Transforming Fitness in Middle Age: "So the reason that I share my weight training and my gym gains on Instagram and so on is simply because I like to illustrate how much and how important and instrumental mindset is when seeking to do things like mobilizing your effort and altering your perception of effort and so on."

Understanding Self-Hypnosis: "Self hypnosis is something that is self directed, so wholly self directed, self regulated, that is the entire thing is regulated by oneself. The suggestions are self generated too."

Understanding the Nature of Hypnosis: "Ultimately, your entire hypnotic experience is being created and generated by another party."

Exploring Self-Hypnosis and Personality: "But as with many skills and with the vast majority of skills in life, as you practice them, you can become greater at them. You can become better at them."

Exploring Self-Hypnosis Origins: "One of the earliest accounts of self hypnosis that we can find are from James Braid who essentially oversaw some of his own illness and engaged in self hypnosis in exactly the same way that he would do heterohypnosis except, you know, treated himself as operator and receiver at the same time."

Exploring Self-Hypnosis and Neurodiversity: "But the great thing about self hypnosis as opposed to to hetero hypnosis in that regard is that it it it's in their hands."

Diversity in Hypnotherapy Approaches: "I think, it's really important to be taught not just a singular model that was created by one person, instead to be teaching a range of approaches and to have been subjected to critique on both on on all of those."

Understanding Hypnotherapy Practices: "a multi component multi componential approach to to hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is far better, you know, so to to rather than than single stop smoking sessions."

The Power of Self-Monitoring in Treatment: "one of the things that I love about people self monitoring, whether it's, you know, their eating habits or whether it's the levels of pain that they are experiencing or measuring, the quality of life that they have or whatever it is, that, you know, if they've had a bad morning, for example, or if they've had an argument or or or they had an incident at work, which is gonna flavor their mindset when they arrive for the session, or or they've got some some hormonal things going on, and and that has affected how they are in that session. At least when we've self monitored, we can look back over the course of the week and say, well, actually, you know, aside from how you are feeling right now, which is coloring the account that you're giving me, you know, we've got some really strong evidence over the course of the last week that you've been making some great progress and that there there's many reasons to be to to feel positive and optimistic at the moment."

Redefining Self-Hypnosis: "One of the things we're seeking to do with self hypnosis is to attempt to give it a PR job the likes of which something like mindfulness has, where it's very well accepted."