Efforts to lose weight can feel like however hard you try to do the right thing, you make little progress. Those who like games can use terms like winning, losing — or cheating? What must you do to win? If this analogy applies to you, ask yourself if you've defined the rules properly. If your criteria are too vague, it can feel like it's going nowhere: so change the rules to make it winnable. Focus on day-to-day choices rather than impossible standards, and progress may become more realistic.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Even for successful business people, social situations can raise their anxiety level to the point when some resort to drink or drugs. Retreating from these comfort blankets can, however, result in continued discomfort and even a sense of shame for having let people down, causing further detachment. Adam Cox explores how to re-construct a sense of calm and relief in one's own company and transfer it into some of the more common social situations, thereby enabling a new belief system and a way back from isolation.
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We carry out most bodily functions — for example, breathing — sub-consciously. Here's a situation where focusing attention on something — in this case, swallowing food and choking — can give rise to anxiety. Adam Cox draws attention to the challenge that can be created by trying to do something, but failing in the attempt, in order to recreate an intuitive unconsciousness.
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A disciplined approach to losing weight is not uncommon in the new year, but does it give rise to a feeling of inner conflict and resistance? If you feel coerced into losing weight, perhaps this more harmonious approach might help, using the analogy of a Venn diagram to find the cross-over between rigid self-discipline and enjoyment in order to reduce feelings of impossible expectations.
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The challenge of losing weight is often accompanied by a set of self-imposed rules, and such an approach is an invitation to feel 'good' or 'bad' about it. Breaking the rules can become or source of joy leading to binges, and rigid diets can easily lead to internal conflicts. This is defined as 'polarity responding' by hypnotists, and Adam Cox helps by explaining how this adopted morality is all a bit artificial.
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Having resolved the anxiety that can follow a relationship break-up, it's time to look forward. But what sort of person might be right for you? Adam Cox helps by focusing on the missing piece of a puzzle, looking for the characteristics of a complementary fit which will be right for both parties.
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Is there something about you that troubles you — appearance, body shape, or something else? Many people feel emotionally challenged by such things, needing a boost in confidence and self-esteem. If you're looking for more confidence and control, this episode could be just the ticket.
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As we enter what for many is the most sociable season of the year, there are those who find it challenging and may be in need of new resources to cope with social anxiety. Adam Cox can help with this episode to build that more resourceful, capable and confident approach when you're around other people.
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If you're a well-balanced person you might find losing weight challenging, with its rigid diets and the coercion which can come with intensive self-control. Adam Cox explains how a well-balanced person can achieve a good result with good choices, just as in other walks of life.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
This episode is designed to help break an addiction pattern by facilitating choice. That addiction could be a recreational or prescribed drug which addresses stress or emotional pain: such substances may be positive in the short-term but detrimental in the long-term. Adam Cox uses the metaphor of a spoilt child to help build subconscious feelings which will help to avoid the need for such addiction.
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