It's not uncommon for most people to approach upcoming surgery or other medical events with considerable anxiety, and the prolonged wait for treatment at present will be heightening that foreboding for many more. This episode addresses the issue with a pragmatic sense of resolve; in it, Adam Cox aims to develop a mindset that looks ahead in order to help you to become more confident and resourceful, building an image of better times to come after medical treatment and helping to distract attention from current worry.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Adam Cox uses random generation to construct this episode, using https://earthroulette.com/ to generate a destination - Albi in the Pyrenees (the image is of Albi Cathedral), a pair of emotions - hatred and joy - and some random words: pioneer, ambition and penny (the English coin, that is!). Then he weaves his web of hypnosis using his 15 minute sand-timer and a liberal helping of 'that's right', the hypnotists' universal amplifier. Enjoy!
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The emotional rollercoaster of new relationships brings highs and lows - wouldn't it be good if we could hold on to the euphoria while avoiding the pitfalls and challenges? In this episode of The Hypnotist, Adam Cox works on ways to maintain that high energy and resourceful state - just the thing for a new year!
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Does travel anxiety, particularly on public transport, undermine your normally highly resourceful state? Adam Cox helps control those unpredictable feelings and raised emotions in this short episode: a useful contribution in today's disrupted travel environment, whether caused by strikes or weather.
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The Christmas/New Year fortnight is infamous for over-eating, and for some people it just doesn't seem right to leave food behind. Adam Cox invites us to visit the control room of our mind, where conscious links can be drawn between our appetite and the amount of physical exertion we undertake. Using this logic, he argues that overeating and excess for no other purpose is ridiculous: so some exercise to balance it out over the next fortnight might be worth considering!
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Adam Cox plays Earth Roulette to generate some random ideas for this episode, coming up with a beach in Brazil, fury and smugness, and the words Extract, Shed and Entitlement. Inspired by these thoughts, he explores how do use that store of material tucked away but little used to find some real value — some useful blue sky thinking for the Christmas break!
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This episode is all about avoiding avoidance: helping to tackle the sense of retreat brought on by anxiety. Returning to work after a period of illness is just one such challenge — but challenges of all kinds can cause inaction. Adam Cox shows how the best way to approach such fears is to treat physical anxiety as a reason to take action, not to avoid it. We soon discover that anxiety is indeed a mirage, which melts away in front of action.
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This episode was created to enable listeners to create really high quality sleep; so if you have problems sleeping, this is for you. A good night's sleep improves significantly your ability to cope with the following day and, unlike other Hypnotist episodes, it's designed to listen to just before falling asleep.
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Entrenched beliefs about money can be very de-stabilising: that it's the root of all evil and brings guilt with it, that 'good people don't need money', that if you have money it's in some way 'bad' whereas if you don't, you suffer anxiety and stress about where it's going to come from. This episode seeks to change that mindset, to show how having money can be a positive and can provide for others as well as yourself. If you're searching for more empowering beliefs about money, this could be for you.
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Modern life is full of distractions: checking for messages, email, news — all these interruptions frequently result in nothing being done. This episode puts forward a technique to help you focus on one thing at a time, using timed periods to achieve a more productive lifestyle. Just getting started is half the battle, but this will help you see your tasks through to completion.
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