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Hypnosis to Banish of Fear of Doctors and Medical Tests · The Hypnotist

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Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside
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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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Hi, it's Adam here. And in this episode of The
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Hypnotist, you're going to be listening to a hypnosis session.
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Created for a. Client that had very extreme
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anxiety and any kind of clinic or doctor or hospital
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appointments and it came as a result of a panic attack they
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had while in a clinic undergoing fairly routine tests.
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But because of that panic attack, they then would worry.
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That they would. Experience the anxiety again and
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you get this very strange paradox when it comes to
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anxiety. Is that quite often your body's
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getting anxious about something that could lead to anxiety,
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which then creates the very anxiety you're looking to avoid.
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And that sounds weird unless you're living with it and then
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it's very real. So this client had a period
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before that time, which was about 10 years ago, that they
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were completely blase and ambivalent about having any kind
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of medical test. It was just routine.
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But it wasn't that more recently and they were using avoidance as
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a way. To cope.
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Unfortunately, avoidance just reaffirms this idea that you
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can't cope, and in this hypnosis you'll.
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Hear an analogy? Of the monster under the bed,
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which has a subtle. Element of regression.
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Because a lot of children are scared about things when there's
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nothing to be. Scared of but.
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Their fear prevents them from. Confirming that.
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That fear is invalid, if that makes sense.
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So the monster under the bed is just a an.
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Analogy this client. Didn't have a fear of monsters
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under the bed, they had a fear of medical appointments.
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But it's a good way of. Getting them into this mindset
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of what if this fear isn't real and what if they've just got
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inside their own head and created a self fulfilling
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prophecy. There is elements of parts
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therapy in this elements of direct suggestion of
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disassociation of timeline and also coping strategies like
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breathing out feeling of anxiety.
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So if you do have a fear of. Doctors, hospitals, medical
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appointments. You might.
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Benefit more than if you don't have those fears, but even if
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you have a fear of something else similar, like a dentist or
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perhaps a different kind of meeting or something like that.
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Just get. Into this idea that you want to
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feel resourceful to do the thing even if you feel anxious, but
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you're disassociating from the anxiety and then you'll benefit
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more from this session. Of course this was created.
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For a very specific individual, references to the music and that
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kind of stuff to anchor resourceful states was all
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related. To them, because that was.
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Their experience. But if you like the idea of a
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bespoke session created for you, there will be a link in the show
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notes. Or you can check out my website
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adamcox.co.uk. You'll see a link there to book
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a free consultation call and then we can have a chat to see
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if I'm the right hypnotherapist for you.
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For now though, 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 resourceful relaxation.
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And as you exhale, just allow any feelings of tension, worry,
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or anxiety to start to feel like they're melting away and leaving
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your body in that outward breath, breathing in relaxation
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and continuing to feel that any anxiety is melting away.
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Start to scan your body for any clues of where that anxiety has
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been hiding. Sometimes the chest, sometimes
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the gut. As you breathe in that
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relaxation, give it a colour, a bright colour, a powerful
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colour. And as you breathe in, imagine
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breathing in that resourceful relaxation.
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And this resourceful relaxation makes you feel good.
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And when you feel good, that anxiety is just melting away.
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And as it melts away, see it or feel it.
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Leave your body in your outward breath like a grey shadowy
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colour and consider breathing in deeply like a transfusion of
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emotion. Breathing and relaxation that
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makes you feel good and feeling good melts away the anxiety and
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feel feel it leaving your body as you breathe out and therefore
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the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you become, and the more
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relaxed you become, the deeper you breathe.
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Consider it an ongoing transfusion of emotion.
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Maybe you can feel that the anxiety, wherever it was, is
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getting smaller or less intense. Maybe that feeling of feeling
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good starts to expand, enabling you to feel even better.
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It almost feels like you're accessing a Zen state.
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A state where breath by breath you feel better and better and
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the anxiety is leaving your body.
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I want you to get a sense then something happened in your past
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that led your brain to try and protect you, and that's a
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wonderful intention. The fact that you're unconscious
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wants to keep you safe is magnificent.
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But sometimes people can have good intentions delivered badly.
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Everyone knows someone where their heart's in the right
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place. They only want to do good.
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But sometimes by trying to do those good things, they make
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things worse. And I want you to consider that
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there is a part within you that in trying to protect you from
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panic or anxiety, is actually leading to more of it.
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And I want you to thank that part for its intention, while
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still not appreciating the strategy that they're using to
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implement that intention. Perhaps avoidance has been one
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of the ways that they've tried to keep you safe without
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realizing that when you avoid something, it makes it scarier.
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Your brain interprets the avoidance as a smart move
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because the thing was so scary. But what if it was the avoidance
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and the thinking that made it scary, rather than the thing
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itself? What if all it took to make the
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monster disappear from under the bed is to look under the bed?
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It feels scary because there's a monster there, but when you
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look, there isn't and never was. I want you to think about this
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part of you that's been using avoidance and imagine what 20
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years more of avoidance could be like.
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It's likely that the anxiety would get worse, but I want you
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to think about the consequences of that avoidance, important
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appointments that were missed. I want you to think of tests or
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scans that could have picked up something really useful, but you
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never knew it. I want you to observe that
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timeline, see that natural consequence of two decades of
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avoiding anything medical or clinical.
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If that seems to take you to a dangerous place with
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consequences way worse than anxiety, let me know by nodding
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your head. Many diseases and issues are
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very treatable and manageable if detected early, but if you don't
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detect them early, they can be as difficult as putting
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toothpaste back into a tube. To see that timeline where
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avoidance is not your friend, avoidance is more dangerous.
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I want you to get a sense that good intentions sometimes linked
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to bad strategies, and avoidance and worry is a bad strategy.
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Sometimes people getting worried do things to try and calm their
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nerves, and that itself can lead to health problems.
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You've seen this future, a future that takes you to a place
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of something undesirable. But I want you to see a
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different future, Rewind it all the way back and see a different
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part of you, part of you that is courageous, determined, brave.
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I want you to see the part of you then doesn't mind doing
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difficult things, in fact gets a sense of pride.
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The fact that it's difficult makes the pursuit worthy, and
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sometimes the courage to look under the bed is all you need to
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see that the monster was never real to begin with.
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I want you to get a sense then. What if all along this was just
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1 + 1 equaling 3? Something happened in the past
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and your brain linked up the feeling of doing something wrong
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or failing or feeling trapped to a certain sensation and you
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don't want to feel that way anymore.
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What if the thing itself was never the cause of the anxiety?
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What if it was 1 incompetent person phrasing something in the
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wrong way, giving you a look? That person probably doesn't
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even work there anymore. I want to get a sense that there
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are so many other causes to this.
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Therefore, harnessing just a little bit of courage can
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sometimes mean by doing the thing you thought you couldn't
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do, that House of Cards comes crumbling down.
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I want you to imagine being in your own home before an
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appointment. And I want you to imagine that
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two different versions of you get to leave that home to go to
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that appointment. The version of you.
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The good intention and the bad strategy filled with panic and
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anxiety. Or the version of you who wants
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a different timeline. A timeline.
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Then whenever you need to go to an appointment, you just go.
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Even if there is echoes of anxiety, you go anyway.
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And in doing so, the anxiety gets less and less and less
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until it's negligible. You don't even know it's there.
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And if you would like that confident, courageous version of
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you to go to the appointment, step into that part, no longer
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observing but being that part. Imagine that anxious part gets
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to stay at home just as it wants.
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But the courageous parts does what the courageous part would
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do. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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If you're ready for that courageous part to go to the
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appointment, let me know by nodding your head.
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That's it. So just imagine wearing whatever
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you would wear to go to this appointment, getting ready to
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get into your car. But as you leave your home and
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close the door, feel that you're closing the door on that old
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part, closing the door on unnecessary anxiety,
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overthinking and worry. close the door.
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Hit the door. close as you close the door on that.
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It's now in your past, that confident, courageous version of
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you. Purposefully walks to the car
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and as you walk to the car, you open the door of the car.
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You are opening the door to a new future.
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Step into the car and the moment you feel the weight of your body
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in the chair, feel that you are activating a calm stoic version
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of you that does what needs to be done.
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Imagine playing some music, music perhaps from a time where
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this was never even an issue, and every time you feel any
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emotion from that music, it reminds you of what it was like
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to not even think about this. Imagine the music itself is
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awakening that old version of you, those old neural pathways
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that thought entirely different. So imagine having that journey
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to the clinic, to a hospital, to some place medical, and the very
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sound of the music is thawing. That old part, That old part but
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never used to worry about that has been frozen in time, but the
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music is melting away. Whatever trap that part, the
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music itself is freeing it. So that becomes the natural,
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dominant way of thinking. Every time you listen to a song
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from your past, it reawakens that part.
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There may still be some old echoes of anxiety, but as you
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park the car and leave the car, set the intention to keep any
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echoes of anxiety in the car while that courageous, confident
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version of you goes into the clinic as you hear the sound of
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the door close. No, any echoes of anxiety are in
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the car, not with you. What's in you is the part that
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feels good. What stays within you is that
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confidence, that courage, that stoic drive to do what needs to
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be done. Many people don't like a blood
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test or a blood pressure test. They don't like the smell or the
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sound of a hospital. But you don't have to like it.
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Just accept it. Imagine checking in, checking
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into that hospital, that clinic. But remember, it's the
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courageous, confident version of you.
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The way that you give your name is confident.
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The way you fill out any forms is confident.
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Remember, that old version of you is still left back at home.
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They would fill the forms out differently, but you are not
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them. It's the courageous, confident
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version of you filling out those forms, perhaps even continuing
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to listening to that music of the past, that reminds you this
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used to be different. If it was different before, it
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can be that way again. Your posture as you sit.
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The breathing while you're in that waiting room.
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Long, deep, even your posture. A stranger would see you as
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someone looking relaxed and calm.
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It's that version of you. Imagine being called in, perhaps
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to a particular room, but any smells that you can smell that
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are unique to hospitals or clinics or surgeries.
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The smell of disinfectant makes you feel safe knowing they're
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doing whatever they're doing to reduce bacteria.
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The smell makes you feel safe. As you breathe in, you're
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breathing in that resource for relaxation, and as you exhale,
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long outward breath means that any echoes of anxiety just leave
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your body. Every time you have a long
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outward breath, it's the calm version of you that you are
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awakening. First of all, imagine them doing
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whatever test they need to do. Like you're seeing yourself like
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a stranger. Like you're in the room but not.
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You See them doing the tests and see that you look fine.
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You're calm, you're relaxed, comfortable, even smiling every
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now and then, making the occasional joke.
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This is a version of you unfazed, unbothered.
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Imagine all the different things that you would go through but
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see it going well and see that you feel in control and relaxed
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and calm when it's going well. And when you've seen it the way
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you would want it to go, let me know by nodding your head.
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So now rewind it. Rewind it knowing that it's gone
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well, and step into that version of you before it's even started.
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So now feel they're doing whatever they're going to do on
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you. You're in your own body, but you
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feel as calm and relaxed as if it was something that was
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happening 15 years ago. It's that version of you that
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the tests or procedures are happening too.
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Feel a sense of calm detachment is that you do what they need to
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do, and you could almost imagine you're somewhere else.
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You could imagine you're on a beach or in a concert.
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You could imagine you're swimming in the ocean.
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You could imagine you're somewhere else while they're
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doing whatever they're doing. When you know that you can use
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your imagination because you've imagined yourself in a clinic
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when you weren't in a clinic. So you could imagine you're
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somewhere else when you are in a clinic.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and what's
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been working against you can now work for you.
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It's just thinking after all, and when you feel that that
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you've done whatever they've needed to do, or maybe you get
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instant results, or maybe you have to wait, just feel that
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stoic, pragmatic, whatever needs to happen will happen feeling
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within you when you leave that room, smile to yourself.
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You did it. You did what was needed to be
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done. Feel a sense of pride,
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accomplishment, feel that you faced a fear.
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You didn't run away from it. And maybe even ask yourself, if
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I can do this, what else can I do?
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And sometimes when people do something they thought they
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couldn't do, they have a desire to do something similar to it,
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just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, that it wasn't an
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anomaly. And maybe an idea pops into your
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head of something similar or even more challenging you could
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do just to banish this demon. To convince every part of
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yourself that this is gone now and it doesn't need to come
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back. Because what keeps you really
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safe is feeling resourceful. Avoidance and anxiety never kept
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you safe. It was just avoiding a feeling
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that was difficult and you don't need to do that anymore.
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On the drive home, play that same music, and the music you
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were listening to now reminds you you've awakened A neural
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pathway, a way of thinking that means that the fear will get
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less and less, the anxiety will melt away more and more.
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Don't be surprised if you even have dreams of doing things that
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are even more extreme than this, but they don't faze you at all.
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And when you get back to your home, see that anxious avoidant
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part that's been there all along and realize that this good
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feeling of pride that you have from doing that thing that once
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scared you, You feel good having done what was needed to be done
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and returning. That other part still feels
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anxious because avoidance creates more anxiety.
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So tell that part while you respect and like their
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intention, you don't like their strategy and you think doing
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what is needed to be done is a better strategy than avoiding
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and worrying and overthinking. And ask that part if it's
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willing to help you feel resourceful whenever you need to
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from now going forwards, so you have a future of less anxiety
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and get to keep yourself safe in entirely new ways.
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If that other part agrees, seal the deal with a handshake and
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let me know when that deal is done.
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We need to get a sense that a part that was holding you back
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is now an ally now working with you, helping you feel even more
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resourceful. Feel that part reintegrate with
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you with the same intention, only with the new strategy now
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giving you thoughts, that things will be fine.
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Giving you thoughts that yeah, you can do it.
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And that by doing it, the anxiety gets less and less and
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less. It's time to leave this place.
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But you believe awakening a different part of your mind and
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your brain that was dormant for 10 years or more.
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So take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your
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nose. Just wiggle your fingers and
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wiggle your toes. Start to connect and calibrate
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with the here and the now as I now count from 1:00 to 10:00 to
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awaken 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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