts needed to be waited for. Self-hypnosis is a companion, a place I go, a way I think, a mindset I adopt. It is a resource, a strength, a skill and an ability that I have applied and
used for the past 20 years. My work and fascination with it is what saw me move into this line of work and become a hypnosis professional as a therapist, author, teacher and more recently, researcher.
I wrote something on my personal Facebook page this week:
“LinkedIn just advised me that it is now 18 years since I became self-employed and set up my business. I love my
business, and my work. I am not driving the Ferrari just yet, but I choose my own direction in life, have complete life-autonomy, am incredibly healthy and am rewarded on a daily basis in altruistic ways and in ways that keep my faith in humanity alive. Some of my best friends are people I have met through my business and each year I encounter amazing people filled with hope, aspiration and a desire to do good in the world. What's more, I get to do the work I love and it supports the life I have
with my wife and children. When I put it into that sort of perspective, it feels pretty cool.”
Just like I had no idea that I had run so many miles this month because it didn’t feel like it, it certainly does not feel like I have been running my business for 18 years. I have enjoyed this field, I have enjoyed exploring it. I am pleased with the progress I have made, but although I’d consider myself incredibly productive and well
accomplished in my field of work, my own development has also been slow. There was nothing instant or fast in the way my career developed. It happened slowly. I still have major ambitions that are going to take time too.
While I’m pleased with so much of what I’ve done, there is still so much that running and self-hypnosis has to teach me. And that’s just marvellous, because I am discovering that these fine things
in running, self-hypnosis and life in general often come to us slowly. Wanting immediate satiation and gratification, immediate success, immediate results is emphasised greatly in our media and within the world, but can frustrate and upset. In my therapy rooms, my clients know that sometimes to get long lasting, quality change, requires some time, discipline, ongoing application, diligence and practice. So I made this connection with my love of resilience, thoroughness and taking things slow
this week and thought I’d share the reasons that I think it is so important and beneficial to us all. 1. We become patient.
Impatience can be torture. Being patient is its own reward; as we can learn from patient mindful meditation, not grappling for any other feeling, any other place, any other place, just being. Learning to be patient with self-hypnosis helps advance the skills. Emile COué promoted the notion of the effort error - making excessive effort and grappling for the outcome often prevented it from being actualised. Being patient
with the results, patient with the application and patient with expectations makes it all far more enjoyable too.
Being patient when running means you get to enjoy the air you are breathing, you get to enjoy the feel of your body in motion.
Importantly though, when life’s circumstances and
situations are such that we are unable to control the outcome, patience helps us deal with it while we wait.
2. Acceptance and gratitude develops.
Frustration does nothing to make our goals happen any quicker. Yet when people are racing towards the
things they wish to achieve, they can get easily frustrated with any sort of delay; those January gym-goers who do not reduce 5 stone in two weeks can feel that all is lost. People go on diets to reduce weight in fast time, but get frustrated if it does not happen all at once, or if they face any obstacles to achieving the outcome they dream of.
When I wrote in my Adam Up ezine last
September when I was coming back to running from injury, I planned to reduce my weight slowly and surely. Since September last year I have reduced my weight by two stone. It has been healthy, gradual and systematic. I have enjoyed it immensely and I learned about how to accomplish it in a slow, thorough way.
We can all have long term goals, which are not always that compelling. But when we
take things slowly and thoroughly, we get to enjoy our progress, know that it is long-term progress and we get to accept who we are becoming, and be grateful for that. We also get to be proud of who we are in the now. We get to accept ourselves and be grateful for who we are and incorporate that attitude into our daily existence. When we are always striving in a fast and furious manner to an end goal, we forget to accept and be grateful on a daily basis; we miss life
happening.
I want to enjoy my running, not spend every moment that I run thinking about crossing the line at my next race. I want to enjoy the time I have with my children, not just get impatient about how great it’ll be when they are able to discuss their favourite sci-fi TV show with me or buy me a drink in the pub. I accept that they are in a lovely place of life’s development right now
and I am grateful that they are developing in the way they are.
3. Mistakes are not catastrophes.
When something is being rushed and we are hurling at high speed, it has more potential to become a catastrophe. When we take things easy, at a healthy pace, we
get to discover more about it, we get to explore it and make small mistakes that can be easily amended along the way. In turn, we grow stronger.
Experimenting with self hypnosis, practicing it and exploring the subject delivers great, great benefit. Tweaking our training approaches during long, slow runs means we can experiment with foods, fluid consumption, equipment and discover what is
best for us to advance our performance and enjoyment.
We avoid the bigger mistakes happening in the future if we have developed and grown by letting things sink in gradually and thoroughly.
4. We create space.
In the process of desiring something in super fast time, it can dominate life and even become all-consuming. I am all for goal setting and know how important it is to do so. I am also aware of the benefits of prioritising aspects of life. However, we do not want to create an imbalance and become overwhelmed or obsessed.
Think about what you become blind of when fast puts the blinkers on for you. There is much more to watch, learn, enjoy and understand that you could be missing out on. Taking things slow gives you space and a broader vision.
5. We become resilient.
In one episode of my favourite
sci-fi TV show Red Dwarf, the Cat is arguing with Rimmer and says to him “it’s better to live a day as a tiger than a whole lifetime as a worm.” There are many other versions of similar sentiment such as the Emiliano Zapata quote “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees” but I’m not sold on the parallel “live fast, die young” notion. I think all of us want to live a long, healthy life.
Life in the slow lane is about building resilience. We learn how to do that along the way, as we develop an endurance in life. The fast lane is exciting and can demonstrate bravery and ignite passion.
I find it far more courageous and passionate to learn how to run the long distance and then do so than to sprint ten metres as fast as you
can. I find it more courageous and passionate to explore what you r mind can do with applied self-hypnosis in a concerted fashion, learning about yourself patiently and deeply than to expect immediate change with a fad technique. Developing resilience does not mean we become impervious to life’s challenges, it just means we learn to be capable of dealing with it all more effectively.
To live life in the slow lane requires us to trust ourselves. You can still be productive, passionate, intelligent, quick witted and brave. Living life in the slow lane does not involve apathy or procrastination - it is about being observant, enjoying life and knowing that you are learning how to accomplish what you want in an effective, thorough manner.
When I ran my first marathon in the year 2000, I virtually ignored the occasion because I was so determined to complete it in a certain time. I was unaware of the beauty of the places I was doing my training runs. I ran like that for a fair few years, glued to my Garmin GPS watch (that much is yet to change). When I fought the pain and the psychological demons that visited me during my five marathons in succession back
in 2012, I realised how much I was aware of what I was doing in my mind and in a perverse fashion, learned to love that pain and enjoy my own ability to deal with what was happening to me at those times.
Last September, I started back running a bit overweight following on from injury and having spent the previous two years becoming a Dad, twice, in quick succession and life was
very different. As I ran, my back crunched a bit, all those postural moves of holding kids at arms length getting them into the car or into their cots at bedtime…. My legs felt heavy and like my feet were stuck to the ground with each step. By Christmas, I was running slow and long, and today I am running much faster. I loved every second of it and am truly grateful of where I am at at the moment. In the slow lane.
When I first learned self-hypnosis, I strove for immediate results. I started teaching the subject two years later in 1999. I explored it greatly, taught it more, listened to my students, read more books and completely revised my entire approach ten years later. I have virtually used it daily ever since. Today, my ongoing PhD studies continue to teach me things that are new and even more satisfying than anything I have experienced since that
first seminar in 1997. Self-hypnosis continues to give me so much more, 18 years on.
It is easier with hindsight, you might say. I’d agree. Today I can realise how so much has accrued over time, and how much of life has just snuck up on me. I am incredibly grateful for being able to see that, and enjoy it. Life in the slow lane is not dull and boring; it is reflective,
contemplative and considered. Slow is a very powerful, wise force in what many might say is a very fast world. |
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