Thanks Rohxx. I need to hear to feedback like this. It gives me a huge lift which I need at the moment. Its really frustrating. I spend so many hours making my videos and get great feedback yet some videos just flop. Im currently finishing off my biggest project yet. 5 videos released over 5 days to teach my viewers how to do self hypnosis and combine it with CBT. Its taken a huge effort. I don't think anyone else on you tube has done this but after seeing how low the views are on this video Im wondering if the effort will be worth it for this new project. Sometimes though the algorithm picks a video up 100 or so days later and Im hoping that will be the case in this one and the series Im just finishing off will do well over the long term. Thanks again for your comments

Very true.

Your videos are very valuable to the society. Our support is always there.

Thanks Shwetha

@@TheAnxietyAttic Martin you are sent from heaven please don't stop. I plan to start a page in Arabic and will tag all your videos and channel. Please keep up. I am following you with all gratefulness

You’re welcome

Almost done. 5 written 3 completed. The last 2 just need recording and editing. Just hope they do better than this one which has had very low views in its first 24 hours. I don't think I will ever understand the youtube algorithm

I have a video on flying phobia kzfaq.info/get/bejne/erp_a5te3JawqIU.html Its aimed at people who have a fear of the plane crashing. However for some people the fear is not of the plane crashing but the fear of having a panic attack on the plane and not being able to escape. That needs a different approach. I may cover that in one of my future panic disorder videos.

Thank you. I was very frustrated when I wrote that because I had put so much effort into it only for very few to watch the series. But I have learnt so much about You Tube since then. That series took a while to pick up because its a slightly different niche to my usual videos but its doing OK now. I have learnt that You Tube is a rollercoaster. Don't let the highs get you too high and the lows too low. Im experiencing a bit of a slump again this month but all the wonderful comments keep me motivated to make more videos. Thanks again for the advice.

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how did u unlock this power

@@andreharris144 It's gone again, I'm not sure it just happens sometimes. I think that healthy diet and exercise, and positive thinking helps.

Yes hypnosis is a self improvement tool. It used for things like confidence building, anxiety, or sports performance improvement. If you have nothing to work on now then its probably not worth investing the time in learning it (although it doesn't take long to learn. Maybe a few 10-15 sessions a week for a few weeks). But most people will find that at some point in their life they have to do something outside their comfort zone or want to improve something. As mentioned in the video I personally used it about 25 years ago for public speaking but now Im used to public speaking I rarely use it. I also used it once before an ice hockey match and won man of the match which was bit of a miracle because I was a terrible player. :-) Hypnosis can't give you sports skills that you don't have but it can help with focus, effort and motivation.

​@@TheAnxietyAttic I just re-read what I said and I could see how it could come across as pretty arrogant. To say there is no room for self improvement is to say one is perfect and saying one is perfect is both objectively false and arrogant. Assuming perfect means without flaws anyway. There is a mantra of a sorts that I say to myself on a regular basis to try and keep arrogance in check: "The perfect person has no room for improvement. The person who knows everything learns nothing". My point is that I have this natural ability that I see as basically being an untapped, or rather more like consciously untapped, ability/resource that I have. I learned to use an abacus not because I care at all about doing maths with large numbers in my head but instead because I read research showing that learning to use an abacus transfers over to improvements in our reasoning abilities. I took an art class and learned to draw, basic proficiency and not a "real artist", because I wanted to increase my visualization ability and visual memory, etc. So I'm very much for self improvement but what I see most self help type stuff offering isn't something I think I need at this point. To be honest I see a lot of it as being like saying "just breathe" to someone in the middle of an asthma attack. Meaning what they say isn't wrong per say, like if someone with asthma could just breath that would solve the problem, but practically speaking it is often useless and examples are stuff like "trust yourself", "be yourself", etc that lack real world practical step by step type tips and instead create a positive emotional state(which isn't a bad thing but just kinda meh by itself)

Here is an example use I have been thinking of: I use a visual memory technique called the "method of loci" which has been around since at least ancient Greece. This system basically takes advantage of the strong spatial memory that all mammals share and our strong associative memory. The basic process is that one takes a place they visit on a regular or daily basis and subdivide that space into "loci" or locations(imagine 10/20 specific locations in your house/apartment) and then later on go back and mentally "place" images there. The interesting part is I can remember the image I place in a location often after just one try and almost always with 3 or less reviews and when I say remember I mean for life. There are various strategies for encoding data into images and an example for numbers could be what is called a PAO, person-action-object. That is where a person memorizes 100 people, 100 actions and 100 objects and could remember a 6 digit number by turning it into a mental image of a person doing something with something and then storing that image in a previously setup loci. Research has shown that it is possible for a therapist to effectively implant memories into highly suggestible people if they aren't careful about how they word things and if they aren't watching to see if the person slips into trance while speaking. There have been a couple studies that suggest many false confessions to crime are basically something like a combination of a highly suggestible person, extreme stress and extremely forceful person. My hypothesis is that implanting false memories is not a good thing to happen in the context of therapy, policing, or really any number of contexts but that is potentially extremely useful in other contexts like in the context of a visual/imagination based memory system like what I just described. So maybe a practical thing I can work on is something along these lines.

Another example use case, there is a lot of clear evidence, thousands of research studies, showing that various positive emotions have various positive health effects and especially when practiced on a regular basis in a meditation kind of way. For example, gratitude, compassion, etc practices. Also, for the longest time I held this objectively false belief that people who are more emotional were somehow less *insert something*(intelligent, rational?), but at some point I came across a study showing that people who had high "emotional granularity", meaning had more "emotional labels" and could distinguish between them, showed drastically higher levels of wisdom on most "gold standard" wisdom scales. That caused me to to do some introspection and realize my emotional "palette", if you will, was made up of only 4 colors haha where these people I had previously thought of as in some way less-than are painting life with hundreds or maybe more colors. So maybe hypnosis could be used in conjunction with something like the "emotion topology" project to increase my emotional granularity and therefore indirectly increase overall levels of wisdom.

Googling symptoms makes anxiety worse because it reinforces the belief that something is wrong with you but watching anxiety videos generally does not reinforce a negative belief. The only exception would be if you have anxiety about having anxiety and you are watching hundreds of videos just to try to relieve the anxiety. (Watching anxiety videos does relieve anxiety. Its putting into practice what you learn in them that will reduce anxiety). I hope that makes sense.

@@TheAnxietyAttic yes, That makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

Phobias yes. Hypnosis is very affected with phobias (but it must include desensitisation). For anxiety disorders, a small percentage do respond well, but the clinical evidence is lacking for hypnosis being effective for most people. Some hypnotherapists do combine hypnosis with more evidence based treatments though (e.g. CBT) and that can improve the chances of recovery.

Although hypnosis alone works well for some people, for most people with anxiety disorders it is not enough. CBT is the best approach for anxiety disorders. Ideally you need to see a therapist but if you can't afford or access a therapist you can learn CBT from my channel. Hypnosis and CBT work well together and that is why I provide many free CBT and hypnosis resources on my channel. Have a look at my playlists for the different anxiety disorders.

Unfortunately it was over 30 years ago so I no longer have the book.

I was just having a sort out in my attic and found the missing book. It is called Autohypnosis Step by step guide to self hypnosis by Ronald Shone

The series is already released. Here is a link to the first video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8ljn7mI2c2ppJs.html

@@TheAnxietyAttic thank you very much Martin 👍🏻