Personal Development Unplugged

Focus and Imagination - the 5 minute podcast What's the worst that can happen? That's what we think when we have a problem - don't we? We have a brilliant skill that we use to make things worse! What would happen if we used this skill and created solutions? Yep we can do this just a good as the other way just with a little practice and direction and intention. Let's also use our RAS (reticular activating system) and begin to notice opportunities that are present and help us get our goals and dreams. We just need to focus on the right thing(s). There's even a Cloughie guarantee in here as well  ;0) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/pod

If you're suffering right now? - The let me help podcast Firstly this is not just for those who are suffering, needing help and feeling down, depressed, anxious or any other negative emotion even if you're not you will find this useful to help others who you notice are or sometimes these things come along and blindside us. Let me tell about some of my clients and their issues, how desperate they were and how they changed. I'll share some more about me and a couple of issues I've faced and survived ;0) . All of these changed my perspective of what we are capable to change and how quickly and easily the process was. They changed their lives and allowed me to change mine and my enthusiasm and confidence in the work I do. This podcast will not just be stories that leave you in wonder but with no path or process to follow - I'll never do that. I will guide you with a lot of thoughts and processes you can use right now. Please let me know any specific issues you would like me to address and offer ways, processes or

And they called it mental health the FMQ podcast Do you like the term 'Mental Health Issues' - I don't! Is it a positive description, a specific description or does it make you think the worst? I believe we should call our issues what they are, not worse and not exaggerated one way or the other. let's have a chat and know how quick we can change our behaviours because that's ALL they are. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast Follow and inter-react on twitter @pcloughie I'm also in iHeart radio

Three special answers the FMQ podcast This podcast came from a very small but one the most important questions I ask when I work with clients. Then I thought, if this is an important question in my change work, then why don't I use this outside the therapy room. No reason at all was the answer. Let me go through the question and the possible answers and how you too can use them in finding solutions to any issue or decision, and it certainly does not have to be therapy base problems. I'll also take you a little further to ensure when the answer is YES how to make sure and all you need is a little bit of imagination which I know you have in abundance. I wonder what else happens in the therapy room we can use with everyday goals and outcomes. Everything is so simple and as we quote 'In simplicity there is genius' Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on t

Focus, harmony and misdirection The Personal Development Unplugged Podcast With a Inner Mastermind Group Hypnosis track   src="https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6020392/height/360/width/450/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/" height="360" width="450" placement="top" theme="standard" Focus is a great tool for our personal development providing you don't lose sight of the big picture. We need a harmony between the two. I'll tell you a little story how too focused can allow you to be misdirected and believe in magic. This, being totally focused, can be a way we lose track of our goals because we get trapped in the detail and don't see how and when we get off track. in effect allowing ourselves to be misdirected. Let me explain ways in which we can get advice for both our big picture and the detail using NLP and an idea from the book 'Think and Grow Rich' creating your own Master Mind group. I'll even give an example of how use the proce

Learning from dolphins - what next? - a podcast let's change our lives and all those around you! And from dolphins ;0) This a slightly longer 5 minute quickie but I think you will find this unusually interesting. So how much are you appreciated? Are you being told how much your're wanted, needed, missed etc. etc. Let's turn that around on it's head - How often do you tell others they are appreciated? Do you remember 'The Feedback Sandwich'? If you do you will know it didn't work, in fact it mainly had the reverse effect. So................. Let's learn from Dolphins Have a listen and you may well learn something that will change both yours and all those around you. If you take on the information I share not only will appreciate for who you are, you will also be the one that spread appreciation in ripples that o further than you can imagine. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share a

My rant on how long!!! - A 5 minute podcast I makes me so cross what some people say how long things, like making changes in your life , take. Where do we get these myths? And if you believe them they can act like a post hypnotic suggestion and you believe without questioning or knowing why. Let's break these old misguided thought virus's and begin to be the example of quick and easy change  ;0) If you do here old myths spoken as the truth ask 'how do you know', 'who actually said that and how did they know?' 'where's your data?' or simply look for counter examples - they are everywhere! Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast

Winning and losing mindset - Really? - a podcast Let's dis-spell that saying 'Winners never quit and quitters never win' It's more about a winning mind set, a mind set that makes good decisions and learns from all results - the good ones and the not so good. What is the difference between winners, losers, quitters in real life not just in sort. maybe it's all about stretching ourselves and keep improving our performance (in life and our goals) Let's have a look, a chat and remind ourselves of how we can achieve our goals or realise there's something better and to seize the opportunities that present themselves. I also want to give you a thought that some losers actually win and quitters can be an ultimate winner. Let's take this to our own personal development and identify where we can quit and win. Quit procrastination, fear or anxiety. There's even a little plug for my 'FREE YOUR LIFE FROM ANXIETY PROGRAM' Instead of losing and quitting we can also look at having a winning mind set that encompasses so muc

sharing a secret - a 5 minute podcast Did you know there was or is a global day of kindness. No neither did I. This got me remembering and thinking firstly how silly and then how brilliant. The silly thing is why be kind or show kindness on one day. Yes it may consolidate that energy but everyone needs to know about it. Then the brilliant bit got me - let's have a secret day - every day! Yay!!!!!! Stay with me for 5 minutes and have a listen because I think I actually for once make a little bit of sense :0) If you do we could start making those ripples of change that go so far and wide. Let's start together and let me know your thoughts and your experiences - the effect on others and yourself. Please share to all your friends and those who aren't and see how the generative field of learning really works. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTu

It's waiting for you - a podcast Everything you want to know is either out there or in there (in you). It took a book I bought way back in 1992 which I recently picked up to let me know I had information inside me I didn't know. Yet I guess every time I heard about that information since then it seemed to make sense with out knowing why. Maybe I wasn't in the right level of my personal adventure and now I am. What I am try to say, probably a little unsuccessfully, is that information is everywhere, you don't need to look to far and some is even closer to home if you take the time to look. The other great thing is you don't have to spend the time others took to learn what the know because their knowledge is available to you, you just have to look. Let's set our intention to grow and share our learnings too, that's this integrated field of learning we talk about - or is it the akashic field I knew about before I did. Oh I do love this! ;0) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or emai

Hypnosis announcement - yep I've made access really easy! On a recent podcast I had attempted to make getting and saving my hypnosis sessions easier by asking people to email me. Oh how wrong I was. To expect people to do that every time - no way! When I thought about it, in the quiet light of day, I realised I wouldn't do that so why would anyone else?   So..................... I thought a little longer - which I suggest in most of the podcasts (Doh!) and came up with what I think is the solution. Here it is. Go to www.paulcloughonline.com/podcast sign in to get instant access I'll send you an email with a unique link so you can re-access the page whenever you want 'Simples' OR If you're lucky and it's you first time here you might get a pop up thingy Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.c

Excuses - You're a fool if ya think ya fooling you - a podcast We all make excuses not to do the things we want to do - don't we? I know I do The thing is they are excuses and they are BS. Let me out myself and my excuses I used to tell myself and let's see if they resonate. It's only when you actually listen to them you realise there's more to it and when you really listen you can decide to ignore the excuse and start doing that stuff you have been putting off. The result - it's magical and the growth is magical and we begin to create things magical in our life! Come on let's shine a light on what we want, why we want it and do them. Let's take responsibility. I'll, as usual, give you a few ways you can change this procrastination, be accountable to ourselves. Let's have a look at rituals, not the dark satanic ones (that's another podcast - not) and make things simple so things just happen. Let's look at the things you and I do that, when we do them, we re totally on the effect side and how by simply observ

The 5 minute quickie podcast - A mind palace with or without hypnosis Inspired by the notes in the back of Hypnotherapy book and Sherlock Holmes. I'd always wanted to create an inner sanctuary, a quiet place, I could go to and think and I created one in the garden of my previous homes. I called it 'My Quiet place' and I would go there to write and think and be with myself. Then I was inspired to create a set of hypnosis tracks that take you, your unconscious mind and your imagination on an adventure of creating an inner mind palace or inner mind sanctuary. It's available at www.paulcloughonline.com. And then I thought it would be nice to share as a process you could play with and have to choice to do this by yourself or let me guide you in hypnosis. It's fun whichever way you go. If you are concerned - It's not a hard sell podcast, that's something I hate and feel duped when someone has tried to mislead me. I believe you will find this podcast interesting and something of value in it's own right. I really ho

The 5 minute quickie podcast - Let's re-ignite your passions Passion, where did it go? Let's take the next 5 minutes to discover a way to re-ignite or fan the flame of your passion. It's time to reconnect with our passions from our past when we had an abundance of both passion and excitement of feeling that passion. Let me go through a simple process, yes in simplicity there is genius' and let your mind re-remember those things you did with a passion and then be able to use this in your now and your future. I'll even have a hypnosis track ready for you to install a deeper feeling of passion into your life and the things you will be doing. All you will have to do email me paul@paulclough.co.uk saying 'yes please' if you want it. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates

A podcast - Lets' start close to home - the longer podcast There's so many things going on, some are in plain sight and one that I'm noticing right now have the Mental health banner which sometimes seems to register either, not me, or what can I do about it anyway? I have been away visiting my son Joseph and his wife which was so great. Where they live has a problem in plain sight and that is on of an abundance of homeless people. It's not just people being homeless it's the mental health issues these poor people are suffering and the reaction is to steer clear. That's good advice if we are not equipped to help and there is specialised help available but maybe not enough and that stinks! The thing is, these people are exactly that - they are people, human beings, maybe a brother or sister and definitely a son or a daughter. I have three sons and three grand children and I am a son. Knowing you are one or more these too we have to say there by the grace it's not me. The thing is it could be you/me one day if

The rare sense and how to use it - 5 minute podcast Let's have a pause for 5 minutes to think about a rare sense, the most inappropriate named sense - COMMON SENSE The thing is we know so much that are now second nature to us but do we use the common sense we were born with and actually do the simple things we know that would make a profound difference to our lives. I'm sure, you like me, have a number of things we need to do or want to do that we don't. It's as if they slip by unnoticed and it's only when we think about them we go, in the world of Homer' Doh!!!!!! So let's find a way to rectify this. It's simple and as we say here 'In simplicity there is genius' Have to some fun Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to l

What's stopping you - the 5 minute podcast A reminder and thoughts provoked by a book 'Bird by bird' by Anne Lamott 'some instructions on writing and life' How much experience and knowledge do you need before you're confident in doing what you really want to do it - Yep to start doing and not waiting until you know everything. So many of our students have this fear or 'unconfidence' because they believe they need to know everything there is to know and be as good as the people they see doing it. You know the ones, the ones that have been doing it for years. The thing is, if you do what you know and you know what to do get started! and find the stretch that will make you great. Any way lets have 5 minuted to put this right Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via e

A bonus Hypnosis track Following on from the #78 My person Challenge podcast here's a hypnosis track that I think you will enjoy and make a significant difference to the way you feel. Please enjoy this free hypnosis and if you're interested in finding other hypnosis tracks that are not available here have a look over at paulcloughonline.com Here's an example of what's there: USE YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND TO CREATE YOUR OWN PERSONAL RETREAT Imagine having an inner retreat of the mind, an inner sanctuary where you can go to find answers to your inner most problems, find sanctuary to relax, to learn, to remember, if fact anything you desire and your imagination can create. The power of Hypnosis Using the power of hypnosis and your unconscious mind we will create/build an inner sanctuary/retreat/mind palace, a place to leave the distractions of the outside world. Using your conscious mind to direct your unconscious mind to meet your desires and wishes and find the resources you need for the outside world. You will r

Challenges - my personal sharing - the podcast Following on from FMQ 129 I promised to share something personal. To share a personal challenge that effected me and the people close to me. Well, I have done that and a little more. I hope by opening up and letting you in, you will be able to learn from my challenges. Learn in a number of ways. If you are currently experiencing issues in your life I hope to encourage you that this too will pass, that there is always a way and that the darkness you are experiencing now helps you appreciate the light so much more. Hard to believe right now I know but it does :0) If you ever find yourself in the future facing overwhelming challenges you can know to take action early and know you can find the resources you need to succeed. If you know of someone who is not themselves, acting a little different then you know you can help by talking and suggesting help. That's why I always ask you to share this podcast with everyone you know, it's not an ego thing but knowing we have

Challenges - yours and mine - The 5 minute podcast This isn't going back to re-framing problems into a challenge - old hat! This is,in around 5 minutes,chatting about what real challenges we have. The challenges we face come in every context of our lives. Starting from the thought of 'what have I not achieved or not got what I want'. The answers. if we are honest, are where we are challenged. Once we identify these we can find ways to overcome, get around, go over and ultimately find a way to success. Other challenges come from being held back by negative emotions or negative and nonsupporting beliefs, which when we identify them and understand the intention behind them can make massive changes in our lives. It really comes down to being honest about ourselves with ourselves, which takes a little leap of courage and faith. This is by way of a taster of the next longer podcast and I'll lead the way in opening up and sharing a few of my personal challenges and some of the ways I got them sorted. There's eve