Video: Do This Psychological Exercise 30 Seconds Before Your Gym Workout
Your workout starts before you take the first step. Research shows that expectations influence performance. In this short video, I demonstrate a 30-second mental technique that can help improve effort, confidence and exercise adherence. Your brain may be influencing...
Video: One Word That Could Change Your Workout: Active Alert Self-Hypnosis in the Gym
What are you focusing on during your workouts? Fatigue?Discomfort?Everything that's difficult? This simple active-alert self-hypnosis technique helps direct attention towards qualities that improve performance. Because attention shapes experience.For a more detailed...
Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss: Use Your Mind to Make Weight Reduction Easier
I've been teaching a great deal about how to apply self-hypnosis for weight loss specifically recently and so wanted to write an article on that topic and share here on my blog. "We first make our habits, then our habits make us."— Commonly attributed to John Dryden...
Video: How Changing Attentional Focus Can Change Your Mood
Your brain becomes better at noticing whatever it repeatedly focuses on. In this short video, I explain a simple evidence-based psychological technique that can help interrupt negative thinking loops and improve emotional regulation quickly. Learn how changing...
Video: Improve Your Mood with this Emotional Acceptance Technique
Many people think emotional strength means suppressing difficult feelings. Psychological science suggests something very different. In this short video, I explain an evidence-based emotional acceptance technique that can help reduce emotional struggle, improve...
Video: Change Mood Fast with Behavioural Activation
Motivation does not always come first. In this short video, I explain the psychology of behavioural activation and why small actions can dramatically influence mood, motivation and emotional resilience. Mood often follows behaviour. Ps. It just so happens that when...
The Psychology of Mood Elevation: Evidence-Based Ways to Improve Your Mood Every Day
How can you improve your mood when mood often feels like weather. It arrives uninvited, changes without warning, and seems beyond our control. Many people therefore assume that mood is something that simply “happens” to them. Yet psychological science paints a very...
Video: Are You Hypnotising Yourself to be More Stressed?
Many people unknowingly hypnotise themselves into stress repeatedly throughout the day. Focused attention plus negative imagination can intensify emotional reactions remarkably quickly. This short video explains a practical evidence-based self-hypnosis technique to...
Video: How to Use Self-Hypnosis When Walking
Did you know you can apply self-hypnosis while walking? In this short video, I explain an evidence-based active-alert hypnosis technique using rhythmic movement, breathing and focused attention to help regulate your nervous system and improve mental focus. Simple....
How to Apply Self-Hypnosis in Daily Life
It makes sense for me to explain how to apply self-hypnosis in daily life and highlight that it is greatly importable into our day-to-day living. For many people, self-hypnosis conjures up images of lying down with closed eyes, listening to a slow voice guiding them...
