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Intrusive Thoughts Hypnosis – Release Mental Spam and Weed Out Negativity · 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 Are.
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  You the kind of person that has intrusive thoughts, you know,
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  the ones where the thought pops into your head and then you have
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  this kind of emotive reaction to it or you feel like it needs a
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  whole long discussion inside your head.
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  Well, a lot of people have these intrusive thoughts and you don't
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  need to beat them or tackle them or work with them every single
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  time a thought comes up. I was working with a client that
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  had lots of intrusive thoughts that were connected to
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  criticism, judgement and shame and they felt that whenever
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  those thoughts came up, it was just either a battle to try and
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  counter it or they just had to deal with those thoughts.
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  So actually, this hypnosis session uses 2 powerful
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  metaphors that can be really helpful.
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  Most people these days get lots of emails, but you don't have to
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  read every e-mail that you receive.
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  Some of it is spam or junk, and either it goes automatically
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  into those folders or you can flag it and put it in those
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  folders. Or if it's a newsletter that you
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  subscribed to years ago, you can unsubscribe and you can think of
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  your thoughts like that. That thoughts can be intrusive
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  and good. If you have an epiphany, an
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  idea, some incredible thought that you can do great, that's an
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  intrusive thought, but it's a good one.
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  That would be like a really unexpectedly positive e-mail.
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  But equally, it might be an intrusive thought, which is the
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  equivalent of a phishing scam, in which case you're not going
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  to give that any attention at all.
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  And likewise, using the garden metaphor, weeds will grow in a
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  garden. It requires no effort to do
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  that. But that doesn't mean that
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  you're a bad gardener, and it doesn't mean that you have a bad
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  garden. What doesn't make sense though,
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  is to feed the weeds, because then you're going to have more
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  of them and they're going to get bigger.
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  So there's a few metaphors in this hypnosis session that can
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  be really useful. And it's part of a hypnotic
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  experience. So if you like the idea of
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  releasing some of those intrusive thoughts and not
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  having to do anything about them, then I think you're going
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  to get some value from this particular session.
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  So find a nice, comfortable, calm place, the kind of place
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  where you're not going to 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 that feeling of calm relaxation.
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  And as you exhale, feel a wonderful sense of tension,
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  stress, or worries leaving your body as you exhale, breathing in
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  and breathing out. Noticing that the deeper you
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  breathe, the more resourceful you feel.
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  And the longer you exhale, the more of those unwanted feelings
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  or sensations you can release. And even if that's just tension
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  or stress, worries or even certain thoughts echoes, just
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  allow them to leave your body in your outward breath that's in
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  deeper and deeper and more comfortable, relaxed and notice,
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  but with your eyes closed, how much more you can focus on the
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  sound of my voice. As if the outside world is
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  disappearing. As if you can gravitate and
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  shift to a place where powerful changes happen.
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  It's natural for people to experience trance like states
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  all the time. Sometimes it's reading a book
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  and not noticing that you're turning a page.
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  Sometimes it's just drifting off into a Daydream or doing
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  something you've done so many times you can do it on
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  autopilot. And in doing so, doesn't it feel
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  sometimes like time is distorted?
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  You don't even realise what you're doing, and yet it gets
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  done to awaken all of those parts of the brain that know how
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  to go into that state. A wonderful state where there's
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  nothing you need to do and yet things feel like they're
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  changing. That's it.
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  And as you breathe in and breathe out, I want you to use
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  the power of your imagination to imagine a garden.
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  And not just any garden, a magical garden.
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  And just imagine there is a desk and a chair in that garden, a
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  very comfortable chair. Just imagine resting and
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  relaxing in that chair. Allow your body to sink into
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  that chair and tension slowly melts away, each breath taking
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  you deeper into calm, giving you that drifting, floating, sinking
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  feeling, that state where your mind can learn new ways of
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  being. And as you continue to relax,
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  you may notice that thoughts will come and go, like leaves
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  being blown in the wind. And that's perfectly natural
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  because the goal isn't to stop thoughts, it's simply to change
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  the way you relate to them. And I want you to imagine a
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  computer on that desk in front of you there in the garden.
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  And I want you to imagine, imagine what it would be like if
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  this garden and this desk is almost like a quiet private
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  control room in your mind. And from this safe place you can
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  observe your thoughts from a distance without being caught up
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  in them, almost as if they are messages appearing on a screen
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  or plants growing the garden. You are simply the observer.
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  Calm, neutral and at peace. And now, on the screen of that
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  computer, I want you to consider it your mental inbox.
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  Almost like an e-mail account, and without you needing to do
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  anything, messages arrive automatically.
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  And just imagine, some of these emails are important, genuine
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  messages that need your attention, care and a thoughtful
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  reply. But most are spam, scams and
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  junk. Or newsletters that might have
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  been useful ones but now are no longer of interest.
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  And just as you wouldn't blame yourself for receiving spam,
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  there's no need to blame yourself for intrusive thoughts.
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  They simply arrive. It's not personal, it's just the
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  way the system works. And here you have choices and
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  discernment. You can read what matters and
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  delete what doesn't. And you can unsubscribe from
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  anything that no longer serves you, or put things into the junk
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  folder or block folder with a single click.
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  And each time you let a thought go or mentally put it into that
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  delete folder, you're training your mind to know this isn't
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  worth my energy. It's just a thought, not a fact,
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  and if you've ever returned to an inbox after a long break, it
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  can feel overwhelming to go through all of those emails.
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  But once you do, and the filter knows what to put into a clutter
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  folder, a spam folder, a junk folder, when you unsubscribe
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  from all those things you don't want to see anymore, then your
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  mental inbox of thoughts becomes lighter, clearer and calmer.
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  I want you to imagine setting rules on your inbox, trusting
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  your intuition, which is the computer, to only put it front
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  of mind if it's really important and every time it isn't.
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  You're teaching that internal system to put it straight into a
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  junk box, a spam folder. The next time a similar thought
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  comes up as you can, consider your intuition like a highly
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  trained personal assistant to filter out the thoughts you
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  don't need to know and only put forward the ones that are of
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  utmost importance. So you can close the computer
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  now knowing that your intuition is doing that hard work for you.
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  So imagine stepping out of the chair and now enjoying the
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  garden of thoughts. Consider this a beautiful,
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  fertile garden, a place designed for flowers, fruit, trees, herbs
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  and all the positive, useful, nourishing thoughts.
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  But as with any garden, weeds will grow, and sometimes they
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  arrive suddenly and sometimes they creep in slowly.
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  Weeds and even unwanted insects represent intrusive thoughts.
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  They're just like any garden. Sometimes they're more common in
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  a particular season or time of year, if there's a period of
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  life that you're going through which is stressful or intense.
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  Meat might be like a season of more weeds and more insects, but
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  you understand something profound.
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  If you feed them with worry, with fear, with attention, with
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  shame, then they grow stronger and they multiply.
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  But when you simply notice them without feeding them attention
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  or emotion, they wither, they fade and they disappear.
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  Instead, when you choose to water and nurture the flowers,
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  and when you give care to the fruit trees, the whole garden
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  thrives. Colourful blossoms and delicious
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  fruit, the scents of herbs and flowers filling the air.
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  Your attention is sunlight and your emotion is water and you
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  get to choose where to shine and where to pour your energy.
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  No gardener would feed and water the weeds.
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  So from today forward, whenever an intrusive thought appears,
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  you can simply notice it and think I'm having the thought.
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  That reminding yourself that it's only a thought, you don't
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  jump straight to the meaning or the implication.
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  You tell yourself I'm having the thought.
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  And because it's just a thought, like it's just an e-mail or just
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  a weed, you get to decide what to do with it.
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  If it's important, you deal with it.
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  If it's a nice thought, give it gratitude, appreciate it.
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  But if it's like spam in the inbox or a weed in the garden,
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  you don't have to reply to it and you don't have to feed it.
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  You can let it be and turn your focus to something better
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  because you're spending less time on those unuseful or
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  intrusive thoughts. You really appreciate and notice
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  a helpful, kind, encouraging thought.
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  And you will want to give your time, your attention, your
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  nurturing to those thoughts. Thoughts that make you feel
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  inspired, motivated, grateful. Thoughts that help solve
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  problems before they happen. And therefore those are the
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  thoughts that grow stronger. And just like spam filters get
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  smarter the more you use them. Your mind learns quickly which
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  thoughts deserve your attention and which ones are best ignored,
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  deleted, or unsubscribed from. And just as the strongest
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  flowers outgrow the weeds, your positive thoughts will soon take
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  up more and more space, so that intrusive thoughts like weeds or
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  junk mail fade quickly and quietly into the background.
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  So as you wander around that garden, see the flowers and
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  notice hardly any weeds, and I wonder if you can wonder about
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  the future. Wonder how it would feel to
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  imagine that next time an intrusive thought arrives, you
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  can smile, maybe even with a sense of humour, knowing it's
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  just spam, just a weed, and you get to choose what to do with
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  it. And that choice makes you feel
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  free. Free to focus on what matters,
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  free to nurture positivity and free to live your life without
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  being held hostage by unwanted, unuseful thoughts.
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  I want you to imagine seeing yourself one year from now,
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  happy, and the kind of relationship you want.
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  I want you to see that version of you that has hardly any of
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  those intrusive thoughts that bother you because you've
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  trained your brain to automatically de weed them or
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  put them in the junk folder before they have an opportunity
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  to bother you. And notice how much more happy
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  you are, secure you are, and that the quality of life has
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  gone up. That's it.
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  So now imagine opening that laptop, that computer, and
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  seeing a spam box, a junk folder filled with emails that you
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  never need to read, but your actual inbox is filled with
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  useful thoughts that create useful emotions.
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  To leave this place, you leave a garden full of flowers and fruit
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  and a computer with a nice clean inbox.
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  But before you leave, just pick one fruit from one of the trees
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  and consider this fruit pure, distilled resourcefulness.
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  But when you imagine the taste, the flavour, the texture, just
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  imagine it is filling your body up with a wonderful feeling of
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  resourcefulness, giving you a sense that whatever resource you
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  need. Creativity, motivation, pride,
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  or even gratitude. It comes easily because you feel
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  so resourceful. And then you leave the garden,
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  this control room, and imagine floating all the way back to
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  your physical body. 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.
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  Connect and calibrate into the here and the now as I now count
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  from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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  Starting to count 123 waking up 456 more alert 7-8.
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  Open your eyes. Open your eyes 910.
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  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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  And if you've enjoyed this show or got some benefit from it, you
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  may know of one other friend or family member that may also
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  benefit from this hypnosis session.
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  In which case I'd like to ask a favour of you.
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  And that is if you could spend 10 seconds to share this episode
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  with someone that you know that may also benefit, that would
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  really help me to access new people that don't already know
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  about this show. Thank you very much for
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  listening and I will see you again on the next episode.