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Together, we'll explore powerful metaphors and analogies that can help individuals transform their view of smoking—from seeing it as a parasitic invader or an abusive relationship, to recognisng it as a deceiving thief of youth, time, and health. We'll discuss the importance of separating the smoker's identity from the habit and using precise language to create a supportive environment for quitting. Whether you're struggling to quit yourself or looking to help a loved one break free from nicotine's grip, this episode offers valuable insights and practical advice.
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Hi. Did you know that one of the keys that always leads to success in being an act is being an active participant in whatever it is that you're engaged in. Always actively participate in your own transformation, and this goes for hypnotherapy also. Being deeply involved in your journey ensures that the changes you seek are not only achieved but sustained for the long haul. Here are a few ways to stay actively involved in your hypnotherapy journey. As I mentioned, engage fully in every consultation. Complete assigned exercises and reflections, and set clear, concise goals for each session, and provide be feedback to your therapist. By taking an active role, you pave the way to faster, more effective results, making your transformation, your goal, your achievable goal smoother and more fulfilling.
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Your commitment equals your success. Have a great week, and talk to you again very, very soon. Bye for now.
Welcome to another episode of the Aidan Noone podcast! In today's captivating episode, your host, Aidan Noone, a registered and accredited hypnotherapist with over 30 years of experience, invites you to discover how you too can unlock the power of your mind and transform your life.
From overcoming challenges like smoking cessation, weight loss, and anxiety to managing chronic pain and stress, Aidan's extensive expertise in hypnotherapy promises effective and lasting change. Join us as we delve into the dynamic process of hypnotherapy, understand its profound impact on the subconscious, and explore how you can play an active role in your journey towards a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life.
Plus, learn about the benefits of booking a free strategy call with Aidan to kickstart your transformation. Get ready to take control of your life—your journey to a better future begins right now!
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Aidan Noone [00:00:00]:
Want to unlock the power of your mind? Well, I might suggest that you book a free strategy call with me today. Are you ready to take control of your life and overcome the challenges that hold you back? As a registered, certified, and accredited hypnotherapist with over 30 years of experience, I'm here to guide you on a transformative journey towards a happier, healthier, and indeed more full fulfilling life. Whether you're struggling with smoking cessation, weight loss, anxiety, stress management, phobias, maybe even symptom alleviation for IBS or indeed chronic pain, or body focused repetitive behaviors like hair pulling. Hypnotherapy can provide the breakthrough you've been seeking. My extensive expertise and indeed yes. My extensive expertise, backed by thousands of hours of continuing professional development, Ensure you receive the highest standards of ethical care tailored to your unique needs. Why choose hypnotherapy? Well, perhaps hypnotherapy is because it's a powerful tool that taps into the subconscious mind to effect lasting change. It's not simply sitting back.
Aidan Noone [00:01:34]:
It requires active participation on your part and indeed commitment. During our consultations, you will play an active role in your recovery and your transformation, your change. The dynamic process, This dynamic process allows for faster, more effective results, helping you achieve your goals with greater ease. What to expect during our free strategy call? During our 1 hour strategy call, we will be in a position to answer any questions you may have about hypnotherapy, about NLP, other change strategies. Provide a better understanding of what happens during a consultation. Explain the active role you must play in your change work. Now this is your opportunity to learn how hypnotherapy can help you overcome your specific challenges and achieve your desired outcomes. Book your free strategy call now.
Aidan Noone [00:02:47]:
Take the first step towards a better future. Just click on the link to schedule your free strategy call with me, Aidan Noon, and let's discuss how hypnotherapy can help you achieve successful outcomes and goals and reach your goals more quickly and easily. I'm asking you don't wait any longer. Act now to unlock the power of your mind. Your journey to transformation starts right now, right here, right now. Thanks for watching and listening. Bye.
Aidan Noone is a resilience coach dedicated to helping individuals build self-esteem and confidence through overcoming life's adversities. Believing that challenges and competition are vital for personal growth, Aidan argues that shielding oneself from difficulties can lead to diminished confidence and preparedness. He emphasizes that real confidence stems from lived experiences and triumphing over obstacles. Aidan advocates for embracing challenges as opportunities for self-improvement and warns that positive affirmations may backfire for those with low self-esteem. His approach focuses on fostering genuine self-esteem through resilience and personal development.
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Hello there and welcome back to another captivating episode of The Global Hypnotherapy Podcast. Today, we delve into one of the most profound and essential elements of the human experience—hope. Join your host, Aidan Noone, as he explores the multifaceted nature of hope, its transformative power, and its role as a fundamental human need. Discover how hope acts as a vital nutrient for the soul, fuels resilience, and fosters innovative solutions even in times of adversity. Aidan will also discuss the crucial role hope plays in mental health and offer practical ways to cultivate a hopeful outlook in your life. Tune in for an enlightening discussion that promises to inspire and uplift. Stay hopeful and stay tuned!
Aidan Noone is an advocate for mental health awareness, specializing in self-esteem. He is passionate about educating others on the importance of self-perception and self-worth. Aidan emphasizes the impact of high and low self-esteem, urging people to recognize and understand these differences to foster personal growth and support others. He highlights the dangers of comparing oneself to others, a common issue among those with low self-esteem. Aidan’s mission is to help individuals break free from negative self-talk and self-comparison, promoting a healthier and more positive self-view.
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Todays podcast dedicated to exploring innovative ways to enhance your well-being. In today's episode, titled "Hypnotherapy IBS ROI," your host, Aidan Noone—a seasoned hypnotherapist with over 30 years of experience—guides us through the fascinating world of hypnotherapy and its surprising effectiveness in managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
Discover how hypnotherapy taps into the powerful gut-brain connection to alleviate symptoms such as pain, bloating, and irregular bowel movements. Aidan delves into the substantial return on investment (ROI) that hypnotherapy offers, not only in terms of symptom relief but also by addressing the emotional triggers of IBS like stress and anxiety.
Join us as we explore how this holistic approach can significantly improve your quality of life and provide long-term relief, potentially reducing the need for costly medications and frequent doctor's visits. Tune in and learn why hypnotherapy might just be the game-changing solution you've been searching for. If you're ready to take control of your health, this episode is a must-listen.
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Aidan Noone, a hypnotherapist and coach with over 30 years of experience. In today's episode, we're tackling a topic that affects many people: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS. Living with IBS can be incredibly challenging, but there are practical strategies that can help manage symptoms and significantly improve your quality of life. In this episode, I'll be sharing the top 5 effective ways to manage IBS symptoms on a daily basis. From identifying trigger foods and managing stress to staying hydrated and incorporating regular exercise, we've got you covered. So grab a notepad and get ready to take some valuable notes—this episode could make a big difference in your daily life!
Aidan Noone [00:00:00]:
Hello, everyone, and thanks. And welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Aidan Noona, a hypnotherapist and coach of over 30 years experience. Today, I'm going to share with you something that can make a big difference if you're dealing with IBS on a daily basis. I'm going to share the top 5 effective ways to manage IBS symptoms daily. Now living with IBS can really be challenging, but there are practical ways to manage the symptoms and improve your quality of life. Let's dive into the top 5 strategies you can start using today. Number 1 is identifying and avoiding trigger foods.
Aidan Noone [00:00:43]:
Now I'm not a dietitian, and I highly recommend that you consult with a suitable qualified dietitian in this matter. In fact, I would insist on it. Everyone's triggers can be different, but common culprits include dairy, gluten, caffeine, and certain high FODMAP foods. Now keeping a food diary can help you spot patterns and identify what triggers your symptoms. Now once you know your triggers, you can avoid them, and avoid and find suitable alternatives, as I say. Now number 2 is managing stress. Stress is a major trigger for IBS symptoms. Techniques like breathing exercises, meditation, and indeed other form of exercising can help you stay calm and reduce stress.
Aidan Noone [00:01:36]:
Even setting aside a few minutes a day for relaxation can make a big difference. And number 3 is staying hydrated. Drinking plenty of water helps keep your digestive system moving smoothly. It's especially important if you experience constipation. Aim for at least 8 glasses of water a day and try to limit caffeinated and alcoholic beverages as they can dehydrate you. They are diuretics. Now number 4 is eating smaller, more manageable meals, and this may help you. Again, consult with your dietitian.
Aidan Noone [00:02:17]:
Large meals can overwhelm your digestive system and exacerbate IBS symptoms. Instead, try having 5 or 6 smaller meals throughout the day. This can help maintain steady digestion and prevent bloating and discomfort. Again, consult with your suitable qualified dietitian. And number 5 is incorporating regular exercises into your daily routine. Physical activity can help stimulate normal contractions of the intestines and the digestive tract. Aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise most days of the week. Activities like walking, cycling, or even other gentle exercises can be hugely beneficial to you.
Aidan Noone [00:03:05]:
So there you have it. 5 effective ways to manage your IBS symptoms daily. Remember, consistency is key and it's important to find what works for you, what works best for you. If you find this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up. Share it with anyone who might you may think might find it beneficial, and remember to subscribe to my channel for more tips and advice. Thanks for watching and listening. Until next time. Bye bye for now.
Welcome to this guided meditation designed especially for you to find comfort and inner calmness. And by its nature, this recording is hypnotic in nature, and you will not listen to this whilst driving or operating machinery or any other activity that requires your undivided attention. So with that, let's begin and allow yourself to be as comfortable as you possibly can be because this time is is for you to relax and reconnect with your inner peace. Let's begin by finding a comfortable position. One in which you can sit still or lie down, whatever feels best for you. Gently close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose, filling your lungs completely. Hold it for a moment, and then gently exhale through your mouth. And let's do this a few more times.
Inhale deeply and hold it. That's right. And then gently exhale slowly with each breath in. Imagine breathing in calm and peace. And with each breath out, imagine just releasing any tension or stress. And continuing this pattern, focusing on the soothing rhythm of your breath. Taking all the time that you need. And now, let's bring your attention to different parts of your body.
Start with your toes. Feel them relax and let go of any tension. Move up to your feet. Your ankles and your calves, feeling them becoming heavy and relaxed. And next, bring your awareness to your knees, your thighs, and your hips. Notice any sensations you might feel, and just allow these areas to soften and relax. Move your focus to your lower back, your stomach, and your chest. With each breath, feel your chest gently rise and fold.
Bringing a sense of calm to your entire body. And now, bring your attention to your shoulders. Let them drop and release any tension you're holding there. That's right. And move down to your arms, past your elbows, to your hands and fingers. Feel them relax completely. Finally, bring your focus to your neck, your face, and your head. Notice any tightness in your jaw or around your eyes.
And let those areas soften. Your whole body is now in a state of relaxation. That's right. And now imagine yourself in a peaceful place. It could be a serene beach or a quiet forest. Or any place where you feel completely at ease, picture yourself there surrounded by the beauty of nature. Feel the warmth of the sun on your shoulders and your skin. Hear the gentle sounds of nature and breathe in the fresh calming air.
To immerse yourself in this scene, allow a sense of peace to wash over you. Imagine being there looking out through your eyes, seeing what you're seeing through your eyes. That's right. And in this safe and tranquil place, you are free from worries and stress. Feel the comfort and serenity enveloping you, bringing you a profound sense of inner calm. And while you are in this peaceful place, take a moment to reflect on things you are grateful for. It could be simple things like the warmth of the sun, the sound of birds, or the comfort of your surroundings. Express gratitude for these moments of peace and the opportunity to reconnect with yourself.
Let this feeling of gratitude fill your heart and expand outwards, enhancing your sense of well-being. And when you are ready, slowly begin to bring your awareness back to your physical surroundings. Feel the surface beneath you. Hear the soft music in the background and notice the rhythm of your breath. Gently wiggle your fingers and toes. And when you feel ready, slowly open your eyes. Take a moment to notice how you feel, carrying with you this sense of calm and relaxation with you as you go about your day. And remember, this place of inner peace is always within you.
You can return to it whatever you feel or when you need comfort and calmness. Thank you for joining me on this short meditation. May you carry this sense of peace and relaxation with you throughout your day. Thank you for listening, and bye bye for now. Until next time.
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Did YOU know that past Events shape our emotions and behaviours.
Traumatic events can lead to being stuck in the past and experiencing negative emotions and reliving them every day.
Have you ever heard of the profound impact that traumatic events can have on YOUR mental and emotional health. These past events not only shape our emotions and behaviours but can also cause YOU to become anchored in their past, continually reliving the trauma and the accompanying negative emotions. This fixation on the past often results in avoidance of certain situations and a constant, almost ingrained sense of discomfort that can feel like a perpetual burden. And YOU know something it doesnt necessarily have to be like that. There are relatively easy methods and techniques that I can teach YOU to be FREE from the pain of the past and set you FREE to create a future YOU desire. If this is something you're interested in, just type yes in the comments below because I want to invite YOU into a FREE community where you can learn many more strategies to help you be FREE of that, that's been burdening you for so long now, unnecessarily. Thanks for watching. Remember tyoe yes below if your're interested.
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Here's how YOU can use the power of Your mind to overcome many negative feelings and beliefs you may have. Your mind holds power to initiate change right now.
And rightfully you ask me : How do I do that. You see there is a very powerful capacity you have right inside you and yet you may not be consciously aware of it. It's the ability to use the power of your mind by using a natural gift you already possess and that gift is "YOUR" hypnosis. Many times during the day you automatically adopt a frame of mind that enables you to achieve a certain task and it's proven that by being in "YOUR" hypnotic frame of mind that you are at your optimum best. You achieve much. Jus think about the times when you are really working so well and you are being very productive, doesn't time just fly by? And you ask: "where did the time go." Thats hypnosis, "YOUR" hypnosis. Yes "YOUR" hypnosis. Let me just demonstrate a simple hypnotic technique. I promise you there will be many more powerful convincing examples of "YOUR" hypnosis as we go forward into future videos.
Ok, lets being. I am presuming you are in a quite place where you can prove to yourself the power of "YOUR" hypnosis. In a place where you can engage yourself with this simple proof of "YOUR" hypnosis. Together, we will harness the power of "YOUR" hypnosis to achieve lots more as we progress!
Just close your eyes. and hold out your dominant hand, your right hand or your left hand. Doesn't matter which one. Just imagine that I'm placing in your hand a big juicy bright yellow lemon, feel the weight of it! In fact you might even begin to get the fragrance of the big juicy lemon just as it sits in your hand. And just imagine what it would feel and taste like when you bring the lemon up to your mouth and bite into it? Just imagine what it would be like to do that!
Now what do you notice?
Let me know how well you got on using the power of your hypnosis. Please let me know by dropping a comment in the comments below and let me know how you got on?
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Aidan Noone [00:00:00]:Hello. Do you want to know the easiest way I know of to overcome obstacles without feeling overwhelmed and defeated and without spending years in therapy. Well, keep watching and listening. Just think of the following. You probably grew up in a average family. Perhaps you had siblings, brothers or sisters, or maybe you're an only child. It really doesn't matter. So you went to school or perhaps you didn't have much schooling.Aidan Noone [00:00:41]:Again, that doesn't really matter. You had the same age friends perhaps or older friends or younger friends or from school or from the neighborhood you grew up in. Now then one day, yes, one day something happens. An event. Something happens to you. Perhaps it was an accident of some sort, or it was another event that was significantly emotionally charged enough that it traumatized you and continues to do so today. You somehow became become stuck in the past, in the event. Your mind is constantly thinking about it.Aidan Noone [00:01:22]:Or when you venture into a certain space or context, you relive the original event and the traumatic accompanying feelings. And, eventually, you learn to avoid situations that you find uncomfortable. Or perhaps you feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, and yet you don't know how or why you feel those negative, horrible feelings. You may feel as though a weight is on your shoulders, carrying it around all the time nonstop, being weighed down. Now you become so used to feeling the way you feel that you firmly believe that that's the way life is, and that's the way it will always be for you. Now I'm here to reassure you, to tell you life doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to feel and experience the past trauma that you've been experiencing. You don't have to be stuck back in the past, back in an event.Aidan Noone [00:02:38]:There are remarkably simple and easy ways to help you to become unstuck from the past and free yourself to move forward and bring and begin to enjoy life more now than ever before. Now being stuck is like being frozen inside a piece of concrete, forever stuck. And I want to tell you again that if you feel that way, you can smash the concrete and break free. Yes. Every person is unique and special. And in all cases, I highly recommend and advise you that you, in the first instance, always consult with your primary health care provider, your general medical practitioner, to check that there isn't any medical pathology that is causing your current way of being. Always important. Now there are cutting edge techniques and interventions derived from advanced fields of psychology and personal change, engineering.Aidan Noone [00:03:49]:In fact, you have everything you need right inside your head to help you make to help you make that personal long lasting change. You just need to be shown how to use your brain for a change and keep the change. And when you have all that done, you you might consider consulting a reputable, qualified, professional person to assist you to make that change. Leave your comments or questions below, and I will endeavor to answer and respond to you just as soon as I can, or any comments at all, whatever you need to ask or say. Remember, there is a way forward, and you don't have to spend months and a dead years in therapy. So take care now for now, and all the best, and I'll talk to you very, very soon. Bye bye for now.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aidan-noone0/message
This recording is hypnotic in nature and YOU DO NOT listen to this whilst driving or operating machinery or anywhere your undivided attention is required.
Listen only whilst it is safe to do so in a quiet and private personal environment.
I want you to enjoy and listen regularly.
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This is a therapeutic Metaphor and there is deliberately no transcript included.
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Speaker A [00:00:00]:
I have a question for you. When is the problem, not the problem? Paul Watzlawick, excuse the pronunciation, a renowned psychologist and philosopher, once shared a profound insight that reshapes how we think about challenges and solutions. He suggested the problem is not the problem. Yes. The problem is not the problem. The problem is how the client, how you, are trying to solve the problem. This statement, simple yet powerful, holds a very a key to understanding why we find ourselves stuck in cycles of frustration and failure when facing difficulties. Imagine you're trying to fix a leaky faucet a tap.
Speaker A [00:00:52]:
You're you've tried tightening a screw here, replacing a washer there, but the drip, drip, drip continues. Frustrated, you consider the falsehood to be the problem. But according to Vatslovic, the real issue lies in how you're attempting to fix it. Perhaps you're using the wrong tools, or maybe the actual problem isn't what you think it is. The faucet isn't the problem. The approach to solving it, is. Now, of course, this concept applies far beyond plumbing. It's relevant to personal relationships, workplace dynamics, and even in how we tackle internal struggles like anxiety or low self esteem.
Speaker A [00:01:44]:
Often, our instinctive solutions to problems like avoidance, confrontation, denial don't resolve the underlying issue. They might provide temporary relief, but the problem persists or even worse is worsens. Now let's say you're feeling overwhelmed at work. Your solution might be to work longer hours, skipping breaks, and bringing home bringing work home. Initially, it might seem like the right approach to manage your workload. However, over time, you find yourself more stressed, less productive and facing burnout. The problem wasn't the overload itself, but how you choose to handle it. A more effective solution might involve time management, delegation are discussing workloads, adjustments with your manager or colleagues.
Speaker A [00:02:48]:
Vatlavik's insight encourages us to step back and reassess not just the problems we face, but our strategies for solving them. It's about questioning our automatic reactions are considering whether they're truly effective or if they're just familiar parts leading us in circles. This shift in perspective can be liberating. It opens up a range of possibilities for creative problem solving like that we might have overlooked if we focus solely on the problem as we perceive it to be. In practice, this means being open to change, seeking advice, and being willing to try new approaches. It's about recognizing that our first instinct might not always be the best one, and that sometimes the solution lies in changing our own behavior, your own behavior, your thoughts, your attitudes rather than trying to change the external situation. It's an invitation to be more reflective and less reactive to embrace flexibility over rigidity and to approach challenges with curiosity rather than despair. Vaclavik's wisdom isn't just a psychological concept.
Speaker A [00:04:21]:
It's a practical guide for more effective problem solving in every aspect of our lives. Remember, when you're faced with a problem, don't just focus on the obstacle itself. Consider how you're trying to overcome it. Now sometimes the path to a solution starts with reevaluating our approach, your approach. By doing so, we can transform our struggles into opportunities for growth and learning. I have a question. What is it that you're currently not aware of? And if you allowed yourself to become aware, you might just solve the problem or find find a sought after solution. Try it.
Speaker A [00:05:15]:
Leave your comments or questions below. Thanks for watching, and bye for now.
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Hello again, and thanks for being with me here today. So no matter where you are or maybe you're alone, maybe you're with somebody, maybe you're not feeling too good. So just bear with me, and, let's have a little chat. And what I want to talk to you today about is how do you take things personally? Yes. Think about that. Do you take things personally? Because when when feelings are very, very strong, they automatically overwhelm our rational intelligence and prevent a more subtle or wider viewpoint from being considered. In other words, that we're blocked off from resourcefulness or resources that exist or in our consciousness mind somewhere, and we're not able to access them. But do you take things personally? Because it matters how personally you take things, take events, and how pervasive, and how permanent you think the effects will be.
Consider this. If dinner didn't taste good, and you were the cook, would you tend automatically to think that it was your fault? Would you fail to think about whether the meal stayed in the oven too too long? Or perhaps because people you were cooking for arrived late to eat it, or whether the recipe instructions we're unclear. Perhaps you add a little a little too much salt. Would you worry about it for some time afterwards, berating yourself for spoiling the occasion rather than than just apologizing, shrugging it off and forgetting about it. Yes. How pervasive do you think events will be. In other words, pervasive being having a general broad application in your everyday life, affect affecting you, affecting you. So if you lost your job or failed to get offer the new one that you really wanted.
Would you tend to lose heart in everything? Might you see your whole life as a failure and respond negatively to suggestions from others that you should start looking in past years, new for a new job. How permanently do you think the effects will be for you? After all we're talking about you, wherever you are, or whoever you may be. After losing a job or failing to get a new one, would you think I'll never find that job, another job? If you failed an important exam, would you view your whole life, your entire life as a as a failure, being delighted by that 1 single event. Think of some of the setbacks or sorrows that are making you miserable in your life now, and ask yourself the same sort of questions as to how you are responding to them, as opposed to reacting to them, responding or reacting. And I suppose in an ideal world, to respond is the more mature, the more resourceful, the far better place to be rather than reacting. Because when people take things personally and interpret events as having a far bigger or longer lasting impact than the the kid than is re really the case. They are overemphasizing or exacerbating the black and white thinking style of the emotional brain by generating more and more emotion. And I introduced, you know, the concept of cause and effect.
Now it's not the standard understand understanding of what cause and effect is, of what cause and effect, our understanding of what we mean when we say cause and effect, it's different. And I want you to consider this the difference of this. Because when you are at cause when you are at cause, you are the author of what happens. You are the instigator of what happens, you are the one who is detailing what it is you want in your life, what it is you want happening. However, when you are at effect, you are at the effect of other people, of other situations, situations outside of yourself, maybe organizations out of yours outside of yourself, you are at effect. In other words, I like to think of it that you hand away or hand over to that organization or that person or that whatever it is, you hand to them your remote control. And you say, look, go ahead, press my buttons, and I'll do what you want me to do. Or rather than saying, look.
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- IBS is characterized by symptoms like abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea, which are often unpredictable. This unpredictability can lead to a constant state of worry about when and where symptoms might occur, especially in public or work settings.
- The severity of IBS symptoms can vary greatly. Severe episodes can be particularly distressing and debilitating, leading to heightened anxiety and stress about managing daily activities.
- Concerns about the social and professional implications of IBS (e.g., needing sudden bathroom breaks during important meetings or social gatherings) can create significant anxiety. This can lead to avoidance of social situations, negatively impacting personal and professional life.
The fear of experiencing painful or uncomfortable symptoms can itself be a source of anxiety. This is often referred to as anticipatory anxiety, where the individual becomes anxious about the possibility of having an IBS flare-up. - Managing IBS often involves adhering to strict dietary restrictions, which can be stressful. Worrying about what to eat, the potential consequences of dietary mistakes, and the impact on social dining can add to the stress. - Chronic conditions like IBS can affect body image and self-esteem. Constantly dealing with digestive issues can lead to feelings of embarrassment and a decreased sense of self-worth, contributing to stress and anxiety.
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Ever dreamt of a life without the 'where's the bathroom?' panic?
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Hello there, today I want to share some relaxation and stress management techniques that are especially beneficial for those of you dealing with IBS. We all know how stress can trigger IBS symptoms, so let's explore how to bring some peace to your body and mind.
First, let’s start with deep breathing. This is something you can do anywhere, anytime. Breathe in slowly through your nose, hold for a few seconds, and exhale slowly through your nose. I know this is different from what you might have previously been told. In through your nose and out through your nose. This helps activate your body’s relaxation response.
Mindfulness and meditation can also be incredibly effective. Even just a few minutes a day can reduce stress levels significantly. You can simply sit in a quiet place and focus on your breath. Perhaps even think of your favourite colour or walking on the beach or a relaxing forest.
Gentle exercise, like a leisurely walk, can also help manage stress. These activities not only calm the mind but also help regulate the digestive system, which is crucial for IBS management.
Remember, diet plays a huge role in managing IBS. Foods high in fat, caffeine, or sugar can increase stress and trigger symptoms. Opt for a balanced diet with plenty of fibre, and consider keeping a food diary to identify and avoid triggers.
Getting adequate sleep is also crucial. Poor sleep can exacerbate stress and IBS symptoms. Try to establish a regular sleep routine and create a restful environment in your bedroom.
Don’t underestimate the power of social support network, family and friends and seeking out the assistance from a reputable registered and certified therapist. Talking with friends who are positive and forward looking is extremely important. Joining support groups, or seeing a therapist as I mentioned can provide emotional relief and practical strategies to handle stress.
Journaling your thoughts and feelings, or using positive affirmations, can also be powerful tools. They help in understanding your emotional triggers and reinforcing positive mindsets. And a big plus about journalling is that when you get out onto paper or a word doc all the stuff thats been perhaps churning around in your mind - to a great extent it no longer has power over you. It can never be the same again and not have the same control over you it previously had. It changes. Do it regularly and notice the difference.
Remember, managing stress is not just about reducing IBS symptoms, but also about improving your overall quality of life. Try incorporating these techniques into your daily routine and notice the positive changes. You are now taking control and I’m here to support you on your journey to wellness.
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I was reminded of something recently when a client of mine who presented with the pain and discomfort of irritable bowel. The not being able to go places where they want to go, to do the things they they want to do. Always looking for the nearest toilet, needing to know the location of the nearest toilet/bathroom is. Having to bring a change of clothing in case of an accident. Always having to plan ahead and being mindful of every action and how doing the things you used to really enjoy are now majorly impacted by IBS. The sheer exhaustion of everything combined into what should be an enjoyable event, now becomes an almost nightmare.
There is ample published evidence that the gut-brain axis, is how the brain and the gut communicate and that where the communication between your brain and your gut is out of sync or not communicating as it should can provide an environment where IBS can take hold of you.
Hypnotherapy is an evidenced-based modality to greatly help in the alleviation of pain and bloating and discomfort. Giving you back your life.
A personalised plan, a bespoke plan, can easily be drafted and designed specifically for you to help you ease the pain, the discomfort, the not having to worry about where the toilet/bathroom is. That life can return to some form of normality.
With over 29 years of experience, I've created a short yet very effective programme that I'm offering to the first three people, who are serious about working to get themselves better, I will work with you totally FREE of any monetary charge and I will support you. When you sign up you get a free copy of my new book on IBS as well as agreeing to join my mail list and receive very valuable information and support going forward. All you have to do is agree to give me a video testimonial at the end when you are feeling much better.
This is a time-limited offer and is available only to the first three people who sign up to receive my new book on IBS. The offer expires on December 12th 2023, 5pm Dublin/ London time.
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The Quick and Easy Way - An Almost Done For YOU Process
YOU getting results, you getting what you want from consulting a therapist and more specifically a registered and certified Professional Hypnotherapist who subscribes to a code of professional ethics and conduct.
As in all walks of life to achieve anything worthwhile, it takes planning, commitment dedication, and seeking out Professional help. Some might say it takes hard work to achieve anything worthwhile and of value to YOU.
Is this statement always true all of the time? Generally, I would say yes, however, there are exceptions and other equally productive ways to get the results you want.
Let me explain to YOU. Some might refer to these ways as smart ways, the easier, quicker, and less painful or indeed pain-free way. There are probably as many forms of therapy as there are stars in the sky.
In the field of Hypnotherapy, over the last 40 years, there has been huge inroads, and huge developments proven to work and be successful, like new interventions, and new ways of achieving results all done in a relatively short period compared to the previous 40-plus years.
That’s why I offer YOU some of the quickest and easiest methods of YOU making change. For example, if you suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Insomnia, or Tinnitus, and or want to Stop Smoking, I offer You probably the quickest and easiest method of facilitating that change whatever that is. I take the pain out of YOU getting the results YOU want by offering YOU a step-by-step system and processes so that YOU don’t have to do all of the heavy lifting. I do everything to help alleviate any fear or doubt YOU might have. Really what I’m talking about is the ease with which YOU can achieve YOUR Results.
So if YOU want to save YOUR valuable time, money and energy, greatly increase YOUR success, I’d love to chat with YOU. I will support You all the way and I have prepared for YOU a SPECIAL personal development module for YOU to keep, on top of the work YOU and I do together.
Last but not least, I work only with a select number of clients who are committed and dedicated to achieving the results they want to achieve. I have a selection process to enable both of us to decide whether we are a good fit to work together. I offer YOU a FREE strategy call. Thanks for listening and watching and I look forward to hearing from you.
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What has Your Circadium Rhythms got to do with You Getting a Good Nights Sleep.
Welcome back to another episode of the Thoughts of An Irish Therapist Podcast! Today, we have a fascinating topic to discuss - the role circadian rhythms play in getting a good night's sleep. This is a subject that affects us all, as quality sleep is essential for our overall well-being. So let's dive right in!
Circadian rhythms, often referred to as our internal body clock, are the natural, twenty-four-hour cycles that regulate various physiological functions, including sleep-wake patterns. These rhythms are influenced by external cues, such as light and darkness, and are synchronized with our surrounding environment.
Research has shown that when our circadian rhythms are in sync, we are more likely to experience restful sleep. The release of hormones, like melatonin, is regulated by these rhythms, playing a crucial role in promoting sleepiness and maintaining a healthy sleep-wake cycle.But what happens when our circadian rhythms are disrupted? Well, it can lead to difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep, or feeling fully rested upon waking.
This disruption can have a significant impact on our overall health and cognitive functioning.
Studies have demonstrated that individuals with irregular sleep patterns, such as shift workers or those who frequently travel across time zones, are at a higher risk of developing sleep disorders and experiencing disruptions to their circadian rhythms. These disruptions not only affect the quantity but also the quality of sleep.
So, what can we do to promote healthy circadian rhythms and ensure a good night's sleep? Firstly, it's important to establish a consistent sleep schedule. Going to bed and waking up at the same time every day helps to regulate our body clock.
Additionally, exposure to natural light during the day, especially in the morning, can help reinforce our circadian rhythms. On the other hand, avoiding bright lights, such as mobile screens and electronic devices, leading up to bedtime can minimize disruptions and promote a more restful sleep.In conclusion, our circadian rhythms are a vital component in maintaining healthy sleep patterns. By understanding and aligning with these natural rhythms, we can optimize the quantity and quality of our sleep, leading to improved overall well-being.
That's all we have time for today, folks.
Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Thoughts of An Irish Therapist podcast. Remember, getting a good night's sleep is a crucial step towards achieving your full potential, both mentally and physically.
Until next time, sleep well and stay healthy!
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Because You're not probably aware of the importance that Ultradian rhythms play in your health and well being, YOU are likely not getting good restful rejuvenating sleep.
Keep listening as today we discuss this fascinating topic. Ultradian rhythms.
Ultradian rhythms, refer to the short cycles that occur within our body throughout the day. These rhythms regulate various processes, such as hormone secretion, brain activity, and even our sleep-wake patterns.
Research has shown that these ultradian rhythms not only influence our physical health but also play a vital role in our overall well-being. One area where ultradian rhythms have a significant impact is in the realm of sleep and its crucial role in our cognitive abilities.
We already know the importance of sufficient sleep for cognitive function, but it turns out that these ultradian rhythms and the quality of our sleep go hand in hand.
Our sleep consists of several ultradian cycles, with each cycle lasting around 90 minutes. These cycles include both REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and non-REM sleep.During REM sleep, our brain is highly active, and this is when we experience vivid dreams. This phase is crucial for memory consolidation and learning. On the other hand, non-REM sleep is known for its restorative effects on the body, allowing it to repair and rejuvenate.
Properly functioning ultradian rhythms ensure that we experience enough deep sleep, which is essential for memory formation and cognitive performance. Without enough deep sleep, our ability to learn, remember information, and make connections may be impaired.
Furthermore, the interplay between Ultradium rhythms, exercise, and cognitive health cannot be overlooked. As we discussed in a previous episode, exercise is crucial for maintaining cognitive abilities as we age. However, recent research has found that lack of sleep may offset the cognitive benefits of exercise, particularly for middle-aged individuals.
A study conducted by researchers from University College London revealed that middle-aged individuals who were physically active but slept less than 6 hours per night experienced faster declines in their cognitive skills. After a decade, their cognitive functions were comparable to those who were less physically active.This study highlights the importance of adequate sleep in obtaining the full cognitive advantages of physical activity. It also emphasizes the need to consider both sleep and exercise together when assessing cognitive well-being.
So, what can we take away from this? Ultradian rhythms, especially when it comes to sleep, are critical for our overall health and well-being. Ensuring that we get enough quality sleep and pay attention to these cycles can have a positive impact on our cognitive abilities. It's a reminder that sleep is not a luxury; it's a necessity for our bodies and minds to function optimally.
That's all for today's episode on Ultradium rhythms and their role in health and well-being. I hope this information has been enlightening for you. As always, I'm Aidan Noone, and thank you for tuning in to the Aidan Noone Podcast.
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The gut-brain connection reminds us that our bodies and minds are intimately intertwined.
There probably was never a more truer statement than what I've just stated. There is indeed a very strong mind-body connection, the mind and the body are intertwined. Whatever the mind can conceive of, the mind can achieve.
Just think about it, the person who conceived of what a chair is had to first conceive of an idea of a chair before the actual chair can be made in reality. Similarly whatever thoughts you entertain, obviously in your mind, can have a profound effect on your mood and can ultimately affect your long-term health.
Today, we have a fascinating topic to discuss - the mind-body connection and its impact on our overall well-being. Specifically, I'll be diving into the gut-brain axis, a concept that has been gaining significant attention in recent years.
But before we begin, let's start with a basic question: what is the gut-brain axis? The gut-brain axis refers to the intricate relationship between our brain and our gut - the long tube that runs from our mouth to our behind, responsible for digestion. Now, you might be wondering, why is this relationship so important.
Well, it turns out that our gut is not just a simple digestive system, but also a hub for communication with our brain. In fact, there is a constant flow of information between these two vital organs. But how does this connection actually work? Imagine for a moment that you're feeling stressed. Maybe you have a big presentation coming up or a deadline to meet. Well, your brain, in response to this stress, sends signals down to your gut. And what happens next? Your gut reacts.
Have you ever experienced the feeling of butterflies in your stomach during a nerve-wracking moment? That's your gut responding to the signals from your brain. Now, this communication is not just one-way. In fact, your gut can also send signals back up to your brain.
This means that the health and balance of your gut can actually influence your mental well-being. For example, research has shown that the composition of bacteria in your gut, known as the gut microbiome, can impact your mood, stress levels, and even your cognitive abilities.
Here's an interesting study that highlights the importance of the gut-brain axis. Researchers examined the gut microbiome of mice and found that altering the bacteria in their guts also affected their behavior.
The mice displayed changes in anxiety levels and memory function - all because of the gut-brain connection.
So, what does all of this mean for us? Well, it suggests that maintaining a healthy gut is essential for our overall well-being. And how can we achieve that? Through a combination of a balanced diet, regular exercise, stress management, and, you guessed it, good quality sleep.
Yes, sleep is not only crucial for cognitive health but also for the proper functioning of the gut-brain axis. So, there you have it - the gut-brain axis and its impact on our mind-body connection.
It's a fascinating area of research that reminds us of the intricate ways in which our body functions. Remember, taking care of YOUR gut can have profound effects on YOUR mental health and cognitive abilities.
Well, that's it for today's episode. I hope you learned something new. Stay tuned for more exciting discussions here, Until then, sleep well and take care!
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How Good Sleep Can Affect How You Benefit From Exercise
Scientists have discovered that middle-aged individuals who don't get enough sleep may not fully benefit from exercise in terms of protecting their memory and thinking abilities.
A study conducted by researchers from University College London (UCL) revealed that people in their 50s and 60s who engaged in regular physical activities but slept less than six hours per night experienced a faster decline in cognitive skills such as attention, memory, and learning.
After a decade, their cognitive functions were similar to those who were less physically active.
The study, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity journal, emphasizes the importance of sleep for safeguarding cognitive health as people age.
The researchers suggest that adequate sleep is necessary to obtain the full cognitive advantages of physical activity and highlight the need to consider sleep and exercise together when assessing cognitive well-being.
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When is a Problem a Symptom? What YOU need to know. When YOU present to me with Your problem or issue, YOU might begin to tell me about the symptoms YOU are experiencing, the discomfort you experience, and sometimes the pain you are experiencing.
Perhaps YOU might present as a smoker wanting to become a non-smoker. Or do YOU want to lose weight? Or do YOU have an addiction? YOU name it. Whatever the symptom is, YOU describe to me in detail YOUR experience. Whatever YOUR presenting symptom is, that's exactly what it is, it's a symptom. And like all symptoms, a symptom is a sign that something is not quite right within YOU. You might be shocked about what I'm about to say. 90 plus percent of the time, the stated problem is not the problem.
It's just a symptom of something deeper. I'll say that again, 90 plus percent of the time, the stated problem is not the problem. It's a symptom of something deeper. The problem is usually something else, the smoking, the nail-biting, anxiety, and weight problem, are symptoms of something deeper. That something is usually outside of your conscious awareness. And when it's outside of YOUR conscious awareness, it usually resides in the unconscious mind - the deeper mind. No matter how logical YOU seem to YOURSELF when you tell YOURSELF what YOU think the problem is or how convinced YOU are of what the cause is - be reassured, what YOU believe is the cause of YOUR presenting symptom usually has very little to do with it.
YOU just speak your best guess. Now that's not YOUR fault. It's just YOU attempting to do the best YOU can for YOURSELF. That's normal and natural to want to do that! Most of YOUR problems exist at an unconscious (subconscious) mind) level. If YOU knew what the real problem is, YOU would fix it. Wouldn't YOU? You'd be crazy not to want to do it, YOURSELF? Wouldn't YOU?
When YOU seek out the appropriate professional help available, YOU are put in a place where YOU can fix the problem YOURSELF in YOUR own mind with the assistance of the therapist present or virtually present. So what I want YOU to do now, please, is, to think of YOUR problem and or symptom in a new way, knowing that the symptom is just a symptom. The real issue lies at an unconscious mind level. Appropriate and suitable professional practitioners are available, it's just a manner of being discerning and checking out who is the best option for YOU.
Making a personal breakthrough is probably a lot easier than YOU ever thought possible.
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Here are 6 further ways for YOU to get Better Sleep.1. Create a Sleep-Friendly Lifestyle: Regular exercise during the day can promote better sleep, but avoid intense exercise close to bedtime. Maintain a healthy diet, as certain foods and drinks like heavy meals, spicy foods, or too much liquid before bed can interfere with sleep.
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Manage Stress: Stress and anxiety can interfere with sleep. Developing effective stress management techniques, such as practicing mindfulness, journaling, and now journalling is really powerful to get out of your head all that stuff that's been building up, either writing into a journal or into a Word document on your digital device. Learn relaxation exercises, to calm your mind before bed. And it's no harm to consider seeking professional help.
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Audit and Adjust YOUR Sleep Environment: Yes check out your sleep environment for factors that may be contributing to poor sleep quality. Check for noise, uncomfortable bedding, excessive light, is it too hot or too cold. Make Your own adjustments to create a much better sleeping environment.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I): If you consistently struggle with sleep, consider talking with a CBT-I therapist.
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Avoid Napping: If you have trouble staying asleep at night, try to avoid daytime sleeping or limit it to a short power nap early in the day. Sleeping too close to bedtime can interfere with your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep at night.
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Talk to Your Primary Medical Carer, Your GP. If you have done all that YOU personally can do to help improve your sleep it may be beneficial to consult a healthcare professional. Above all, remember you are not alone, help is always available. Do not suffer alone, please share.
Remember, everyone's sleep needs are unique, so it may take some to experiment to find what works best for you. Implementing a combination of Sleep Improvement and sticking with them can significantly improve your ability to get to sleep and remain asleep, leading to better overall sleep quality and potential long-term health benefits.
The goal is to have a healthy lifestyle that promotes good rejuvenating SLEEP.
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Poor sleep quality can indeed have a negative impact on overall health. Here are the first 4 of 10 tips to help YOU improve Your ability to get to sleep and remain asleep:
- Sleep Environment: Create a sleep-friendly environment by ensuring your bedroom is cool, dark, quiet, and comfortable. Use curtains or blinds to block out light, consider using earplugs or a white noise machine to mask disturbing sounds, and invest in a supportive mattress and pillows. Maybe try out an eye mask.
- Establish a Consistent Sleep Schedule: Set a regular sleep schedule by going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, including weekends. This helps regulate your body's internal clock and promotes better sleep.
- Bedtime Routine: Develop a relaxing bedtime routine to signal to your body that it's time to wind down. Engage in activities such as reading, taking a warm bath, practicing relaxation techniques like deep breathing or meditation, or listening to calming music
- Limit Stimulants and Mobile Phone, Tv or Electronic Tablets : Avoid consuming stimulants like caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol close to bedtime as they can disrupt sleep. Additionally, limit exposure to electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers, before bed due to the stimulating effects of blue light.
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Did YOU Know That Poor Sleep Can Contribute To Prolonged Chronic Health Conditions?
Perhaps You are one of the 80% of people recently surveyed in Ireland who are sleep deprived. The study involved over 13,000 people.
Did you know that Sleep Quality can affect the length of chronic illnesses such as stroke, heart disease, mental health issues, and alcoholism. This list is not exhaustive. And that 90% of depressed people have poor sleep quality.
Many people have reported restlessness contributes to their falling asleep. Others report waking up and not being able to return to sleep.
Poor sleep contributes to Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Depression, Seizures, Migraine Headaches. Weight Gain, yes weight gain is reported as an effect of poor sleep.
The ultimate Goal is for YOU to rediscover the ability to get restful rejuvenating sleep. To learn strategies to fall asleep and remain asleep, ultimately developing a healthy lifestyle.
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Did you know your Gut has a Brain? Yes, a Brain. Ok, let me try to explain, as best as I can, the technical stuff first and then we can get to the much more understandable stuff.
You see way back in evolutionary times, scientists tell us that our "Gut Brain" , which is considered the "little brain of our Gut," was developed and it's referred to as our Enteric Nervous System, our ENS, in our gut. Our ENS communicates back and forth with the Brain in our head and it does this by what's known as the "Gut-Brain Axis." So there's a two-way communication process. Now keep this idea in mind, - that there's a two communication process. Where there is miscommunication, that's where the problems start. This is important to remember and be aware of.
The ENS was first developed before, and independently of the Central Nervous System (CNS) The ENS is the largest part of your nervous system that coordinates and regulates your bowel functions. Where the gut and the brain don't communicate properly, this can cause obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, acne atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, colorectal cancer, IBS and Crohn's disease, and many other diseases and disorders, plus disorders of the nervous system.
The research refers to the Enteric Nervous system as the "little brain" of the gut and this little brain has the capacity to learn and memorise. Yes, the little brain of the Gut the ENS remembers, possible past hurts, etc. Stress-induced memories may remain in the Enteric Nervous system and can play a role in the development of IBS. Stress-induced Long-term memory may remain at a cellular level In other words your body cells remember trauma, stress and any other upsetting and or stressful, traumatic event in your life.
The trauma and stress-induced memories interfere with the two communication processes of the Grain Gut Axis. This miscommunication leads to many of the issues I mention above, IBS, etc.
In other research dating back to 1984, Whorwell, published his research in the Lancet and that Hypnotherapy could relieve several of the symptoms of IBS.
Gut-focused hypnotherapy (GFH) can not only improve the primary symptoms of IBS but also reduce noncolon symptoms, anxiety, and depression and improve quality of life and cognitive function.
And Hypnotherapy is particularly effective in children who present with IBS.
When evaluated according to the efficacy guidelines of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, the use of hypnosis with IBS qualifies for the highest level of acceptance as being both efficacious and specific."
Above all this research provides us with hope and further bolsters our learning that Hypnotherapy can be a powerful adjunct to orthodox medicine, enabling you to alleviate IBS symptoms and in turn, you are free to live a reasonably comfortable life.
The following statement is from: Tan, G., Hammond, D. C., & Gurrala, J. (2005). Hypnosis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Review of Efficacy and Mechanism of Action. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 47(3), 161–178, sums it up succinctly.
"When evaluated according to the efficacy guidelines of the Clinical Psychology Division of American Psychological Association, the use of hypnosis with IBS qualifies for the highest level of acceptance as being both efficacious and specific."
I acknowledge am grateful to Anthony Jacquin Hypnosis for the following information contained in the link below.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022040397
Various Research Papers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /6150275/
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- Start by considering your values and what is most important to you. This will help you set goals that are meaningful and aligned with your priorities.
- Make your goals SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. This will help you create clear, actionable goals that are easy to track and achieve.
- Set both short-term and long-term goals. Short-term goals can help you make progress toward your long-term goals, and can provide a sense of accomplishment along the way.
- Don't be afraid to dream big! It's important to challenge yourself and aim high, as long as you are realistic about what you can achieve.
- Make a plan and break your goals down into smaller, more manageable tasks. This will help you stay on track and make progress toward your goals on a consistent basis.
- Monitor your progress and celebrate your achievements along the way. This will help you stay motivated and keep you moving toward your goals.
- Be flexible and open to adjusting your goals as needed. Life can be unpredictable, and it's important to be willing to adapt as circumstances change.
- Write down your goals. Putting your goals in writing can help you clarify your thoughts and make them more concrete. It can also serve as a reminder of what you're working towards.
- Share your goals with others. Talking about your goals with friends, family, or colleagues can help you stay accountable and motivated. Plus, the support and encouragement of others can be a valuable resource as you work towards your goals.
- Set achievable goals. It's important to challenge yourself, but it's also important to be realistic about what you can accomplish. Setting goals that are too ambitious can lead to disappointment and frustration.
- Be specific. The more specific your goals are, the easier they will be to track and achieve. For example, instead of setting a goal to "lose weight," try setting a goal to "lose 10 pounds in the next three months by exercising three times a week and eating a healthy diet."
- Make your goals measurable. Having a clear way to measure your progress can help you stay motivated and see how far you've come.
- Set a deadline. Giving yourself a timeline can help you stay focused and keep you on track. It can also provide a sense of urgency, which can be a powerful motivator.
- Break your goals down into smaller tasks. Accomplishing smaller tasks along the way can help you stay motivated and make progress towards your larger goals.
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I'm often asked about how trauma can be related to or connected to your experience of irritable bowel and or your experience of the symptoms of irritable bowel. Many clients tell me that such and such an event in their life was significant and or what they describe, was painful. You see, often times it's the aftermath of an event that is traumatic, that is, what's happening in our mind as a result of us having gone through a past event and that can be the trauma.
Some of the ways that trauma can impact a person's life include:
- Physical symptoms: Trauma can cause a variety of physical symptoms, such as headaches, stomach problems, and changes in appetite or sleep patterns.
- Emotional symptoms: Trauma can also cause emotional symptoms, such as feelings of sadness, anger, or fear. It can also lead to changes in mood or difficulty controlling emotions.
- Mental health problems: Trauma can increase the risk of developing mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Difficulty in relationships: Trauma can also impact a person's relationships with others. It may make it difficult for a person to trust others or to feel close to others.
- Difficulty functioning: Trauma can make it difficult for a person to function in their daily life. They may have difficulty concentrating, completing tasks, or making decisions.
It's important to remember that everyone's experience with trauma is unique, and the impact of trauma can vary widely from person to person. If you are struggling with the aftermath of trauma, it's important to seek support from an experienced mental health professional.
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Hi, I have a question for you! What I'm about to say may not necessarily apply to you. Perhaps you may know someone who would benefit from what I'm about to say to you. If so, please pass this on to them. You are probably doing them an enormous favour. Did you know that you don't have to remain stuck, yes stuck in a rut, yet knowing deep down inside yourself, in that part of you that knows everything, there is to know, you somehow know there is more, you know you want to make changes in your life and yet don't know how! Remember, you were born into this world not feeling the way you currently feel or not believing what you currently believe. Or perhaps you have a limiting belief about who you and what you can achieve. A feeling of being stuck! This stuckness is probably a protection mechanism. Yes, a protection mechanism. Maybe being afraid of what other people think of you, or have an unrealistic belief you have about yourself, that you're not good enough. Or that you'll never succeed. You see, It all started way back when Man and indeed Woman were hunters, hunting for their food or being hunted for food. From that, we get the flight, flight, or freeze response. To fight the Saber Tooth Tiger or run away from it to safety if we can. Or we freeze. Science tells us that, the memory of the Sabretooth Tiger remains engrained in our deeper mind and we operate in the same way today that our ancient forefathers reacted. The freeze response, as mentioned above, is a protection mechanism. Protection from what you may ask? We are no longer hunted by a Sabre Tooth Tiger yet we experience the same emotional response/reaction as if we are being hunted. Strange isn't it? You are probably familiar with what I'm saying. If you can identify with what I've just said, it's probably somewhat reassuring: that you're not alone. Thousands of people feel that way. Yet thats not very consoling, is it? You know what? You don't have to feel that way. You don't have to feel that way or You don't have to have those same old limiting beliefs about yourself. Isn't it time you did something about it, Now? Henry Ford is credited with the following statement: " Whether you think you can or you think you can't," You are 100% correct. When you were born you weren't handed a manual on how to run your brain. Yet, today, science has given us so much information on how our brains work that it startling how much we know now about our brains compared to let's say 25 years ago. Modern-day science has coined the phrase Neuro-Plasticity. The nerve or neural pathways in our brain are constantly being renewed and or repaired enabling us to learn and to continue to learn. Similarly, if you consider some of the unwanted behaviour you currently indulge in, is a learned behaviour. Guess what? If you learned that unwanted behaviour, Yes you can learn something new, something that is way more expressive of the true You, to unleash that creative capacity of your mind so that you thrive and express yourself to the fullest. To learn new beliefs, leaving behind the old jaded beliefs that have held you back for so long now. Being much calmer with the capacity to make that breakthrough, that shift, you have desired for, so many years now. And your relationships become way more expressive and meaningful. You don't have to take my word for it. Many eminent scientists attest to the plasticity of the Human mind. Your Mind. Where change happens. Is that something you'd like to do? I know you're going to say yes. You'd be crazy to not want to make those changes, all for the better, Now! Ok so, I want to make you aware of a great bunch of Professional and ethical people who can help you. Let me introduce you to the European Association of Professional Hypnotherapists. As the name suggests, they are based in Europe, for now, mostly Ireland and the UK. Many work online, so you have the peace of mind that you'
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Ok, I get it, you just want results. You just want to make that breakthrough. I can't blame you, it's what anyone would want. It's normal and natural.
You don't want to hear all the theories and concepts behind how change happens and how you make that breakthrough that you've wanted, for so long now.
You don't need to hear how it's done, all you want is the result, the breakthrough. It doesn't matter how it's done, providing it's done professionally and ethically, of course!
Let's be honest and upfront, I'm not a medical doctor, nor a medical practitioner of any sort. Therefore, in all medical-related matters, you must consult with a medically qualified person to seek out the correct medical advice available and follow their instructions to the letter.
What I do have a good working knowledge of, is how your mind processes everyday stuff that every day we need to process in order to function as expected. Sometimes, things happen that interfere with how we process stuff and the outcomes we get are not what we want nor expect.
This is where mind therapy comes into play. To clear out the stuff that's holding you back from living the life you have wanted to live for, for so long now.
Because the mind and body are so well connected, anything in the mind that's not sitting there well or just floating around inside it and not sure where to settle down there, can cause upset in the body and or in the mind. There is an imbalance and where there is an imbalance, that can be seen in certain symptoms that may cause you distress, even pain, anxiety, digestion problems, if a woman, menstrual issues, even difficulty getting pregnant issues. So there can be a broad spectrum of issues arising from unsettled stuff that's floating around in your mind. You may or may not be aware of stuff floating around there. This free-floating stuff or possibly a misunderstanding at a deeper mind level is expressed in symptoms as previously mentioned.
It has happened and is happening to many people each day and every day. Sometimes you may not know what do to, you may not know what's happening to you and yet you know it doesn't feel as usual as you usually feel, it's a different feeling or awareness. So you are not alone in feeling the way you feel. And you well know, this is possibly holding you back from doing and achieving what you want to do and or achieve. Perhaps holding you back for years now.
The good news is that help is at hand. A good responsible way to deal with this is to call to see your medical professional and take their advice and seek out a good ethical and responsible professional therapist, one who can provide you with understanding and empathy and may suggest a way forward to help you make that breakthrough that you so badly want to make and move forward with your life and your career.
Nowadays, Breakthroughs can be achieved in a relatively brief time frame, giving you the results you so greatly deserve. Best of luck with that!
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Why is it we do the things we don’t want to do and don’t do the things we want to do?
Seems a bit of a dilemma and yet many people experience that reality for themselves.
Perhaps it’s got to do with our beliefs and our beliefs are what motivates us. Combined with the pleasure principle. What brings us pleasure is highly appealing and we are drawn towards it. There is a pull forward.
What brings us pain, usually demotivates us and there is a big push away from that which is painful. I acknowledge there are exceptions to the rule, believe it or not.
What you believe will happen, generally happens. You may be familiar with the expression: whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t – you are correct.
What you believe usually turns out as you expected. Interestingly, our unconscious motivation provides the impetus to achieve what we expect and believe. To make real what we believe should be so.
What are your beliefs and expectations? Are they serving you well? How do you start to change them?
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Consider this, when you experience stress and or anxiety, your whole body does into overdrive and gets ready for something to happen. That something to happen, your mind and your body cannot identify exactly what it is. You see its all related to the fight or flight response. The well-known explanation of the saber tooth tiger is ready to devour you and you must be in a position where you can protect yourself, do you either run away or fight to defend yourself? It’s a state of hyper-vigilance. Draining. Somehow your mind has picked up on something as being threatening and triggered off this flight or flight response. Even though there’s no saber-tooth tiger present.
The interesting thing about this is that in this mode of behaviour, this fight or flight response behaviour, your digestion slows down and becomes sluggish, not working as it should. Your body under the direction of your brain sends most of the blood to the limbs to assist in the expected running away or defending. This whole process can be exhausting, and it can contribute to an increase in digestive problems. It’s a cyclical process. Maybe even going non-stop.
Perhaps some ways you can help yourself is to try to calm down using techniques that work. Guided meditation, and hypnosis, are well-documented methods of alleviating symptoms. Remember there is help available. Stay with me for more updates to help you to help yourself with IBS.
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Is my Anger Causing IBS?
Do you often get angry? Perhaps you blame your parents, your husband wife partner, or significant other? Or maybe a work colleague or son or daughter? Maybe you’re dealing with resentment or trauma of some sort!
What if you haven’t dealt with the resentment, the anger, the frustration? Do you need to forgive someone? And how long is long enough for you to put yourself through the wringer of torment because of the anger, frustration, and resentment you carry around daily with you?
Unresolved emotions and hurts are quite possibly the cause of many physical symptoms you may experience. So whatever symptoms you may be experiencing, ask yourself, am I even aware of any unresolved anger or am I withholding forgiveness from someone I need to forgive to enable me to move forward living a healthy life?
I’ll leave that with you, just think about it!
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Hello there, I’m often asked the question is there a connection between the mind and the body? The accepted wisdom is that there is no mind/body split.
Many of you will have busy lives, busy workplaces, targets to reach, children to care for, meals to cook, etc, etc. And sometimes we ignore the things that we know we need to pay attention to.
And yet I'm sure you've heard of the expression: Look after yourself because if you don't, you won't be able to look after anyone else or when traveling on an aircraft: the message is, put your own oxygen mask on first before you attend to anyone else.
So it's all about self-care. Taking care of things. makes sense I think.
What has that got to do with the connection between your mind and your body?
How do you know when it's time to exercise? When it's time to eat? Usually, in the case of exercise, You may have a daily routine. You can choose to pay heed to the daily routine or ignore it. The feeling of hunger, again we can choose to eat or not eat.
What are the consequences of not exercising or not eating? Obvious, I'm sure.
You see, Your thoughts, your feelings, and your beliefs, and your decisions and attitudes can affect negatively or positively on your physical health. Your mind can affect how healthy your body is.
And again how much you eat or how much you exercise correctly can impact your mind: and your mental health. Hopefully positively rather than negatively.
I suggest paying attention to your mind and your body connection. Look after yourself!
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I'm sure you are familiar with the concept of the "one size fits all", policy.
It's, perhaps it's similar to when you call your bank on the telephone and you have to go through the process of listening to the options available to you! Press one to arrange a mortgage, press two to order a statement, etc, etc. You already know what I mean, you have gone through this ordeal to try to get the answer to a quite straightforward question.
Oftentimes, it takes ages. A phone call, that can last hours.
I think that's a prime example of the: "one size fits all policy".
And yet this 'one size fits all' doesn't really meet our needs, we are forced to go down a funnel in the hope that we find the answers to the questions we have.
Or it's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It won't happen.
I think it's somewhat similar to when you try to find the right therapist for you.
Not all clients are the same, not all therapists are the same. People are different. This is what makes life interesting.
Next time, you or someone you know and or love is looking for a therapist, remember it's important to seek out the right therapist for you.
Ask questions, who are they, how long have they been in business, and how much experience have they? Are they registered and certified? Do they have professional indemnity insurance? Do they engage in ongoing supervision, ongoing continued professional development?
I know, lots of questions. Yet very important to protect you!
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As human beings, we are capable of experiencing great emotions and feelings. Man and indeed woman have conquered Everest, come up with the most ingenious inventions, and as we now know of technological advances of the 20th Century and it seems that we can look forward to much much more advances in technology to come.
Say, for example, man per se didn't get involved in science and technology and research. Where would we be today? Would we be worse off or better off?
I'll leave you to come up with your own answer.
When it comes to our feelings and emotions, we probably have no choice but to process them, to experience them, to feel them.
Aldous Huxley was a British Philosopher and writer who contributed to our understanding of psychology and human experience.
He gave us the 'reducing value theory'. Let me paraphrase. He told us that the function of the mind was to reduce our perception. Millions of pieces of sensory material or data are constantly bombarding our senses. Think of all the sounds around you, you probably hear them yet do you focus your attention on them? How many different smells can you detect? Walking in a city is a kaleidoscope of colour, sounds smell, and even taste. Yet we come fully equipped with our very own deletion device to preserve our sanity.
We focus only on a tiny part of all that we could experience or could be aware of. Huxley's reducing value enables us to filter out much of what is going on around us. It's really necessary if you were capable of processing all of what you could experience might cause you a mental breakdown.
Finding equilibrium, a balance in our mental health is so important.
Have you ever tried to communicate to someone about an experience you had, only to realise that it's well nigh impossible to truly and fully communicate to another an experience in its entirety so that the person listening to you experiences the exact same feelings.
Difficult indeed. Words indeed are inadequate.
Each person experiences life in their own way. Two people looked out the window, one saw mud, and the other saw stars.
I know you get it.
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Investments, investments, investments.
You want results, you want to know that if you invest in something you get results. The financial gurus constantly talk about the results you get when you invest in a particular portfolio or fund.
Results, results, results, and one of the best investments you can make is, investing in yourself! It sort of makes sense, doesn't it? Why invest in someone else unless perhaps you love them dearly and care about them. That makes sense!
You have a busy life, stuff to do, people to see. and maybe you have this thing, this problem that's been niggling at you for some time and maybe even years.
Maybe it's an addiction that's costing you lots and lots of money, maybe you feel as though it has been stealing from you for many years. Robbing yourself. Crazy isn't it!
Maybe you are overwhelmed with stress or too much anxiety, or perhaps you want to be smoke-free, free from a habit that has been ruining your life for some time now?
Statistics are showing that people who are experiencing depression are increasing at a fast pace.
Would you like to be experiencing feelings other than depression? Freeing yourself from that, that has been controlling your life for yours.
How long will you remain inside your problem? Is, now, not the right time to break free from that problem and live your life your way? Just imagine, what's the story you want to be telling in two or three years' time having done this now?
How is life different, then? What if I asked you a question, which by the very nature of the question, caused you to go deep inside yourself and break apart that stuck present reality, and as you realise now, you have freed yourself by tapping into that creative emotional intelligent part of you, stepping into your own excellence and authority. Would that be of any use to you?
Hypnotherapy is probably the quickest, tried and tested, easy method that saves you a fortune by making a wise investment in You!
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Today I'm going to talk about death and grief. Just be reminded, that you don't have to listen. Anyone who has suffered a loss in life knows the pain and in some instances the numbness of losing the person or persons whom they love. You experience a whole range of feelings and emotions. I do not presume to know all there is to know about grief and loss. However, I have gone through the process of suffering a loss. The loss of a spouse /partner is especially painful. Loss comes in different guises, equally the death of a partner, and divorce from a spouse/partner is painful. I recall when I lost my wife to cancer some years back, I went into severe depression, I felt as though part of me had be gouged out of me. To gouge anything involves pain. The grief was overwhelming. People I knew then when they'd see me walking on the same side of the street, would cross over the street to the other side. At the time I felt even more hurt. Now, I know it was their way of dealing with being unable to deal with me or their own inability to cope with another's loss: ie, they didn't know what to say to me. That's not their fault. It's human nature. People live busy lives and life must go on. It didn't stop for me nor should it stop for me. Other people were enormously empathetic and supportive. I am and will always be most grateful to them and they know who they are. Many people said: "Oh time is a great healer." "You'll feel better in time," "Take each day as it comes." All good meaningful sayings. All meant well. Then I had those who presumed on how much I loved or didn't love my wife. Now, I know this is getting personal. No one can ever know, ever presume to know, how much anyone loves anyone else. No-one. Not that it's any of their business! Some think it is! Let me assure them, it's not! You have to go through it and come out the other side, to know! Life will never be the same again, how can it be, how could it be? There is a new reality, a new reality that's initially very painful and with time becomes less painful. However, it may remain painful for some time. Flashbacks. If you have suffered loss, you will cope with it as best as you can, in your own unique way. Only you can do this, no one else can do it for you! People can support you on your journey! If you are supporting someone who has experienced a loss, oftentimes, all it takes is to spend time with them. It's often not necessary to say anything. Just be there! Be present! Grief is a journey to get to where it is you are going. Is there a destination, I can't answer that for you? Yet, you will know when you arrive. If you are a Christian, Jesus Christ suffered and died on Good Friday, He died. He rose again to new life on Easter Sunday. He went through the process of dying and rising to new life. Without the pain, new life is not possible. Consider the seasons of the year. The dying in winter and the looking forward to the new life of the spring and summer. I have to constantly remind myself, of the miracle we are as human beings. We can experience a whole range of emotions from pain to joy and pleasure. Just remember, there is no one just quite like you. You are a unique creation, with unique skills and qualities. You can do it!] Be Powerful.
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Today's short podcast is going to be a little more technical than usual. So please bear with me.
I want to briefly talk about two parts of your brain. At the outset, I fully acknowledge the brain is a hugely complex organ and my explanation is also hugely inadequate. It's just a simplified explanation.
- The Amygdala - this responsible for processing strong emotions. The part of your brain that reacts without thinking. This capacity of the brain is necessary when you really are in a life-threatening situation, to enable you to survive. In this mode you are in blinkered vision, unable to see options that are available to you. Creative thinking is stifled, is stopped, and shut down. Your only concern is survival. Also known as the fight, flight, or freeze response centre of your brain.
- The other part of your brain is what's called the Pre-Frontal Cortex. It's just behind your forehead. It's the rational part of your brain where critical thinking happens.
Being aware of what it is, that's causing you anxiety and or stress, naming it, labeling it, is a tremendous way of calming yourself, because when you bring it out of darkness into the daylight of rational thinking you can defeat it. It loses its power over you.
It's important that you must make an executive decision to STOP what it is you are doing. Just STOP. This takes practice.
Next time you are feeling angry about something or someone or you feel stressed or anxious. Just stop for a moment. Yes just Stop. Just imagine for a moment you are literally hovering out of your body just like a drone, up and out of your body and you have moved about ten feet from yourself and you look back over at yourself. Now take a look at yourself, and write down a few words that describe how you are feeling. Not blaming anyone, just how you are feeling. Write it down. And bring that piece of paper back with you as you hover back into your body. Now notice how you are feeling!
Another way to calm yourself is to breathe in and out through your nose. Holding your in-breath for as long as you can and then exhaling. Do this for as long as is necessary. Warning: if you have a lung or breathing deficit, please do not do this.
The ideal mental state, to be experiencing is the rational mind state, the Pre-frontal Cortex thinking because rational thinking is able to pour cold water on highly irrational thinking. Then you are able to make wise decisions and wise choices that enhance you and your life. Creative thinking can happen and the world is your oyster.
Practice. practice, practice.
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There's a very popular poem by Irish Poet, Padraic Colum, entitled, "The Drover". I remember learning it in primary school, not sure if it's still taught.
It's about a Drover, usually, a man who drove cattle from the west of Ireland where the land would have been considered poor land for rearing cattle, to the rich pastures of County Meath, much flatter land. It's where life was easier, easier to rear cattle to make a living.
The Drovers were usually paid a pittance for their work.
Whilst reading the poem, I was transported back in time to a different era where life was completely different from what we know life to be today. I contemplated what life would be like if I was there now. There probably would be much more physical work to get things done, unlike today when we just press a button, switch on a machine or send an email.
Washing laundry on a washboard by hand. Spending time doing the same thing over and over. Probably a lot less drug use or perhaps the drug of choice was alcohol.
Words have the ability to anchor us back to a time past when we experience the same emotions, and feelings now, as we did then.
So when you speak or when you write, choose your words carefully. The impact you can have on someone, especially a child is enormous. You set the tone and change someone's mood with the intended choice of words. Choose wisely.
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I was speaking with a colleague recently who specialises in Sports Hypnosis. She revealed to me something really very interesting.
We were discussing muscle memory and the role mental rehearsal plays in our success when we plan for success.
She mentioned that the brains of athletes were scanned, as they imagine and or mentally imagine themselves being successful in the sport they specialise in. Achieving way more than they ever thought possible. The interesting thing is that that very same exact part of the brain is activated as when you imagine it and when you actually do it in real life. According to the brain there's no difference between something imagined and something real.
Just think about your dream, how real they can be!
Mental rehearsal is a powerful way to help yourself be successful. Just imagine when you go to that time in the future where you have achieved your goal. As you are there looking out through your own eyes, seeing what you are seeing, feeling and hearing, and even smelling.
Mental rehearsal and being in the zone are powerful allies to help you way more than you ever thought possible.
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Keeping in tune with the theme of nature, I remember trekking in Peru, South America in the year 2005, I was fundraising for a well-known Irish Charity.
Being in Peru opened my eyes, to the stunning landscapes. At one stage whilst trekking at about 4,500 metres, it looked as though I could throw a stone and hit a glacier just right in front of my eyes. It was a magnificent sight.
More amazing were the Peruvian people, with big broad smiles, pleasant demeanour, welcoming. To see farmers at 4,000 metres running with ease after Llama: I was just in awe. I thought their hearts must be enormous to be able to run at such an altitude where the oxygen level is so thin.
I remember the party I was with about 28 people, we visited a school there in the wilderness. Happy smiley faces.
Overall, what I noticed was that the people had the outward sign of being happy, their happiness didn't come from material possessions. They just didn't know wealth as the western world knows.
I believe their outward happiness was a true reflection of their inner happiness. Being content about their lot. I state all of what I'm writing with respect and honour for the people of Peru.
What we don't have we don't miss. That probably sounds blase. That's not my intention.
We make the best of what we have available to us in the context, in the place we find ourselves.
What makes you happy? Is it possessions? Money? Loving relationships? Success or whatever success means to you? Belief in God?
What do you need to do?
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When was the last time you took a break to walk in nature, like in a forest park or along the sea shore if you live near the sea shore, or even in a city park?
Sit or take a leisurely walk at your own pace. Breathe through your nose and smell the air, feel the air as it caresses your face. What does the seat you are sitting in feel like, if you are sitting?
How does the ground feel as you walk upon it, the sound of each step and you crunch the pathway way or perhaps you are on a sandy surface like a beach somewhere, perhaps your favourite place.
I believe it's important just to get out into the air, look around you, smell the smells, and shake your hands if you are able to do that.
Just get out and do yourself a favour. Again, you might just surprise yourself at what you discover.
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Do you think it's reasonably true to state that most people have a problem they want to be sorted?
The infamous song from the movie, Sound of Music: "How do solve a problem like Maria?"
Now I'm showing my age! So what?
Many people have problems they want to be sorted or to find the solution to that, that has been annoying you for some time.
And yet, what if the solution to most if not all of your problems lies just inside your head?
Yes, inside your head, more specifically inside your unconscious mind. You see your unconscious mind has one of the most creative resources and intuitive available to you, for free.
Consider when you are aware of your dreams, and how real they seem to you. Acted out in the theatre of your mind and what a theatre it is. Lights, actions, sound, colour!
Similarly, that creative unconscious when given appropriate instruction can be a powerful ally in helping you sort out problems. Have you ever been mulling around in your head that something that has been wracking your brain for weeks and when you leave that 'something' aside when you forget about it for a while, even perhaps a night: next morning you wake up and hey presto you are presented with a probable solution to the problem you have been stressed out about.
What if, when you daydream, we all do it, that daydream could be the start of something exciting or even profitable for you. Dreams can become a reality! What if you just gave your imagination permission to imagine what it wants! How would you be different?
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I recently read the following line: The actions I take, will and will not impact on my life.
It got me thinking, about how very true that line is.
Hard work and dedication usually pay off. Similarly doing nothing has it pay off, also!
Charting a way forward is essential if you are to get where you want to go. Follow the process, and the necessary steps.
Even a commercial aircraft has to file a flight plan in order that it gets from A to B.
How are you impacting your life? What would you like to do? What would you like to achieve? What are you achieving?
The actions You take, will and will not impact your life.
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Since childhood, I always wanted to learn to swim, however, due to a bad, learning to swim, experience, I left hopes of me ever learning to swim aside until I was aged 40.
I did some work around my fear of water and drowning and hypnosis helped me enormously.
The gym I attended had a 25-metre swimming pool and whilst I didn't take lessons per se, I splashed around hoping to find the secret to learning to swim.
I recall a friend of mine happened to be in the pool alongside me one day and whilst he can swim he never really made any big deal out of the fact that I couldn't.
I was still clinging to the sides of the pool and occasionally dunking my head under the water so quickly that my head didn't even get wet.
One time when he was exiting the water he made a very profound comment to me. "Try just floating," he said.
Well I tried and I tried and I tried. No good. Then I thought since I'm in the shallow end of the pool, what's the worst possible thing that could happen to me?
I gave it one last attempt. I did it, I floated. Another thing I learned was: surrender to the water and you will float.
Surrendering is that all-important concept. Just think of it. Whether it be learning to ride a bicycle or learning to swim, surrendering is an all-important component.
Just 'wing' it and see what happens. Right now, what do you need to just 'wing'?
Set out and yet be safe and 'wing' it and you just might surprise yourself at what you can achieve.
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Were you ever chatting to someone, perhaps a friend or a colleague, and after you have spoken with them, it struck you that they looked almost as though they were somewhere else? Their mind seemed preoccupied.
I was speaking with a friend recently and they told me their story and that's exactly what happened to them. My friend was perplexed. He asked himself, was it something he said or did?
I assured him it probably had nothing to do with him or indeed what he said.
My take on it is: that we never know what's going on in someone else's head. We can mind-read what we might think is going on in their head.
The reality is unless you have a direct link, a brain-to-brain link your summation of what other people might be thinking is flawed. You just cannot mind read.
So next time you speak with someone, just remember that the person whom you are speaking with has a lot going on, inside their head and if they come across as bad-mannered which is not normally the case, then you can form a reasonable assumption that they are preoccupied with some other happening or other all-consuming thoughts.
Your friends' or colleagues' all-consuming thoughts act like a barrier or a filter on what you are saying to them. They don't really get to process what you are saying to them.
So remember, leave mind-reading outside and always check the reality of the situation before you go off thinking, you are being ignored or otherwise.
Nearly almost always you are the innocent one and it's not your fault. Really has nothing to do with your actions or speech.
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Opening Your Mind, Opening Your Heart
What does it mean to open your mind and open your heart? Are they one and the same thing or are they different? Do each want the same outcome for you or are they seeking something totally polar opposite?
I'm not suggesting that you open your mind and heart to the philosophy that's against your morals and faith.
And yet, are you open to the possibility that change can take place within you.
What is it you want to achieve? The infamous expression attributed to Henry Ford, goes as follows, "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are correct"? There is probably a slightly different version available and or perhaps I don't have it as exact as it should be!
Does it need to be exact?
In any event, you understand the message! In other words, if you think you can achieve what it is you want to achieve or whether you think you can't achieve what it is you want to achieve, you are 100% correct. You are free to choose!
What is essentially necessary is, that you must believe you can and have an open mind and an open heart for that to happen. For success!
Sometimes we may say: "Part of me wants to do that and part of me doesn't." That's called parts therapy and that's for another time to talk about.
What if you opened your mind and opened your heart? What would that mean to you? How would your life be different? What would you be doing then, that you're not doing now?
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You are probably familiar with the expression being out of your head and I might at some time in the future talk about that, it's not quite what I want to talk about today.
I'm saying, get out of your head and into your body, yes into your body. Do something physical, go for a walk, stand in the rain, of course only where it's safe to do so.
The feeling if being barefoot on a cool surface. Feel every inch of your foot as it touches the ground.
The feel of cool wet grass on your fingers and hand, allow one hand to reach over and touch your arm, the feeling of skin, warmth, coolness, just how does it feel?
In summertime, the feeling of wearing shorts, cool air surrounding your legs, and short sleeves allow you more mobility.
Focussing on sensations, feelings, sights, sounds, tastes, and smells.
The smell after it has rained on hot dusty ground. The fragrance of flowers, a myriad of different fragrances.
Just getting out of your head. Try it.
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It's that time of year when young and not so young students sit for their examinations.
Having worked so hard for years to reach a time when their studies reach a crescendo in an examination.
Just some tips to help you be at your best.
- The importance of sleep, restful sleep the night before the exam.
- Eat a good energy breakfast, one that feeds your brain.
- Be positive, and have an I can do this mindset.
- Breathe in thru your nose and out thru your nose.
- Keep your mouth closed.
- Read the exam paper fully. You have practised this many times before, especially if you are doing school public exams.
- Decide which question gives you the most marks: ie the ones you can answer.
- Keep an eye on the time.
- Breathe through your nose and out through your nose. Keep your mouth closed.
- Plan how you will do the essay, this is important, especially in an English exam.
- Give yourself time to read your answers.
- After your exam, go for a walk or do an activity that gets your mind preoccupied.
- Relax.
- Plan for your next exam.
The above list is just a list and I hope it helps you. In truth, there is probably a million ways to build a house. However, the best way is probably the best practised way.
Every success to you.
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Taking Perspective on Other People is Important
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I was aged about 6 or 7 when I had my first experience at baking, more specifically baking what can be known as a loaf of Irish Wheaten Bread.
To this day I follow the same recipe as I did as when I was a child.
Coarse wheaten flour, plain flour, salt, golden syrup, soft brown sugar, Handful of oat meal, melted butter, bread soda/ bicarbonate of soda and of course buttermilk. I add an extra, and that's chopped walnuts. Mmmmm.
At an early age, I discovered the importance of adding the right ingredients at the right time, and timing is all important.
Following the method of the recipe is also important. All is done using hand mixing, no mechanical mixing whatsoever. The buttermilk does the trick, and kneading is not necessary, just mixing it all together in the correct quantities at the right time.
Preheated oven at 200 degrees centigrade for one hour.
The result is a golden loaf of delicious wheaten bread, so tasty!
I learned at an early age to follow a process, a process that was set way before I ever was on this earth. And the interesting thing is that when you follow a process, you achieve an outcome. The loaf of bread is baked.
No matter how much I may try, I'll never be able to return the bread to it's individual ingredients. Where is the buttermilk now? Or the sugar? golden syrup? The ingredients have done their job and I had a hand in making that happen.
It's complete!
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You are probably familiar with the expression, "Oh, that's perfect." For example, John could say to Jill, 'Oh Jill, I've completed that task you asked me to complete." Jill might respond with, "thank you, John, that's perfect."
So the "that's perfect" is used as an acknowledgment. It can have many other used!
And yet, does 'perfection' exist?
Many renowned artists have produced acclaimed works of art and yet upon close examination, the acknowledged works of art have within them imperfections. It's the imperfections that make them unique and special and in some cases, priceless.
As human beings, we have many unique features and attributes that make us perfect. It's what makes us special and appealing to our significant other or anyone who is special to us.
Just ask yourself, "why is so and so, so special to me, why do I love them as I do?"
They may have a great skill or ability or perhaps they are just who they are and who they are, is unique and special and indeed perfect to you!
In your imperfections, lies your perfection. You are unique. Go for it!
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If you are a reader, then there's bound to be some books in your collection , in your library of books that you haven't yet read. I came across one such book the other day. I had been sorting out stuff, tidying up and for some reason this particular book was left abandoned, isolated on it's own in the midst of a neatly organised book shelf.
The book is by Henri J. M Nouwen and the title: "The Inner Voice Of Love". - "A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom." Nouwen, was a great spiritual writer.
I dipped into this book as I had done so some years back. The book was written at a time in the life of Nouwen, when he was in total despair, nothingness and loneliness.
And in the midst of his despair with the assistance of two people, who supported him in his total despair, Nouwen managed to write everyday about his experiences. Despite his anguish and despair, his writing didn't suffer.
For over 8 years he hid his writings from public eyes and only upon friends urging him, did he publish, and the result is the book mentioned above.
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You know the way when you do that self talk in your head. We all do it. Sometimes we do a running commentary to ourselves. Maybe you're in a group fo people and you're listening to someone rabbiting on about something and to be honest to yourself, you really couldn't care less what they did. And then the running commentary takes off in your head.
"Get me out of here." "I don't want to listen to that crap." .... and so on.
or, sometimes you do a lot of self criticism, self doubt. You all know what I'm talking about.
Next time that happens, that is, when the running commentary gets going, when the self criticism starts.
Just do the following: imagine giving the self talk, that running commentary a smile. Yes. A big huge ear to ear smile, saying what it's saying.
Do you now notice anything? What do you notice? Does giving the commentary a big huge smile , an ear to ear smile, change how you are feeling?
If so let me know and just leave a short message recording as I'd love to hear from you.
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Have you taken the time recently to pause everything you're doing and took a look around you? I'm not suggesting that you're going about your daily tasks blindfolded. And yet, because you do the same things in the same way in the same context you can become blinded to the treasures that surround you. Pause and open your eyes!
The people around you, who care about you, perhaps you have children or a significant other. Just pause and take a good look, they may not be perfect, anyway who is, and yet their love and concern for you is perfect.
Gratitude is what I'm getting at! What are you grateful for? When was the last time you said thank you? I recently had a conversation with some people and it transpired that one person in the group said that by saying, 'thank you - it puts them in a deficient position, a subservient role! It's a valid concern they have and yet is it a real concern? It was an interesting point they made.
When you express gratitude you are reflecting the love back to the person who gives you love. And in that context how can you be subservient by you saying, thank you?
Practice gratitude, be grateful for nature for the love you receive, in fact for everything that you have.
Just notice how you feel as you express your gratitude. You might just surprise yourself.
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In a very excellent article by Mark Tyrrell of Uncommon Knowledge, in his Therapy Skills series, I'll leave the link to the article below, so you can read it for yourself.
In this article, Mark gives us a very interesting and intriguing different perspective on "Addiction."
Our brains have a reward system and it's the neuro-transmitter called Dopamine that's responsible. This chemical provides us the ability to become highly focussed with the ability to learn and advance. There are other chemicals called endorphins, giving us the feel-good factor. Natural reward system.
If the above sounds familiar, yes you are on to something. And if the word, "Addiction" pops into your head, you are correct.
The same chemicals that contribute to having an addiction are responsible for the feel-good factor, the satisfying feeling, the elation of having achieved something. It's the brain's natural reward system.
In short in order for us to become addicted, we must practice, practice, practice. more and more and more in order to get that natural high.
I suggest you take a look at the article for yourself. I highly recommend it and indeed much of Uncommon Knowledge's materials are exceedingly excellent.
The link is below.
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They say that life is all about focus, what you focus on is what you get.
Perhaps there is some truth in that expression. Consider if all you are focussing on is depressing thoughts or you continually allow yourself to be in the presence of negative and or toxic people: how do you think you will be feeling ?
Imagine being in a dark room and all you had to help yourself was a torch and you focus the torch on what you want, and you want to find is the exit to emerge into the light and safety. You focus on the outcome.
Or consider, just imagine holding a think sheet of paper in front of one eye and the paper has a pin prick in the centre . Just staring thru the pin prick you probably cant see much. Restricted vision, this can be very frustrating and depressing. Are you doing this on a daily basis?
Imagine also tearing open that pin prick hole to reveal all that is behind the paper, all the resources that's available to you, the sights, the colour, perhaps something that you never fully realised that's available to you right now.
Focus on what you need, having your needs met. Shine your light and direct your attention to that which gives you positivity and resources.
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Frames - Picture frames - Mirror frames, All sorts of frames.
How important are frames? Just imagine if the Mona Lisa was framed in a dingy old picture frame! How would she look? Would you be still impacted by her beauty, by the message she is communicating to you?
Or perhaps you have a beautiful or picture at home or something recently you have purchased that you really need a frame for? Maybe an ornate mirror? You think wisely about the frame you choose, don't you?
Frames are so important. Why are they important? What does a frame do? A frame sets the mood, it states, "this is how I want to be interpreted". "This is the meaning I want you to take away with you."
A frame sets the context, my relationship with everything that surrounds me. How I look in relationship to everything else! Or this is how I want to be treated! How I want to be regarded by everyone else!
A frame makes a statement.
A frame draws you into that which it frames, into the heart of the what the artist is trying to communicate. Daily, you paint your own canvas.
A frame sets the scene. All sorts of frames. Motivational frames. Positive frames. Stay away from me frames. I can do it frames!. Happy frames!
As you start your week. Which frame have you chosen to set the scene, the context for your week?
Because when you choose a frame, you are determining the result even before you start,
whether you admit it or not. Almost everything you do is embedded in a frame and as I say, the frame decides success or failure.
Choose your frames wisely.
Be Powerful.
Thank you for listening. I'm always really privileged that you are choosing to share some time with me, right here, right now. I'll talk again tomorrow. I'm Aidan Noone and bye bye for now!
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Are you in the driving seat? Steering the bus? Going where you want to go? In the pilots seat? In the right direction? If not why not? And if not, you are what we might call, "At effect!"
Being the author of your life demands you taking control and if you are not taking control you are not, "at cause!", you are "at effect!"
When you are "at cause", you are in the driving seat, steering the bus, going in the direction of where you want to go.
Or are you soaking, being swept along with the ebb and flow of the tide, at the beck and call of everyone else's demands?
Being "at cause", demands an executive decision on your part.
What do you need to make that decision? Thinking for yourself. Casting aside what in all truth and reality is not your agenda. It's someone else's agenda.
And, when are you going to make that decision?
Because there comes a time when it's the right time? When is now the right time for you start now driving your own bus?
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You may be familiar with the saying, "You are what you eat". This was bandied about to highlight that good eating habits lead to having a good healthy weight.
Similarly, I would say that: "You are what you think."
Which thoughts populate your mind? OR more importantly which thoughts do you allow to populate your mind. Thoughts do not have a physical structure in that you cannot point to a thought as it doesn't have a body or a shape, in other words, it's not a thing. How much notice or weight we give a thought can be very influential on your positive or negative mental health.
You experience a thought, you entertain a thought. You run it in the theatre of your mind, on the stage there. Depending on how much notice you give it or not, it can consume your entire being.
Are the thoughts you are entertaining, and noticing, in your mind are they motivating you to be positive and life-enhancing or are they causing you stress and anxiety?
Remember you have a choice, choice as to whether you will allow the news media to populate your mind with the negativity it seems to push day after day.
Stand up for yourself. Feed your mind with good rich nourishing food (thoughts), I almost guarantee you, that you will thank yourself for doing so.
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Learn the rapid and fast way to use your imagination to achieve much more than your ever thought possible!
One of the most powerful aspects and or agencies of your mind is the capacity to imagine - your imagination. Your imagination can take you to places far away and you can experience sights and sounds and even smells and can be completely immersed in an alter reality.
Your imagination has the ability to put you totally at ease or to scare the living daylights out of you!
However, there are many useful life enhancing ways in which you use you imagination. Many of you maybe familiar with the lemon test. Ok, let's try this short experiment. If you are driving a car or operating machinery or in a place where you need to focus or concentrate, please do not participate in this little experiment. Only participate when it is safe to do so.
Close your eyes and imagine that right in front of you is a large yellow lemon and you can take it up in your hand and smells it. Now, imagine taking knife and imagine slicing into the lemon. See the lemon juice dribbling out of the lemon, smell it and perhaps also as you slice into the lemon you can imagine and see the volatility of the lemon oil squirting into the air. The room smells of lemons. Again smell it, take it deep into your nostrils.
Have you noticed now that your mouth is salivating?
It's easy to demonstrate to power of the imagination.
So where am I going with all of this. The creativity of your imagination can be used in many other constructive ways to help you become more motivated and to help you achieve goals.
Using the power of your imagination you can go into the future where you have achieved what you set out to achieve and its now complete.
For a few moments, perhaps there is something that you want to achieve, something thats been on your mind for quite some time and you're not sure how to even get started.
Again, be in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Closed your eyes. Now, imagine going to a specific time in the future where you have completed the project, your goal. Just imagine going out of your body to that place where it's done, it's complete, achieved. It's important that you are there looking out through your own eyes, seeing what you're seeing and hearing the sounds. Just look at the faces of the people as they smile at you, the colours and the sounds surrounding you. And as your're there, now, just imagine turning around and looking back to where you started from, back to the now, and notice how everything has co-operated together to conspire you help you achieve your goals and if there are any obstacles, they are easily overcome and notice how much you are learning, now? Just enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that you have now done it.
The above can be used as a powerful motivational exercise to realistically help you to be more motivated.
What you imagine often becomes what is real for you. Your unconscious mind cannot differentiate between your imagination and your reality. Use it for your well being and begin taking control of your own destiny.
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It was way back in the early noughties, I attended a conference in Dublin, Ireland at the Griffith College Campus, this was a former Military Barracks, originally established by the British during their occupation of Ireland.
The Conference was given by probably one of the legends in Hypnotherapy, Gil Boyne from California, USA. Gil was known then as the hypnotherapist to the stars.
I would attribute Gil as having an uncanny use of what we might call clean language in a therapeutic context. And I'm not talking about using bad language. Clean Language is used by a therapist in such a way that it allows the client to speak from their own experience without being led or influenced by the therapist. This is essential in therapy.
All I remember was how impressed I was by his use of language, it was almost as though Gil had chiseled each word and phrase for use in a given context, or place, to achieve a specific outcome. This was probably my first experience of being in the presence of someone who had honed their language skills with precision.
During the conference, unfortunately, Gil had a mishap and fell and injured one of his wrists which necessitated a visit to the local emergency room (ER).
I'm not sure how and yet I was delegated to accompany Gil to the local hospital emergency room. It took some hours and eventually, he went through triage and thankfully he had a bad sprain as far as I can remember, which needed further investigation later. He didn't have a fracture.
However, it was during my time spent with Gil in close proximity to him that I sampled the real Gil Boyne. Spending time with Gil in the taxi and in the hospital waiting area, I got a glimpse of Gil's personality which was enlightening. He was no longer the showman, he was just plain ordinary Gil Boyne. His humanity was exposed. He was a gentleman.
For all the movie stars out there, the TV personalities, the celebrities, I always bring to my consciousness that they are just ordinary people, just like you and me who have to endure everyday ordinary happenings.
In our way, in our everyday life, we have celebrity and are celebrated by the people whom we love and are loved by. Just imagine the young child's reaction when mum or dad walks into the room. For the child, mum and dad are celebrities and the be-all and end all of everything in that child's life. Look to your own home, to your own back garden, for right there, there probably has existed what you haven't fully realised and appreciated.
Gil Boyne, thank you for the lesson.
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If you are a smoker, there's just one thing I want you to take away from this short audio podcast, and that one thing is that you are FREE to smoke as much as you want and as often as you want.
And yet isn't it strange that when you take a flight, whether it be a short or long haul flight that you remain smoke-free during the time spent in the airport before the flight and during the flight.
Or when you go to bed at night you don't wake up in the nighttime to smoke! There has to be something to all this? Apart from the fact that smoking is now prohibited in many public buildings, smokers are able to last the time duration in smoke-free zones without any appreciable anxiety. You don't see many emergencies arising just because someone can't smoke for a number of hours. As a smoker, you last the duration.
You see to smoke you must truly love it and to become a non-smoker you must truly want to. Only when you want to. You have that choice. The scare-mongering tactics don't work, like showing the horrific pictures, we all know what they look like. In fact, they have the opposite effect.
No one is taking a gun to your head and forcing you to smoke. Just think about that.
Just think about all of this. Just imagine that you could prolong the times when you are unable to smoke, you have chosen to remain smoke-free during these times, and as I say prolong the smoke-free period much, much longer than you ever thought possible?
Would that be of any benefit to you? What are you choosing to achieve during these periods?
You are making the choice. Think about that.
I'll have lots more to say about being smoke-free in forthcoming podcasts and I sincerely hope you will benefit.
That's all for now, I'm Aidan Noone, thank you for listening and if you like I'll talk again to you tomorrow. Take care and bye, bye for now.
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You probably know someone who frequently and or occasionally will say, "I'm not perfect, you know." It's usually said to convey an apology for something done or something not done.
Or, perhaps, there's an element of putting oneself down! Comparing yourself to someone else and saying, I'm less than you, you are above me. Or then again it may not be this.
Anyway, where is the starting point of that feeling, where does it come from, from inside your body? Perhaps it's trying to say, I'm just a human being! I'm not a machine designed to do a single task to perfection. I'm a human being and my brain can do a multitude of different things at the same time. Sometimes, I don't always get it right
So, today, please go easy on yourself. Give yourself a break. Love yourself for just who you are. You deserve it.
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I remember some time ago, speaking with a colleague and saying, "I'm crap at writing", "I don't know what to write." Their response was very interesting. They told me, "write you are crap at writing." And I did.
In other words, I took it that my colleague was telling me to write how I feel, just plain and simple. No ifs or buts, just describing what I am currently experiencing. You see, taking your time, focussing on the detail, each step at a time achieves a purpose. The real purpose of this is to get out of yourself and onto paper or a word file on the computer all of the crap, all of the spiraling, ruminating thoughts out of you and into some form of text and or narrative.
Want to know what I discovered? I discovered that when I get out of my head all of the non-sense, it ( they) somehow changes. The nonsense changes, the thoughts don't have the same power over me as previously. They have changed. The power I previously thought they had over me had diminished or in some cases completely disappeared. That was a surprise.
My message to you is this: You are in the driving seat, you are in charge, and it's only by you taking command and grabbing that steering wheel and going in the direction you want to go in, do you realise that it's not so difficult after all. Then you feel confident with a purpose.
You also have within you, all of the necessary resources that are needed. It just takes time to discover them and to begin to use them to your advantage rather than your disadvantage.
So, start writing something and stick with it and I'd almost guarantee you, you will get better and better and also feel better about yourself. Your days and weeks begin to improve and you gain much more clarity on your whole purpose for being on this earth.
Write, write and write some more, you might just get a really good uplifting surprise.
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What is it that's holding you back? I'm Irish living in Ireland, with a strong cultural upbringing. Oftentimes the neighbours were conferred with an importance that in hindsight was illogical. I'm not referring to the normal and natural respect that one gives to ones neighbours and usually it is reciprocated. Whats I am referring to is a sort of, "keeping with with the Joneses", type of deference conferred upon them. The truth is, what the neighbours think has very little to do with me! Just think about that!
"Oh, what will the neighbours think?", was often an utterance.
Methinks, it can be difficult to shake off that weight, that illogical and irrational concern about what the neighbours think.
As I grew older I eventually divested myself of that weight that I carried for many years. When one invokes logical thinking and rationalisation the weight of worrying about what the neighbours think is slowly dissolved. The reality is that you just become the topic of conversation for one day and then they move onto to someone else.
Anyway, one could do a jig or a reel in the street and it wouldn't change peoples minds about you. They will think what they want to think.
Why am I rabbiting on about all of this 'neighbour stuff'?
What we think other people think about us can be destroying. As I mention above, what other people think about me has very little to do with me. They are free agents, free to ponder what they will. Free to make up their own mind in any way they choose.
Human nature is such that we are meaning making beings, we apply meaning to everything, it's how we live and operate in and on this world we call earth. However, just be careful of the meanings you apply to happenchance and or happenstance events.
Have you heard of the law of thirds? Perhaps it's called something else? I know it as the law of thirds. Maybe I created that terminology. Doubt it, though 🙂 .
One third of people will despise you and some will even hate you (very strong I know). Another third will be indifferent to you, a neither here nor there attitude towards you. Innocuous. Another third will absolutely adore you, they will be life long fans and would probably defend you if necessary. They will sing your praises, they just love you.
So get out there and just be yourself, do what you want to do, providing it is lawful, of course. What have you to lose or more importantly what have you to gain? Yes, it's all about being positive. The man or woman who never made a mistake, they never made anything. In NLP there is a pre-supposition and it goes as follows - there is no such thing as failure, there is only feedback. So, if something doesn't work out the way you had planned. What have you learned from that? What's the feedback?
Probably you have learned not to do the same thing in the same way in the same context, again. Hopefully you have. Do something different and you will get something different. It's a sign of tomfoolery to keep on doing what previous didn't work. Oh and by the way, I apply all of what I have said here, I apply it to myself
So, go on, get out there. Do something different and you'll get something different. You only have the world to gain.
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Hello Aidan Noone, here and thank you for being with me on this journey.
The question is: " Have you tried it yet, Are you doing it?" What am I referring to? I'll let you in on a little secret that I find really powerful, empowering and creative. Well, what is it?
It's getting up early in the morning, rising early. When I refer to early, I'm talking about rising from about 5am to 5.30am. For me, that's when I'm most creative. My mind is full of thoughts and ideas. Generally, I write my thoughts, and ideas down on paper and if my phone is nearby I'll record directly into a recording app on my phone. I'm not a rocket scientist, nothing like that just stuff, and thoughts that I find inspiring and or motivational. Stuff I need to pay attention to. Marshalling my thoughts. Organising them, one thought after another. Of course, rising early presupposes that one gets enough restful sleep, the previous night: recommended 7 to 8 hours sleep. In summer time it's much easier to rise early with the daylight, winter can be challenging.
Anyway, I find rising early, I get stuff done. The back office stuff. Organising my day. Putting things into perspective and you probably know by now that I talk a lot about perspective, and putting things into perspective. This is so important. Categorising stuff, placing it in the correct pile, the correct box, whether it be a mental file or a physical file, it's important to box it and label it for easy reference later on. I suppose it's all about organisation, organising things as best you can.
I find rising early, my day flows better and I'm much more productive and at the end of my day, generally I know I have achieved something worthwhile and satisfying.
And if you're not doing it, yet, Try it. You might Surprise yourself.
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Hello, Aidan Noone here and I'm really happy to be with you again today, wherever you are in the world. And I hope you are doing reasonably ok.
Positive Affirmations, What are they? How do they work?
Are positive affirmations any good? Are they useful? Do they Work? Lots of questions and I'm sure you'll get lots of different answers.
"I am strong and comfortable when asking my boss for a pay rise" "As I rise from my seat and walk on stage to give my speech, I am energetic and determined as I know deep down my audience really wants to learn from me, and are totally interested in what I have to say" "Then, I know, this is what I enjoy doing." You feel it deep down inside you.
My opinion is that positive affirmations are much better than using negative affirmation. What is a negative affirmation? Firstly, I believe it's important to know a little bit about how your mind works. Your mind cannot process negative language. Example, "I don't want to be anxious." The issue with the last sentence is that when your mind 'reads' this sentence, it deletes the word 'don't' and focusses on the action of the sentence. Therefore the sentence becomes, 'I want to be anxious". I'm sure you have often read at the end of a letter, "Please do not hesitate to contact us." What does your mind do with that sentence? Yes, it deletes the 'do not' and the sentence becomes, 'hesitate to contact us.'
I would say that the use of appropriate specific language and use of specific words has an effect on our neurology and subsequently affects our motivation. Again, our brain cannot process negative language, it focusses on action and outcomes.
"Don't think of a pink elephant" You immediately think of a pink elephant. You have to think about what you don't want before you think about what you do want". Positively worded affirmations go straight to the heart of actioning what we want to do, to achieve.
Always, always focus on the outcome, what you want as opposed to what you don't want.
I suggest you write out some positive affirmations, make a list and read the list every day and discover how they affect your neurology and how you are feeling and achieving.
"I am strong and comfortable as I present to my bosses today"
"Each day and every day I am better and better"
"I am motivated to succeed as deep down I know my audience wants to hear and learn from me."
Of course, physical action is also very important. We must want to achieve what we affirm in a positively worded affirmation and or suggestion.
There is a hundredfold amplification when affirmations are used in the hypnotic state. Hypnosis helps to embed and amplify positively worded suggestions.
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Recently I returned from vacation, rested, and yet a little stressed from traveling, I do find air travel a little labourious at times. Perhaps, some of you may identify with my experience. Anyway, I returned home, I have a reasonably large garden, to find the grass had really grown high and the weeds, yes the weeds. In some places, all I could see was weeds and not the real beauty of the varying shades of green we have in Ireland. In themselves, weeds are beautiful, sometimes magnificent flowers and they do provide our bees and insects with much-needed nourishment. I admit I do have a section of the garden that is wild, wild in that my friends the weeds have a place to grow and be themselves without interference from me. However, my "enjoyment" garden has the least amount of weeds and I'm able to see the also beauty of hybrid plants, roses, honeysuckle, lobelia, and the ericaceous loving plants with their striking colours.
Each person, each environment has its own unique beauty in and of itself. I don't necessarily add anything to their beauty. I can appreciate their beauty and delight in their beauty.
So where am I going with all of this? Sometimes, we think a garden must be a certain specific way, look a certain way, behave a certain way, and yet there is beauty in the "disorganised". Also, sometimes we allow the weeds to destroy our vision of the beauty of a garden as it was designed. The expression, "I cannot see the wood for the trees" comes to mind. It's whatever brings you peace and joy and happiness, whatever happiness means? Each to their own! You can decide, you can design and you can choose! What's your choice?
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When was the last time you truly listened to someone? Oh yes, we all listen, and yet do we hear what is being said? Growing up in the 1960s in Ireland, Children were to be seen and not heard. Thankfully, largely that is now changed, and for the good. Yet are we listening? Are we hearing what is being said to us? Spoken to us? Are you listening? Are you being heard? Are you being valued?
Are you being listened to? I'm sure you can identify times when you've had something really important to say, important to you, and yet the person with whom you were speaking, just said, "yes" and moved on. You expected a much fuller response.
When someone is speaking to you, do you generally turn and face them? Giving them space to say what they want to say? Do you believe it's necessary to ask questions just for the sake of asking questions? Or are you there, remaining largely silent and maybe just offering a short clarifying question?
Sometimes it's not necessary to say anything when someone else just wants to be heard.
Next time, turn and face that person, whom you are speaking with, whom you value because to be listened to and to be truly heard demonstrates enormous respect. Look at their face! Ask only short clarifying questions, if necessary. And remember, sometimes people just want to be listened to without you having to give any significant response. Momentary eye contact, friendly facial expressions, head nods, leaning into the person speaking. It is said that in the communication process over 80% is non-verbal. Resist the temptation to just jump in and say something. You being present, body and mind is probably the most that anyone can respectfully give to another and what can be reasonably expected in return.
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Some time ago I had the opportunity to visit my old Primary school. That was 45 years ago. From a child's perspective, which was my perspective then, everything seemed enormous. and overpowering. Remembering, there was over 30 boys in the classroom at that time. The classroom then looked huge. And yet now 45 years later as an adult everything seems so tiny compared to what I remember. The only difference, the classroom now had an electronic blackboard linked to the internet, we didn't have that back then, was the internet even invented then, don't think so. Even the schoolyard seemed way smaller than I remember. 100's of boys running and playing.
The point I'm making is that when we are in the thick of things, it all seems perhaps daunting, much bigger than it really is. Maybe even overpowering and feeling lost. 45 years later, I was an adult visiting my school. I wasn't that shy, blond-headed boy anymore. I felt powerful and in control. A different perspective is possible, it may takes years and yet it is still possible. I didn't know back 45 years ago that 45 years later, I am that person that I am right now. Life experience can provide you with the tools to change your life for the good.
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As a human being you have a vast store house of learnings and happenings, indeed resources, from your birth right up to now. You may not be consciously aware of these resources and yet, there they are stored in your unconscious mind.
Right inside your mind you have an infinite storage of a wealth of knowledge and intuition. Have you ever been mulling over a problem and constantly trying to solve that problem, perhaps consciously spending hours if not days doing so.
Then one night you go to bed and you dream and in that dream, your subconscious presents to you the solution to your problem. It does so, sometimes, in the most vivid way. So there you are you've wrecked your brain trying to solve that problem and all the time your subconscious mind already had the answer. Perhaps there's some truth in the saying, "take a break and get out of your own way" Go do something different to what you've been doing.
When you do so you suddenly arrive at the answer. Or when you sleep on a problem you get the answer - almost by magic. You have a vast storehouse of infinite knowledge and creativity thats there ready to be accessed.
That creative part of your mind can be accessed by using hypnosis. You simply access the hypnotic state, whilst hypnosis is not relaxation, you may experience relaxation in the hypnotic state and again you may not experience relaxation.
Thats not really the important part of what we are talking about. It's accessing that creative intuitive part thats important and asking that part to provide to you the solution to that problem you have been trying to solve, in its own time,
You are presented with the answer. . Hypnosis is that powerful tool to help you access that infinite well of wisdom and creativity right inside you.
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Just think about it, isn't it time to get rid of that no can-do mindset, The I'm not as good as others mindset. The truth be known, there will always be slimmer/fatter / taller /shorter/ better looking/ less better looking people/ wealthy /less wealthy/ earn more money/earn less money people. Accept that you are all that is necessary, right now, right at this moment. That right at tis moment in time you are in the right place with the right resources, possessing all that is necessary to live the life you are living. However, because of the unstoppable creative abundant mind we all possess there will always be options available to us. Discovering for yourself that right inside you, you have a portal, a door way that is currently locked, or just not quite as clear as you'd like it to be in order to access it, to open it and break thru to where you want to be. Remember, where you want to be, you may already be there. You just may not be currently fully conscious of it. That may sound a bit strange or weird. Have you heard the expression, never look a gift horse in the mouth? Go discover, enjoy, savour, delight in the unique person that you are. There is no one else like you on this earth.
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Just continuing with our theme on how words and phrases can affect our neurology and can either embed us in a problem state or orientate our awareness to find solutions and become solution-oriented. We may not have overtly stated what exactly we have been doing over the past few sessions as I believe it's important that we each discover for ourselves what and where exactly we want: where we want to orientate our neurology, ie to solution state or to problem state. No one wants to be stuck in a problem state.
In previous sessions, we mentioned the words,"imagine" "discover" and "allow yourself.
Let's try a few more I'm grateful and I acknowledge the work of Jason Linett in this specific area.
The word - "remember" Of course, it depends on what you are remembering. Let's assume it's a positive event you are remembering. For example, "Remember a time when you felt really positive and motivated and as you remember that specific event, connect that positivity to what it is you are achieving right now. And as you do so, you can discover new ways to motivate yourself to achieve way more than you ever thought possible. So we are rediscovering past positive events and revivifying them, energising them and using the positivity associated with those past events and applying them, now in the present day.
Perhaps this is a new way of looking at things, maybe a new perspective. After all, gaining a new perspective can provide useful insight.
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Today you can allow yourself to discover new ways in which you can use words to inspire, motivate and invigorate yourself
To inspire yourself to move forward to discover more, whatever more means to you!
Just think about the phrase - just imagine, just allow yourself, discover new ways,
Just imagine, allowing yourself to discover new ways in which u too, can use that newfound confidence to motivate yourself to greater success. Allow yourself is an invitation to someone to take ownership of a series of suggested actions.
Just imagine,
Just allow yourself
Discover how you too can
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What if you could use your imagination to help you achieve goals, for imagination is probably one of the building blocks of success, whether it be career wise or personal. Just imagine doing the things you always wanted to do? Just imagine having five extra customers each week: how successful is your business now? Just "imagine" - a very powerful word and we use it more frequently than we fully realise.
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Whilst attending a training with John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn in 2003/2004. I learnt many useful NLP strategies. In this short podcast I give you an example. Relax and enjoy them.
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You are a unique person with many skills and talents. Forge your own path and become a trailblazer and others will follows.
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Many smokers take up vaping as a substitute for smoking cigarettes and or tobacco. Invariably, many vapers then find themselves hooked on vaping and nicotine. HYpnotherapy is available to redirect you towards health and well-being breathing nicotine-free air.
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Keeping a daily journal can be a huge allay to help to get to know yourself better. Consider writing a journal, just for you, no one else will be reading it. If you want help, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you get started.
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?Irritable bowel can slowly creep up on you and yet there is help available out there. Yoga and relaxation can help. Hypnotherapy has long been a powerful allay in alleviating the symptoms of irritable bowel. Why not discover how you too can learn to alleviate the pain and discomfort caused by irritable bowel.
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On a daily basis are you juggling balls at the expense of what's really important in your life, your family, your wife, your husband, your partner? You can constantly juggle balls and miss out on the valuable and important things, people in your life. Lots of use of the word "important" today. What you focus on is what you get.
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Words Can Entrap Us and at the Same Time, Words can be Liberating! Be careful of the words you use. You never know how a spoken word can be the cause of pain and the alternative is: that words can be liberating and invigorating. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of us as people (our subjective experience) and according to Bandler, "leaves behind a trail of techniques," and these techniques are available to be used in an ethical manner. Liberating!
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Just be good to yourself, after all you have been looking after You for so many years, now its time to take time to relax and do something pleasureable and or relaxing. Be good to Yourself.
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What perspective do you have on the small annoying things in life? Is your perspective a moaning perspective or it is one of "I can do this". Yes, I know it's boring and bothersome for perhaps a small portion of my week and yet I refuse to allow that 'smallness' to control me and to control my enjoyment of life. I'm the chief operating officer of my mind.
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The 'Why" questions can cause us to embed even deeper into a problem. In therapy the question "why" is a product of the conscious mind. Whereas the solution lies in the unconscious mind. "Why" can interfere with the work of the unconscious mind. In business, probably two of the most powerful questions are: 1. For what purpose is this happening/taking place? 2. What will that achieve? Asking the foregoing two questions generally gets to the heart of the matter and in some circles may be unwelcome. Thanks for listening.
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By asking the appropriate specific questions, you determine your success or otherwise. Simple, yet powerful!
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The ability and capacity to take perspective is so important for you because it leads you to be able to navigate life in a more calm and rational manner. Learning the skills to step back and invoke the pre-frontal cortex of your Brain is a skill that can be easily learned. When you become rational and much much less emotional you prove to yourself that you are not stupid, illogical, or irrational. Then you are much better able to communicate your needs.
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In a very rudimentary explanation, the Buteyko Breathing Method principally involves breathing in and out through the nose. The benefits of nasal breathing are very significant and more details can be obtained on www.tomherronexperience.com
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Conquering Addiction
Having your needs met and when your needs are met, you are much happier and it becomes much easier to kick the habits.
What you believe becomes your reality. If you believe you can, you can. 'if you believe you can't, you cant.
And whats your WHY about wanting to kick your habit?
Just imagine, if a baby when born could speak, he/she could ask to have nappy changed , to be fed, to be hugged and cuddled. IThe baby would have no need to scream and cry for hours. The baby would be able to express its needs and have them met. So often children grow into adulthood not having their needs met or not able to truly express their needs and probably the greatest of these is unconditional love and acceptance or as Carl Rogers put it : to receive unconditional positive regard. Not having our needs met can cause all sorts of issues for us as adults. How many adult babies do you know?
From eating disorders to smoking to heroin, cannabis , cocaine, gambling, these are all addictions. And so whether you think you can or you think you can't overcome your addiction. You're right. What you believe becomes your reality. What's your why for wanting to overcome addiction?
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Triggering the relaxation response can be a huge help in alleviating the symptoms of Autoimmune Disease.
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Over 300Million People Are Affected By A Significant Loss Each Year! Believe it or not: approximately 300 Million people are closely affected by a significant Loss in Life each year?
This could be the death of a partner, a child, a parent, a friend, etc. The pain of grief or loss experienced by that cohort of 300 million people is surely immense. Yet many of us who experience a loss or grieve the passing of a loved one are almost expected to carry on as normal. Until you experience a bereavement you will probably never fully understand that pain.
Bereavement is the period in which you grieve for that lost loved one. As mentioned Grief is painful, even exhausting. During the grieving process you may experience many emotions, anger, sadness, and guilt. The pain of not fully acknowledging or identifying this grief ( denied, buried or stifled) may cause huge anxiety or what may be described as a deadness of the spirit and this can manifest it itself in physical symptoms and illness.
When you learn to allow yourself to discover and identify this grief this leads to peace of mind and freedom to live your life. In fact, it could be said you give yourself life!
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What’s the Difference Between Evaluation Language and Descriptive Language?
In everyday life, we use language to express our wishes, desires to friends, family, and work colleagues. It’s natural to use words and yet words account for only 7% of communication (Mehrabian). A huge 93% is non-verbal. Just think about that!
Therefore, if words account for only 7% of communication isn’t it logical, therefore, that we need to become the best we can be to communicate at the optimum level.
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Are you a Must-erbator? Truth be known, you probably are! I must do this or I should do: I have to!
You see, by far the majority of people are “controlled” by the “shoulds” and the “have-to”, in their lives. It’s just that many people are not fully aware of how much control the “shoulds” have over their lives. I’d say “must-erbators” are very common. Change your thinking and you change your life - for the better, if that's what you want?
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There is a bank of available research-based evidence which supports, Hypnosis and the therapy performed whilst in the hypnotic state, can be a powerful allay in You getting restful rejuvenating sleep.
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A person suffering from depression can be one of the most debilitating experiences anyone can go through. Yet there are strategies to help you overcome depression and move forward and live a relatively normal reasonably happy life. REM sleep is essential and yet too much REM sleep leads to Depression. Therefore balance is essential.
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