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Chapter 1: What is the main focus of this episode on hypnosis?
Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside access to cutting-edge hypnosis with real clients facing genuine issues. Brought to you by the hypnotherapist demanded by celebrities, CEOs, and even royalty, Adam Cox. These recordings took place live from Adam's 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 that is designed to defy anxiety because there is a paradox with anxiety. And the paradox is that something makes you feel anxious or the idea makes you feel anxious.
Chapter 2: How does anxiety paradoxically increase sensitivity?
So you avoid or overthink whatever that thing is, and the avoidance increases sensitivity and the overthinking increases anxiety. So then you get more experiences of either avoiding or feeling anxious, not because of the thing itself, but because of the overthinking connected to the thing. So how do you break that pattern?
Chapter 3: What is the law of reverse effect in overcoming anxiety?
Well, there is a psychological phenomenon called the law of reverse effect that actually you do the very opposite. So instead of trying to avoid anxiety, you just say, bring it on, I'm ready for it. And that energy paradoxically reduces the very probability of the anxiety. And a lot of anxious people would say, but I can't just say, bring it on.
I can't just do it in a defiant way because I'll get anxious.
Chapter 4: How can a 'bring it on' mentality help with public speaking?
but actually it's doing it in that way that reduces the probability of anxiety. For example, you might remember when you were a school child, there would be certain people that would love the idea of acting or performing in front of other people. They couldn't wait to do it.
They wanted the big audience and other people that were very self-conscious and those that really went into it and they weren't bothered what people think and they just thought, no, I want to perform. They ended up being good. And those people, very self-conscious, ended up on the stage being a little bit nervous. Maybe they heard someone laugh and then that increased the anxiety.
So it creates these diverging pathways, but both are self-fulfilling prophecies. So I want you to think of, and this client, by the way, it was public speaking in front of other people. So it's defying the anxiety, doing the thing in a very kind of ambitious, courageous, brave way. I want you to think of what is your anxiety?
What would just doing it and not doing it tentatively, not doing it cautiously, but doing it brazenly. What would that be like for you? And hold that thought as you listen to this, and then you'll get more from this session. And if you like the idea of working with me, I'd encourage you to do one of two things.
Chapter 5: What techniques can be used to visualize confidence?
I have a suggestibility test. in the description, but I also have a webinar where I explain the whole process of working with me. So if either of those things are of interest, check them out in the show notes, the description of this episode. For now though, find a quite comfortable place where you won't be distracted or disturbed, relax and enjoy the session.
take a deep breath in and as you breathe in breathe in not relaxation but a feisty stubbornness that feeling that you're done avoiding you're done running away you're done over preparing and exhale just any of those things that have a presupposition that you can't handle something excuses, memories just allow them to leave your body in your outward breath and I wonder if you can recall the time
when you felt defiant a time when you felt backing down was not an option a time when part of you wanted to be tested wanted to be challenged breathing in and breathing out and just imagine Imagine perhaps. The pride of lions. Perhaps you could imagine. The leader of that pride. Being tested. And instead of being worried by being tested by a younger lion. The lion seems to smile.
Projecting the ethos of.
Chapter 6: How does the concept of defiance relate to anxiety management?
you dare to challenge me and if that essence that essence of bring it on can exist in an animal it can exist within you so let's go back to that memory a time when you were undeterred and you know for a fact that other people would have been intimidated, nervous, avoidant in that very same situation but there was something different about you
you were the same person just with a different part in control that part that wanted to be tested wanted there to be some risk and if you can recall a memory like that to begin with just observe that version with you
with that quality and let me know by nodding your head when you can go back to that memory as an observer that's it there would have been clues of course facial expression if you were talking the tonality of your words subtle mannerisms
that strong, undeterred, defiant resilient and maybe that version of you didn't want something to happen but the fact that it was a possibility did not deter you in fact it activated something powerful and strong within you and I want you to imagine Seeing a color glowing under the feet of that version of you.
And then imagine, not just like a spotlight there under your feet, but imagine it going upwards like a three-dimensional cylinder, like a beam. See that defiant, undeterred, confident version of you bathing in that cylinder of light imagine what color that cylinder of light would be see that version of you refusing to back down and notice at some level that quality in you
meant the thing you didn't want to happen was less likely to happen. And the opposite is also true. There is an anxiety paradox where the anxiety increases the probability of the very thing the anxious person doesn't want to happen. Just imagine someone terrified of wasps having a picnic.
Everyone's enjoying themselves, a wasp comes along, and that one individual terrified of being stung by a wasp can't help but focus on the wasp. It's just invisible to everyone else there at the picnic.
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Chapter 7: What lasting changes can occur from this hypnosis session?
but that person terrified of what if they get stung is then standing up waving their hands and the irony is that panicked individual is the most probable to be stung even though they want it the least
or perhaps you could imagine in the same park or garden someone terrified of dogs for most people they're fine around dogs but the individual scared that what if they get bitten will see a dog off its lead and fixate on the dog
and the dog becomes curious why is that human holding all of that eye contact so they get closer and that human has that anxious reaction which makes the dog more curious which may mean that human starts to run and the dog starts to chase and if you're unconscious
you can see the pattern of where anxiety increases the probability of the very outcome the individual is looking to avoid, let me know by nodding your head and that could happen in public speaking someone's worried about feeling anxious, a spike of anxiety they prepare too much think too much.
They're on edge, vigilant, cautious, the very state that increases the probability of having that very spike of anxiety they want to avoid. Whereas someone that is indifferent doesn't need to over-prepare or over-think too much,
also doesn't want the spike of anxiety but just thinks if it happens they'll deal with it and then it becomes more elusive now we need to think of that time when you felt undeterred defiance see you there standing in that beam of light and imagine seeing that version of you in a different context
right before a presentation right before a huddle right before an important meeting but see yourself with exactly the same mannerisms exactly the same facial expression if you're talking exactly the same tonality See that version of you, undeterred, defiant, with that bring-it-on attitude oozing from every pore. And that version of you is not phased at the possibility of an anxiety spike.
That version of you could not care less, almost wants wants to be tested knowing that nothing would deter them and in doing so the very anxiety becomes more elusive and i want you to see that version of you doing the kind of things that a different version of you would have some trepidation in the past
but if that undeterred, defiant version of you seems to be unfazed, unbothered, highly capable in exactly the circumstances, let me know by nodding your head, that's it, rewind it, step into,
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