- Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Adam Up
This shorter than usual edition is the final one of the year. It has been an eventful year, an incredibly busy one, a very happy one with so many wonderful things happening personally and professionally, and also one I'll reflect upon deeply and also remember as the year I lost a number of people very dear to me. I refer to one person in particular shortly.
The latest episode of the Hypnosis weekly podcast has gone live. Episode 103 was a fun episode. It featured Amye Scharlau who talked about menopause and using hypnosis to help with related issues - it is also an episode whereby I shared a major bugbear of mine from within the hypnotherapy field: Hypnotherapists or trainers who adopt an "as long as it works" attitude, pffft..... Tune in here:
Hypnosis Weekly Episode 103 - Featuring Amye Scharlau.
I'm sharing with you my report about our Christmas lectures and party, with a very moving video (at least, I cried every time I watched it) and a couple of articles to help you with Christmas and the New Year period.
I've got a bunch of other stuff too (including notifications about new projects), a fresh evidence based hypnosis meme of the week (a wonderful meta-analysis), and a joke or two along the way.....
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Our Christmas Lectures and Party Rounding Off The Year Nicely:
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Last Wednesday evening we had our end of year celebration and it was a splendid way to round off an incredibly busy and enjoyable year here at the college.
The evening began with a couple of lectures. Both of our lecturers were people I had met during my PhD studies at Bournemouth University and managed to persuade to come and present here for a good cause.
First up with Alethea Guestini who presented her own research on the role of the prefrontal cortex in hypnotic and placebo analgesia. At the start of this presentation Alethea spoke of the neuroscience behind placebo and suggestion, and presented the evidence base about these topics. I love the fact that she cited a 2007 study by Amir Raz who referred to “hypnobo” (hypnotic placebo) which put a smile on my face for the rest of the presentation.
Having informed us of the role of the prefrontal cortex, she then proceeded to detail her own research (the methodology and shared a photo of her lab – I was thinking “I’ve been there and seen that”!) which had some fascinating findings – importantly, hypnotic analgesia outperformed placebo analgesia and the control group in her study and she also showed that patients who have prefrontal cortex lesions (such as those who have had a stroke or have dementia) are unlikely to benefit from placebo
but may instead benefit from hypnosis.
It was a very enjoyable lecture and we then handed over to Dr Ben Parris, senior lecturer of Psychology at Bournemouth University and my PhD supervisor, who has been an important researcher and theoretician in hypnosis academia in recent years.
Ben talked us through his background the story of how he developed such an interest in hypnosis – he had conducted much research on the Stroop effect and kept on repeatedly trying to disprove that hypnosis could reduce it – without success. He has since conducted extensive research disproving his own thoughts that when engaged in hypnosis participants were just more motivated and expending more effort in order to do well in troop tasks. His studies using pupilometry showed that was not the case
and that the hypnosis responses to troop task performance were genuinely something else.
This extensive range of studies led Ben to begin drawing upon a range of dominant hypnosis theories (which included and involved the simplest and best explanation of cold control theory I have ever encountered) and develop his own, which he laid out for us all, and involved some very stimulating thought processes. I loved every minute of it and could have listened to him talk all night, I was in heaven having my inner hypnosis geek needs met wonderfully.
Both lectures were greatly received, I had unanimously good feedback on the night and this continued into the past 24 hours with emails and comments online from those present. Heartiest of thanks to Alethea and Ben for sharing their work with us and captivating the hypnotherapists and students who attended.
This was our first Christmas event that had a charity element to it. The passing of my friend and graduate of my college Heather Clark, had led me to name our Christmas event “The Heather Clark Memorial Lectures” and all the proceeds from the event are going to the charity Ovacome. Heather supported this charity in her months while battling with ovarian cancer. Two close friends of Heathers, Helen and Debbie travelled from Yorkshire to come and be with us and gave a tribute and shared a poem
with us that was read at Heather’s funeral. They also organised for me to have a copy of a video that was played at her funeral and her charity event earlier this year. It does a better job than I can with regards to giving you insight into Heather and her life, and I was given permission to share it here with you also…..
Visit this page to read my full report and watch the video that was shared about Heather, it is very inspiring....
Our Christmas Lectures and Party Rounding Off The Year Nicely: Brief Report.
This has been a major labour of love for me in recent months. I have put together 2 new and major online educational programmes that mean a great deal to me. I have also completely revamped my online members area. They offer something unrivalled in the world of hypnosis today in my biased opinion.
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What has my 2018 UK Hypnosis Convention lecture on placebo and hypnosis, my Iceland lecture on hypnosis, immunity and endurance, my Denmark lecture about challenging the received wisdom of the hypnosis field, plus my most recent one days seminars all have in common?
Well full footage of them all can be found here.....
1. The ultimate Hypnosis Geek Experience! My members area has been massively revamped. It uses the most up to date technology, and has been a massive labour of love of mine for the past year or so. The members area offers hundreds of hours of video tuition; my diploma courses, advanced diploma courses, CBH courses, my latest versions of my one day seminars, plus lots of additional lectures from all over the world. I have added so much more - additional audios, documents and I
think it is incredible - an immense resource for any serious student of the field of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
If you've been a member in the past, this has been advanced, improved upon, has the latest versions of my courses, has a great deal additional materials, audios, manuals and resources. It is an incredible training and educational resource for any seasoned hypnotherapist or student of hypnosis, self-hypnosis and hypnotherapy. It replaces our old members area which we'll be moving everyone over from soon (existing members; you should have received your new login details already)....
I'm offering a free five day trial for anyone to give it a good look over. Though you can invest from this page too, have a read and let me know if you have any questions (the free 5 day trial offering will end at Christmas time)....
A Warm Welcome To Our Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Training Membership
The Ultimate Hypnosis Geek Experience!
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2. 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 online educational programme, you are going to create effects that are going to be undeniably convincing to you that
you are using self-hypnosis well.
I have just put together a full blown science of self-hypnosis online educational programme that I think is unrivalled in the world today.
The programme contains many hours of video footage of me teaching self-hypnosis, plus a great many additional resources to help ensure you become an effective self-hypnotist and a teacher of self-hypnosis to others.
It combines the very latest evidence base and science including my own published research findings. You'll be on the cutting edge of self-hypnosis skills and knowledge with this programme.
It is new and I have just released it today, and therefore, the entire programme is yours for less than £100.00.
Come and read this page to learn more about it and and dive in to the ultimate self-hypnosis educational programme:
Science of Self-Hypnosis Educational Programme From Adam Eason
I think you'll love it and hope it helps you have a wonderful festive season and new year ahead.
Go read all about 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.
3. Are You Interested in Learning How to Conduct Rapid Inductions and Create Hypnotic Phenomena in others?
Then I have something very cool indeed for you.
I am delighted to invite you to a Rapid Inductions and hypnotic phenomena online training programme that is an evidence-based, fun filled education programme aimed at and created for hypnotherapists and students of hypnosis, looking to advance their range and fluency at inducing hypnosis rapidly and creating hypnotic phenomena in a professional manner.
This is an online programme based upon the last two decades of teaching rapid inductions and hypnotic phenomena. I have toured the world teaching this seminar.
Imagine the scene…. You’re trained and qualified and are working with a client in your lovely fancy therapy room, the lights are dimmed, the chair is fully reclined, your client has a lovely crochet blanket draped across them, you pop on the whale music and yes, it’s time to affect your best “Hush FM DJ” voice, a sort of whispering-Barry-White-on-dope type of impression, and you punctuate every sentence of your lengthy scenic
descriptive deepened with those immortal words “deeper and deeper”…… The client starts to softly snore, completely unaware any longer that they are supposed to be in a hypnotherapy session, to the point where you could be saying anything at all to them….
You emerge them at the end of the session, they rub their eyes the same way they would if they had just had a short nap (ironic?) and they utter those words that no hypnotherapist ever wants to hear and never should hear….
“…. it was a nice experience, but I am not sure I was really hypnotised”
or
“it was very relaxing, but I am not convinced I was in hypnosis.”
Maybe you have heard it said by other hypnotherapist’s clients? I hear this a great deal from clients that went to see other hypnotherapists before coming to see me. Surely this is a problem if you are a hypnotherapist, no?
Following this rapid inductions and hypnotic phenomena training programme (less than £100.00 investment too), your clients will never utter these words.
They will leave your office undeniably convinced that they were hypnotised. They’ll explain to friends, family and colleagues how impressive their experience was, and your reputation, referred business levels and credibility will all rise together.
Let’s dispense with the reclining chair.
Let’s dispense with the crochet blanket.
Let’s dispense with the whale music.
Let’s dispense with the affected Hush FM DJ impressions.
Let’s dispense with repeatedly saying “deeper and deeper” in monotone.
Let’s dispense with the clichéd, outdated caricature of how hypnotherapists behave, and let’s get skilled up!
Quality hypnosis that creates wonderful responsiveness needs none of these above things.
This training programme shows you how to induce hypnosis in a wide number of effective ways, and how to elicit a wide range of hypnotic phenomena and effects that will blow the minds of your clients in your hypnotherapy consulting rooms – it will add kudos, credibility and stimulation to every session you ever conduct with your clients - and the entire programme with it's hours of tuition is less than £100.00.
If you have ever heard your clients directly or indirectly say about their session with you that “it was a nice experience, but I am not sure I was really hypnotised” or “it was very relaxing, but I am not convinced I was in hypnosis” then this programme is going to change that.
Clients will leave your office undeniably convinced that they were hypnotised. They’ll explain to friends, family and colleagues how impressive their experience was, and your reputation, referred business levels and credibility will all rise together. Learn more about it here....
Rapid Inductions and Hypnotic Phenomena Online Programme.
This Week's Main Articles:
Christmas Theme...
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It’s the festive season – Happy Christmas to everyone.
We are in the biggest holiday season of the year (well, for those of us in countries that celebrate Christmas anyway). For many of us, this is also a time of reflection to see how our year has been, what we can do better and how we can make next year even better. A lot of us also go on vacations which is great but sometimes we need a vacation after the vacation. So, the aim with this article is to give simple suggestions to stay relaxed and enjoy the holidays. At the same time, you will learn
some strategies which can reduce your stress levels.
Stress is one of the leading causes of depression and considering the pace of our modern lives we should pause and reflect and evaluate our lives on a regular (if not constant) basis. The festive season can make life feel like it is going at some pace! As Mahatma Gandhi said:
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Here are some simple strategies to be relaxed, stay happy and enjoy this festive season to the max...
My children are at the age where they just love everything about Christmas. In turn, it gets me so excited too!
For some, that is not a shared sentiment.
If you’re not a big fan of the holidays, don’t worry – you’re not alone. This time of year can spark all kinds of unexpected reactions and behaviours in even the well-adjusted among us.
For some, Christmas is lonely, or anxiety-inducing, stressful, straining, expensive or it’s filled with dread at the potential for overindulgence, and for others, it is all the above. And to top it all off there’s the looming New Year, which can be disturbing for some as it hits us with the pressure of developing good habits right after we’ve fully exercised our bad ones.
According to psychologist Rob Wilde, “Christmas is a time of extra responsibility and a radical shift in daily patterns.”
As a parent you may find managing over excited children, late nights, social commitments and buying presents can leave you feeling frazzled well before the big day has even arrived!
Yesterday, I was having a group chat with a number of people that I speak to each month, and we discussed the best advice we could give each other for having a great Christmas season. Instead of psychological strategies and approaches that I would have expected, we ended up sharing practical advice. It made sense to us all to think in practical terms and we all agreed that we needed to hear the kind of things that we usually
take for granted. Every single one of the events from my previous weeks had these components inherent within them and upon reflection, this made them all so enjoyable. I wanted to share that stuff and so here are some practical tips on how to manage some of the festive stressors more effectively when they come your way this year. Go read this article for a range of approaches and to get all the references and related links...
Finally, I wrote this last year, just after Christmas and wanted to share it again here as it is so pertinent.....
Christmas is winding down here, and I just about squeezed myself into my office this afternoon following the excess of the past week or so.
Writing about the psychological impact of Christmas and the festive season is something I have meant to do for a few years now, yet I’ve stopped myself in the previous couple of years due to the initial findings of exploring the psychological scientific literature. Initially it makes for pretty discouraging reading…..
Two large reviews (Friedberg, 1990; Sansone & Sansone, 2011) indicate Christmas holidays tend to result in an increase in certain types of psychopathology; worsening of mood and alcohol related fatalities in particular. They do also suggest that there is an overall decrease in such issues just before Christmas, but the opposite is true following Christmas and these issues tend to increase just after Christmas. Upon reading
these reviews, you might end up buying in to some of the urban legends that suggest Christmas is bad for mental health in general. If you look closer at these two reviews though, they also indicate that during Christmas psychiatric patients use emergency rooms less and there is a decrease in behaviours such as self-harm. So I decided to delve deeper and thought I’d report back here on my favourite studies of Christmas psychology that aim to show you how much of a tonic Christmas can be for your
mental health for a number of reasons.
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values” – Thomas S. Monson.
For many, Christmas is a religious celebration that involves celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. The good news for those people is that a 2002 study that featured in the Journal of Happiness studies entitled What Makes for a Merry Christmas? suggests that family and religious experiences are associated with more happiness during holidays.
Can we benefit from Christmas without being religious? There is strong research, such as the 2012 Holiday Health Experiment carried out by Nuffield Health and Kuoni that suggests simply taking holiday time is good for our health. Christmas is still a time when people all over the world celebrate and enjoy time together as individuals, families, and communities. For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, for
others, it is less so. Today, I want to focus on what the psychological benefits of Christmas really are.
How To Ensure Christmas Boosts Your Mental Health.
This week, my social media output has been filled with memes about hypnosis, photos from my life (including those from 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 until the new year.
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:
These are Christmas cracker type, festive themed jokes that will make you groan....
- What happens to elves when they behave naughty? Santa gives them the sack.
- What kind of music do elves listen to? Wrap.
- What is a snowman's favourite breakfast? Ice Crispies.
- Why didn't the skeleton go to the Christmas party? He had no-body to go with.
- Who hides in the bakery at Christmas? A Mince Spy!
- What says 'Oh Oh Oh'? Santa walking backwards!
- What do you call a greedy elf? Elfish.
- What do zombies eat with their Christmas dinner? Grave-y.
- Who delivers presents to baby sharks at Christmas? Santa Jaws!
- What did one snowman say to the other snowman? Can you smell carrot?
- Whats the best Christmas Present? A broken drum - you can't beat it.
- Which of Santa's reindeer has bad manners? Rude-alph!
- Why did Santa put a clock in his sleigh? He wanted to see time fly!
- What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? Claustrophobia!
- Why does Santa have three gardens? So he can ho, ho, ho.
- What do you get if you combine Santa and a duck? A Christmas Quacker!
- What do snowmen eat for lunch? Iceburgers!
- Why are Christmas trees so bad at sewing? They always drop their needles!
- What happened to the thief who stole a Christmas Advent Calendar? He got 25 days!
- What is a skunks favourite Christmas song? Jingle smells!
Hahahaha, love those..... Thanks to all who continue to send them in to me and tag me online with jokes each week.
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That's it for this week's festive edition, how did I do? I'll be back in the new year.
I shall be back in a couple of week's time; 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!
Adam Eason.
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