If you’d like to join us for the magnificent firewall experience on May the 4th next year, In Christchurch here in Dorset, then all you need to do is sponsor me £75.00 or more and email me (via the contact us page on this if you do not have my email address) to tell me that you want one of the spaces and I’ll send you on the information and book you a space.

We have limited numbers due to the size of the private venue, so it will be first come, first served.

I hope you can join us, please get in touch now… There is a link to my marathon sponsorship page on this website, just click on the tab on the right hand side of this website and you could be joining us for this amazing, challenging and highly rewarding experience.

I’ll show you how to walk on the hot embers and coals, we’ll learn much more about ourselves on the night and share and celebrate together.

I am in the middle of running a 9 day intensive Hypnotherapy training, so the blog will be a bit sparse this week. I hope to add bits and pieces when I can…. Get in touch and come and firewall with me next year!

As of the new year, I shall be starting a new weekly running blog to chart my efforts and raising awareness of my challenge to run three marathons in succession – Brighton, London and Milton Keynes in successive weeks.

Why am I doing this? To raise money for a charity called Mind.

Mind has been speaking out for better mental health for 60 years and is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. Mind works toward a better life for everyone with experience of mental or emotional distress.

Mind offer guidance and support, offer resources, are involved in communities and local programmes, lobby for welfare reform, offer training and awareness programmes – all in the field of mental healthcare.

If you know anyone that has suffered with mental health issues, I urge you to support this charity and my own efforts. Visit Adam Easons Charity Fundraising Page Here.

My training is underway; three marathons in 2011 spread over a longer period so that my legs are getting used to the exertions I will be placing upon them in April 2012.

I have trained in hot summer temperatures, dark winter mornings, the wind and rain of Autumn and the crispness of early Spring with steam coming off my head! I shall be running the steep slopes of the coastal zig-zags, speeding it at intervals around the local track and spending many hours each week trailing the miles of the south coast here… I have battled with shin splints, plantar fasciitis and fractured metatarsals… Whatever challenges the upcoming months bring, I’ll be training and dedicating myself to this cause.

Running in itself has been good for my soul… It has been good for my own mental health and when things have been tough in life, the time spent with myself on those long arduous training runs have been times when I have managed to overcome some hurdles, lift my spirits and understand myself a lot better.

I am therefore also doing all I can to help as many people as possible to run marathons and I shall be launching my own audio programme that uses the mind (along with hypnosis and therapeutic processes)  to advance anyone’s ability to run a marathon. Anyone sponsoring my efforts with this brilliant charity (to the tune of £40.00 or more) will get a free copy of my programme which is going to sell for over £80.00.

I’d love your support and really hope you can sponsor me and this brilliant charity. They make such a difference. Visit Adam Easons Charity Fundraising Page Here.

Anyhow, Keith and I have recently been having a bit of fun with Carl Harvey and Julian Freeman, the guys behind ‘Stars of Wellbeing’ and we have been filming for a couple of exciting upcoming projects that I’ll be mentioning here soon.

However, a little while back when we first all met here at the seaside, we recorded a couple of bits, while I had a crazy shirt on and we put a challenge together that saw me giving away for free my audio programme “The Wealth Wizard.”

We have just (yesterday) offered the same challenge and free audio programme again and if you fancy something to give you a psychological boost when it comes to your wealth and productivity, then pootle your way along to the following page and grab your free audio to use in conjunction with a challenge we are laying out. There are even prizes! Visit this page to get involved:

http://www.wealthwizardchallenge.com

Go join in the fun.

For those of you that follow my blog less for personal development and more for professional hypnosis reasons, you may well be interested to know that I can now offer the entire back catalogue of episodes of the evidence based hypnosis podcast here on this page of the website too:

http://www.adam-eason.com/resources/evidence-based-hypnosis-podcast/

Many of you kept on saying that you really enjoyed the podcast, but iTunes or your podcast provider only kept the 10 most recent episodes and you wanted to hear the previous episodes too. Now you can do that and every episode recorded to date is now accessible on the podcast page on this site for you to enjoy.(Scroll down the above mentioned page)

Have a wonderful weekend, the blog will be back and in action again as of Monday, see you then.

We went ‘glamping’ in a yurt, here is the one we stayed in, set in farmlands in the English countryside (there was plenty of ‘mooing’ going on at night which was nothing to do with us!):

Yurts are traditional tents used by nomadic people in far away places usually, but these are permanent and have decking and barbequeue areas, a communal kitchen lodge, their own toilets and shower and glorious wood burning stoves inside:

So very unlike ‘proper’ camping. (My friends that we usually camp with told us that this Yurt business was not ‘proper’ camping!)

Here is me getting acquainted with our welcome instructions on the bed:

And here is the view from the front door of the Yurt looking out into the Somerset countryside:

We visited West Bay just outside Bridport, and went to Hive Bay (i ate fresh sardines in the Hive Bay restaurant one lunchtime which were sensational) just along the Jurassic coast from there and walked along the Coastal Trail Pathway with it’s beautiful scenery. Here I am pulling a Grattans Catalogue pose:

We visited Lyme Regis, and you can’t help loving those old school seaside towns of England, here is Katie overlooking the equally beautiful coastline in the centre of Lyme Regis:

As well as eating and drinking at some gloriously traditional pubs, we also visited the famous River Cottage canteen in Axminster and quaffed Elderflower Champagne, and ate so well it is making me drool thinking of it again…

We reluctantly headed home, and thankfully got some sunshine and got to spend some time at our beach hut here in Bournemouth, I had taken the handkerchief off my head at this stage of the day:

Then it was my birthday at the weekend, we danced the night away with friends in Meyrick Park, locally to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing Disco Classics (the Bony M Medley was so much fun!) we waved out glow sticks, ate our picnics, drank our favourite wine and sang and cheered at the fireworks… And that is it in as much of a nutshell as I can do without sending you all to the land of nod… The blog will be a fully functioning hypnosis blog again as of tomorrow, but now at least you know what I was up to this last week while away from here….

Something else Jill said this morning really hit a note with me today; she thanked the students for sharing their vulnerability with her while on the course, because many had really gone through some of the processes themselves in a variety of ways this weekend and I don’t usually stop and think about that as much as I ought to.Thanks on two counts today Jill

Anyhow, here is A Limerick FOR (REBT-)Lovers

by Haley Elder, M.A.

There once was a doctor named Ellis,
Twas a doctor unlike other fellas,
He came up with a theory
Of what makes us feel dreary,
And anxious and angry and jealous.

Our beliefs, they control how we feel,
Even how much we eat for a meal,
They determine our moods,
Manage our attitudes,
Make us crack or allow us to heal.

So we now shall present the four kinds
Of beliefs that get into our minds,
They will make us feel sick
Like the weight of a brick,
Let’s see what the psychologist finds.

The first one that rears is THE MUST,
With it you will unlikely adjust,
“My boss SHOULDN’T do that!”
And “I MUSTN’T be fat!”
“They all HAVE TO be people I trust!”

You can challenge THE MUST with “Oh, really?”
“Where’s the proof that he HAS TO? You’re silly!”
“Is it written somewhere,”
“That life HAS TO be fair?”
That’s like insisting August be chilly!

Belief Two states life’s pains are THE WORST,
Its discomforts like dying of thirst,
“It’s a 10 on the scale!”
“1-0-1 percent stale!”
“It is clear I am NOTHING but cursed!”

Such thinking is so black or white,
Don’t you still have your health and your sight?
Yes, I’m sure it’s a pain,
But there’s something to gain,
And couldn’t you have greater plight?

The third one—“It’s TOO HARD to bear!”
“I CAN’T STAND all life’s harsh wear and tear!”
“I NEED everyone’s love,”
“Right, left, down, and above!”
“Without comfort, there’s NO way I’ll fare!”

So you think you will cease to survive?
There’s no way you’ll continue to thrive?
If you don’t get what you want,
Will you turn pale and gaunt?
Unfortunate, yes, but let’s strive

To recall what it is that we NEED,
Water, food on which to feed,
And sure, comfort is nice,
It does brings our lives spice,
But death, when we fail to succeed?!

Now the final belief causing trouble
Makes us feel like we’re trapped in a bubble,
When we say that our WORTH
Fluctuates like our girth,
And our failings have turned us to rubble.

Such cures will not come without saying,
Let’s accept ourselves without swaying,
Good deeds do not make us,
And bad ones can’t break us,
Unless upon self we are preying.

So just heed this advice if you choose,
With CAN’T-STAND-ITS you’ll be bound to lose,
Global ratings, no good,
Avoid they MUST, I SHOULD,
Remove AWFUL from words that you use.

I hope that this rhyme clarified
The craziest thoughts our minds hide,
Challenge those that might harm you,
Choose thoughts that will arm you,
Mental health will prevail and preside!