- Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Adam Up
I was teaching in Denmark, had a couple of days at home, then was teaching in Norwich for a couple of days. While there my beloved VW got seriously smashed into and damaged and I was told that my darling Uncle (who I had referred to in recent weeks due to his illness) sadly passed away. We have the new academic year about to get underway, one of my academic
papers is due for publication and I have never been so busy in my entire career. It makes absolute sense that I should be writing about embracing chaos in this evening's edition of Adam Up. The latest episode of the Hypnosis weekly podcast has gone live, it features Jules Lalonde and has been getting rave reviews today - we talk about hypnosis and also about primary affect (you'll learn what that is when
you tune in) you can tune in here at the podcast's website and listen to it streamed, or you can go and subscribe via iTunes and Stitcher: Hypnosis Weekly Episode 95 – Featuring Jules
Lalonde
I feel slightly paranoid about this episode..... This week, I have been fitted with some invisalign teeth straighteners - maybe it's a mid-life crisis, but I decided to get my wonky teeth straightened and expect to have a mouth even Simon Cowell would be envious of in several months time - so there may have a couple of Chris Eubanks moments during this episode - for those of you
unaware, Chris Eubanks is a former boxer who has a lisp and was a guest presenter on the old TV show, Top of the Pops, and yes he got to introduce former Madness frontman Suggs, singing his song "Cecilia".... "Next up, it is thugs, thinging thethilia..."
Also this week, I have a new video about feuding hypnotists for you - I'm highlighting what hypnotherapists can learn from feuding hypnotists and have highlighted some major historical figures from the field of hypnosis who were opponents.
I've also got new articles about making your everyday experience of life happier and
embracing the chaos in life.
I've got a bunch of other stuff too (including notifications about upcoming events), a fresh evidence based hypnosis meme of the week (incredible one about enhancing quality of life of cancer patients), and a joke or two along the way.....
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New Video: What can hypnotherapists and hypnosis students learn from feuding hypnotists? |
I have a new video over at the Hypnosis Geek YouTube channel.
One of the things I love about my Hypnosis Weekly podcast is that I get to speak to some very wonderful hypnosis professionals from
all over the world.
For those of you unfamiliar with the podcast, I open up with the same words at the beginning of each episode, amongst other things, I say the following:
“This podcast is something that I want to encompass a feeling of embracing diversity, celebrating the field of hypnosis and encouraging friendly, professional, enjoyable discussion and debate, as well as doing it’s best to inform and educate.
I do not share the same stance as most of our guests and at
times have major differences in approach and leaning, but all are incredibly lovely people who I’d happily talk with until late in the pub, and all of whom, following their time here on Hypnosis Weekly, I have a great deal of respect for.”
Within the field of hypnosis I have found many people get hostile towards dissenting or different perspectives to their own, so I wanted to demonstrate that even when I disagree wholly with a fellow hypnotherapists perspective or professional
stance, we can discuss it and debate it professionally and courteously, sticking to the argument, the topic and not veering toward insult and free from the use of logical fallacies to make the points one supports.
That said, a major ethos of my own training college is that we all learn both sides to any debate, discussion and philosophy and be aware of those sides before we have that debate. Therefore, you are fully informed.
If we examine some of the most important opponents
in the history of the field of hypnosis, though the feuds got unnecessarily personal on the odd occasion, what we learned as a result of this debates was incredibly valuable. Some grand historical highlights of feuding in the hypnosis field are discussed in this video, enjoy:
What Can Hypnotherapists and Hypnosis Professionals Learn From Feuding Hypnotists?
Also.... If you'd like to see plenty of pictures and read my brief report about the event in Denmark I was lecturing at last week (with a couple of other incredible speakers), then you can read this.....
The FHHD Conference in Denmark – A very Brief Report and Pictures.
The Hypnosis Geek Tour Is Coming to an End |
My two one day seminars have been run all across the UK this year, my final two locations here in the UK this year are Cardiff on the 27th and 28th of October and London on the 1st of November (at the UK Hypnosis Convention) if
you want to find out dates, fees (less than £100.00), venues and more detail about the seminars, then take a look at these pages because for the next couple of years, I'll only be able to run these seminars once a year here in Bournemouth:
a) Rapid Inductions and Hypnotic Phenomena Seminar.
b) Science of Self-Hypnosis Seminar. =====Interested in learning self-hypnosis? Want to get proof of your own self-hypnosis skills and create hypnotic phenomena by yourself, for yourself? Don’t know where to start?
Here’s your answer….
I get asked so often by so many people about the best way to learn self-hypnosis and to get some kind of evidence that they are doing it correctly. I usually reply to say that the single best way to know you are
doing self-hypnosis correctly is to give yourself real-life evidence – by creating hypnotic phenomena.
What do I mean by “hypnotic Phenomena”?
This is our effect. The effect that we are going to create. With stage hypnotists, they create effects of people believing they are someone else, for example. With hypnotherapists they create effects of being free of habits, for example. With street hypnotists, they create the effect of someone believing their foot is stuck
to the floor, for example. Within this self-hypnosis roadmap, you are going to create an effect that is going to be undeniably convincing to you that you are using self-hypnosis well.
This roadmap teaches you how to adopt the hypnotic mindset, how to induce self-hypnosis, how to absorb yourself profoundly in self-hypnosis, how to create your own incredible hypnotic phenomena, and then how to exit self-hypnosis and develop your skills with it. I think you are going to love this. To get the
roadmap and guide sent through to your inbox straight away, just visit this page on my college website:
A FREE Self-Hypnosis Roadmap – Learn How To Create Your Own Hypnotic
Phenomena.
Go download this, you are going to have a lot of fun with it, believe me. Enjoy engaging with self-hypnosis, most importantly, enjoy creating real-life undeniable hypnotic phenomena for yourself – it's going to blow your mind.
Are You Considering Training To Be A Hypnotherapist?
Then I have something very cool indeed for you.
For anyone considering training in the field of hypnotherapy, looking to train to be a hypnotherapist, I have put together a roadmap; a guide to help you do that. Whether you come and train with me here at this
college or go somewhere else, this roadmap and guide will offer you a real direction of how to identify the best way to train as a hypnotherapist.
Even more importantly though, it contains a HUGE amount of free resources for you to use and learn from. To download it, just visit this page and you’ll be
sent through the Roadmap. For free, with my compliments. I have crammed it full of information, advice, guidance and it includes a mass of free resources that I wished I had been given when I first looked at training to be a hypnotherapist:
This Week's Main Articles: Making your day-today life happier.... and Embracing Chaos! |
First up,
Learning to celebrate every day life and develop happiness like it is a skill, that is what this first article is all
about.
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Yogi Bhajan.
Have you ever heard someone say “children smile 400 times a day, but by the time they reach adulthood they only smile 10 times a day”?
I know it sounds sad, but it’s also verging on being true. I’ve explored the evidence for this and studies that have examined this tend to suggest that for adults it is a range of 0-80 times a day, but averaging at around 17 (Martin and Kuiper, 1999).
Somewhere between being a child and growing up, some of us lose a little of our joy along the way. We lost the ability to feel happy about the ‘little’ or every day aspects of life and our ability to be in the moment
withers somewhat.
There’s good news though. You can choose to bring more happiness into your everyday. Recent research by economists at the University of Warwick suggests that happier people are more productive at work, and more creative and energised than less happy peers. I know that seems obvious. It just takes some awareness and to develop happiness within your every day life – and this article
offers some science-backed ways to do so.
What is Happiness, anyway? Yes, happiness may be smiling until your cheeks are sore, laughing until your stomach hurts, and enjoying the moment so fully that sometimes you forget where you even are – but what is happiness, psychologically?
True happiness is considered by some as the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a
sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile. Let’s break that down for a moment. We already know that happiness is joy, being content, and having an overall positive mindset about life, but what is it that makes our lives doubtlessly meaningful?
Researchers like Roy Baumeister (who I have mentioned in previous week’s here on Adam Up), have compared people’s perceptions of happiness to meaningfulness. The research tends to show that people who see their lives as meaningful are happier, and vice versa. They also highlight that happiness tends to be a transient state whereas meaningfulness is more enduring.
For example, having more money
may make you somewhat happier, but whether it makes your life meaningful tends to depend more on how you spend it.
In this article I detail what you need to get rid of in your life and outline a number of science backed ways (along with references) to advance your happiness and enjoyment of every day life. Read it here...
Secondly....
Embrace the chaos is the big message today.
“In life and the flurry of everyday activity, we expose ourselves to the possibility of developing a chaotic mindset with the net result of neurochemical and electromagnetic chaos in the brain……so we
need to stop to reboot our brain so we can reconnect” – Caroline Leaf.
We live in chaotic times. Our days and weeks are taken up by fast paced modern living, mad rushing to get a lot done each day, crazy amounts of information and messages vying for our attention, and more and more stuff going on around the world.
Plus, uncertainty about so many aspects of life; who knows
what next week will be like? Life is chaotic, inherently so. The very nature of life is quite chaotic and we often use a lot of energy attempting to create some order of it.
The pain and positivity of Chaos:
Chaos is new, unexpected and sometimes even undesired and distressing. It can often have a darkness to it. But embracing chaos as a positive in our lives is a wonderful way to deal with the unknowns and the possibilities of how things might be; it’s where and how we learn, explore and find meaning. When we attempt to tame the innate chaos in life and control all that cannot be controlled, it can cause us to feel depressed, anxious or
sad.
Most of us experience times when the chaos feels like it is too much for us – when we feel overwhelmed and swamped, where life is out of control and where we fantasise of a simpler way of being, that takes less out of us.
The impossible promise:
What’s wrong with chaos anyway?
Chaos is one of nature’s greatest forces, and it has brought forth much more wonder and joy than we realise and typically tend to imagine. It is probably unrealistic to think or hope to control chaos. Today, let’s focus on why we should and how we can embrace chaos. How we should let it wash over us from time to time, and focus more on the things we can control.
By accepting and embracing chaos as our
friend or guide, we manage to organise a work life that is conducive to both performance and happiness. Most of the time we’re multitasking. That’s just what it takes to live modern lives like ours. But that doesn’t mean it is ultimate chaos, it is just how our minds work. That is how we work. We do multitask, but when we focus on one specific task, it is with the greatest of our attention. We get in the zone.
By accepting and embracing chaos as our friend or guide, we can manage to organise our life that is conducive to both performance and happiness.
How to Embrace Chaos in Life? Read this article as it details ways to do so….
This week, my social media output has been filled with memes about hypnosis, photos from my life (including loads from my travels and teaching events) 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?
Are you a hypnotherapist looking for stimulating and career enhancing continued professional development and advanced studies?
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
information even if you do not choose to study with me, they’ll benefit you greatly:
A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience was different each week so he did same tricks over and over.
The problem was, the captain's parrot saw all the shows and began to understand how
the magician did every trick.
He started shouting in the middle of the show: 'Look, it's not the same hat. Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table. Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?' The magician was furious but, as it was the captain's parrot, he could do nothing.
Then one day the ship sank and the magician found himself floating on a piece of wood with the parrot.
They glared at each other but said nothing. Finally, after a week, the parrot
said: 'OK, I give up. Where's the boat?' |
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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 all that we offer here, I send you much love and my very best wishes,
Buloo!
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