Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
At a personal level, 'levelling-up' can mean achieving more of your ambitions and accomplishing more of your objectives. Whether it's moving forward in terms of business success or physical health, or becoming more entrepreneurial, this episode shows how to develop new habits and new standards. Using the metaphor of working through the floors of a building, Adam Cox sets out a route which will help you establish a new level above your current ceiling.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Adam Cox uses the metaphor of an invisible wall to help an academic complete the final part of their research paper in this episode; but we're all aware of the reluctance to get on with actions, of allowing molehills to turn into mountains in our minds. The key is to break down something daunting into something doable — to make a start. Then the momentum carries one through to completion, and new possibilities can open up. Releasing hesitancy can create change — so make a start!
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Adam Cox provides an episode without the normal introduction: helping to build confidence in the ability to sell and to manage in a business, but drawing an interesting parallel with surfing. Both are activities which you can't really learn from reading books — it's more about building confidence, experience and a positive state of mind.
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This episode focuses on the objective of staying toned, slender and healthy through the peri-menopause — using it as an empowering transition: for those who want to have an ideal body shape in the future, losing body fat but in a positive way.
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Why take a drug if you can emulate a mindset creating the same effect? Adam Cox uses a metaphor based on the weight-loss drug Ozempic in order to embed the idea of a five-year plan for weight reduction. If you have the intention to create a change in your lifestyle, this episode could provide the methodology.
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When alcohol becomes a need, it's not uncommon to look for ways of scaling back that desire. There are nausea-inducing medications which may help, but Adam Cox looks for how you might trigger such an aversion through hypnosis. There is, of course, another alternative in the run-up to Easter: try giving it up for Lent! It's a way to test your conscience's ability to cope with a temptation which may be quite compelling ... so Adam's hypnosis session might be one of a number of options here.
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When you think of someone who could really benefit from your outlook on life — in this case, losing weight — you might describe this approach as 'remote-controlling': it can be effective, as you can look at the issue afresh whereas the target of your good wishes has to contend with all the other aspects of their life. Adam Cox suggests in this episode trying to do this in reverse — imagining someone doing it for you, in order to establish that fresh perspective for yourself.
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Is an addiction a disease or a habit? Adam Cox considers that it's more of the latter, and takes the example of Cannabis to show how it can be broken: that there are other ways of coping with a psychological dependence, particularly when the initial reasoning behind adopting the action has disappeared.
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If you have a craving, almost an addiction, to sugar, this episode could be for you. Although natural food contains sugar which, with its combination of fibres and other natural features, is good for you, the food industry has become adept in processing and refining sugar into extreme forms. Adam Cox might help you withdraw from its excesses.
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For those struggling with a recent relationship break-up, or who are on the verge of one, this episode may help by looking at the stages of the grief cycle: starting with denial, then varieties of anger or bargaining, then sadness/depression, and finally acceptance. Adam Cox discusses how that process can be fast-tracked by bringing up these emotions to the point where elements of wisdom and even gratitude can be achieved from the relationship.
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