Visits to the doctor and hospital appointments can give rise to irrational fear and anxiety — what is sometimes described as the 'monster under the bed' syndrome. If you struggle to find a justification for such fears, this episode may help you to build coping strategies and to become resourceful in getting on with having those checks — without anxiety.
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Those emotional triggers which go off when someone seems to provoke you could have their roots many years in the past. Of course, the comments that spark your reaction could be deliberate but the chances are that they're accidental. The sensitivity of your emotional triggers may hark back even as far as your childhood, when they were useful learning tools in the playground of early life. In that sense, they're a bit like landmines whose particular cruelty is in the fact that the person who buried them has no idea who is going to land on them in the future. It may prove easier to come to terms with your own emotional triggers before they accidentally harm your relationships of today.
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The body's alarm systems of pain or anxiety certainly need a medical check-out; but sometimes, rather like over-sensitive technology, they can send false signals. If there are no underlying issues, this episode might help to put things in perspective as Adam Cox explores what he describes as the control room of the mind. Once acted on, those over-sensitive meesages of pain or anxiety may stop demanding so much attention, and you can move on.
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Do time-consuming habits seem to undermine a sense of achievement for you? Whether it's social media or watching videos, an hour or two a day's unproductive time can really add up over a full year. Adam Cox puts forward a 'compare and contrast' approach to help you look back with pride for what you've accomplished rather than a sense of wasting hours and getting nowhere.
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Everyone experiences times when things are difficult, when despair and meltdown seem to be the only option. However aligning your state of mind to be resourceful, disassociating from those negative mindsets, can turn things round to help restore a calm, stoic and often forward-looking response. Try thinking of someone in your life who copes with such challenges in a more empowered way — it might help.
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This is a metaphorical, deep hypnosis session for the UK Bank Holiday week. It uses elements of philosophy, including the quantum realm of different futures, to help you activate your most resourceful self. Relax and enjoy!
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The world is facing a myriad of Gordian Knots at present — problems so intricate and complex that they need new and very different approaches to solve them. In Greek mythology, it was Alexander the Great who chopped the knot rather than struggling to untie it. If you're facing a raft of complex problems, this episode could help you find novel and creative ways to solve them. So, think of the most challenging things in your life and listen in for inspiration. Maybe Donald Trump should seek Adam Cox's guidance for resolving conflicts across the world, or the UN for dealing with climate change — or Governments across western democracies seeking an answer for intractable debt problems? Image: Wikipedia
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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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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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