Global Hypnotherapy with Aidan Noone

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.