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The 7 Steps to Freedom From Health Anxiety · 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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  These recordings took place live from Adam's clinic in London's
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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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  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 you're about to listen to a
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  hypnosis session specifically for medical anxiety.
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  And I was working with the client with a particular type of
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  medical anxiety and that was having a blood pressure reading.
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  And if you've ever had your blood pressure taken, you'll
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  know it's one of these inflatable things that goes
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  normally around your forearm or your bicep, inflates and then it
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  gives a blood pressure reading. And blood pressure is quite a
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  good clue as to overall health in certain metrics.
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  It kind of let's doctors know what's going on.
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  The problem with blood pressure is that it can lead to false
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  positives. So if someone's really anxious
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  at the idea of a blood pressure test and then they can do the
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  blood pressure, but it's not showing their overall health and
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  well-being, it's actually showing their anxiety levels.
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  So it's a false positive. And this client had had an early
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  experience of having a blood pressure test when they were
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  very anxious. And it gave this false reading.
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  And then because of that, that concerned doctors, you know,
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  projected that concern to them. And then they started to worry
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  about their overall health. But there was nothing wrong with
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  them. It was just because the.
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  Reading was off because of their.
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  Anxiety So in this hypnosis session.
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  There's a metaphor. Of seven stepping stones that
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  represent a. Form of.
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  Desensitization, so doing a home test, but then changing the
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  variables, they feel more and more comfortable getting closer
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  and closer to how it would be to actually have a blood pressure
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  test either in a hospital or a clinic.
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  So if you do have some form of medical anxiety or blood
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  pressure anxiety, I think you'll get some value from this
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  particular session. But if you just have, let's say,
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  anxiety in a different area of your life, just consider the
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  stepping stone to be a metaphor and allow your mind to replace
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  it with seven different things that would be more and more
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  aligned with you doing the thing that you currently don't believe
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  that you can do. And of course, if you like the
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  idea of a bespoke session where you're actually working with me
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  directly rather than listening to a recording, there will be a
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  link in the description where you can book a free consultation
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  call to explore working with me. And if you're interested in
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  listening to hypnosis sessions without my explanations as to
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  what the session is all about and you just want to listen to
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  the hypnosis, then I've actually got 22 hypnosis downloads that
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  you can get completely free again by clicking a different
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  link in the description. So check those out.
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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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  slow, long, relaxing breath. And as you exhale, feel that
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  wonderful sense of release as it feels like you're giving
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  permission for tension or worries to just be released in
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  your outward breath. With each breath, allow yourself
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  to feel deeper and deeper, relaxed, each breath taking you
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  deeper and more relaxed than the last.
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  That's in. And as your body relaxes, give
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  permission for your imagination to awaken.
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  And I wonder whether you could imagine being in a beautiful
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  place high up on a hill or a small mountain, the kind of
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  place where you can just see for miles.
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  Perhaps you could imagine seeing blue skies, rolling hills,
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  perhaps even towns or buildings, maybe even the sea.
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  And as you breathe in and breathe out, just imagine that
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  this place represents harmony and so many things have harmony.
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  It's impossible for vegetables to grow in the ground unless
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  there's the right balance of sunshine and rainwater and
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  nutrition in the soil. I want you to get a sands
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  thinner. There is an ambience in certain
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  places. People naturally adjust to
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  certain places. They adjust the volume of their
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  speech to fit in with the energy of their surroundings.
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  So there in that place, I want you to feel a harmony and a
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  frequency of peace and relaxation.
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  And I want you to notice how effortless it is to be
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  thoughtful in the most useful ways.
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  The taste of something delicious is a thought, a thought of
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  mindfulness. Seeing the scenery perhaps leads
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  to a thought of gratitude. I want you to get a sense that
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  thoughts can be useful or unuseful, and when you think
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  about things that makes your life enhanced.
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  Noticing something you value, reducing a risk, or perhaps
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  appreciating something wonderful.
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  That's when thinking becomes useful.
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  But sometimes you can do things that are unuseful.
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  It's useful to plant a seed in soil because it will grow the
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  same seed thrown into the ocean may do nothing at all.
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  And I want you to think of worrying that.
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  If the worry is are variables that you can't control, can't
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  reduce, then it becomes unuseful worry.
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  But if the thought is about a genuine risk that you can reduce
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  or prepare for, then the worry is useful.
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  And I want you to give yourself permission to let go of those
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  things that are more useless than useful.
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  And I want you to create in your imagination a pond there in that
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  peaceful place with 7 stepping stones.
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  And on the other side of the pond, we can call this the
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  freedom of useful thinking. The pond is too big for you to
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  leap across in one jump, but the stepping stones mean that each
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  step is very achievable compared to the last step.
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  And I want these stepping stones to represent incremental
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  challenges that expand your comfort zone slightly beyond
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  what you've done before. But in doing so, your comfort
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  zone expands. I want you to imagine standing
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  just in front of the first stepping stone.
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  And as you look at the stepping stone, just imagine your own
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  home with a blood pressure test unit.
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  And as you step onto the first step, find yourself in your own
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  home doing a blood pressure test on your arm or evaluating your
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  numbers, but at a different time of the day, maybe the afternoon
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  or the evening. Not something you'd normally do,
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  but this gives you evidence that you can test your own blood
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  pressure at any time and once. This feels like it's something
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  within your comfort zone, even if you have to imagine it 234 or
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  more times. Once you can feel what it would
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  feel like to do it without any concern, any stress, any
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  anxiety, let me know by nodding your head and then take the next
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  step. Also imagine you're in your own
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  home but this time you found some kind of medical sound
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  effects, maybe on YouTube, maybe on a special effects library and
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  just loop the sound of beeps and medical sounds.
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  Maybe it's sounds of a hospital or a clinic and just allow the
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  sounds to be there in the background and notice after a
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  few attempts you can take your blood pressure.
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  Even if there's those medical sound effects and it just
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  doesn't bother you at all. Take the next step now and this
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  time maybe you keep the medical sound effects.
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  Maybe it's still the afternoon, but now there's people there,
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  maybe people you know. And again, do that blood
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  pressure test enough times until it feels like this is no big
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  deal at all. This is manageable.
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  This is something you can do. And when this feels well within
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  your comfort zone, let me know about nodding your head.
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  That's it. And then take the next stepping
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  stone. This time I want you to imagine
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  that you've discovered a public restroom, maybe a disabled
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  toilet, where you will have privacy.
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  But there was something about the lighting and the smell of
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  that room that just reminds you of some kind of hospital or
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  clinic. It isn't.
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  Maybe the toilet is in a library or a supermarket, but that
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  lighting and the smell reminds you of a hospital.
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  And in that private restroom, imagine doing a blood pressure
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  reading on yourself, only taking a few moments until you can be
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  outside of your home under that harsh clinical lighting, that
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  smell of industrial detergents, and it still feels fine.
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  And then imagine the next step of the stepping stone, like
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  graduating the level of a game. I want you to imagine a walk in
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  clinic, the kind of place where people walk in for emergencies.
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  Consider it an urgent care room, but instead of going up to a
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  desk and registering, just discreetly find a chair in that
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  waiting area. You're not going into a clinic
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  room, it's just the reception, just the waiting area and there.
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  Unpack your blood pressure monitor and just take a reading.
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  It's now a medical type of building other people around,
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  but you're doing it on your terms and maybe it takes two or
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  three attempts or more, but you don't care.
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  You will keep doing it until in this public waiting area gives
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  you the same reading that you're getting at home.
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  When you can imagine that, Let me know about nodding your head
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  and then imagine scheduling a blood pressure test at a local
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  pharmacy. It's now not you doing the test
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  on yourself, someone else's, but you have created the evaluation
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  that you can handle this. This is just slightly outside of
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  your comfort zone. Now at this point, your comfort
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  zone has expanded so much that this feels like just the next
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  logical step. And maybe maybe they take a
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  couple of tests, or maybe they take one test and it's slightly
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  higher than the reading you would have at home and just ask
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  them to do another one or schedule another time to come
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  back until you feel that even someone else doing a blood
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  pressure test on you is also within your comfort zone.
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  And when that feels like that's real, you know, by nodding your
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  head And then imagine scheduling a full health check.
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  Maybe there's blood samples, urine samples, weight and body
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  fat, BMI, but also blood pressure.
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  Imagine it's thorough, and imagine even scheduling it gets
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  you thinking about how it's going to be fine when it
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  happens. If there is any anxiety, you are
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  desensitizing yourself to it, and if there isn't, it's
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  evidence of progress. But even just by scheduling, it
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  moves you forwards. And then imagine the day comes.
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  Maybe you drive to that place or someone drops you off, and maybe
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  that whole health checkup takes an hour or two.
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  But imagine how it would feel to do that and to feel that you've
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  faced something that in the past would have triggered something
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  extreme, and now it feels like no big deal.
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  And as you imagine leaving that hospital, that clinic, I want
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  you to get a sense that you have expanded your comfort zone so
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  much that things that used to worry you no longer do.
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  But that doesn't mean that your brain will be looking for
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  something else to worry. Because changing one worry for
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  another worry would be like replacing 1 broken item in your
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  home for something else that's also broken.
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  If it's not useful, then it's useless.
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  But what if you could deploy all of that thinking power, all of
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  that cognitive juice, and deploy it in a way that enriches your
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  life, that gives you more mindfulness, more
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  thoughtfulness, the ability to learn and evaluate wonderful
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  things that enhance your life? Or maybe it's finding the kind
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  of things that challenge and stimulate your brain.
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  A puzzle, a teaser, a crossword, Sudoku.
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  Something that enhances your cognitive processing power.
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  Because if that cognitive energy needs to be deployed somewhere,
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  why not be intentional about where you use that same thought
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  processing power? And you don't have to decide
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  now, just set the intention that all of that thinking that was
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  being wasted before can now be deployed in a way that enriches
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  and enhances your life rather than wastes all of that precious
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  resources. And then you found yourself on
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  the other side of the pond. Consider this your future.
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  A future of more options, more freedom, less anxiety.
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  A future where you defeated a fear by walking towards it and
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  then it occurs to you. Fear is like shadows and action
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  is like light, and the more action you take, the more more
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  fear disappears. And as you hold that thought,
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  it's time to leave this place in your imagination and return all
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  the way back to the. Here and now.
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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. 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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