Adam Cox

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Brought to you by the hypnotherapist demanded by celebrities, CEOs, and even royalty, Adam Cox.

These recordings took place live from Evans Clinic in London's world-famous Harley Street.

So, get yourself comfortable and enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.

Hi, it's Adam here and you're about to listen to a hypnosis session based on driving anxiety of a particular kind.

And I've worked with people who get anxious on motorways or in very busy traffic.

This particular client had an experience of being in a tunnel and

going very fast and actually feeling very anxious because the lights had gone out on the inside of this tunnel and ever since then they had this high level of anxiety.

Sometimes that would be when they were cycling, sometimes it would be in a car, but it tended to be tunnels, darkness, fast traffic and this feeling of confinement

and the confinement makes a lot of people feel that they've got less choices they can feel trapped or limited and that can be a trigger what this hypnosis session does is it utilizes neuroplasticity to say right well it came from a good place it was trying to protect it was trying to give

vigilance and alertness but in doing so now what has happened since then is lots of false alarms the equivalent of the boy who cried wolf if you're familiar with that story and what it does is it uses

One of the earliest psychological experiments on animals about conditioning, Pavlov's dogs, to say, right, well, something can be linked together, such as a bell and food, but that doesn't mean it has to be a permanent association.

A lot of people are familiar with the first half of Pavlov's dog's experiments where just ringing the bell would make the dog salivate.

They're not familiar with after the second half of the experiment, but they try to see how long they can trick the dogs by keep on ringing the bell without giving them food.

And it isn't very long at all.

The dogs very quickly learned that the bell no longer means food and they stopped salivating.

And that actually proves, yes, you can associate or condition one thing with something else.

This is why a lot of advertisers use the same theme tunes or have certain familiar logos, for example.

They want to condition a certain brand or a feeling with a particular trigger.

but it doesn't last forever and it can change.