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Hypnosis to Make Anxious Motorway Driving Boring and Automatic - Hypnosis Only · The Hypnotist

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  Take a deep breath in, and as you breathe in, breathe in a
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  feeling of quiet confidence. And as you exhale, build a sense
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  of release of any tension, any stress, any worries.
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  And as you breathe in, imagine breathing in a pure feeling of
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  resourcefulness. And then scan your body for
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  wherever worry or anxiety is hiding.
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  And sometimes it's the head or the chest or the gut.
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  And just allow yourself to give permission for that to be
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  released. Each breath takes you deeper and
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  deeper, relaxed. As your body relaxes, your
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  imagination awakens. And I want you to go back to a
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  memory of a new car. And maybe you picked up that new
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  car from a dealership or maybe maybe it was somewhere else.
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  And I wonder if you can reconnect without feeling of
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  excitement or enthusiasm, a moment where you couldn't wait
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  to drive. And maybe you can remember what
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  the keys look like. Maybe you remember that smell of
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  getting into that car. But I wonder if you can rekindle
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  that feeling, rekindle the feeling of wanting to drive, not
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  because you have to, but because you wanted to.
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  You were choosing to. And maybe you can think of a
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  time that you wanted to drive at least an hour or more.
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  Maybe it was to see someone or get to somewhere or do something
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  important. Driving wasn't the point.
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  Driving was a means to an end. And sometimes you've driven
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  where it didn't even feel like driving.
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  It just felt like something automatic, effortless.
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  There would have been times when you were driving when your mind
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  needed to solve a problem and you were so focused on that
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  driving was almost something that barely registered on your
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  radar. I want you to connect with
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  feelings of exciting driving, fun driving, enthusiastic
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  driving, but also mundane pragmatic driving, autopilot
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  driving. Imagine yourself behind the
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  steering wheel during that pragmatic, mundane, dare I say
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  it, boring driving. And just imagine while you're in
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  that state, the driving doesn't need effort or too much
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  concentration or focus. Just imagine you see a slip Rd.
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  still connect without feeling of not enthusiastic confidence, but
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  that pragmatic confidence. You just know how to do this,
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  enjoying the slip Rd. that feeds into a motorway.
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  And I want you to imagine this motorway is fast moving traffic
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  and that's fine. And when you feel comfortable
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  driving on the motorway of this fast moving traffic, let me know
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  by nodding your head. That's it.
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  And then just imagine the traffic continues at the same
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  speed, it just gets busier and you've had that many times.
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  Stretches of Rd. that were empty and then certain junctions at
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  certain times of the day make things busier but still fast
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  moving. So imagine feeling that
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  pragmatic confidence as this motorway is fast moving and
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  busy. And just imagine the weather
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  changes as it often does. Blue skies turn cloudy, cloudy
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  turns rainy. And just imagine feeling that
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  boring, mundane confidence of driving on a busy motorway
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  surrounded by cars but perhaps big lorries.
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  Imagine the windscreen wipers going back and forward and
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  you're more interested on what music is playing, what you're
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  going to do when you get to your destination.
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  That even if there is traffic and lorries and rain, you're in
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  a dialogue. It's like, So what?
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  I can handle this just like I have done so many times before.
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  And then you imagine it gets windier, really windy, so windy
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  you see those lorries swaying a bit.
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  And it doesn't bother you because you evaluate just how
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  much space there is between the vehicles.
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  But even if they sway, who cares?
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  There's more than enough space on this motorway for everyone.
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  Imagine seeing that there's a stretch without a hard shoulder.
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  And just imagine thinking that even if you needed to pull over,
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  the lack of a hard shoulder doesn't make it that much more
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  challenging. Because in spaces on motorways
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  without a hard shoulder, the cameras are constantly checked.
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  If someone breaks down there. On a space, on a motorway,
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  without a hard shoulder, there is instant assistance provided.
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  Not that you would need to, but even if something happened, you
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  are minutes away from help. You choose the speed that you
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  travel, the lane you travel in, the music you listen to, but
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  more importantly, what you focus on.
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  Where focus goes, energy flows. Imagine feeling the looseness of
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  your hands on the steering wheel, sending a message to
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  yourself. You can be relaxed when driving.
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  Imagine tapping your feet on the fingers on the steering wheel to
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  the rhythm of whatever music is playing, sending a message to
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  yourself. The driving is a low stakes
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  activity. The fact that you're driving
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  alone just means that you can have the music on as loud as you
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  want. You can play whatever music you
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  want without thinking of other tastes in the same car.
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  When you can connect that feeling of empowered choices on
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  that busy motorway in the wind and the rain and the fast moving
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  track traffic, Just let me know by nodding your head.
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  That's it. I want you to get a sense that
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  I'm feeling confident, calm, and that pragmatic, mundane
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  confidence. In the worst conditions, your
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  brain feels like you are recalibrating what it takes to
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  make driving challenging. Imagine staying on that same
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  motorway, seeing the motorways merge into one, seeing a
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  contraflow. And I want you to think of so
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  many areas of your life where anything that becomes more
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  challenging makes it more fun and more interesting.
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  Connect to that thing that if it's too easy, it feels too
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  boring. This isn't about anxiety, it's
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  about stimulation. And maybe play a game with
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  yourself when your focus is on something else.
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  Your emotion reflects it. If you look for bad weather
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  conditions, if you look for confining traffic, your body
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  will react if you look for open spaces, if you look for unusual
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  cars, strange colours, if you think of those childhood games
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  used to play in a car. Perhaps you can recall that time
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  was distorted. A game of I Spy meant that that
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  one hour journey felt shorter. And then just imagine.
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  The conditions improve. The dark clouds make everything
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  lighter by going away. The rain stops, just imagine the
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  traffic gets lighter, still fast moving and just feel that sense
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  of freedom, liberation and choice on the open Rd.
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  And then just imagine, you see a sign, this motorway you're
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  imagining just in your imagination as a slip Rd. a
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  junction that joins a local dual carriageway close to you.
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  This may not happen in reality. It doesn't have to.
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  You get to decide how you think of it.
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  And going from that fast moving motorway to that dual
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  carriageway. Notice how relaxed you feel.
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  This feels like a walk in the park.
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  This feels well within your comfort zone.
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  This feels manageable, doable. It feels almost too easy.
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  And I want you to imagine setting yourself the challenge
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  of going up this dual carriage way to a particular junction and
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  then turning around and going back in the opposite direction,
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  up and down. And maybe it's two junctions or
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  4 junctions or more. And I want you to imagine you
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  set yourself the challenge to keep driving up and down that
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  dual carriage way. Not until you feel confident,
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  accomplished, or proud, but until you feel bored and
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  frustrated. You've gone up and down this
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  dual carriage way so many times with no reason to do it other
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  than to get this feeling of boredom.
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  And I want you to imagine maybe it's five times up and down or 7
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  or 9 or 11 or 20. Just imagine all different
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  conditions, weather, traffic up and down this dual carriageway.
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  You know the one. Imagine driving alone and I
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  wonder how many times you would have to imagine doing that until
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  you're bored and just want to return home.
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  So keep on imagining doing that until that feeling of driving,
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  that stretch feels boring and pointless.
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  That's the finishing line. That's when that House of Cards
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  really starts crumbling down and when you can imagine feeling
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  bored, frustrated, a feeling of I don't need to do this anymore,
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  that you face down, that nemesis, it's lost all power
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  over you. When that feeling comes up, let
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  me know by nodding your head and you can distort time in your
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  imagination. A 15 minute stretch of Rd. can
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  be 15 seconds. Keep on.
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  Imagine going up and down, seeing those familiar signposts,
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  landmarks, sign. That's it.
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  Feel that boredom. Embrace the boredom.
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  That's what success feels like. And then imagine it's the
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  following day and you need to go down that stretch of Rd.
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  Notice how it feels not just slightly within your comfort
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  zone, but well within it. Imagine 234 weeks go by and
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  imagine a journey that requires that and you don't even think
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  about the driving part. It almost feels like you've
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  teleported to your destination because the driving was done on
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  autopilot. No stress, no anxiety, no
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  worries, just doing. What your brain already knows
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  how to do. I want you to feel that every
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  journey that you do is either reminding yourself that you can
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  do it or recalibrating your comfort zone.
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  You can claim your wins. And even if there are echoes of
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  anxiety, that simply desensitizes you to the same
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  thing so that the next time is easier than the last.
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  Whatever happens, the trajectory is moving towards a future when
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  nothing phases you. That's it.
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  So connect to that feeling and then imagine leaving that
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  stretch of that dual carriageway while feeling bored and driving
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  back to your home. Just imagine that as you hear
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  the sound of that car door closing, when you put the keys
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  in the location you put them, notice how good it feels to feel
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  like you're on the other side of that barrier.
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  What once was the resistance now becomes the foundation.
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  It's time to return to the present, taking all of these new
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  thoughts, ideas, and associations with you.
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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, wiggle
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  your toes, connect and calibrate into the here and the now as I
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  now count 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, wide awake.