Hypnotherapy College Blog
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...
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...
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