You are probably familiar with the expression being out of your head and I might at some time in the future talk about that, it's not quite what I want to talk about today. I'm saying, get out of your head and into your body, yes into your body. Do something physical, go for a walk, stand in the rain, of course only where it's safe to do so. The feeling if being barefoot on a cool surface. Feel every inch of your foot as it touches the ground. The feel of cool wet grass on your fingers and hand,...
Jun 09, 2022•2 min•Ep. 49
It's that time of year when young and not so young students sit for their examinations. Having worked so hard for years to reach a time when their studies reach a crescendo in an examination. Just some tips to help you be at your best. The importance of sleep, restful sleep the night before the exam. Eat a good energy breakfast, one that feeds your brain. Be positive, and have an I can do this mindset. Breathe in thru your nose and out thru your nose. Keep your mouth closed. Read the exam paper ...
Jun 08, 2022•2 min•Ep. 48
Taking Perspective on Other People is Important
Jun 07, 2022•7 min•Ep. 47
I was aged about 6 or 7 when I had my first experience at baking, more specifically baking what can be known as a loaf of Irish Wheaten Bread. To this day I follow the same recipe as I did as when I was a child. Coarse wheaten flour, plain flour, salt, golden syrup, soft brown sugar, Handful of oat meal, melted butter, bread soda/ bicarbonate of soda and of course buttermilk. I add an extra, and that's chopped walnuts. Mmmmm. At an early age, I discovered the importance of adding the right ingre...
Jun 06, 2022•3 min•Ep. 46
You are probably familiar with the expression, "Oh, that's perfect." For example, John could say to Jill, 'Oh Jill, I've completed that task you asked me to complete." Jill might respond with, "thank you, John, that's perfect." So the "that's perfect" is used as an acknowledgment. It can have many other used! And yet, does 'perfection' exist? Many renowned artists have produced acclaimed works of art and yet upon close examination, the acknowledged works of art have within them imperfections. It...
Jun 05, 2022•2 min•Ep. 45
If you are a reader, then there's bound to be some books in your collection , in your library of books that you haven't yet read. I came across one such book the other day. I had been sorting out stuff, tidying up and for some reason this particular book was left abandoned, isolated on it's own in the midst of a neatly organised book shelf. The book is by Henri J. M Nouwen and the title: "The Inner Voice Of Love". - "A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom." Nouwen, was a great spiritual writer. I ...
Jun 04, 2022•4 min•Ep. 44
You know the way when you do that self talk in your head. We all do it. Sometimes we do a running commentary to ourselves. Maybe you're in a group fo people and you're listening to someone rabbiting on about something and to be honest to yourself, you really couldn't care less what they did. And then the running commentary takes off in your head. "Get me out of here." "I don't want to listen to that crap." .... and so on. or, sometimes you do a lot of self criticism, self doubt. You all know wha...
Jun 03, 2022•2 min•Ep. 43
Have you taken the time recently to pause everything you're doing and took a look around you? I'm not suggesting that you're going about your daily tasks blindfolded. And yet, because you do the same things in the same way in the same context you can become blinded to the treasures that surround you. Pause and open your eyes! The people around you, who care about you, perhaps you have children or a significant other. Just pause and take a good look, they may not be perfect, anyway who is, and ye...
Jun 02, 2022•2 min•Ep. 42
In a very excellent article by Mark Tyrrell of Uncommon Knowledge, in his Therapy Skills series, I'll leave the link to the article below, so you can read it for yourself. In this article, Mark gives us a very interesting and intriguing different perspective on "Addiction." Our brains have a reward system and it's the neuro-transmitter called Dopamine that's responsible. This chemical provides us the ability to become highly focussed with the ability to learn and advance. There are other chemica...
Jun 01, 2022•2 min•Ep. 41
They say that life is all about focus, what you focus on is what you get. Perhaps there is some truth in that expression. Consider if all you are focussing on is depressing thoughts or you continually allow yourself to be in the presence of negative and or toxic people: how do you think you will be feeling ? Imagine being in a dark room and all you had to help yourself was a torch and you focus the torch on what you want, and you want to find is the exit to emerge into the light and safety. You ...
May 31, 2022•3 min•Ep. 40
Frames - Picture frames - Mirror frames, All sorts of frames. How important are frames? Just imagine if the Mona Lisa was framed in a dingy old picture frame! How would she look? Would you be still impacted by her beauty, by the message she is communicating to you? Or perhaps you have a beautiful or picture at home or something recently you have purchased that you really need a frame for? Maybe an ornate mirror? You think wisely about the frame you choose, don't you? Frames are so important. Why...
May 30, 2022•3 min•Ep. 39
Are you in the driving seat? Steering the bus? Going where you want to go? In the pilots seat? In the right direction? If not why not? And if not, you are what we might call, "At effect!" Being the author of your life demands you taking control and if you are not taking control you are not, "at cause!", you are "at effect!" When you are "at cause", you are in the driving seat, steering the bus, going in the direction of where you want to go. Or are you soaking, being swept along with the ebb and...
May 29, 2022•2 min•Ep. 38
You may be familiar with the saying, "You are what you eat". This was bandied about to highlight that good eating habits lead to having a good healthy weight. Similarly, I would say that: "You are what you think." Which thoughts populate your mind? OR more importantly which thoughts do you allow to populate your mind. Thoughts do not have a physical structure in that you cannot point to a thought as it doesn't have a body or a shape, in other words, it's not a thing. How much notice or weight we...
May 28, 2022•2 min•Ep. 37
Learn the rapid and fast way to use your imagination to achieve much more than your ever thought possible! One of the most powerful aspects and or agencies of your mind is the capacity to imagine - your imagination. Your imagination can take you to places far away and you can experience sights and sounds and even smells and can be completely immersed in an alter reality. Your imagination has the ability to put you totally at ease or to scare the living daylights out of you! However, there are ma...
May 27, 2022•6 min•Ep. 36
It was way back in the early noughties, I attended a conference in Dublin, Ireland at the Griffith College Campus, this was a former Military Barracks, originally established by the British during their occupation of Ireland. The Conference was given by probably one of the legends in Hypnotherapy, Gil Boyne from California, USA. Gil was known then as the hypnotherapist to the stars. I would attribute Gil as having an uncanny use of what we might call clean language in a therapeutic context. And ...
May 26, 2022•4 min•Ep. 35
If you are a smoker, there's just one thing I want you to take away from this short audio podcast, and that one thing is that you are FREE to smoke as much as you want and as often as you want. And yet isn't it strange that when you take a flight, whether it be a short or long haul flight that you remain smoke-free during the time spent in the airport before the flight and during the flight. Or when you go to bed at night you don't wake up in the nighttime to smoke! There has to be something to ...
May 25, 2022•3 min•Ep. 34
You probably know someone who frequently and or occasionally will say, "I'm not perfect, you know." It's usually said to convey an apology for something done or something not done. Or, perhaps, there's an element of putting oneself down! Comparing yourself to someone else and saying, I'm less than you, you are above me. Or then again it may not be this. Anyway, where is the starting point of that feeling, where does it come from, from inside your body? Perhaps it's trying to say, I'm just a huma...
May 24, 2022•2 min•Ep. 33
I remember some time ago, speaking with a colleague and saying, "I'm crap at writing", "I don't know what to write." Their response was very interesting. They told me, "write you are crap at writing." And I did. In other words, I took it that my colleague was telling me to write how I feel, just plain and simple. No ifs or buts, just describing what I am currently experiencing. You see, taking your time, focussing on the detail, each step at a time achieves a purpose. The real purpose of this is...
May 23, 2022•3 min•Ep. 32
What is it that's holding you back? I'm Irish living in Ireland, with a strong cultural upbringing. Oftentimes the neighbours were conferred with an importance that in hindsight was illogical. I'm not referring to the normal and natural respect that one gives to ones neighbours and usually it is reciprocated. Whats I am referring to is a sort of, "keeping with with the Joneses", type of deference conferred upon them. The truth is, what the neighbours think has very little to do with me! Just thi...
May 22, 2022•5 min•Ep. 31
Hello Aidan Noone, here and thank you for being with me on this journey. The question is: " Have you tried it yet, Are you doing it?" What am I referring to? I'll let you in on a little secret that I find really powerful, empowering and creative. Well, what is it? It's getting up early in the morning, rising early. When I refer to early, I'm talking about rising from about 5am to 5.30am. For me, that's when I'm most creative. My mind is full of thoughts and ideas. Generally, I write my thoughts,...
May 21, 2022•3 min•Ep. 30
Hello, Aidan Noone here and I'm really happy to be with you again today, wherever you are in the world. And I hope you are doing reasonably ok. Positive Affirmations, What are they? How do they work? Are positive affirmations any good? Are they useful? Do they Work? Lots of questions and I'm sure you'll get lots of different answers. "I am strong and comfortable when asking my boss for a pay rise" "As I rise from my seat and walk on stage to give my speech, I am energetic and determined as I kno...
May 20, 2022•5 min•Ep. 29
Recently I returned from vacation, rested, and yet a little stressed from traveling, I do find air travel a little labourious at times. Perhaps, some of you may identify with my experience. Anyway, I returned home, I have a reasonably large garden, to find the grass had really grown high and the weeds, yes the weeds. In some places, all I could see was weeds and not the real beauty of the varying shades of green we have in Ireland. In themselves, weeds are beautiful, sometimes magnificent flower...
May 19, 2022•3 min•Ep. 28
When was the last time you truly listened to someone? Oh yes, we all listen, and yet do we hear what is being said? Growing up in the 1960s in Ireland, Children were to be seen and not heard. Thankfully, largely that is now changed, and for the good. Yet are we listening? Are we hearing what is being said to us? Spoken to us? Are you listening? Are you being heard? Are you being valued? Are you being listened to? I'm sure you can identify times when you've had something really important to say, ...
May 18, 2022•3 min
Some time ago I had the opportunity to visit my old Primary school. That was 45 years ago. From a child's perspective, which was my perspective then, everything seemed enormous. and overpowering. Remembering, there was over 30 boys in the classroom at that time. The classroom then looked huge. And yet now 45 years later as an adult everything seems so tiny compared to what I remember. The only difference, the classroom now had an electronic blackboard linked to the internet, we didn't have that ...
May 17, 2022•2 min•Ep. 26
As a human being you have a vast store house of learnings and happenings, indeed resources, from your birth right up to now. You may not be consciously aware of these resources and yet, there they are stored in your unconscious mind. Right inside your mind you have an infinite storage of a wealth of knowledge and intuition. Have you ever been mulling over a problem and constantly trying to solve that problem, perhaps consciously spending hours if not days doing so. Then one night you go to bed a...
May 16, 2022•3 min•Ep. 25
Just think about it, isn't it time to get rid of that no can-do mindset, The I'm not as good as others mindset. The truth be known, there will always be slimmer/fatter / taller /shorter/ better looking/ less better looking people/ wealthy /less wealthy/ earn more money/earn less money people. Accept that you are all that is necessary, right now, right at this moment. That right at tis moment in time you are in the right place with the right resources, possessing all that is necessary to live the...
May 15, 2022•2 min•Ep. 24
Just continuing with our theme on how words and phrases can affect our neurology and can either embed us in a problem state or orientate our awareness to find solutions and become solution-oriented. We may not have overtly stated what exactly we have been doing over the past few sessions as I believe it's important that we each discover for ourselves what and where exactly we want: where we want to orientate our neurology, ie to solution state or to problem state. No one wants to be stuck in a p...
May 14, 2022•3 min•Ep. 21
Today you can allow yourself to discover new ways in which you can use words to inspire, motivate and invigorate yourself To inspire yourself to move forward to discover more, whatever more means to you! Just think about the phrase - just imagine, just allow yourself, discover new ways, Just imagine, allowing yourself to discover new ways in which u too, can use that newfound confidence to motivate yourself to greater success. Allow yourself is an invitation to someone to take ownership of a ser...
May 13, 2022•2 min
What if you could use your imagination to help you achieve goals, for imagination is probably one of the building blocks of success, whether it be career wise or personal. Just imagine doing the things you always wanted to do? Just imagine having five extra customers each week: how successful is your business now? Just "imagine" - a very powerful word and we use it more frequently than we fully realise.
May 12, 2022•2 min•Ep. 20
Whilst attending a training with John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn in 2003/2004. I learnt many useful NLP strategies. In this short podcast I give you an example. Relax and enjoy them.
May 11, 2022•2 min•Ep. 19
