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Hypnosis to Turn Anxiety into Confidence and Excitement · 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 genuine
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  issues. Brought to you by the
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  hypnotherapist, demanded by celebrities, CEOs and even
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  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. This podcast features powerful
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  hypnosis, so do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
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  This recording is not suitable for those with epilepsy or
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  severe mental health issues, 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 in this
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  episode of The Hypnotist, you're going to be listening to a short
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  hypnosis session that was created for a client that had an
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  upcoming meeting, an upcoming interaction with someone that
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  they felt on edge around. They kind of felt that they
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  might get anxious or panicky in that situation.
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  And we call this anticipatory fear, when there is an
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  anticipation of how you would feel in a situation that you
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  haven't encountered yet. And the interesting thing about
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  this is that quite often you get a false positive.
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  The anxiety that you imagine that you feel for something that
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  is in the future never comes to pass.
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  And then you had real anxiety for a thought, even though the
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  actual experience doesn't cause any anxiety at all.
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  So therefore what that does is it gives us evidence that
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  thoughts can create really powerful emotions like anxiety.
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  And some people will have that from a memory.
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  So a memory will trigger anxiety or regret or frustration and a
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  future thing that hasn't happened yet may never happen
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  can also do that. And this particular client would
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  take on a first person perspective.
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  So for the therapist listening to that, you'll get an
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  appreciation of levels of disassociation.
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  I encourage the client to observe themselves like they're
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  someone else. So that's one level of
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  disassociation. And they had a disassociated in
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  a dialogue. And I know it was disassociated
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  because when it's associated in a dialogue, it's stated in the
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  first person, like I'm feeling anxious or I'm worried or I feel
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  panicky. A disassociated in a dialogue is
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  when the voice is still in their head, but it says you're
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  anxious, you're going to mess things up, you're going to get
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  panicky, they're going to see the your, your face changing
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  colour it it's stated in you, which is the third persons that
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  generally disassociated. So instead, I wanted the client
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  to be their own in a dialogue, to see themself initially as it
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  as they as they thought it would be, then replay it as they would
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  want it to be with them being their own in a dialogue to
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  almost train their brain to kind of associate it with confidence
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  and feeling at ease and then to experience that in a first
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  person perspective. So it's always good to
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  disassociate from unresourceful States and associate into
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  resourceful states. There is one caveat to that, by
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  the way, and that is that if you want to change an addiction or a
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  habit, then it is good to associate into the horrible
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  emotions of what would happen if you don't change.
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  So actually if someone, you know, let's say, smokes a lot or
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  takes a particular drug and they imagine what 30 years of doing
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  that would have on their body, if that freaks them out, then
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  that's a good thing because it creates change.
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  But generally, it's not good to feel associated into
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  unresourceful states. So disassociate from that and
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  then associate into a resourceful state is really what
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  you can hear in this session. And I think it will be useful
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  for anyone with social anxiety or anxiety at public speaking or
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  anxiety with meetings or anxiety with authority figures.
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  They're the key things that it could help with.
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  This is just a short recording that followed a session.
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  A lot of the work with that we did was in the session.
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  You know, most of what I do with clients isn't actually the
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  hypnotherapy bit, it's all the talking that takes place before
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  them. But this is a final bit to help
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  the client with this upcoming meeting.
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  Obviously it was created for someone else, so if you do like
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  the idea of working with me in a more bespoke way, it's why I'm
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  working with you rather than just hearing my recordings.
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  Check out the show note because there will be a link to book a
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  free 30 minute consultation call and then we can have a chat so
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  you can decide if I'm the right hypnotherapist to work with you
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  and your specific situation. For now though, find a quiet,
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  comfortable place where you won't be disturbed.
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  Relax and enjoy the session. Take a deep breath in, and as
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  you breathe in, breathe in a resourceful feeling of calm and
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  relaxation. And as you exhale, feel a
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  wonderful sense that any sensations of anxiety, worry, or
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  fear is starting gradually. The feel like it's dissolving or
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  detaching, feeling like it's shifting or just being exhaled
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  in your outward breath. And perhaps you could imagine
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  the most wonderful intense feeling of confidence, self
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  assurance, absolute self belief, and imagine breathing in that
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  feeling of confidence and self belief.
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  And the more of this self belief that you breathe in, the more it
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  starts to melt away. Fear and worry.
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  Any anxiety starts to dissolve, erode.
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  And then imagine feeling that sensation of anxiety leaving
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  your body in the outward breath as you imagine that just by
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  breathing in and breathing out, you're breathing in confidence
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  and exhaling anxiety, enabling you to feel more.
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  I'm more confident with each and every breath.
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  I want you to use the power of your imagination to imagine
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  something in the future that you've been worrying about.
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  And to begin with, I want you to imagine you're an observer,
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  seeing that future moment the way that your fear is worried
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  that it may be. Maybe you see something
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  happening that you wouldn't want, but make sure you see
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  yourself like you're someone else.
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  Maybe you see yourself in a particular situation or a
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  particular location. See it as the mind is telling
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  you that that's not what you would want to happen.
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  But notice by being the observer you get access to reconnaissance
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  insight, things that may help you prepare or mitigate risk.
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  Not every worry is useless. Sometimes a good worry can help
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  you prepare. So allow that to happen.
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  Allow you to treat it like reconnaissance, giving you a
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  feedback loop. So anything you can do
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  differently, you will do differently.
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  But sometimes people play the same movie, The same fear, the
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  same worry, on a loop again and again, not to extract wisdom,
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  but just to anticipate something happening the way they don't
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  want it to happen. So let's try something else.
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  As you breathe in and breathe out, play it one last time as
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  you think your fears want you to see it.
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  And then rewind it. And this time, I want you to be
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  the voice of your inner dialogue.
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  I want you to see that version of you, and either out loud or
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  telepathically, just project what you would want that version
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  of you to hear inside your own mind.
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  Tell them they've got this, they'll be fine.
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  You can handle this. This is well within your
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  capabilities. The more confidently you project
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  those words into the mind of that version of you, the more
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  confident or relaxed you seem. And if you do see yourself with
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  a burst of anxiety, see that version of you handling it
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  quickly and easily, perhaps with just a deep outward breath or a
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  smile or something else. Keep observing yourself until
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  you have it exactly as you would want it to be, and allow
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  yourself to be the voice of your own inner dialogue.
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  You've got this. You can handle this.
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  This is easy for you. And once you're sure that that
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  version of you can handle that situation, rewind it and step
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  into that thought. Play it forward, but now from a
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  first person perspective, feel like you're in your own body.
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  And then hear that voice, a confident voice.
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  And if there is a second voice of warning or fear, dial it
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  down, make it silly or quiet, or just push it far away.
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  And it's not just the voice of anxiety.
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  You can send off far away any feelings of anxiety, just decide
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  that they can go away as well, that it isn't desirable in this
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  situation. It's in the feelings away.
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  Send the thoughts away, but keep the thoughts of confidence that
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  you can handle this, that you are capable, that you can manage
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  whatever comes your way. And notice that as you focus on
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  that, it becomes true. The more you focus on it, the
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  more true it feels. And just imagine experiencing a
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  future that hasn't happened yet the way you would want to feel
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  it. You feel relaxed, calm and
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  confident. Any words you need come easily.
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  It feels comfortable for you. The voice of encouragement, of
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  confidence, of belief is loud and clear and encouraging, and
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  any other voices of anxiety seem so far away you can barely hear
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  them. And you get to do this as many
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  times as you want until you find something that feels right, that
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  it feels that if you felt this way in the future, everything
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  would be fine. And what if this is you priming
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  your mind to feel this way? But if you are manifesting it,
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  laying the foundation, so when you're in this situation or
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  something like it, you then feel confident, you feel strong, you
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  feel capable. And if anything doesn't go to
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  plan or there's any unexpected bursts of anxiety, just feel
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  that. You can exhale the anxiety in an
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  outward breath quickly. Just allow it to leave your
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  body. And when it does, you can
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  recalibrate, noticing that your breathing from your diaphragm
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  rather than your chest, feeling relaxed in your neck and your
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  shoulders. Imagine being in the situation
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  you used to worry about, but now it feels desirable, exciting.
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  It feels something you're looking forward to, to breathe
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  in and breathe out and just feel that wonderful feeling.
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  And then it's time to return to the at the present moment, but
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  with a seed of an idea that that worry is no longer worry.
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  It's a source of excitement. You feel mentally prepared and
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  everything will turn out fine. So take a deep breath in through
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  your nose and out through your nose.
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  Wiggle your fingers and wiggle your toes as I now count from
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  1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you. You will awaken feeling
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  confident, calm, resourceful and mentally prepared.
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  Starting to count 123 Waking up 456.
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  More alert 7-8. Open your eyes.
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  Open your eyes 910. Wide awake, wide awake, wide
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  awake. Thank you for listening to The
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