Here's a way of recalling situations where you felt most resourceful to deal with current situations which create fear and anxiety. Adam Cox works with someone whose resourceful memory was from a challenging sailing experience, but who now gets spooked by pigeons: he shows how to break the connection between stimulus and its emotional response by compounding two hypnotic techniques, one of which is described as 'anchoring'.
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Adam Cox uses the metaphor of Egyptian Gods to build an empowering and resourceful view of the future in which you can build confidence in tackling challenges such as losing weight as you get older. It's an issue for many people due to the fact that conversion from food to energy tends to drop off with age and stress levels: so it's important to build a compelling version of the future in which you can succeed.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Welcome to one of Adam Cox's quirky hypnotist sessions based on random generation of place, emotion and words. The place is Evora, a city in Portugal, and the other random elements are all in the title. Hardly a day goes by without someone on the news admitting to shame or expressing anger, so there should be a lot of takers for this episode!
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If you're anxious about your ongoing health after Covid or any other illness, this could be for you. Many people, particularly worried about the impact of 'Long Covid', harbour a fear of impending doom: potential breathing difficulties or worries about sense of taste or smell. Adam Cox takes you through suggestions about how to be more optimistic about health and future vitality, pointing out that the immune system is better prepared to deal with future challenges as a result of experiencing viruses.
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Bang! Are you frightened by thunderstorms, fireworks or gunshots? And is it the bang itself, or the anticipation of it coming, which disturbs you the most? Anticipating fear may well be linked back to childhood, an embedded state of mind. So this episode introduces a new approach of resourcefulness designed to cope with such anxieties. Please be aware! - there are some sound effects built in to the programme, all designed to build in this new resilience.
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"When the world is on your shoulders And the weight of your own heart is too much to bear Well, I know that you're afraid things will always be this way It's just a bad day, not a bad life" Inspired by the lyrics of this song, 'Bring me the horizon' by Sigrid, Adam Cox offers this short hypnosis session to build hope for the future for those struggling with the stresses, hassles and dark places of modern life, showing how these tough experiences can increase resilience and resourcefulness, and lead to better times ahead.
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Ever felt a bit like a pressure cooker, with strain and stress building up gradually inside so that small things begin to have the capacity to tip you over the edge? If you think you might blow a gasket as a result of difficult situations getting on top of you, this episode could be very helpful. It supplies a tool to help relieve that pressure, and provides you with a deeper level of resilience. A common cause of road rage is unrelated build-up of stress — don't let things get on top of you ..
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This episode is all about convictions — beliefs. Many people struggle with losing weight because they've tried so many ways to do so in the past, and it's just not worked. It's impossible! However beliefs can be challenged, and hypnotic consultation is a good way to turn them round, to erode that fixation and to build a new belief — that it can be done! So don't let self-fulfilling prophecies control your future: build yourself a conviction of certainty.
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If you've struggled with difficult, potentially domineering, relationships in the past, this episode could be for you. Using two key hypnotic principles, 'inner child' work and regression to the point of cause, Adam Cox helps you to be your own fairy godmother: re-positioning memories and experiences to provide different meanings for difficult life events. It's all about finding the resources to love and trust yourself.
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There's always the opportunity to learn more and develop one's capabilities. This episode is a session which helped the chief executive of a fast-growing and successful company with a real anxiety about speaking to big teams and taking part in media interviews: overcoming such fears is not easy. Adam Cox invites you to think of someone you would regard as strongly capable, and then mapping their resources into yourself so that you broaden your own comfort zone. For those looking to grow their career or develop leadership capabilities, this episode could be a real help. It's not about aiming for perfection — it's about making constant progress.
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