- Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Adam Up
This month truly has been a Mad March so far. You regular readers will have seen my report from Iceland last week, this week I was back lecturing in London and tomorrow morning I fly out to Denmark to teach for a couple of days. Things return to some semblance of routine and normality for a while as of next
week.
In this week's edition of this ezine, I'll report on my event at the Royal Society of Medicine, I really get into the science of gratitude and I get uber hypnosis geek once again.
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The Hypnosis Geek Back at the Royal Society of Medicine
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I enjoyed writing these words on the train back from London on a beautifully sunny
Tuesday morning earlier this week. Making my way out of the city from Wimpole Street, to Bond Street Tube station, to Waterloo, with the masses, the huge throngs of people snaking it’s way to the various work places of the capital reminded me of my much younger days and what it was like to commute. I am majorly thankful to be leading a slower paced life at the seaside – it is lovely being back in London for the rare foray, but I’d struggle to live that way these
days.
This week was the second time in the past 3 months that I have lectured at the Royal Society of Medicine. The event was a sports hypnosis theme that I had been invited to present at some time ago. This is hot on the heels of me lecturing at the Royal Society of Medicine’s annual Waxman memorial event hosted by the Hypnosis and Psychosomatic medicine section and yesterday was jointly hosted by
the sports medicine section. You can read more about that here: Lecturing at the Royal Society of Medicine.
I arrived on time and had a smooth journey this time around, and the tube
journey from Waterloo on the Jubilee line to Bond Street is just 3 stops followed by a walk that is less than 5 minutes. Then I was in. That is, I went and took my bags up to my room as I was staying in one of the Medica Dormus rooms, just around the corner from the library. It meant that I got to prepare well, have a snoop around the awesome library once again and then head down to the lecture theatre.
Whilst getting registered and saying hello to a number of friends who were attending, I was introduced to and met a couple of wonderful people – a man who was using hypnosis to help with his swim across the channel, and a champion ballroom dancing lady who had suffered a stroke 7 weeks previous who had aided her recovery with hypnosis and planned on being back competing at championships very soon.
The event was filled with people who had a passion for hypnosis and sports and the atmosphere was a lovely one.
I was presenting the first lecture and offered up a presentation on the current evidence base for using hypnosis in sports, though with a particular reference to endurance sports such as long distance running, cycling and swimming.
I doffed my cap to Roger Bannister who sadly passed away last week, and got to quote my favourite line from Steve Prefontaine, but aside from that, I really rolled my sleeves up and explored the current evidence base, feasibility for future research directions and outlined some methods used in the research for advancing sporting performance in terms of altering perceived levels of effort, advancing associative and dissociative cognitive
strategies, advancing uptake of oxygen and also skirting across a handful of other areas that there is evidence for.
It is always tough making a virtual literature review seem exciting, but the feedback has been incredible and I was happy that I managed to get all I had planned to cram into my 45 minutes.
If you'd like to read my full report, some notes on the other speakers Gary Turner and
Dr Jamie Barker, along with plenty of pictures from the event, then go and read my report here:
I mentioned it in previous editions of this ezine, I am going to be on tour a bit this year. I am coming North to Hull. I am going East to Norwich. I am going west to
Cardiff. I am going to the midlands in Birmingham and I'll be in London though the upcoming one day seminars here in Bournemouth in March are now completely full to capacity and sold out. Wherever you are based in the UK though, I hope you'll be able to access my seminars this year.My rapid inductions and hypnotic phenomena for hypnotherapists seminar is coming to all these venues, and so is my science of
self-hypnosis seminar. Many of the dates are at weekends, so there's no excuse. Each is less than £100.00 to attend (plus Vat) and you can read about the course, grab all the dates, details about course content and more by downloading a free prospectus at these two pages on my website, come and join me in your neck of the woods:
Today's Main Theme:
The Science of Gratitude
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Gratitude is a subject I have made reference to often here on this ezine and on my blog, but is a subject that I have not really offered a
dedicated article on or about, so that is what I’m doing here today, writing about gratitude.
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead.
Let’s put
things into some context and perspective here first. Success is about not only about achieving results, it is also about learning from setbacks and striving for ongoing development and progress. It is often about taking what you have currently; what you have created for yourself, what you have been given – and making the most of it. A good result is all about living up to your capabilities. Sometimes, it is about having an idea or strategy and then finding a way to make it real and bringing it
to life. Often, we look at the hard skills needed to get good results, and I write about that and speak on these subjects with my clients and mentorees, yet your emotional state is just as important, of course.
Positive Psychology is an academic field that studies happiness. According to positive psychologists Ken Sheldon and Sonja Lyubomirsky, current research suggests that up to 40 percent of your
happiness comes from activities that you actually choose to do. When you are happier, you perform better in virtually all aspects of your life. Your relationships are also usually strengthened as a result. According to a study in the Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, feeling grateful toward your partner — and vice versa — can improve numerous aspects of your relationship, including feelings of connectedness and overall satisfaction as a couple. In the search for uncovering the secret to happiness, positive psychology keeps returning to one particular concept: gratitude.
In multiples studies, researchers have found that if people are purposefully engaged in expressing gratitude, they are more likely to become happier. Gratitude is a feeling. It is an emotion we choose to have based on our willingness to appreciate the good that is around us. I’m going to start off today
writing about expressing gratitude towards others, and then move on to the popular notion of expressing gratitude for what we have in our own lives.
Research by Adam Grant of Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, suggests that saying ‘thank you’ goes beyond good manners — it also serves to build and maintain social relationships.
Receiving expressions of gratitude makes us feel a
heightened sense of self-worth and then in turn, it triggers other helpful behaviours in the person we are helping as well as others. Research has shown that the practice of gratitude helps us cope better with stress, improves our health and increases positive feelings such as hope, and peace. We can also use gratitude’s power to help us through tough times. Incredible things happen, when the little phrase “thank you” is used and used meaningfully.
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” ~~John F Kennedy.
Just as an act of kindness can make both the receiver and giver feel great so does expressing gratitude. We give the best of ourselves when we are thankful.
Go and read this article for a full set of links
to research and studies about gratitude, for a number of ways to express gratitude, for the low-down on the science of how it makes us happier and a full guide on how to have gratitude for yourself and your own life too.
Did you see these videos? Embrace your inner hypnosis geek with me!
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This year, I have spent some time getting plenty of videos up at YouTube and my channel has had a revamp. This week, I thought I'd remind you of a couple of my video clips,
just in case you missed them. These ones are important to me and I hope the themes resonate with you too.
Do go and subscribe to the channel here, you'll get automatically updated when I post a new clip and I'm offering up lots of information, education and value to any of you with an interest in the field of hypnosis:
Adam Eason Hypnosis Geek YouTube Channel.
1. The Hypnosis Geek Manifesto. In this
video, I lay it out. This is what being a proper hypnosis geek means..... Turn on, tune in, geek out.
Hope you find lots
of usefulness in these free videos, I've packed them with themes that I think are incredibly important for the development of the hypnosis field.
This week, my social media output has been filled with memes about hypnosis, photos from my travels and loads of articles from our vaults (including some really controversial ones from the past few years!!) and some other
bits and pieces.
You can follow and keep up to date here:
Additionally, if you are a student, graduate or friend of my college, then come & join our
Facebook group for hypnotherapists, it has some wonderful discussion on there:
I'm completely booked up with regards to being able to take on any new clients for hypnotherapy, mentoring or coaching currently, so have removed those links from Adam Up for a few weeks.
For
those of you interested in finding out a bit more about working or studying with me, here are the pages to go and do that:
Would you like a satisfying and meaningful career as a hypnotherapist helping others?
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We have a range of classroom based and home study courses offering the most comprehensive and highest quality education in the hypnotherapy and hypnosis fields:
If you are a hypnotherapist, then I highly recommend the investment of 10 minutes of your time to read these articles, they are ram-packed full of useful
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This week, I got sent to an article containing 100 of the best one-liners from Edinburgh Festival. I thought I'd share some of my favourites from that.....
“Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”
Tim Vine (2011)
“When I was younger I felt like a man trapped inside a woman’s body. Then I was born.”
Yianni (2015)
“I was playing chess with my friend and he said, ‘Let’s make this interesting’. So we stopped playing chess.”
Matt Kirshen (2011)
“I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59
because I like that one-to-one time.”
Tom Ward (2015)
“One in four frogs is a leap frog.”
Chris Turner (2016)
“I used to be addicted to swimming but I’m very proud to say I’ve been dry for six years.”
Alfie Moore (2013)
“My grandad has a chair in his shower which makes him feel old, so in order to feel young he sits on it backwards like a cool teacher giving an assembly about drugs.”
Rhys James (2016)
“Is it possible to mistake schizophrenia for telepathy? I hear you ask.”
Jordan Brookes (2016)
“I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister.”
Will Marsh (2012)
“I was thinking of running a marathon, but I think it might be too difficult getting all the roads closed and providing enough water for everyone.”
Jordan Brookes (2016)
“You can’t lose a
homing pigeon. If your homing pigeon doesn’t come back, then what you’ve lost is a pigeon.”
Sara Pascoe (2014)
Hahahahaha, love those. Thanks to all who send them in to me each week. |
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That's it for this week's edition, how did I do?
I shall be back next week; in the meantime, I thank you for being a very valued reader, I appreciate you and hope to reward you greatly going forward with the year, I send you much love and my very best wishes,
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