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Public Speaking Hypnosis to Prepare for an Upcoming Speech · The Hypnotist

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  Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside
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  access to cutting edge hypnosis with real clients facing genuine
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  issues. Brought to you by the
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  hypnotherapist, demanded by celebrities, CEOs and even
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  royalty. Adam Cox.
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  world famous Harley Street. This podcast features powerful
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  hypnosis, so do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
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  This recording is not suitable for those with epilepsy or
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  severe mental health issues, so get yourself comfortable and
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  enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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  Hi, it's Adam here. And in this 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 anxiety over doing public
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  speaking. And they had an upcoming family
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  event where they were going to be doing a speech for a family
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  member, and they were feeling nervous about that.
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  And we've done some work to break some of the patterns, but
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  this is about future pacing because a lot of anxiety around
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  public speaking is anticipatory fear.
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  And that might be days or weeks before the actual presentation
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  or speech happens. And then that can create a self
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  fulfilling prophecy because if you're feeling anxious thinking
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  about it, you're more likely to be anxious when you're actually
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  doing it. So this is designed to do the
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  opposite. And that is to harness a very
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  resourceful state when thinking about something happening in the
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  future and then associating into that.
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  So it creates certain triggers that increase the probability of
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  really harnessing a a very confident and they in particular
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  wanted comfort as a resource state.
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  So a lot of the time I work with people and it's confidence they
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  want this was about comfort and they wanted to feel comfortable.
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  So you're going to, you're going to hear that particular phrase a
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  lot in here. And I asked them, I said, where
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  would they naturally feel very comfortable and they like to
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  walk and while they're walking, they feel very comfortable.
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  So it starts with an element of visualizing a walk and then in
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  the walk, then thinking about this upcoming speech,
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  disassociated and then associated.
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  So any hypnotherapist listening will appreciate what I'm doing
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  there. It's 2 levels of disassociation
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  before associating into the resource state.
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  And that's really important because a lot of people, if they
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  just try and use things like affirmations and say I'm going
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  to be confident, but they're not feeling confident, then you have
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  this principle called the law of dominant effect, where the
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  stronger emotion displaces the weaker emotion.
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  And if you felt anxious a lot, it's difficult to feel confident
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  if you're already feeling anxious.
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  We have to reduce the anxiety first before we introduce the
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  confidence or comfort state. So there's a bit going on here.
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  What I would encourage you to do to get the most out of this
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  session is to think about some form of speech or event or
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  upcoming thing that you are going to be speaking in public
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  anyway. So that when I make certain
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  reference here about thinking about that future thing, you
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  make it relevant to you rather than what was relevant to the
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  original client that I was working with.
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  And if you like the idea of this, feel free to listen to
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  this as many times as you want. But if you want a customized,
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  bespoke session just for you to help you prepare for an upcoming
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  presentation or speech, there will be a link in the show notes
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  where you can schedule a completely free consultation
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  call. We'll have a chat just to see if
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  I'm the right hypnotherapist to be working with 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, imagine
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  breathing in a feeling of pure relaxation.
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  And as you exhale, just get a sense that any tension, any
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  worries, any fears are leaving your body in that outward
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  breath. So it feels that you're
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  breathing in comfort and relaxation and exhaling any
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  stress or tension. Allow your eyelids to feel
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  heavy, relaxed. Allow that relaxation to spread
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  in your forehead and your jaw. And just notice, because you're
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  breathing in relaxation and exhaling tension, something
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  fascinating happens. The tiny muscles around your
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  throat, your chest, and even your diaphragm also start to
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  relax, so it becomes easier to breathe in deeply and exhale for
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  longer. And I wonder if the breathing
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  becomes not just deeper and longer, but effortless, almost
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  like your body is doing the breathing for you.
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  You don't need to force a breath in or force a breath out.
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  Just allow your body to do the breathing for you.
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  And the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you become.
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  And the more relaxed you become, the deeper you breathe, creating
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  a wonderful cycle of ever increasing comfort and
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  relaxation. As your body relaxes, your
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  imagination awakens. And I want you to imagine the
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  perfect place to go on a relaxing walk.
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  Imagine that you can teleport yourself anywhere in the world.
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  A promenade next to a scenic beach, a trail on a mountain
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  pass, a secret passage winding through a forest.
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  But you get to make this walk perfect.
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  Make the time of day the perfect time of day.
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  If you want people there, have people there, and if you want it
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  to be entirely private, then that's how it is.
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  Make the weather exactly as you would want it to be for a
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  comfortable, relaxing walk. It could be sunshine or shade,
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  hot or cold. I want you to find yourself
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  walking in that place, perfect temperature, perfect breeze,
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  perfect environment, and notice the rhythm of your walking.
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  Maybe there's a particular pace or a rhythm that you get into, a
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  rhythm where your body movement starts to synchronise with your
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  breath until your body starts to walk like it's on autopilot.
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  That you can walk without thinking, breathe without
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  thinking, move without thinking. And when it feels that you're in
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  that rhythm of walking, the right pace and the right
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  environment, feeling so comfortable, just let me know by
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  nodding your head that's in and in that comfortable place.
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  Get to a point where it feels that you can walk on autopilot.
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  And many times when you've been walking this way, isn't it true
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  that you've started to Daydream, Think about scenarios and
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  situations, memories or plans? You didn't make your mind do
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  that. It did it because it could.
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  So while you're imagining walking in that perfect place at
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  that perfect rhythm, I want you to imagine what it would feel
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  like to be in a modern venue, on a circular table, looking up at
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  a very special event. And maybe you can see long
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  rectangular tables of family members all congregated
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  together. I want you to see yourself like
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  you're someone else, sitting at one of those long tables.
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  See how you're dressed, what you're wearing.
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  But I want you to see how comfortable this version of you
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  looks, engaging in conversation, smiling.
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  You can tell from your facial expressions, your body language,
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  everything about you that you are comfortable.
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  And if you get a sound that you're seeing a version of you
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  at an event looking very comfortable, let me know about
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  nodding your head. And then I want you to see that
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  that version of you starts to stand and maybe someone
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  introduces you. Maybe there is a clink of
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  glasses or a microphone that announces to people that you're
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  about to be making a speech or a toast.
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  I want you to see the moment that that introduction or
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  acknowledgement happens, see yourself smiling in a very
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  comfortable way. That version of you is glad to
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  be doing this speech, and you can tell from the way that your
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  posture is the balance. See yourself looking very calm
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  and composed, relaxed and smiling.
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  And then see yourself say the very first few words of this
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  toast or speech, and notice how confident and comfortable those
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  first few words are. You're just someone in the
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  audience watching, but you can see how comfortable and
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  confident those first few words are, and you get a sense that
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  everyone in the room is relaxed, eager to listen to what you have
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  to say. And then I want you to imagine
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  seeing yourself continue with the toast, the speech, seeing
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  the expressions of people that you're referring to, maybe
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  someone in particular. Compliments are acknowledged,
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  see people smiling. Maybe there's reactions from
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  people in the audience where certain words create a wonderful
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  reaction of ours, or agreements nodding heads.
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  I want you to see yourself continue, maybe asking people to
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  raise a glass to join you in celebrating, celebrating this
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  moment. And maybe when that toast, that
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  speech is finished, maybe you hear a few people clapping or
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  murmurs in the audience that that was a good toast, a good
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  speech. Then I want you to imagine
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  rewinding it all like it's an old VHS video with a rewind
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  button. And then when you see yourself
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  looking very calm and comfortable before your speech,
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  imagine swapping places so you are now in your own body,
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  feeling it's just minutes away from a talk and you feel very
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  relaxed and comfortable about that.
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  And maybe you're introduced, or there's a microphone pass to
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  you, or a clink of some glasses. The very point where you know
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  you're about to talk. Feel yourself smiling at the
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  very point where you raise yourself from your chair to
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  stand. Feel comfortable, confident and
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  empowered. Feel that this is something very
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  easy and simple for you. And then imagine saying the very
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  first few words with a confident, comfortable tonality.
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  They leave your mouth exactly as they would really feel, like
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  they're connecting with other people.
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  You feel comfortable saying those words.
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  As you continue, you relax even more, and maybe you have
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  something written down just in case, but you don't need it.
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  Your eyes are not on words on a page, they're on the faces of
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  the people in the room. You are talking from your heart,
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  not your head. It feels comfortable, natural,
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  effortless. I want you to get a sand.
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  Then there are people in the room which are influential,
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  important maybe, but this is just your imagination, so you
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  can play with that. You could imagine that there are
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  famous celebrities in the room. You could imagine that there is
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  a table filled with the most beautiful women on the planet
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  staring at you, listening to your talk.
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  And whether it's someone famous or beautiful, important or even
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  someone looking bored or annoyed or angry, notice how none of it
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  fazes you. There's almost like a force
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  field around you. Nothing effects you.
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  You feel calm, comfortable. You could even imagine someone
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  heckling you and it's like water off a duck's back.
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  Nothing fazes you. I want you to get a sense that
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  you're imagining exactly what you're saying and it feels
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  effortless to say it. And I'm going to give you a
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  window of time to just rewind and mentally rehearse doing it
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  from beginning to end exactly how you would want to do it.
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  And when you get to the end, just let me know by nodding your
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  head. That's it.
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  I want you to feel how comfortable that, felt that you
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  were in your own body doing it exactly as you would want to do
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  it. And it felt comfortable and calm
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  and enjoyable and feel that speech is ending now.
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  And I want you to see acknowledgements.
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  That might be eye contact and a head nod, could be a thumbs up,
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  could even be a smile or even a salute.
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  People are communicating their appreciation for your talk, your
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  speech, your toast, and all of it feels good.
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  And then afterwards, just imagine a few.
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  Significant people approaching you to acknowledge,
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  congratulate, or compliment you on your talk, and all of it
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  makes you feel very, very comfortable and allow these
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  feelings to ripple into any other form of public
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  communication. From this point forward, it
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  doesn't matter if it's a social gathering or a serious
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  presentation, doesn't matter if it's a lecture or a pitch.
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  Just allow that feeling of comfort to ripple into all of
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  these other areas. It doesn't matter where you are,
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  what you're saying, or who you're saying it to.
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  Allow this feeling of comfort to be the dominant emotion that
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  comes to mind when you're in a situation like that.
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  I don't want you to think of one thing in the future that you
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  always wanted to do but thought was outside of your comfort
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  zone. And just imagine that you're in
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  the audience, seeing that version of you do that thing
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  that once felt unattainable and now feels within reach.
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  And if you could imagine seeing yourself confidently and
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  comfortable doing that new thing, let me know by nodding
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  your head. That's it.
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  It's time to leave this imaginary event and find
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  yourself walking in that rhythm, realizing that all of this was a
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  thought within a thought, an idea within an idea, a dream
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  within a dream. And even walking in this perfect
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  place itself is just your imagination.
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  So it's time to leave that imagination and return to the
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  here and now, knowing that you have activated and primed your
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  mind to feel calm, confident and comfortable Whenever you're
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  talking to people and they are evaluating you, you feel relaxed
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  in that situation. It's time to return to the
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  present with all of these changes coming back 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 and
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  wiggle your toes. Start to connect and calibrate
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  into 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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  Wide awake. Thank you for listening to The
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