All posts by My Hypnotherapy Sydney

Video: How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig

Some takeaways from Adam:

  • Questions to ask are 1.Who you are 2.What you do 3.Who you do it for 4.What those people want and need 5.How can they change as a result
  • Why the formulation is so powerful is that because of all the five things you need to know what your life purpose is only two are about yourself and the other three are about other people being who they are, what they want or need, and how they change as a result
  • That formulation forces you to be outward facing
  • From Adam’s example of the 20% of those who knew their life purpose was that they knew very clearly whom they served, what those people needed, and how those people changed as a result
  • The most successful people in any field always focus most on the people that they serve than on how they are served themselves

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Video: Cancer recovery: the missing element | Avinoam Lerner

Some takeaways from Avinoam:

  • What is yet to be common knowledge is that our subconscious mind is linked to our immune system and therefore stress can also impair the functioning of this vital bodily system, which means that our ability to fight illness like cancer is compromised and so is our ability to recover from it, in the words of David Spiegel who is an MD, a psychiatrist and researcher at Stanford University stress can adversely affect components of the immune system involved in fighting disease like cancer is an important statement it is important because it suggests that by resolving the mental patterns within patients that cause stress we can ensure the proper functioning of the immune system and enhance its ability to engage in the elimination of cancer cells

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Video: More Clinical Examples of Hypnosis | Dr. David Spiegel | NCCIH Integrative Medicine Research Lecture

Some Takeaways – From David:

Dr. David Spiegel presents more examples of mind-body control through Hypnosis For:

  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Increasing or decreasing gastric acid secretion during hypnosis
  • Smoking cessation
  • Compound fracture of the index finger

‘Tranceformation’ Conclusions:

-Hypnotic Modulation of perception-

  • Application of control systems to sensory processing

-Brain Regions Involved in Hypnosis-

  • Anterior Cingulate Gyrus
  • DLPFC
  • Insula
  • Dopaminergic Pathways
  • Sensory Cortices

-Hypnotic effects on Anxiety-

  • Psycho-somatic disassociation
  • Frontal Limbic Control

-The Body-

  • Sensory Motor Pathways
  • Pain

Full credits also to NCCIH (National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health).

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Video: Know your inner saboteurs | Shirzad Chamine

Some Takeaways – From Shirzad:

  • Shirzad utilizes term Sage in this context, which is based on the positive-intelligence brain, which is made up mostly of the middle prefrontal cortex, ACC insular cortex and parts of the right brain
  • Shirzad utilizes the term Saboteurs in this context, which are based on the survival-brain region, which is made up mostly of the brain stem, limbic system and parts of the left brain.
  • You must learn to strengthen your Sage and weaken your Saboteurs, It’s just a matter of neurochemical science
  • One of the things Shirzad guarantees based on his experience is that you can achieve all the great wealth and success in the world and still feel deeply unhappy because of your Saboteurs
  • Shirzad’s list of 9 Inner Saboteurs are 1. Controller 2. Hyper-Achiever 3. Restless 4. Stickler 5. Pleaser 6. Hyper-Vigilant 7. Avoider 8. Victim 9. Hyper-Rational

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Video: How to recover from depression | Michael Yapko

Some Takeaways – From Michael:

  • Depression has a biological component (genes and biochemistry, diseases and drugs) – how important it is to appreciate and have a multi-dimensional viewpoint yes biology matters but surprisingly not as much as you would think.There is also no depression gene.
  • Depression has a psychological component (cognitive distortions, history)
  • Depression exists in social context (social disturbances, distress, cultural influences)
  • What causes depression: As Michael indicates ‘The best answer I can give you is that depression is caused by many contributing factors (many many things), there is no single cause and likewise there is no single best treatment’
  • The best treatment or approach is the one that works for the person If we ask the question who overcomes depression and who doesn’t the people who find themselves facing forward (how do I want my life to be) who start thinking in terms of how do I want my life to be do better than the people who keep focusing on the past the unchangeable past
  • If a person is vulnerable to depression their alcohol intake should be zero alcohol
  • If there is a cure for rumination its action but it has to be timely action it has to be effective action
  • A goal without steps is merely a wish
  • If a person can’t sequence what they’re trying to do it isn’t going to happen
  • The goal is not to cure depression, the goal is to learn to manage a person’s mood

Full credits also to Psycholopaedia.org and Australian Psychological Society.

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Video: The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin

Some Takeaways – According to Amy:

  • There are three kinds of destructive beliefs that make us less effective and rob us of our mental strength

    1. Unhealthy beliefs about ourselves

    2. Unhealthy beliefs about others, thinking that other people can control us which gives away our power (Amy addresses here External Locus of control)

    3. Unhealthy beliefs about the world. Thinking that the world owes us something. Amy’s Example: Thinking, “If I put in enough hard work, then I deserve success”. (Amy gives an example here of a cognitive distortion)

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Video: How to change your behaviour | Dan Ariely

Some Takeaways – From Dan:

  • What is the basic insight we need to want to change our behaviour: We have to change out environment
  • What way is behavioural change the same as sending a rocket to space: 1. To reduce friction, we want to take the rocket and have as little friction as possible so it’s the most aerodynamic possible 2. To give it as much fuel as possible to give it the most motivation, energy to do its task (and behaviour change is the same thing)
  • What the story of “friction” tell us with regard to generic and branded prescriptions: That people hated returning letters (i.e. friction, small things really matter) and that by reducing the friction throughout the process that the majority of people switched to generic prescriptions in this example
  • In the example of saving 10 shillings at the beginning of the week, the method was called Pre-match (or pre-match or post-match depending on the method)

Full credits also to Ted Conferences LLC.

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Video: Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction | Judy Grisel

Some Takeaways – From Judy:

  • What we know is that addiction is characterized by craving and compulsive use tolerance meaning that the drug works less and less well over time and dependence so that when the drugs go away you feel less good than normal
  • Those things are are mediated by about half of it the risk comes from genetics and the genetic factors include discussed and the tendency toward novelty seeking and risk-taking is higher in adolescents in adults but in some adolescents more than others
  •  How marijuana works on the brain and how homeostasis is maintained so marijuana works THC is the active ingredient that produces the high and it activates this endocannabinoid system that we naturally have so Anandamide and 2-AG are neurotransmitters that interact with places all over the brain all over the cortex and areas associated with learning and memory associated with motivation associated with reward

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Video: 3 ways the brain creates meaning | Tom Wujec

Some takeaways – From Tom

  • Cognitive psychologists now tell us that the brain doesn’t actually see the world as it is, but instead, creates a series of mental models
  • The act of engaging and creating interactive imagery enriches meaning
  • It activates a different part of the brain

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Video: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris

Some Takeaways – From Nadine:

  • Childhood trauma: Folks who are exposed in very high doses, have triple the lifetime risk of heart disease and lung cancer, and a 20-year difference in life expectancy.
  • Children are especially sensitive to this repeated stress activation of the fight or flight response, and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving, to maladaptive, or health-damaging.
  • High doses of adversity not only affect brain structure and function, they affect the developing immune system, developing hormonal systems, and even the way our DNA is read and transcribed.
  • In the words of Dr. Robert Block, the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today.”

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