Hypnotherapy College Blog
Video: Response Flexibility – Choosing Your Attitude
I'm discussing the brain's capacity for response flexibility to shift out of automatic negative habitual thinking patterns - and using some famous quotes to illustrate.
Latest Video: The Dopamine Trap: Is Dopamine Actually Holding You Back?
Typically, we focus upon how to boost dopamine in order to derive more of the benefits that come with it. However, dopamine can also hold you back from trying new strategies and potentially lead to addictive behaviours as Adam explains in this snippet from a recent...
Video: Rewiring Anxiety: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Wisdom for Embracing Courage
During a recent lecture I was giving on Somatic Intelligence within hypnotherapy, I was explaining one way to recondition an anxious nervous system by helping patients to embrace courage and to equip them to take action accordingly. I illustrated by referring to...
Video: The Power of Love: How Holding Hands Can Reduce Anxiety and Pain
Stress and Pain Disappear When Oxytocin is Flowing! Adam highlights the astonishing effects that holding hands has on anxiety and pain perception. In class last weekend, I was discussing somatic approaches to hypnotherapy and I was discussing the impact of techniques...
Video: Explaining Cognitive Approaches to Hypnotherapy with a Thought Form
In this video Adam explains how a thought form that hypnotherapists equip their clients with is also used by him to help his students understand the variety of componential skills we learn and apply with cognitive approaches to hypnotherapy. And he kicks the flip...
Video: The Power of Constructive Thinking: Balancing Positivity with Realism
Adam often champions the virtues of constructive thinking within the clinical hypnotherapy setting and discusses how to avoid toxic positivity (personally and as a hypnotherapist). In this snippet, he briefly explores the benefits of balancing positivity with a...
ABC Socialisation of Cognitive Approaches to Hypnotherapy
While in class last week I recorded a quick video outlining a simple ABC model from cognitive therapy that we often use to socialise clients with the cognitive model - the same ABC model (antecedents, beliefs, consequences) is then applied with hypnosis to help...
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...