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The Lion Who Adapted - A Mythic Hypnosis Journey from Fatigue to Strength · 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 Adam Smith in London's
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  world famous Harley Street. So get yourself comfortable and
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  enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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  Hi, it's Adam here. And you're about to listen to a
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  hypnosis session all about fatigue.
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  And if you're not familiar with the word fatigue, it's more than
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  tiredness. It's a physical inability to
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  harness and access the energy or the clarity that you actually
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  need and a lot of the time. Fatigue is.
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  Accompanied with things. Like.
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  Inflammation or brain? Fog.
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  And other horrible symptoms as well.
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  Quite often it's linked to autoimmune issues, things like
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  Lyme. Disease and fibromyalgia.
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  In this particular case though, the client.
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  I was working with had. Post COVID fatigue and because
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  of that they felt very, very impeded by their ability to live
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  life on their. Terms and.
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  When you've try to improve it and been punished sometimes by
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  having a crash or a set back, it feels scary to have hope.
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  It feels dangerous. To be optimistic, just in case
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  you get your hopes up and come crashing down.
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  And this hypnosis session uses metaphors, metaphors of the
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  Savannah, to help this client. See themselves.
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  Through the perspective of a story rather than themself and
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  how the lion deals with different things.
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  It has some fairy tale connotations like there is a a
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  curse or a spell that's been cast on this and at its core
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  this is a hypnosis session about reframe.
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  It's about in many cases something horrible happens.
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  You can either be a victim or a survivor.
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  You can feel like The thing is a curse or it could even be a gift
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  in some way, even if you don't know what the gift is yet.
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  And there's lots of different reframes.
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  So what this session does is identify a lot of the
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  disempowering beliefs or meanings given to things like an
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  illness that is chronic and just seems to keep on going on, not a
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  temporary thing. Most people can deal with
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  breaking a bone. Or.
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  Having a sickness like a virus for a period of time, but when
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  things feel like they're going to be like that way forever, it
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  can create feelings of hopelessness or helplessness.
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  Or frustration. Or even anger and resentment,
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  all of which can actually impede with the ability to heal and
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  recalibrate. There's a bit going on here.
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  So if you can relate to the idea of feeling drained, fatigued.
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  You don't. Have the energy to even do basic
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  things. I think this session will give
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  you something and what I would encourage you to do.
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  And at the end there was a panning for gold metaphor
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  because. Not.
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  All of these beliefs or ideas have to resonate with you.
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  You can take what is resonating or helpful and disregard what
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  isn't. Because the problem with
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  empowering belief systems is it can feel every now and then that
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  it is invalidating the experience.
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  You have that connotation with positive psychology and self
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  improvement that if you can achieve anything, then if you're
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  not, somehow you are to blame or in the wrong.
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  And that's why this is designed to be inspirational rather than
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  feeling like, well, you have to do these things.
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  It creates the idea of a possibility frame rather than a
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  feeling that these are additional things to do.
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  Because if you've got fatigue, having a list of more things to
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  do isn't that helpful because you would like to be able to do
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  them. Going on here.
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  Now. This was created for an
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  individual client. Some of the suggestions would be
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  perfect for them and not quite right for you.
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  If you like the idea of working with me, what I'm going to
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  encourage you to do is to look for the suitability test in the
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  description and there you can take a quick test and it will
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  just let you know how suitable you are for hypnosis and explain
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  what to do after that if you would be a suitable candidate
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  for hypnosis. For now though, find a quiet,
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  comfortable place where you won't be distracted or
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  disturbed. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep. Breath in, and as you breathe
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  in, breathe in that resourceful feeling of calm and relaxation.
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  And as you exhale, feel that wonderful feeling of release, as
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  if any tension, stress, and worry is leaving your body in
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  your outward breath. Breathing in that wonderful
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  feeling of calm, relaxation, and giving permission to just let go
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  incrementally of any feelings that are impeding your ability.
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  Any fatigue, any thoughts that feel like they're a drain, just
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  allow them to be released and feel them leaving your body in
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  your outward breath. And before any story begins,
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  notice the rhythm of your breathing.
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  And you don't need to change it, but you may notice if each
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  breath gets longer, deeper, or slower.
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  Just notice it arriving and leaving.
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  Perhaps there's something deeply reassuring about an exhale.
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  An exhale is not effort. Consider it release, and as you
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  allow this next breath out, give permission for it to be slightly
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  longer than the one before. Not forced, just unhurried.
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  And as the breath leaves, imagine your body settling by a
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  fraction of 1%. Not heavy, not sleepy, just less
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  braced, less tense. Maybe your jaw loosens slightly,
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  or your tongue rests more comfortably in the mouth, or
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  those tiny muscles behind your eyes start to release, loosen
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  and relax. And if there has been a subtle
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  vigilance in your system, almost like it's waiting to see what
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  your body will do next, give permission for that vigilance to
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  just stand down, to dial down their intensity.
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  Then you are not required to perform here, no need to
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  improve. You are simply here.
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  And the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you feel.
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  And the more relaxed you feel, the deeper you breathe.
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  And as your body relaxes, your imagination can go on that
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  adventure. So let's return to that wide
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  African plain. Not the harshness of the midday
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  sun, but that late afternoon light, golden, low and slow.
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  And there is no urgency in this landscape.
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  The grass moves with the wind, the clouds drift without agenda,
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  and I wonder if you can imagine the sky and notice how
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  effortlessly it changes shape. And nothing in the sky resists
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  becoming something else. A cloud can become mist, light
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  can become shadow, and day can become dusk.
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  And I wonder if somewhere inside you a thought can emerge.
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  An idea that change does not always require force.
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  Sometimes change just requires time and space.
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  And as that thought settles, if your body descends another
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  level, if tan is alert and upright and one is deeply inward
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  and safe, imagine what number you are now.
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  And just imagine on every outward breath, you reduce that
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  number by 1. Maybe A7 becomes a six, or a six
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  becomes a 5. And there's no need to reach the
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  bottom, no need to be one or zero.
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  Just drifting lower is enough. And maybe your shoulders relax a
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  bit more, or your heartbeat feels less central and more
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  background. And just like when you were a
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  child listening to stories, I wonder if you could imagine
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  being there on the African plains, overhearing the tribal
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  leader tell the story. In this Kingdom, there is a
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  lion. Not young, not old, strong
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  wants. In obvious ways.
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  The lion was fast, certain, instinctive.
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  And then something altered. The strange spell moved through
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  him, not visible but undeniable. The lion's limbs felt heavier
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  before he chose to move, and the lion's breath shortened before
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  the run began and the lion's energy arrived late and left
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  early, and the lion wondered if the sun had turned against him.
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  The lion thought he was cursed, because curses explain what the
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  pride cannot. A curse can mean that something
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  external struck you, something unfair, something chosen without
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  consent. And when the lion believed it
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  was a curse, he felt angry. Frustrated.
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  He battled the curse, the lion forced movement, compensated by
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  proving strength, ignored signals, and beneath the lion's
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  paws he found quicksand. And the more he struggled, the
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  deeper he sank. Not because he was weak, because
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  quicksand responds to panic with gravity.
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  And one day the lion, exhausted from proving himself, stopped.
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  Not in surrender, but in recalibration.
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  He widened his stance, spread his weight, slowed his
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  breathing, and something subtle happened.
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  The sinking slowed and very soon he was out of the quicksand, but
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  realized something that permanently changed.
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  How the Lion thought that this terrain cannot be conquered,
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  instead it must be navigated. And as day turned to dusk,
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  figures emerged across the plain, guiding him inward
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  through altered awareness and separating fear from fact.
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  Day by day the line changed gradually, and for a while the
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  lion thought long and hard. The lion thought they were the
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  lion that this happened to, but the sentence was unfinished.
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  Instead of feeling like a cursed lion that something happened to,
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  the lion felt that they were so strong, so resilient, that they
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  were the lion who endured some inner wisdom, perhaps influenced
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  by the visitors, but deep down nonetheless knew that victims
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  are defined by events and survivors were defined by
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  continuation. And because the lion continued
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  through doubt, through humiliation, through
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  uncertainty, the lion concluded they must be a survivor.
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  The frustration was still there. This lack of energy wounded him,
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  and that was real. But it also revealed which
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  alliances mattered, which of the friends were real, which
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  impulses were reckless, what they really valued in life.
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  The lion learned which parts of his identity were noise and
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  accepted they never wanted this. It impeded their.
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  Ability to live life, but it didn't refine him.
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  And at some level, the lion started to wander.
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  What if this curse is a gift? What if it's meant to teach?
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  What if it's meant to benefit in some strange way that they
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  couldn't understand at that point in time?
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  And when he thought of the word curse again, it felt bitter,
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  closed and final. But another possibility emerged.
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  What if this was initiation disguised as misfortune?
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  He knew that Young Lions prove themselves through force,
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  strength, and energy, but seasoned lions lead through
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  discernment. And what if this was not
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  punishment, but an invitation? An unwanted invitation, but
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  still a wonderful, powerful, meaningful catalyst.
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  The lion thought of things in the past that once were
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  problems, but when they thought of them as a challenge, the
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  problem became more appealing. Because a problem blocks the
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  road, the challenge shapes the road.
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  Terrain is not personal. A hill is not betrayal, it's
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  just an incline. And the lion began to see his
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  condition not as an enemy, but as a landscape.
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  Some days were firm and others were marshland.
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  Some felt stable, some did feel like quicksand.
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  And every now and then he really believed that the spell was
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  punishing him. But punishes wound without
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  explanation, whereas teachers aim to guide.
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  And what if this period of his life was guiding him, changing
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  beliefs and values, priorities and goals?
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  What if this season taught him when to rest before collapse,
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  how to value shade as much as sunlight, how to listen for
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  early signals, and how to ask for support without shame?
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  Punishment destroys. Teaching grows, and the Lion
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  felt that he had grown. The adversity, the difficulty,
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  it all helped him in some strange way.
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  And then one evening he climbed that great rock, slower than
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  years before, but steady, and the lion started.
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  Imagine a future. And that future lion seems
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  strong, resilient, powerful. And I want you to get a sand
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  then. Some things are not good or bad,
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  it just depends on the meaning. The water from a great lake can
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  mean hydration, it could mean cleaning, but it can mean death
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  if an animal drowns in the water.
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  And if one thing can represent life and death simultaneously,
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  isn't it true that this unfortunate thing that happened
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  to the lion can hold more than one meaning?
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  And when the lion decided to interpret things in the most
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  useful, beneficial and empowering meaning, they seem to
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  feel better. And when they felt better, they
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  could do more and just allow your mind to pan for gold.
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  Anything within this story is useful, Then keep it and
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  anything not useful discarded. Keep what's good and leave
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  behind everything else. And just imagine seeing Nuggets
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  of gold there in your hand. And then imagine leaving then
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  tribal leader telling the story. But take the gold with you and
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  imagine floating all the way back your present.
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  And perhaps just one of these Nuggets of gold will give you a
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  lens to see things subtly different.
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  That has a wonderful ripple effect to thoughts, emotions,
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  and even energy and clarity. And you don't need to know which
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  one. Just be open to wonderful
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  positive changes as you float back to the present.
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  Take a deep breath in through your nose and down through your
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  nose. Wiggle your fingers and wiggle
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  your toes. Connect and calibrate into the
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  here and the now as I now count from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken
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  you. Starting to count 123 waking up
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  456 more alert 7-8. Open your eyes.
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  Open your eyes 910. Wide awake.
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  Wide awake. Wide awake.
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