Therapy Blog Podcasts with Dr John Eaton

Dr. John Eaton explains how catastrophizing works as the brain turns uncertainty about the future into anxiety, using worst‑case predictions and old memories. He explains how to see through the brain's reactions, avoid engaging with them, and float past.  Based on the new book: Float: Exiting the anxiety-stress loop. If this episode was useful, the full method is set out in my book, FLOAT: Exiting...

This episode explains a gentle, three-step approach to working with anxiety without trying to force it away. Dr. John Eaton guides you to first label the experience, then observe thoughts and sensations mindfully, and finally "float" with the feelings as they change or dissolve. The method helps break the anxious loop and lets you re-engage with your commitments without resisting unwelcome experie...

This episode explains that panic attacks are an automatic alarm response from the brain, not a literal danger, and that trying to stop or avoid them often prolongs the experience. Dr. John Eaton outlines the FLOAT approach - awareness, allowing, witnessing, and letting time pass - so the body’s arousal can peak and naturally fall, teaching the brain the situation is safe. IMPORTANT NOTE: If...

Quick Awareness Exercises For a Busy Workday In this episode Dr. John Eaton guides listeners through seven short, one-minute micro-practices designed to interrupt anxious thought loops and bring calm and presence into busy lives. Each exercise  including grounding, focused breathing, body relaxation, sensory noticing, and a brief witnessing practice - is simple, practical, and can be done alo...

Dr. John Eaton explains why you can wake up already anxious even when nothing obvious has gone wrong: your brain’s over-sensitive threat detector, predictive processing, and a habit of alarm-jumping fuel a persistent loop of worry. He outlines the Float approach - noticing and allowing anxious states without resistance, shifting your relationship to anxiety through observation rather than fi...

An introduction to the process given in my new book - Float: Exiting the Anxiety-Stress Loop. Explains basis of the process in my own experiences with Anxiety, and my later discoveries as a therapist. Concludes with a brief summary of Float - Awareness, Acceptance and Witnessing. 14 minutes long. For your free 10-page guide email me on drjohneaton@gmail.com If this episode was useful, the full met...

A short Awareness exercise in which thoughts and feelings are accepted and allowed to be what they are - as they appear and fade in awareness. Links to the exercise in Chapter 1 of Dr John Eaton's new book - Float. 4 minutes and 38 seconds in duration.  

A short (4 minute) Awareness Guide. Can be used anywhere. For those who wish to practice short Awareness meditations throughout the day (or night). As continual reminders of the Aware state. Repetition allows this to gradually become your default mode of Being.

A Loving Kindness meditation (Metta).  Incorporating Awareness, Self-compassion and compassion for others. Best used in association with the 'Awakening to Awareness' Podcast. Approximately 8 minutes.

A short guide to entering into the State of Awareness/Presence in which your true nature becomes apparent. Approximately nine minutes in duration.

A mindfulness aid. Take a journey through the galaxies of infinite space, both outside in the universe, and in the sub-atomic particles of the body. Enabling you to release thoughts effortlessly as you rest in the infinite moment. With background ambience at 432Hz. 14 minutes long.

An 11 minute podcast focusing on mindfulness of the breath, the body and internal/external space. Contains background ambient sounds.

An 11-minute recording that promotes deep relaxation through slowing the breath, followed by systematic relaxation by muscle groups. 

This binaural beat sound, at 432 Hz frequency, entrains the brain to the alpha wave. Promoting calm, mental and emotional clarity, and deep intuition. Approximately 30 minutes.

This is the 3rd in the series on Mindfulness and Defusion. In this podcast I show you how to use defusion techniques based on your ability to exercise mindful attention on the thoughts that pass in and out of consciousness. You can use this technique on any kind of troubling thought: anxious, depressing, self-judgmental, limiting, etc.

This is the second podcast in the series Mindfulness and Defusion. Focusing on that conscious space beyond thought, from which our thoughts arise, and to which they return.  Develop the skills of allowing thoughts to come and go without fusing them. Spoken recording is 12 minutes long.

A recording by John Eaton promoting mindful relaxation (slightly hypnotic). Approximately 12 minutes long. 

A Binaural beat sleep aid at 2HZ frequency (21 minutes)

Mindfulness, Consciousness and Thought Defusion. This is the first of three in a series skill-building podcasts which offer a mindfulness process. Through which consciousness is expanded, and defusion from unhelpful thoughts is developed. In this podcast you begin your exploration of consciousness in present moment awareness. Spoken recording is 11 minutes.

Four playful assertiveness techniques to help you push back against unwanted criticism.