Hypnotherapy College Blog
Using Self-Awareness and Mindfulness Differently: Break Free from Automaticity of Problems
Adam speaks about incorporating mindfulness into hypnotherapy sessions for clinical benefit and promotes the value of mindfulness, heightened self-awareness and even helping patients to create self-consciousness as a means of dismantling the automacity of clinical...
Can Hypnosis make You Stronger?
Adam seeks to answer this as he considers the existing research for hypnosis and self-hypnosis with some clips from a recent webinar he presented.
Video: The Response Set in Hypnotherapy Sessions
Adam explains that a response set is whereby the upcoming hypnotherapy technique or intervention is explained using psycho-education, universal metaphors or with cultural references such as sharing themes from his favourite sci-fi comedy TV shows! The response set...
Hypnotic Regression as a Means of Advancing Self-Compassion
If you have followed my work in the past decade or so, you'll know I have offered up videos, articles and spoken at events offering a strong critique regarding the use of regression in hypnotherapy. My position has softened slightly in recent times with the emergence...
Video: Negative Reinforcement of Anxiety and Fear
Adam discusses how avoidance and escape from anxiety or irrationally fear-inducing scenarios creates negative reinforcement of the problem. Here in this example, the person who became uncomfortable at the top of a lift of a tall building, then finds comfort and reward...
Instilling Hope
As someone who has suffered with depression and a sense of hopelessness that can be experienced with it, I often discuss my love for helping instil a sense of hope within others, it is a wonderful part of being a clinical hypnotherapist. In this brief clip, I mention...
Adam’s Favourite Joke…
I got asked to share my favourite joke while teaching a class recently. This is it. For me it conjures up hilarious imagery, but I also love the phonological ambiguity in it (though realise saying so can neuter the joke entirely!)....
How to be More Responsive to Hypnosis
Adam briefly describes how to adopt a “positive cognitive set” and hypnotic mindset to respond better to hypnosis and suggestions. Being such an active agent is far superior than simply being a passive recipient when it comes to responsiveness when hypnotised.
The Relationship Between the Hippocampus & Amygdala
Adam discusses the importance of understanding the relationship between the hippocampus and amygdala and leads into discussing how basic memory reconstruction approaches can start to control experiences of anxiety and depression when the brain is lit up with happy...
The Connection Between Stress and Seemingly Superhuman Abilities!
Adam discusses the importance of recognising the HPA chain (hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenals) and understanding how it is linked to automatic feelings and subsequent behaviours and can thus inform our treatment plans in therapy.