Hypnotherapy College Blog
Video: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – How to Improve It Using Psychology
Heart Rate Variability, what is that? Is Your Nervous System Flexible — Or Stuck in Stress Mode? Your heart doesn’t beat like a metronome. And that’s a good thing. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is one of the most powerful biomarkers of stress resilience, emotional...
The Psychology of Romantic Rejection: Why Heartbreak Hurts & How to Heal
Valentine’s Day can be painful if you’re struggling with heartbreak or romantic rejection. In this video, Adam Eason explains the psychology of romantic rejection, including why your brain literally experiences heartbreak as physical pain, how attachment distress...
Is hypnotherapy “fake” or entirely placebo-driven?
Critics often dismiss hypnotherapy as “fake” or entirely placebo-driven. Oakley & Halligan (2013) showed hypnosis produces measurable neurophysiological changes, including altered connectivity between executive control networks and pain perception regions. This is not...
Video: Is the Mind Separate from the Body?
In this video, Adam discusses the notion of dualism that is prevalent in the field of hypnotherapy and explains why we need to be questioning it.
Video: Why The Hypnotherapy Field Needs Science: A Balanced Rebuttal
Bridging the Divide Between Art, Intuition, and Evidence I saw a couple of posts just recently stating that science has no place in the hypnosis and hypnotherapy field and why it shouldn’t play a role, and I wanted to offer a rebuttal to some of that rhetoric with a...
Latest video: Visual Dissociation – The View From Above
In this clip, I quote from the book of Meditations by Emperor Marcus Aurelius; "Survey the circling stars, as though you yourself were in mid-course with them [...]. Visions of this kind purge away the impurities of our earthbound life." (7:47) I run a group...
When Hypnotherapists Need To Reconsider a Cognitive Approach – Amygdala Hijack
In this snippet from a recent webinar series about the neuroscience of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, I make the point that our more cognitive type of approaches may not be effective and may even cause our client problems if the amygdala is activated and therefore...
Video: Explaining the Role of Cognitions in Common Problems and Hypnosis Using ABC
A simple ABC model I explain at the start of many courses to explain the role of beliefs and cognitions within the context of common problems and how that same model can be used to explain the role of beliefs and cognitions within hypnosis.
Video: How the Prospect of Hypnosis (and Misunderstanding) In Boxing Instilled Fear!
One of my favourite boxers when I was young was Nigel Benn. In the 1990s he worked with Paul McKenna, who did not actually work with Benn on his boxing career, he provided support and assistance during a difficult period in his personal life. However, when it was...
Video: Heavy Lifting – Conquering Your Mind Before The Weight!
When I teach how to employ cognitive sports psychology and sports applications of hypnotherapy, as well as looking at a wide range of evidence based applications and models, when talking about effective applications of cognitive approaches, I also refer to my own...
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