Chapter 1: What is the main focus of this hypnosis session?
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 adams 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 all about changing anxiety into a much more resourceful state. And I was working with a client that was very successful in the area of healthcare, but part of their job was to make presentations to very senior people, and we're talking very highly educated people like doctors and clinicians,
and sometimes they would feel a bit of apprehension presenting to these people. So in this hypnosis session we actually use a form of stage disassociation and this contrast between association and disassociation.
Chapter 2: How does disassociation help in overcoming anxiety?
A lot of people when they're anxious they associate into an unresourceful state like anxiety or apprehension.
and to get to that state of calm confidence it doesn't work that well if you just say be confident be calm because you can't plant a tree where there's already a tree if you're already apprehensive and anxious it's difficult to then move from that state to a confident state so what we do is something called disassociation so you'll hear in this hypnosis session
the suggestion to go to a cinema in a city and they observe a memory that was anxious as it happened, and then rewind it and then see it as they would want it to be if they were calm and confident in the same situation. And only when they're 100% confident that the new version is a resourceful state, then they take a first person perspective. And this is an element of priming.
Chapter 3: What techniques are used to visualize a confident future?
We've primed the resource state before we've accessed the resource state. Now this is a memory, but then the memory shifts into a future event that hasn't happened yet. Because a lot of anxiety is not anxious doing the thing, it's the anticipatory fear before the thing even happens. So it's someone that is nervous of public speaking and they can't sleep the night before
their presentation or they feel really anxious just before it starts or someone that's booked a flight and you know they know they've got that flight to catch but they're anxious even on the journey to the airport they're not on a plane at that point but they're thinking about the thing before it's happened
and that's connected to anxiety so it's really important that we prime things that haven't happened yet to be calm confident and resourceful so we get this post-hypnotic suggestion of a resource state so that's what's going on here now this client it happened to be presenting in front of senior audiences for you it might be different this is broad enough
for you to connect it to something that relates to you. So it might be a memory where you are anxious around a dog, and then in the future you see yourself calm and confident around a dog. Or it might be something else.
Chapter 4: How can memories be transformed to reduce anxiety?
It might be social anxiety. It might be something to do with flying or something else. Whatever it is, just think of your memory, update it, and then the future thing that would normally cause anxiety in a way where you can imagine it going well
in a calm confident way and then you'll get more from this it was created for an individual some of the suggestions are going to be good for them and not quite right for you because it was created for them so if you like the idea of a bespoke session just for you have a look in the description and the show notes and you'll see various resources including how to work with me directly for now though find a quiet 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 a wonderful feeling of calm relaxation, and as you exhale feel a wonderful feeling of release as if any tension, stress and worries are just leaving your body in your outward breath breathing in relaxation and exhaling tension the deeper you breathe the more relaxed you feel And the more relaxed you feel, the deeper you breathe.
And as your body relaxes, your imagination awakens. Feel your arms and legs feeling limp, loose and heavy.
Chapter 5: What role does anticipatory fear play in anxiety management?
The tiny muscles in your forehead and your jaw starting to relax. You may notice your breathing changes, not just deeper but lower, less from the chest and more from the diaphragm. That's it. Just imagine how it would feel if any tension was melting away like ice cubes in the sunshine.
and I want you to imagine you keep your body exactly where it is but your imagination can go on a journey and I want you to imagine seeing a bookshelf with books of destinations around the world imagine choosing a book
and just imagine flipping through the pages until you see a city a city you've been to or a city you would want to go to and stare at an image that represents that city and imagine how you would feel if you were floating through the pages and being in that city imagine exploring the city
just imagine there is something strange about that city the city is the city but you notice a cinema that does not belong in that city a familiar cinema and yet it's there in that different country that different city imagine walking into the cinema having a choice of screens and each screen is a memory
a moment where real anxiety existed in the past and I want you to choose one a real memory each screen has a different number and just imagine walking to that screen to see that memory but you've got the entire cinema for yourself
no one else is there and I want you to imagine opening the door or walking into that cinema having a hundred seats or more to choose from and choosing the one that seems to be the most comfortable with the best view of the screen imagine sinking into that chair and seeing the screen
and maybe you see those velvet curtains.. and then just imagine.. there is a color around.. that you just associate with.. fun or friendliness.. maybe pink.. or yellow.. something that feels light.. and not heavy.. and I want you to imagine..
the movie starts, but I want you to imagine how connected you feel to the chair, you know that you're watching this on a screen, you're not living this, and imagine just seeing the memory as it was, as an observer, not better, not worse, just as it was,
observe how you arrived what happened and notice certain things about you your facial expression, your posture your tone of voice not to judge, just to observe and then recall the time
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Chapter 6: How can one prepare for future challenges using hypnosis?
breathing slower, looking more relaxed smiling more this version of you cool, calm, composed unflustered and just play it forward and if anything isn't quite right, just rewind it and start back until you've got a version of you you're seeing on that screen
that handled that same situation that did have anxiety in the way that no longer has anxiety not because things are perfect but because you have the resources the mindset the skills and capabilities to handle any challenge
and just observe that confident resourceful version of you doing the same thing exactly as you would want it to have been and when you've seen that memory updated with that resourceful version of you let me know by nodding your head and then rewind it as we start to play a game You float into the screen before it's even started. Feeling all of those confident feelings.
You're breathing confidently. Your inner dialogue is encouraging, calm and relaxed. You're alert. But not apprehensive. You're confident. And just imagine from a first person perspective you are now...
the character in that scene you're living that moment from a place of pure confidence, calmness and composure any challenges you feel that you can handle them but the game is that if any anxiety appears you leave the screen, go back there into that chair in the cinema You rewind it, see yourself handling it the way you would want to handle it, and then jump back into the character.
The challenge is to experience the whole moment from that first-person perspective, connected to that confident, resourceful feeling.
so take a moment and relive that moment as you would want it to have been with all of these wonderful, confident, calm, resourceful feelings and the moment you get to the end of that memory feeling how you would want to feel if it was completely within your capabilities let me know by nodding your head jump back to the beginning and now
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Chapter 7: What are the final steps to reinforce calmness and confidence?
let's call this bit training at altitude make it more challenging than it actually was and still connect to that feeling of calm confidence
if you can handle those challenges remain in your body you feel any anxiety or apprehension or feeling flustered you jump back to the observer see it as you would want it to be and then continue in that first person perspective and you can make it as challenging as it could possibly be absurdly so a ridiculous level of challenge
as we plant a seed of an idea that the moment your mind absolutely believes that you could handle something more challenging than reality then reality itself fills well within your sphere of capability anxiety is normally a warning sign that you're getting close to your limits But if your limits have expanded, you never quite reach those limits.
So if you could imagine what it would feel like to be living a more challenging version of what happened and still feel confident, let me know by nodding your head. That's it. Notice how you're breathing in that state, and notice it's not relief that you feel at the end, it's pride, confidence, competency, an ever-growing certainty that you can handle it.
Jump back into the cinema as we now watch a future that hasn't happened yet, I want you to think of the next thing maybe it's scheduled, maybe it isn't or maybe it's just a possible thing being asked at short notice to do something you haven't prepared maybe the scale is bigger more people maybe the stakes are higher more seniority but see something in the future
See that future version of you, with all of those qualities of resourcefulness. You see yourself prepared, but not over-prepared. See yourself thinking, but not over-thinking. See that version of you, excited but not jittery.
see that version of you perhaps researching where it would be the kind of people, the kind of faces most websites share bios and pictures of rooms, see yourself knowing what to expect and then observe that version of you on the screen confidently preparing beforehand
arriving in a relaxed friendly way see yourself meeting perhaps people before things start and then see see that version of you in a situation that hasn't happened yet handling what is likely to happen completely fine
if you have an idea of where it is, how many people, the size of the room, see it going well, and when that future moment that hasn't happened yet seems to be well within your capabilities, let me know by nodding your head, jump back to the beginning and imagine it's more challenging,
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