This episode is about training your neural pathways to resolve fear: it's focused on pigeons, but it could apply to many other situations. By picking something symbolic of what worries you but which you know is fine — for example a robot image of a pigeon — Adam Cox shows how to map that sense of confidence across to resolve what is really worrying you.
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Summer holidays are a good time to take stock and deal with serious levels of fatigue. Adam Cox helps you to re-connect with times when you didn't fell so drained of energy, and to give new meaning to previous events which might have seemed traumatic at the time. A pre-supposition of hope can re-kindle resources and give new meaning to things in the past, and can help to re-build a positive self-evaluation for looking forward.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Rather a long title, but this is all about looking forwards! How would you like the future to be — new job, new home, new relationships ...? Try writing your own journal of the future, setting out what you would like it to be, and what will work for you as if it really happens — it just might!
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If you've already made some progress with losing weight but you want to achieve a bit more before that summer holiday you've got planned, this could be just the ticket! Using a technique called, 'Pseudo Orientation in Time', Adam Cox helps you to create a compelling vision that you not only could lose that extra bit of weight, but will do so. Imagine the photos you'll be taking on holiday — imagine packing only clothes which are one size smaller: this will give you confidence to achieve that aim.
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Resorting to anger as adults can be linked to difficult childhood situations where perceived unfairness can give rise to suspecting others of malicious thinking, rather than neutral motivations where they're caught up in their own world. In contrast to what otherwise might be an instinctive reaction to defend oneself, this episode may help in remaining on the look-out for such situations for thinking differently — giving the ability to neutralise situations before they get out of hand, and to avoid instinctive frustration which can otherwise boil over.
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The title for this episode must spell out what the great majority of people are looking for, although the episode itself was designed for and individual person. More choice, more happiness, more opportunities — and freedom from anxiety, tension and being surrounded with constraints. For those who concur with Share Radio's search for a more egalitarian form of capitalism, Adam Cox sets a good marker for which to aim — for the whole human family.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Writing about marriage in 1923 in his book, 'The Prophet', Kahlil Gibran said, 'Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls'. This episode is all about how to assess the values that could be, or could not be, met in order to build a good, strong relationship resting on freedom and acceptance. There's an old saying, 'If you love someone, let them go'. It may sound somewhat paradoxical, but a relationship based on trust relies on love and synergy, not control.
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Moving home can call for a fresh emotional start, leaving behind anxieties, releasing things that weren't useful and carrying the good things forward. Adam Cox uses a variety of metaphors, including nature, to talk through this process and help with that transition.
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Developing a sense of personal empowerment can be held back by a variety of experience: conditional support from parents during childhood, people exercising control or co-ercion, a sense of guilt or shame being imposed by others. Breaking free from that conditionality can be a challenge. Adam uses the metaphor of sovereignty to help build confidence and break free of things that can hold us back in our life journey.
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The challenge of being the centre of attention such as with public speaking can be difficult, but preparatory states can also be resourceful: think of Novak Djokovic tapping the ball on the ground before he serves. This episode helps you to condition that preparation to benefit from a sense of anticipation and excitement rather than fear.
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