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Embody the Novelist - Hypnosis for Flow States, Creativity and Authentic Writing · The Hypnotist

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  Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside
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  access to cutting edge hypnosis with real clients facing
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  genuine. Issues.
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  Brought to you by The Hypnotherapist, demanded by
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  celebrities, CEOs and even royalty, Adam Cox.
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  These recordings took place live from Adam's clinic in London's
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  world famous Harley Street. So get yourself comfortable and
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  enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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  Hi, it's Adam here, and you're going to be listening to a
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  hypnosis session all about creative writing authenticity.
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  Flow states. Linked to the idea.
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  Of. Being a novelist, not doing
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  writing. But.
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  Being a novelist and a novelist writes novels, and the
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  distinction is important because a lot of people are trying to
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  focus on what to do rather than who they need to be.
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  And the client that I was working with, pretty talented
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  writer, had already written but really wanted to embody the
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  identity of a novelist. And they knew what that would
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  mean. That would mean writing
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  consistently every day, but not in a begrudging way, not in a
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  forced way, but in an inspired way.
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  They had role models that they knew could write incredible
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  novels in six weeks, two months. And they wanted to tap into flow
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  States and resource states that would enable that kind of not
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  prolific writing of rubbish. You know, it's quality stuff
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  being written because it's an expression of the talents and
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  the resources of themselves. Now it might be the case.
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  That. You have no aspiration to be a
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  novelist, but there might be something else that is your
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  passion. It might be that you want to be
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  the artist rather than to do art.
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  Or it might be that you want to be the musician, the composer.
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  It might be something else the filmmaker.
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  And I want you to think of if you embodied your dream, what
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  identity would you need to be? And as a side note here, I had
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  learnt hypnotherapy. I was doing hypnotherapy with
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  clients, but I accidentally stepped into an identity of the
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  hypnotist. And it came from launching a
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  podcast about four or five years after I started hypnotherapy and
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  sharing my hypnosis with the world.
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  But the title of my podcast is not Adam does hypnotherapy, it's
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  the hypnotist. And that's because I
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  accidentally embodied the identity of the very thing that
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  would enable me to be a better hypnotist.
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  And here's what's interesting. A hypnotist does lots of
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  hypnotherapy. But there is a a way that people
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  can get this wrong. There are certain people that
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  embody the identity without getting good at the capability
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  and the competency. And my very first career was in
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  sales and I had this wonderful advice that I got from an early
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  mentor. And he he really said this to
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  me. He said there's lots of people
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  in sales that embrace the identity of being a salesperson,
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  but don't get good at learning how to sell.
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  And he said in the sales game, you want to become a master at
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  the skills without stepping into the identity.
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  Now, if you think of a novelist, there will be some people that
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  do lots and lots of writing that don't consider themselves a
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  novelist or a writer. Equally, there will be people
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  that really do consider themselves a novelist but aren't
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  consistently writing. And it's that sweet spot in
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  between where identity collides with action and congruency.
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  That's where the magic happens. You know your favorite musician
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  and favorite filmmaker. Well, that's only the case
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  because they created music and made films.
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  Action is inextricably linked from the identity, from those
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  people that truly have an impact.
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  So I want you to think of what is your equivalent of being a
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  novelist. And if you do want to be a
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  novelist, this hypnosis session should fit you like a glove.
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  But even if you want to be a musician or a YouTube or an
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  influencer or something like that, replace anything to do
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  with writing with whatever your passion is and you will still
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  get a lot of value from this session.
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  And if you do want something bespoke specifically for you?
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  Just like this. Client went out to me and and.
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  We. Created a whole session based on
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  their individual circumstances. That's also possible for you
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  too. So if you like the idea of
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  working with me, there will be a link in the description where
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  you can book a free 30 minute consultation call.
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  Or you can visit my website adamcox.co.uk and on there you
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  can book a free consultation call over Zoom.
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  We'll have a chat and who knows, I might be your hypnotherapist,
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  your hypnotist rather than a hypnosis podcast that you listen
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  to. For now though, you might get
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  some real value from this session.
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  So find a quiet, comfortable place, ideally the kind of lace
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  that you won't be distracted or disturbed.
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  Relax and enjoy the session. Take a deep breath in.
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  As you breathe in, breathe in that resourceful feeling of calm
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  and relaxation. And as you exhale, feel a
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  feeling of release, as if any tension, stress, or worries are
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  leaving your body in that outward breath.
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  And when you breathe in, breathe in deeper than before, breathing
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  in that wonderful feeling of resourcefulness.
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  And I want you to, as you breathe in, think about
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  resources that could be amplified and enhanced.
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  Focus, creativity, tenacity, determination.
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  And the deeper you breathe in those resources, the more
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  relaxed and resourceful you feel.
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  And as you exhale, give permission to release anything
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  that is unresourceful. Any doubts, any beliefs that
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  simply aren't true, hesitation, overthinking.
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  Just allow it to be released, breathing in everything that
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  enhances who you are and exhaling anything that
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  contributes to who you are not. Each breath enables you to drift
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  deeper and deeper down. The conscious mind could also be
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  considered the logical, mindful mind.
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  The subconscious, Well, that's your imagination, your ability
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  to think without thinking. You don't intentionally decide
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  what to dream, and yet the thoughts come.
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  You've had ideas and inspiration that seem to magically appear
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  from nowhere. That is the power of your
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  subconscious mind, and the deeper you breathe, the more you
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  gravitate to that place. A place of enhanced neural
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  plasticity, amplified imagination, alignment between
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  the conscious and the unconscious.
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  As you breathe out, feel any weight of expectation or
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  pressure leaving your body, and as you breathe in, feel that
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  you're breathing in inspiration. Respiration is now inspiration.
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  Breathing out the blocks and breathing in everything that
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  enhances that which you desire. Feel the weight of your arms and
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  your legs. Feel the rhythm of your
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  breathing. And I want you to feel that
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  every breath takes you to more and more ease, calm and comfort.
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  More and more congruency. And as the body fully relaxes,
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  the mind can begin to drift, not away, but inward, towards
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  something familiar. Because there is a part of you
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  that already knows how to do this.
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  You don't need to become a novelist just to remember.
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  That you. Already are one.
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  And I want you to notice now that every now and then there is
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  a particular state that you enter when you are truly
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  yourself. There's a way that you breathe,
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  a way that your attention narrows and deepens, the quiet
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  alertness, the gentle gravity pulling your awareness inward.
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  And maybe this is the novelist state.
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  This is who you are, when who you are and what you're doing
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  overlap. Not effort, not striving, not
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  forcing words. What if this is the state where
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  stories move through you rather than being dragged out of you?
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  Allow your mind to evaluate those memories.
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  When you've been in a flow state where the right ideas connect
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  with the right words, everything flows.
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  And when you're in this state, you're not trying to write,
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  you're simply expressing who you are.
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  A warrior fights, a novelist writes, and some people believe
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  that writing is something they do.
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  But deep down, you already know that writing is something you
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  are in motion. It's a reflection of your
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  identity, not behaviour. That requires effort.
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  That's something that you have to do.
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  Think of the most talented musician that you can recall.
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  That musician doesn't do music. They embody music.
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  The tree does not try to grow. It simply grows because that's
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  what it is. And you don't write because you
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  decided to. You write because it's the most
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  natural expression of your identity in those moments when
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  you are aligned. And alignment does not require
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  motivation, it requires acceptance and permission, and
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  not from anyone else. Alignment only requires your own
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  permission on your imagination. To think of a talented writer,
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  either from now or the past, that you consider embodied all
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  of the qualities of being a novelist, their creativity,
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  their structure, the ideas, the diligence.
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  And I want you to imagine that novelist in a moment that they
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  were in that flow state. They were prolific not through
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  force, but simply by harnessing all of those powerful resources
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  naturally. And as you see this talented
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  novelist, imagine, mimic them to begin with.
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  Mimic how they breathe, their posture, their facial
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  expressions, and then allow yourself to float into that
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  novelist and feel what it would be like to be them in their
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  genius, in that flow state, almost like the words were being
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  channelled through them. And I want you to feel that.
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  Whatever neural pathways, beliefs, and ways of thinking
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  existed in them are now through mirror neurons activating within
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  you. If there's any inner dialogue,
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  notice the tonality. If there is a sensation of
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  inspiration or creativity, notice where in your body it is
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  amplified. Harness it and know that all of
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  these also exist within you. Imagine leaving that other
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  novelist, and then imagine seeing yourself sitting down to
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  write. No pressure, no expectations.
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  Just observe yourself, you and whatever you use to write a
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  blank page, an app, a laptop, or something else.
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  And I want you to notice and observe something curious
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  happens. There is subtle shifts in your
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  facial expression, posture and breathing.
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  I want you to observe the very moment something changes.
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  I want you to get a sense of how quickly sitting down to write
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  activates that flow state where time changes, when minutes
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  stretch, hours compress, and thoughts organize themselves
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  without instruction. Words arrive already formed,
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  scenes assemble themselves, characters speak without being
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  summoned. Some people consider writing
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  creating a world, a universe in a different dimension, and the
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  words flow from interacting with that world of your own creation.
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  And what if this is flow? And flow doesn't come from
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  effort. Flow comes from recognition,
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  where your mind recognizes that this is what you do, and your
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  body recognises that this is where you belong.
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  And every now and then there may be moments where the words slow,
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  when ideas are less frequent and instead of interpreting that as
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  a problem. You recognize it as depth
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  Resistance isn't a signal to stop.
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  What if it's a signal that you're entering A deeper layer
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  of the work? Incubating ideas, planting seeds
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  that will sprout later? A place where the story hasn't
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  surfaced yet but is forming. Ideas can become embryos that
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  may take weeks or months to fully form.
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  So you don't need to force it. You stay present.
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  A novelist understands this is not absence, it's incubation.
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  And notice something else. There's a change on how you
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  think about unfinished. Unfinished ideas, unfinished
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  words, paragraphs, chapters. You know that unfinished stories
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  create tension. They open loops that can create
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  additional cognitive load. Because you've experienced this
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  in other areas of your life, things unrelated but still need
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  your attention or need resolving give you less cognitive power to
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  do what needs to be done. But what if sometimes something
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  incomplete is incubation? What if the open loop is giving
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  a task to your unconscious mind to close the loop?
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  Hold the paradox. The two conflicting ideas can be
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  true. The completion feels natural to
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  you, and that incompletion can be an opportunity, like a double
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  bind. If you complete, you feel.
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  Proud. If it's incomplete, know that
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  your unconscious is working diligently to close the loop and
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  you don't need to feel rushed or pressured, but just hold a
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  conviction. The completion is inevitable.
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  You finish stories because stories want to be finished
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  through you. Every completed piece
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  strengthens the identity. Find that tonality, the novelist
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  tonality within you, your inner dialogue, and repeat these words
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  in your tonality. I am someone who completes.
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  I am someone who follows through.
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  I am a novelist who brings stories into the world.
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  I want you to imagine seeing a book of your life.
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  The pages written are your past, and there are pages unwritten
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  which are your future, but every now and then you get a glimpse
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  as to what could be on those it's pages Notice something
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  distant, but it's something unfolding.
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  Allow the words to turn into that universe, that world, you
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  in the future. And I want you to imagine seeing
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  yourself. Books written, manuscripts
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  completed. Books not just published, but
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  launched, supported. I want you to see see a version
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  of you in a bookshelf and see your books on a table, not on
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  the shelves. I want you to be there in that
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  same sharp and see person after person picking up your book,
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  reading and being immersed in your world that you created.
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  And further down in the book, you might see a future where
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  your stories, ATV shows or movies on bestseller lists see
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  that version of you being interviewed.
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  TV, podcasts, festivals. But as you observe your future,
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  connect to a feeling of how ordinary and inevitable it
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  feels. This future success doesn't feel
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  dramatic or a surprise when it matches who you are.
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  It feels correct, aligned, and from now on, whenever you sit
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  down to write, whenever you open a document, whenever you add an
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  idea to pre-existing ideas, whenever your fingers touch the
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  keyboard or a pen, your mind remembers, your body remembers,
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  and the novelist within you naturally comes to the
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  forefront. Every individual has many
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  different identities, but when you write and create, the
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  novelist state returns. No effort, no delay.
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  Because this is not a task, it's an expression.
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  And I want you to connect, Connect with the identity.
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  Imagine yourself as a giant stick of rock there at the
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  seaside, and just get a sense that if you were broken at any
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  point, the words the novelist would still be revealed.
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  This is your core. This is your identity.
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  It runs through you at every level.
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  You're not trying to be a novelist.
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  You are the novelist. It's time to leave this state
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  deep within your subconscious mind, but you return embodying
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  the state, the identity, and the future of the novelist.
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  So take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your
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  nose. Wiggle your fingers, wiggle your
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  toes. Connect and calibrate into the
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  here and the now as I now count from 1:00 to 10:00.
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  Two, awaken you starting to count 123 waking up 456.
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  More alert. 7-8 Open your eyes. Open your eyes. 910.
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  Wide awake, Wide awake, wide awake.
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