Journal

my projects, my writing — my journal

Notes and reflections on mindfulness, self-hypnosis, CBT, and life — written slowly, published when ready.

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13 May 2026

Links to my latest YouTube videos 📺

..and a story from last week.

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16 December 2025

Making Friends With Time

As the famous poem asks,

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1 December 2025

Get that Million-Dollar Feeling: This type of Presence is a secret message to yourself.

I’ve been thinking about getting 🪙 That Million-Dollar Feeling.

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29 October 2025

Building a city each morning is a great way to neglect yourself.

Welcome to RECENT MAGIC, ideas that are connecting me back to the present.

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26 September 2025

The Thanks Capacitor - How to power a time machine

Remember Back to the Future? At first, the DeLorean… it needed plutonium!

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29 July 2025

When the Cat Becomes the Mafia Boss

How our inner characters take over—and how presence brings us back.

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16 July 2025

Taste experiences like you are tasting wine.

Plus a Mindful Walking Meditation.

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26 June 2025

Recent Magic - The Lightning Conductor

What to learn about intense self development, identity changes and growing a YouTube channel.

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18 April 2025

Rabbitholes..wormholes..blackholes..🕳️

🕳️..to enter the flow state.

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8 April 2025

Get closer...to flow...

A photo, an idea and a hypnotic poem.

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31 March 2025

Painting our masterpieces

Everyone is good at art.

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17 February 2025

The Transcender and The Enchanter.

A Hypnosis Superhero and Supervillain.

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Approach

Three doorways to the same thing.

Different practices, one quiet aim — paying attention well enough that ordinary life starts to feel a little magical again.

Present

Mindfulness

Find beauty in the present — through attention, presence, and simple practice.

Future

Self-Hypnosis

Find beauty in the future — gently changing the patterns that hold us back.

Past

Journal & Reflections

Find beauty in the past — writing as a way of noticing what mattered.

Projects & Ideas

A small collection of things I'm working on.

Updated occasionally.

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Unified Mindfulness Pathways Teacher Training
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Unified Mindfulness Pathways Teacher Training

Ongoing training and teaching within the Unified Mindfulness system — clear, structured, secular practice.

Coming soon

Hypno-CBT® Practice & Resources
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Hypno-CBT® Practice & Resources

1:1 hypnotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy — practical, evidence-based change.

Coming soon

Startup Investing & Psychology of Change
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Startup Investing & Psychology of Change

Notes from years of backing founders — how mindset, attention and habit shape what gets built.

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Chris Walton

About

Hi, I'm Chris.

I'm a mindfulness teacher and hypnotherapist based in Leeds. I help people relax, change unhelpful patterns, and find beauty in everyday life.

Most of what I do sits between contemplative practice and modern psychology — quiet attention, gentle change, and a curiosity about how the mind actually works.

Training & background

  • Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy — UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
  • Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy — APT
  • Mindfulness Teacher Training — Mindfulness UK
  • Unified Mindfulness Coach pathway
  • BSc, business and product background
  • Active startup investor and advisor

Contact

Let's have a quiet chat.

Book a 15-minute, no-obligation conversation. We'll see if I can help — and if not, I'll happily point you somewhere that can.

Location
Headingley, Leeds