Love, joy, gratitude — all things to be sought in abundance over Christmas. Adam helps to improve personal relationships in ths episode, looking for opportunities to build goodwill rather than at what could go wrong.
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Building new relationships is a key element of most walks of life, from personal dating to extending the customer base of your business. Using a fishing analogy, Adam encourages building more variety into approaches to extend social interaction. So, if repeating the same approach isn't working for you, try something different and explore what the alternatives might be.
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Whether it's for a family occasion or for a business event, the prospect of public speaking can be daunting. It's all about anticipatory fear, so this episode is all about building a sense of confidence and comfort in order to prepare for it. Adam Coc uses the imagery of a walk which you enjoy in order to help prepare for your upcoming speech: don't just assume that you can tell yourself you can cope on the day — if there's continuing underlying anxiety, it may well take hold without this preparation.
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Adam Cox's Hypnotist episodes are all designed for individuals, but it's extraordinary how often they can segway into the realms of public policy. This episode is all about the challenge of turning decisions into decisive action: if that doesn't happen, it can better be described as dithering. In both business and social contexts, people discern what looks as the right way forward — but the follow-through into action requires a degree of emotional detachment: Adam draws on a number of movie metaphors for how it can be achieved. Could Rachel Reeves benefit from this in framing her forthcoming Budget?
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This episode revisits the motivations, expectations and emotions in the past — reaching right back into childhood years — which may have led to an overweight problem today, and how to let go of that baggage. It discusses a personal challenge, of course, but it could be approached as an analogy for the way that the post-war call for Attleean universal welfare has driven seven decades of excess public spending so that our country is now groaning from the weight of excess debt. It might therefore help politicians to let go of their emotional baggage and focus on a new slimline style of government which targets help and support where it's needed.
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For those unfamiliar with Schrödinger’s Box: a sealed box contains a cat which can release a gas that would kill it — but has it done so? Until the box is opened, it's all in the imagination. All possibilities exist until they are observed. Such multiple outcomes can exist in hypnosis, although not in reality: so, Adam Cox takes alternative journeys to help people resolve dilemmas which are presenting challenges.
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Effective negotiation requires both clarity of what you want to achieve and a clear understanding of what you're not willing to tolerate: confusion and anxiety are not the way to achieve successful outcomes. But best of all is to aim for a 'win—win' solution, where both parties feel satisfied with the outcome. And if negotiations can be undertaken in a optimistic and even playful atmosphere, so much the better. Try listening to this episode and then weighing up what you make of Donald Trump's skills in deal-making: he clearly thinks he's the bees' knees at it!
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Post-traumatic stress disorder — reliving traumatic memories — is widespread in today's society. This episode seeks to help in finding a way to break unsettling links between such past experiences and the way they impact today's emotions. Once those links are addressed and memories are settled into the past, it's possible to look forward to a more empowered future.
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This is a powerful episode which was recorded for someone who often felt disrespected and unseen, and that the respect that they showed for others was not returned. Combined with this was a tendency to get stuck in a rut, and not to combine progress on a number of areas in parallel. It could be a useful contribution towards finding a more forward-looking perspective on life.
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Past experiences may have not only treated you very badly at the time but also suppressed your anger, which has remained bottled up to the present day: so that they burst out when you'd least want them too. This episode is about going back to those early experiences, which may have been thoroughly unjustified, and finding ways to put them into perspective. Not all anger is irrational, but it's helpful to come to terms with it.
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