060 Is your pilot light always on | Dr David James

“Rather than have an on off switch if you would with stress and anxiety…they’re much more like a pilot light on a hot water heater, they’re just constantly going and people are constantly in a state of low grade anxiety”

— Dr David James -

Given how prevalent stress and anxiety is today, I was curious about how anxiety could be treated with hypnotherapy in a lasting way. I had the opportunity to speak with Dr David James, licensed therapist, author and speaker who has a passion to see his clients make amazing life changes. David has real life experience of stress having been a police officer in Los Angeles so his perspective on how we can transform our relationship to stress is beyond purely an academic one.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr David James

Note: Apologies for the clicking sound from my guests microphone

We spoke about 

• David’s journey of discovery

• Stress and the impact on our body and creativity

• Changing our response to stress

• Differences between talk therapy and hypnotherapy

• Retraining the nervous system

• Changing our view of stress

• Making an ally of stress

• David’s book ‘Discovering your magnificent mind’

• The value of understanding the power of your mind

Value Quotes 

“Rather than have an on off switch if you would with stress and anxiety… they’re much more like a pilot light on a hot water heater, they’re just constantly going and people are constantly in a state of low grade anxiety”

“For many people what is really helpful is to simply relax and that sounds too good to be true”

“As a hypnotherapist I am a sub-conscious behaviourist”

“The biological purpose of the anxiety mechanism of stress is to alert us, to warn us and so we can make an ally of that”

“Become best friends with your breath and your attention”

“It is a matter of training your mind and your body to work in unison to bring the changes and the kind of relaxation you need”

“Whatever the mind creates it can recreate”

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Episode Links 

You can find Dr David James at:

Website: www.drdavidjameshypnosis.com

David’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Your-Magnificent-David-James/dp/1504374649/

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056 A healthy kind of selfish | Dr Linda Joy Rose

“If you don’t learn a healthy kind of selfishness you usually wind up with an unhealthy selfishness”

— Dr Linda Joy Rose

Healthy living expert, therapist and author Dr Linda Joy Rose paints the picture of a driven and successful woman who initially didn’t recognise the signals her body was giving her.  Constant travelling took its toll on LJ and this resulted in an autoimmune disorder.  Recovery came in the form of nutrition and directing her passion. LJ has since been teaching, speaking and writing on the subject of natural wellness.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr Linda Joy Rose

We spoke about

• LJ’s wellbeing challenge

• Relationship between autoimmune disorders and stress

• Recovering from a non-specific autoimmune disorder

• Working consciously to break the stress habit

• 20 breaths technique

• Using meditation as a practice

Value Quotes 

“I’ve found that with autoimmune is something that is very common in the wounded healer”

“I do need to admit that there was a long time that I was not really taking care of myself. It’s like I had forgotten everything I knew.”

“If you don’t learn a healthy kind of selfishness you usually wind up with an unhealthy selfishness”

“My passion was back and I think that had a really big part in my healing process as well as getting a lot more nutrition in my food”

“Stress is a habit”

“It’s not always what you’re eating, it’s what’s eating you”

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Episode Links

You can find Dr Linda Joy Rose at:

Website: www.naturalwellnessacademy.org 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naturalwellnessacademy/

Dr Linda Joy Rose has kindly shared the following links to complement the 20 breaths technique.

Proprietary relaxation music which has alpha and theta brainwave patterns – this can be combined with the 20 breaths technique and used for meditation – it’s 15 minutes.

https://www.naturalwellnessacademy.org/free-music/

A hypnotherapeutic module called “ongoing wellness” to help condition the subconscious to be receptive to making better lifestyle choices.

https://www.naturalwellnessacademy.org/free-hypnotherapy/

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048 Notice the gentle nudges of your true self | Kyle Davies

“Our emotion tends to get blocked up without us being aware of it”

— Kyle Davies

Need a new perspective and understanding of stress and emotions? Kyle Davies, a psychologist, coach and author specialising in chronic health challenges delivers this and more. We explore the role of emotion on health and wellbeing and do a deep dive on why change is needed from the inside out.  Kyle’s message is one of empowerment and taking responsibility to create awareness of the integrated nature of the mind and body.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Kyle

We spoke about  

• Kyle’s own journey with anxiety and depression

• The dramatic increase in chronic health challenges

• Defining stress and emotion in a new way

• Impact of “invisible” stress on the mind and body

• The role of emotion on health and wellbeing

• Change is needed from the inside out

• Feelings don’t need to be solved

• Kyle’s book ‘The Intelligent Body’

Value Quotes 

“If a person goes through a transformation, during the period they are transforming there is a period of chaos. Which is a sort of breaking down of the old and a building up of the new”

“Medicine fails to take in the wider environment and looks at mind and body as being separate and it looks at the body in separate bits and your body is looked at as a machine”

“If we try to manage symptoms the body will tend to either perpetuate those symptoms and amplify those symptoms or send a different set of symptoms”

“Our emotion tends to get blocked up without us being aware of it”

“Our bodies and our mind are a self-correcting and self-healing system”

“When the body is in a perpetual state of stress there’s a battle going on internally to try to reset to our default setting”

“My body is the vehicle through which I experience life… my body lets me know through the symptom of pain…to get our attention”

“The flow of intelligence happens throughout the body… brain, heart and gut”

“We live in a culture where I think we are increasingly disempowered which is just not useful for us”

“When we grow up we tend to deviate from our true self in order to fit in, to get by, to be liked, to do the right thing all because of trauma”

“Taking time to listen to the gentle nudges of your true self that show up as symptoms in the body” 

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Episode Links

You can find Kyle Davies at:

Website: http://kyledavies.net/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KyleDaviesEFC/

Find out more about Kyle’s book ‘The Intelligent Body’ at Amazon or Barnes and Noble