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Break the Superstition Loop - Hypnosis to Silence the Inner Voice of False Warnings · 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 Evans 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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  Would you consider yourself superstitious?
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  Adam here. And I was working with a client
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  that had been following a superstitious thought pattern
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  for almost 4 years. And it would really manifest
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  itself when it came to them choosing the kind of clothing
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  that they would wear. That if they didn't wear certain
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  clothing, they would feel that something bad was going to
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  happen. And it would feel like this
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  element of dread, which would deter them from doing that.
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  Because if something really bad could happen, and that feeling
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  can go away just by changing your clothes, why not change
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  your clothes? But the problem with that is
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  that you then positively reinforce the relief of changing
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  the clothes. And then that in a dialogue,
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  which is quite often how superstition works, gets more
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  powerful, more powerful, more powerful.
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  So in this hypnosis session, what I use is an element of
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  pattern interrupts. So like blurring what the
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  clothes look like, but also changing the influence of the
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  voice. And I asked this client, is
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  there anyone from your past that you just wouldn't follow their
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  advice? In fact, if they tried to advise
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  you or influence you on something, it would probably
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  lead you to doing the absolute opposite.
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  And there was there was some people from their past that felt
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  like that. So what we did and what you'll
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  experience in this hypnosis session?
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  Is changing the inner. Dialogue from the previous
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  voice, which was very much like their own voice, but
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  disassociated into the voice of someone from their past that had
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  no credibility, that couldn't influence them, that if they try
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  to influence them, it would make them more defiant.
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  So we've got that element going on, almost refining and updating
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  that inner dialogue for them. But the inner dialogue wasn't
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  everything that had a physical sensation, and that sensation
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  was heat and tightness and pressure.
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  And what they would do is they would feel that and they
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  wouldn't like that feeling at all.
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  And that would then encourage them to change their clothes, at
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  which point that sensation went away.
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  Now, that might feel strange if you've never experienced
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  something like that, but a lot of people feel something
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  similar. But it might be, for example, in
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  their gut, you know, they're thinking about doing a speech
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  and they feel these butterflies in their in their gut, and then
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  they make an excuse and then that sensation goes away.
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  So be careful what you reward. If you reward, let's say,
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  deterrence and avoidance, expect more of those.
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  This was rewarding the influence of a disassociated part.
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  And there's an element here in this hypnosis session of giving
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  it the narrative of being a false fear, a bad advisor,
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  because it's not provably wrong. If someone in your life says,
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  just imagine like an astrologer or someone tried to warn you of
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  things and said, you know, don't wear black shoes today or
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  something bad's going to happen. And every time you take that
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  advice, well, you can't know if something bad didn't happen, if
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  it was because you didn't wear the black shoes or not.
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  It's not provably wrong. It's like the whole conspiracy
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  theory of there being pink elephants are hiding in trees.
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  And if someone says, well, you can't show me that there's any
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  evidence that pink elephants are hiding in trees.
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  And then you could say, because they're very good at hiding in
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  trees. So these things that can't be
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  provably wrong more often than not are just nonsense.
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  So that element of being able to call the bluff of these kind of
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  fears and superstitions is a liberating experience because
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  once you've really done that, and you said, now I don't
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  believe that, let's see what happens from a place of setting
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  the intention that something amazing is going to happen.
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  Well then it doesn't take long for all of that power to
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  dissipate quickly because you just simply didn't reward the
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  initial superstition or fear. You did your own thing anyway
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  and everything worked out fine. Now, every now and then, of
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  course there is the possibility that something bad does happen,
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  but that's just life. Bad things happen all the time.
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  That doesn't mean that there is a curse or bad luck or
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  misfortune linked to what clothes you wear.
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  What's more likely is just there's a statistical
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  probability of something bad happening.
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  You know, at any day, you know, we've all, you know, hurt
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  ourself or kind of tripped over or something's happened.
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  But what can happen is this really interesting thing called
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  the belief cycle. If you believe that wearing
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  certain clothes means that you're going to have something
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  bad happen to you, and you really believe that one, that
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  feeling may influence the choices that you make, a form of
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  self sabotage or what's more likely.
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  Is that if? Something happens that isn't
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  great, you then attribute that to the fact that you did that
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  thing. And this is a form of cognitive
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  bias, that kind of confirmation bias, they would call it.
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  And in my opinion, this is how a lot of horoscopes work.
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  You read a. Horoscope about You know you're
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  going to meet someone tall and attractive, and then you're
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  suddenly looking for someone tall and attractive.
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  And then when you find that tall and attractive person, your
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  horoscope becomes true because the confirmation bias that took
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  place. So there's lots of psychological
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  principles taking place here. At its core, it is about
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  liberating you from a unuseful, disempowering, superstitious
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  belief that has become a ritual of comfort, not because there's
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  any truth to it. Clearly this was created for an
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  individual. It might be that your
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  superstitions have nothing to do with clothes and might have
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  something to do about how many times you flip a switch on and
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  off on a on a light switch or with you avoid cracks in the
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  pavement. If you are dealing with
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  superstitions and it's getting too controlling in your life,
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  it's worth clicking the link in the description, schedule a free
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  consultation call with me, and then I can explain how my
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  process could help with with your specific situation.
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  But you might get some value from this one though, even
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  though it was created for someone else so.
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  Find a quiet. Comfortable place where you
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  won't be disturbed. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in, and as you breathe in, breathe in that
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  feeling of calm relaxation, and as you exhale, feel a wonderful
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  feeling of release, as if any tension, stress and worries are
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  starting to leave your body. In your outward breath.
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  As you breathe in and breathe out, just get a sense of how
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  much easier it would be with your eyes closed.
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  So on the next outward breath, allow your eyes to close, taking
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  you deeper and deeper, relaxed. That's it.
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  And the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you feel and the
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  more relaxed you feel the deeper you breathe, where each breath
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  takes you deeper and deeper, relaxed.
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  I want you to get a sense of really feeling breathing in,
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  resource for relaxation on the inward breath and you're
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  releasing any stress, tension or echoes of old behaviour that
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  doesn't serve you anymore. Just leaving your body on that
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  outward breath. Almost like each breath is
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  clearing the static of the day, switching channels, moving you
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  from the outer world to the inner world, from noise to
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  signal, from chatter to clarity. And with your eyes closed, you
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  may notice that familiar sensation of drifting inward,
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  almost like stepping into a quiet hallway where every
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  footstep becomes softer, slower and calmer.
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  And with each breath, imagine going deeper into that hallway
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  until the world behind you becomes faint and the world
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  ahead becomes still. And I want you to imagine
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  standing in front of a wardrobe. Maybe a wardrobe or a closet you
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  recognize. Nothing changed, Not more
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  elaborate. Not more basic.
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  And I want you to get a sense that.
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  As you. Open the wardrobe in the closet.
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  Imagine every item inside it is blurred.
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  You know how they do on videos where they blur a face, blur an
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  image. Just imagine every item.
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  Everything from a shirt, a suit, socks or underwear are all
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  blurred, colours fading, edges softening, labels unreadable.
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  Almost like the wardrobe is being reset to factory settings.
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  Clothes just becoming fabric, fabric becoming just threads and
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  threads becoming nothing more than neutral material.
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  As you breathe in and breathe out.
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  With each slow breath, I want you to feel that the wardrobe is
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  losing meaning, losing significance, losing symbolism.
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  Like a blank. Slate.
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  A neutral canvas. Just something that is lost, any
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  labels, meanings, narratives and even superstition.
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  And I want you to imagine getting ready, perhaps in the
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  morning, choosing those clothes. Everything is still blurred.
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  And I want you to imagine that old internal narrator, the one
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  steering your choices and decisions, now takes on a
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  familiar voice. But not the usual voice.
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  Introduce a voice of someone that carries no.
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  Credibility with you. In fact, the more they try to
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  influence your choices, the more defiant you would become.
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  I want you to consider that voice as a voice with a poor
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  track record. And I want you to imagine that
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  voice perhaps just being there, like a floating voice, or maybe
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  coming from a physical person there by your side or behind
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  you, next to that wardrobe, that closet.
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  Create a personification of that advisor.
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  Give them a name, a look, a facial expression.
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  And I want you to get a sense that you can't rely.
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  I want that voice has to say because their warnings are based
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  on a desire to control you, not to help you make good decisions,
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  but just to be right. But how do you know if they're
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  right if they could never be proven wrong?
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  I want you to get a sense that you've rewarded this habit for
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  years now, but now times are changing.
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  Now when they try and influence, it just seems hollow.
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  It seems outdated. It may even seem manipulative,
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  controlling, but that tonality, that volume creates the opposite
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  effect and just feel that defiance within you.
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  The harder they try to influence, the more you desire
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  to trust your judgement. Not that voice.
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  And I want you to ask this in a narrator, calmly, clearly.
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  How many times were your warnings wrong?
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  See how it responds. And maybe it stumbles and
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  fumbles and struggles to answer and you get a sense that this
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  voice that you've been agreeing with was never because it was
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  wise and it was never intuitive and never protective, just noisy
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  and controlling, using fear and sensations to control your
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  behaviour. And you can ask how many days
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  did nothing happen? And that that part try to
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  influence you to do something different.
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  I want you to put this voice on trial, make it defend its
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  approach and maybe it attempts to say, well, nothing bad
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  happened because you followed my advice.
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  Imagine laughing at the ludicrous nature of that
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  statement. The nature of science, of that
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  hypothesis, is that it can be proved wrong, otherwise it loses
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  all credibility. So ask that voice, what proof do
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  you have at all? And just get a sense that the
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  whole narrative is like a House of Cards crumbling down because
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  there is none. The illusion collapses.
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  For centuries, sailors didn't venture too far in case they
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  fell off the edge of the world. I'm sure that belief had real
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  emotions, real fears. And yet, one day, a sailor
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  decided to call the bluff of that idea.
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  And once they did, the whole idea of falling off the edge of
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  the world became laughable. And I want you to feel that this
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  narrative is equally laughable. And all you need to do is prove
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  it wrong. Not 100 times, but just once.
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  And the illusion collapses. But an advisor that's used to
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  being listened to may not go easily.
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  They may create physical sensations.
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  They're in your body. And if you follow those
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  sensations, that false prophet still has power.
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  And I want you to imagine defying the words and imagine
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  feeling that sensation, maybe heat, maybe tightness, maybe
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  pressure. And at the very point where it
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  comes, imagine smiling big, a big smile, like you're being
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  tested. Remember a time when you used to
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  play chicken. Whoever backed down first lost.
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  You're not going to back down this time.
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  You're going to ride that sensation knowing that it can't
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  last any more than a few seconds or minutes.
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  And you're going to set the intention that you're going to
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  have one of your best days in defiance of this control, this
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  superstition. You're not going to believe the
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  bullshit. And I want you to get a sense
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  that every now and then, if this feeling comes up, you'll do
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  something unexpected. Maybe some star jumps, a few
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  press UPS shaking your body. And when you do something
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  unexpected that doesn't. Follow the ritual.
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  Of the past sending that sequence of dominoes in a
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  different direction. This narrative only can exist if
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  when it controls you, you allow it, and when it influences and
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  intimidates you, you believe it. And when those things go,
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  there's nothing left. I want you to think of a time, a
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  time in the past where someone made a threat but couldn't back
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  it up. And by calling their bluff, all
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  of their power and influence was gone.
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  This is now the situation, the words, the feeling is an
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  opportunity for you to call their bluff.
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  And in doing so, you are saying that you trust your instincts
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  more than you believe false fears.
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  And just imagine putting on the clothes in direct defiance for
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  that advisor and going on to have an exceptionally good day.
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  And if you could imagine what that would be like, let me know
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  by nodding your head. And imagine you've done that for
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  a month or two of wearing what you like, when you like it,
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  calling the bluff of any in a dialogue sensations.
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  How difficult? Would it be?
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  For it to have any. Influence over you.
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  Two months from now when you've defied it every time, if
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  anything unfortunate happens. Your immediate.
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  Thought will be every now and then unfortunate things happen.
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  It is a statistical certainty that every now and then
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  unfortunate things will happen. But you will laugh at the idea.
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  That it's your. Clothing choices that had
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  anything to do with it. It's just statistics, numbers
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  and chance. Nothing more if your
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  unconscious. Agrees with this.
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  New way of framing things, thinking about things, diluting
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  the credibility of this voice and dialling up your own sense
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  of certainty as to what parts of your intuition you will trust
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  and which ones lack the credibility.
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  Let me know by nodding your head.
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  That's it. And imagine leaving that closet,
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  that wardrobe, going back down the hallway, and imagine
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  floating back all the way into your own physical body, in the
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  here and the now, with awakened neural pathways looking forward.
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  For you to. Call that bluff.
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  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 to awaken
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  you. Starting to count 123 waking up
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  456 more alert 7-8. Open your eyes.
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  Open your eyes 910 Wide awake, Wide awake.
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  Wide awake. Thank you so much for joining me
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  on today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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