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Watch This First: How to Get the Most from The Hypnotist · The Hypnotist

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  Hi, it's Adam here. And I thought I would create an
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  episode, given that the show has been going for six years now and
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  has over 2200 episodes, to actually show you how to get
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  more out of the show, how to use it in a way that actually
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  enhances your life so it's not passive and it's actually
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  beneficial for you. So what I thought I would do is
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  spend 10 minutes and give you the tips, the tricks, the
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  insights that will enable you to get way more out of the show
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  than just a passive listener. Now, for those people not
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  familiar with me, I'm a hypnotherapist.
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  I've been the host of The Hypnotist for six years, and
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  during that time we've had 20 million streams, which
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  absolutely boggles my mind as to how many people have listened.
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  That's 20 million streams, downloads and views across
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  places like Spotify and YouTube and Apple Podcasts.
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  So if you've listened to the show before, thank you because
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  you've contributed to those numbers.
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  And as I said before, there has been more than 2000 episodes
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  approaching 2300 episode. So in addition for me giving you
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  all of the insights and tips as to how to use the show for you,
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  I also thought it might be beneficial to actually give you
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  10 of my favorite hypnosis sessions of the 2300.
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  So if you're interested, wait till the end of this episode and
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  there will be a link that gives you access to my ten favorite
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  episodes. So hang around for that.
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  So whether you've listened loads before or this is the first
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  episode that you're ever listening of the show, this is
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  the one to listen to because it will help you get more value
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  from all of those other sessions.
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  One of the questions I get asked a lot is what is hypnosis and is
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  hypnosis control and do I have to lose my memory?
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  And I would sum this up by saying that the biggest
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  misconception that people have about hypnosis is that it's
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  something that happens to them rather than with them.
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  For those people that think it happens to them, it comes quite
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  often from Hollywood movies or stage hypnosis shows that they
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  might have seen. But when you think that it
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  happens to you, there's this idea that you just kind of
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  switch off. You're just very passive and the
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  hypnotist talks at you, and then suddenly a change takes place
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  that is not true. Hypnosis happens with you and
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  it's a collaborative thing. And that's why this show is
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  quite unique because I share real hypnosis sessions based on
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  the session I did with a real client facing a real issue.
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  And I do it in such a way where I protect the confidentiality of
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  the clients that I'm working with.
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  Because for me, real hypnotherapy is done with
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  someone, not to someone. And a lot of hypnosis out there
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  is kind of generic scripts recorded for generic people.
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  But that's not how the mind works.
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  The mind likes specificity and that element of being relevant.
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  And that's why I published so many episodes, because I'm
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  thinking it would be useful for the client that I worked with.
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  But there's 8 billion people in the world, so it may be also
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  beneficial for other people in the world that are similar
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  enough to the original client that I was working with.
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  Hypnosis happens with you, so you are an active, aware
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  participant. Some people do get time
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  distortion and they just wake up at the end and they hear me
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  counting up the numbers. That's not that way for
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  everyone. Some people will follow it like
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  a guided meditation that has the added benefit of enhancing their
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  life in some way or helping to facilitate a change.
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  You can't be hypnotized to do something you don't want to do.
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  If there are things that you want to change, you have to want
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  that change to happen, and then the hypnosis can align with
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  that. But if you listen to a hypnosis
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  session about weight loss and you don't want to lose weight,
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  it's not going to do anything for you.
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  It has to work with you. Trance feels like focused
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  attention. I'll give you a few examples of
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  what hypnosis really is more like.
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  If you've read a really good fiction book and you're so
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  immersed in the story that you don't even recall turning the
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  pages or reading the words, you're just so immersed in that
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  story, that's a trance. Or if you've been driving a long
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  journey that you've done many, many times and you're
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  daydreaming while you're driving the car and changing lanes,
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  that's a trance state. I live in London and if I want
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  to see a lot of people in trance on the London Underground or the
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  metro system, you're seeing lots of people with arm catalepsy,
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  with time distortion, focused attention, and they're just
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  immersed in that world. So doom scrolling is like a
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  trance. If you can imagine, you can be
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  hypnotized. And one of my favourite
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  metaphors to explain what hypnosis really is like is like
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  the stabilizers or the training wheels on a children's bike.
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  If the true the the actual stabilizers are there, but you
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  don't pedal and you don't steer, nothing happens.
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  You're just stationary. Hypnosis can support whatever
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  change that you want to make, but it doesn't do it for you.
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  So that's a useful way of thinking about it.
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  The biggest tip I can give you to get more out of any episode
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  that you listen to is to set your intention.
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  Maybe ask yourself the question, what do I want to be different
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  after this? What belief do I want to change?
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  What would I like for myself that is different from where it
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  currently is? And this is called priming.
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  A lot of people know the idea of priming.
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  If I said, you know, the next time you're driving, just say
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  blue car, blue car, blue car, you're going to start seeing
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  more blue cars because you've primed to see more blue cars.
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  So we want to prime your neurology, your neural pathways
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  before the hypnosis. And sometimes I'll give you that
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  prompt in the intro where I'm explaining what the hypnosis
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  session is all about. I will ask you to say, think
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  about the change you want to make.
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  So setting an intention is very, very powerful.
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  Directed attention before an experiences actually changes how
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  the brain encodes and stores what follows.
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  So if you set an intention in any area of your life, if you
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  are playing a quiz and you set the intention of I want to win,
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  you're going to do better than if you just participate.
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  Setting an intention is very, very powerful.
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  You will get exactly the same audio, but you will get a
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  different result. And a good analogy to this is
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  reading a book. If you want to buy property and
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  you read books on real estate, you're intending to read the
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  book to influence your ability to actually buy property.
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  If you've got no intention of buying property and you just
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  read a book on real estate, it's kind of a waste of your time
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  because it isn't linked to an intention.
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  So you would get exactly the same audio as everyone else.
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  But by setting an intention, you're going to get so much more
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  out of the session itself. Set the scene.
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  Now some people just listen. They listen right before they go
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  to bed. There are two things that you
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  can do to get more out of this session.
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  The 1st is using headphones. I actually use Theta wave music
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  as the background music and that's good to activate the
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  mirror neurons to have deeper levels of relaxation.
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  So by listening on on headphones, you're going to get
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  a different experience than if you just listen through your
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  speakers and you'll you'll get a more resonant voice of mine as
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  well. But also choose your
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  environment. If you're listening and it's a
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  busy place, if you're listening while you're commuting and, and
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  I do say in the intro, you know, don't listen while driving and
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  don't listen while using machinery.
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  But beyond that, don't listen in a place where you're going to be
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  interrupted or distracted or disturbed because you're going
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  to have one eye on other things that are going on.
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  The ideal place is to find a place that isn't quite bedtime,
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  but it is comfy and it is private.
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  And maybe that's a sofa and maybe that's a recliner chair,
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  or maybe that is a place that you just feel that you're not
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  going to be distracted or disturbed.
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  That will give you more ability to really hone in and just think
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  about how my clients work with me.
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  My clients aren't doing a session where they're in a busy
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  shopping mall and then they just have their headphones and they
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  do the session. They're in a private place with
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  good Internet, so they've got uninterrupted experience and
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  they're not expecting people to barge in on them while they're
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  doing the session. So treat it like the original
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  client treated the session and you're going to get more value
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  from the hypnosis. Now, this is the next most
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  important way to get more value from the session, and that is
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  work on one area in your life before moving on.
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  Let's say that there are three things that you want to really
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  change in your life. Maybe you want to lose weight,
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  maybe you want to be less anxious, or maybe you want to
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  have a better relationship with money.
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  And there's three things in your life that you want to change.
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  If you haphazardly just listen to an episode that happens to be
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  recent or you like the title and then you find another episode
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  and then you listen to that one, what you're doing is you're
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  dissipating and diluting the focus.
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  I would say if the primary goal, and a great way of framing this
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  so that you prioritise the thing that is most useful for you is
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  to think if you could make one change in your life that would
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  have the biggest benefit to the quality of your life, what would
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  that one change be? And then work on that area.
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  So if that is weight loss because you've got more health
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  and energy and vitality, work on that until you're seeing the
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  progress. And then it might be confidence
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  and then it might be money, and then it might be, let's say
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  public speaking. Confidence specifically.
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  But set the intention as to what you want to work on 1st.
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  If you jump between areas and different kind of topics, you're
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  never going to get as much value.
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  And you can think of this as kind of like a magnifying glass.
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  If the magnifying glass skims over lots of different things,
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  it doesn't really, it doesn't really kind of condense the
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  sun's rays. But if you get a magnifying
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  glass and you hold it in one spot on a sunny day, the the
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  sun's rays actually come down and create a bit of a laser beam
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  in that area. So you want laser focus.
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  So pick 1 theme and stay with it and either give it two or three
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  weeks before you move on to a different area, or that you see
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  the breakthrough that you're looking through because you're
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  building a neural pathway, you're not flicking a switch.
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  And I also like to think that when you have a breakthrough in
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  one area, then you've got irrefutable evidence of that
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  change, and then you can make something else because you've
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  already got evidence that change is possible.
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  And then it becomes this kind of chain reaction of compounding
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  chains. So results go deeper, not just
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  wider. So focus on the most important
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  areas before we move on to the next thing.
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  Make the sessions your own now. I would say 99% of the sessions
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  were created for someone else, therefore they're not always
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  going to be relevant for you. So stay open to the intention.
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  Think about what you want, Disregard any suggestions that
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  don't really fit or aren't quite relevant for you, and hone in to
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  the ones that are. Change sometimes feels
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  uncomfortable if you feel triggered by a certain area or
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  you feel inspired. Quite often the clients that I
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  actually work with on the other side of the of the of the
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  camera, a lot of my sessions are over zoom.
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  They might have an AB reaction if they go back to a certain
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  memory, they might feel liberated.
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  There's a weight off their shoulders.
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  They feel a somatic change, so mild discomfort with these AB
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  reactions can be a signal of a breakthrough and be discerning
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  but not dismissive. I've had comments where there
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  was like one thing in a hypnosis session that just wasn't right
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  for them and maybe I gendered the person I'm working with.
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  I said he or she and they're like, oh it was amazing.
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  But then, then he said this. Don't be dismissive, just be
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  discerning. If it doesn't quite fit with
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  you, totally fine. Just ignore that and hone in on
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  the things you want to be panning for gold.
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  Figure the suggestions on the metaphors that resonate with
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  you, and you'll get more value from the hypnosis sessions.
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  Because bear in mind that these sessions were created based on
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  real client sessions. They paid for those sessions.
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  You're getting the session for free.
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  Therefore it's never going to be as relevant for you as it was
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  for them, because everything was created and customized for them.
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  The session doesn't end when the audio does.
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  The people that I've had the best feedback from, they at the
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  end of the session reflect on the session.
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  That's if they haven't already fallen asleep at that point.
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  If you journal, journalling alongside the hypnosis is a life
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  hack. It's a superpower.
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  So give yourself some opportunity to reflect, like
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  what came up? What are you inspired to do?
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  You know? And there's an element, there's
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  a window when it ends of self hypnosis.
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  If you decide or set an intention after the hypnosis
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  session, that's still in that hypnotic window.
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  So write it down if you can, or scribble it down or set an
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  intention or link it to a goal. And be specific if you can link
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  it to one thing that you're going to do differently as a
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  result of listening to that session.
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  Because behaviour is where the rubber meets the road.
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  You can change how you feel, we can change your belief, but
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  you're only going to believe it when you do something and
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  experience something different. So what are you going to do
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  differently is a nice place to think of them.
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  OK, So what this show can and can't do, The recordings can
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  create genuine lasting shifts. They can build new neural
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  pathways over time. I've had numerous comments of
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  people that have lost weight, slept better, quit smoking.
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  Not by working with me directly, just purely by listening to the
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  very podcast that you're listening to now.
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  And it's very, very broad because I work with a broad
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  client base. And these sessions are available
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  at completely free. I'm a big believer that if I I
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  believe in karmic marketing, if I put a lot of stuff out there
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  for absolutely free, even though it does require time for editing
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  and publishing and the management of that.
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  But some of you listening will think, oh, OK, this has been
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  useful, but I want a more personalized experience.
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  That's where I get my clients from, from people listening.
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  And many people listen to maybe 2-3, four episodes, maybe they
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  listen for a couple of months. And then they chose to work with
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  me directly because they knew it would be more specific and
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  relevant to them. What the recordings can't do is
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  be customized for you. They were created for someone
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  else. What you don't get in the
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  podcast is the 40 minute conversation that I have with
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  the client beforehand where I'm asking very, very specific
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  questions tailored to them. When I do the sessions, I do the
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  sessions live. I don't just send them a
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  recording. I'm seeing them on my screen.
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  So if I notice a facial expression or some kind of
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  response or micro expression, I can change the actual direction
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  of the hypnosis session in real time and I can really challenge
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  a belief system even before the hypnosis starts.
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  A lot of my clients say that actually they find the 40 minute
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  conversation before the hypnosis sometimes just as valuable or
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  even more valuable than the hypnotherapy session itself.
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  Recordings are never going to replace 1 to 1 clinical
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  hypnotherapy, so bear that in mind.
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  But it is free, it is accessible, and if you like the
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  idea, because sometimes Spotify has ads on these, there is a
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  subscriber version which is only £5 a month or about $6 a month.
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  And then you can listen to all of my recent recordings without
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  the intro, without the outro and without any ads.
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  So that's worth considering as well.
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  OK, what I'm going to do for you is give you my 10 personal
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  favorite episodes. So if you click the link in the
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  show notes, that's going to give you access to more information
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  and on there is going to be a link to my ten favorite
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  episodes. And some of these have been
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  inspired by movies or clients that really resonated with me or
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  the ones that I listen to again and again.
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  And believe it or not, I do listen to my own podcast, as sad
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  as that may sound, because I find it useful for me.
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  If I want to do self hypnosis on myself, I record it and then I
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  listen to it back. So by clicking the link in the
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  show notes, within the space of about one minute, you can access
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  the 10 episodes, which are my absolute favorites.
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  And it's a great place because I've published 2300.
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  So therefore you get the ten hand picked episodes, you get
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  them instantly. You can kind of stream them, you
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  can bookmark the page. You can always find them that
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  might be useful. And if you want to figure out if
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  hypnotherapy could be useful for you, I also have a free webinar.
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  So you can actually find out very quickly, are you a good
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  candidate for hypnosis? And are the kind of changes you
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  want to make the kind of changes that hypnosis can help for?
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  And in fact, that webinar will also help you to get more value
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  from the podcast, even if you don't work with me directly.
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  So thank you for giving me your time and attention.
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  Check the show notes for this episode.
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  I think you click more info or learn more, there's something
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  connected to the episode on your phone or your tablet or your PC.
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  Have a look at that and then get those 10 curated episodes that
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  are my favourites. And that's a nice place to
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  start. And in terms of the other thing
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  that can be very useful as a final tip is that on most
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  podcast platforms, you can create a playlist.
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  So if you have your own favourites, so you don't have to
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  find them again, create a playlist within Spotify or Apple
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  or whatever it might be. And then save your favorite
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  episodes there so you don't have to try and find them again and
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  again. So that's a final bonus tip.
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  Thank you for giving me your time and your attention.
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  I hope you enjoy the show. If you've enjoyed this, please
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  give me a five star review because it's good for the
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  algorithm and actually it helps other people find out about the
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  show as well. And don't forget those 10
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  curated episodes. You're one click away from
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  getting them. Check them out and thanks again
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  for your time and attention. Take care.