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Sleep Hypnosis to Reduce Anxiety and Boost Optimistic Resilience · 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 CE OS and even royalty Adam Cox, these
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  recordings took place live from Evans Clinic in London's world
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  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 sleep
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  hypnosis session with A twist. Because it's not just about
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  getting to sleep. It's about finding a way to
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  train your brain to change how it thinks about anxiety.
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  Because anxiety quite often is an anticipatory response to
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  mitigate risk. Not about what will happen, but
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  what could happen. And it's a form of your brain
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  trying to keep you safe by thinking of everything that
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  could go wrong and trying to solve that problem before it
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  happens. And there is a plus side to that
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  in the sense that if you can mitigate risks, if you can
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  prepare or, you know, find some way of making a different
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  choice, then it's actually helpful.
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  But in many cases, the feeling that you get by anticipating the
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  future actually. Creates a horrible.
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  State where it's trying to solve problems that are unsolvable
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  because you're not in that situation yet.
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  So one of the ways of dealing with anxiety is to have the
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  belief system that you can handle whatever life throws at
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  you. A lot of people that feel
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  anxious about one thing don't feel anxious about lots of other
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  things. So if someone is afraid, for
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  example, of embarrassing themself in public, they might
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  think a lot about social situations, but they might not
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  get worried at all about driving.
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  And I've worked with other people that get really anxious
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  about driving and are completely fine in social situations.
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  So this is designed to help change how you think about
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  anxiety to become more resilient.
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  And resilient is that you've got the resources to either manage
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  or improve or handle whatever the situation is.
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  But it's all linked into this sleep hypnosis session.
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  So if you like. The idea of.
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  Getting to sleep and waking up more resilient with less anxiety
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  tomorrow. You might get some benefit from
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  this session. And if you're curious about
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  working with me directly, have a look in the show notes and
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  you'll see lots of resources and ways to work with me directly.
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  For now, though, find a quiet, comfortable place where you
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  won't be distracted or disturbed.
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  Relax and enjoy the session. Take a deep.
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  Breath in, and as you breathe in, imagine breathing in.
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  A calming, soothing sensation. And as you breathe.
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  Out. Imagine releasing feelings of
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  worry, pessimism, all trepidation.
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  Not all of it all at once, but just small amounts on every
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  outward breath. And if optimism had a colour,
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  what would it be? And just imagine breathing in
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  colour of optimism. And here's the interesting
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  thing. Optimism is just a general
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  belief that things will be fine, and pessimism is a belief that
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  things won't be fine. But if you were to believe them
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  anyway, isn't it better to be optimistic that things will be
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  fine and deal with things If they're not, then have all of
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  the worries and anxiety and stress of thinking that things
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  won't be fine. And then if they're not and
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  you're wrong, you've experienced all of that stress and worry for
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  nothing. So as you breathe in that
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  optimism, give permission to release the part of you that is
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  trying to keep you safe by being pessimistic.
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  It has a lovely intention to be vigilant, to protect, to manage
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  your expectations, and to not let other people down.
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  But as you breathe in the optimism, you realize you can
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  keep yourself safe without needing to prepare or think of
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  the worst. And as you breathe in that
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  optimism, you start to figure out why.
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  What if by being optimistic, you experience less stress, less
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  anxiety, and less worries? Cortisol is the hormone of
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  stress and adrenaline is the hormone of anxiety, neither of
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  which are good for sleeping. So with that optimism, you have
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  less stress and less anxiety, which means less cortisol and
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  less adrenaline and more of those relaxing hormones like
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  oxytocin and serotonin. And what if as a result of
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  those, you end up sleeping better?
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  And not just length of time, but quality of sleep.
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  And what if because you sleep better, you've got more energy,
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  more alertness? What if that keeps you safe much
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  more than worrying ever would? Because worrying is like
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  fighting shadows. You never win that battle.
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  Optimism is assuming things will be fine and allowing yourself to
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  have the resources to deal with real problems, not imaginary
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  ones. So as you breathe in and breathe
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  out, I want you to imagine seeing yourself on a beach in
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  Bermuda. You're not in your own body, but
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  I want you to see a worried, stressed version of you.
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  And perhaps that version of you had a thought even for just a
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  second, because of all that worry and stress.
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  They may have said to themself, I shouldn't be here.
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  It's not right. And yet that wasn't true.
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  They should be there and it was right?
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  It was a false alarm. And how many false alarms has to
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  happen before you stop believing the alarms?
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  I want you to rewind that whole Bermuda trip and imagine what
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  you would have looked like being optimistic, calm and confident.
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  Just because you don't worry doesn't mean you don't care.
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  That version of you could still have called back home and
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  checked. Some people think that worry
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  means love. Worry means care.
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  It doesn't Worry just means stress and anxiety.
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  And I want you to see that version of you that I was there
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  in Bermuda without any stress and worries at all.
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  That version of you had permission to just enjoy
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  yourself. And so you do.
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  And I want you to imagine that version of you learns a
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  different belief. You have permission to feel OK,
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  to feel positive, to deal with real problems, not imaginary
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  ones. And what you can imagine that
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  version of you in Bermuda, actually enjoying yourself
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  without worry? Let me know by nodding your head
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  and I want you to see that version of you having a
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  wonderful night's sleep. Perhaps you remember the hotel
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  or the bed you were sleeping in. But instead of restless nights,
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  I want you to imagine deep, high quality, rejuvenating sleep and
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  then rewind it just before you drifted off to sleep.
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  And then float into that version of you feel what it would feel
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  like to be away, enjoying yourself and having amazing
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  sleep. Perhaps the best night's sleep
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  you've ever had. And I want you to bring forth a
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  voice inside your head. The voice that's been saying you
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  won't be able to sleep, things will go wrong, you're going to
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  be tired, you won't be able to do it.
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  But this time, whenever you hear that, just secretly smile to
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  yourself. And each time they tell you that
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  something's going to go wrong, just think to yourself, let's
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  see. And maybe you could say we'll
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  see, so that all parts of your unconscious get to make the same
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  evaluation. And perhaps you could imagine
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  that the tone of voice of this pessimistic part has the kind of
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  tonality that isn't believable. Maybe every time they say
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  something, it sounds like a question.
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  You're not going to sleep well. You won't be able to do it.
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  You'll spoil everything. It doesn't sound like a
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  premonition. It sounds doubtful.
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  And when you respond with, well, let's see, Notice how difficult
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  it is for anxiety to arrive. So as you drift off into a deep
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  sleep, I want you to imagine having a dream about a future.
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  I want you to imagine seeing yourself like you're someone
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  else. Imagine you've got a
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  presentation to a school assembly, and imagine it's the
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  night before. You know what you're going to be
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  talking about. And imagine that that version of
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  you is relaxed, calm, sleeps well, wakes up energized and
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  excited. And see that version of you more
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  resourceful than you normally are because you have more
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  energy, more clarity, more resources.
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  Imagine yourself presenting to a big group of teenagers and
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  actually enjoying it, feeling that you get to do that rather
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  than have to do that. And you could imagine that it
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  happens again and again. Each time you enjoy it more and
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  more, and each time you sleep better than night before, until
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  one day it dawns on you. This doesn't faze you at all.
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  Maybe you dream about being invited away, Social gatherings,
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  gatherings with friends or family members while you're
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  sleeping outside of your normal bed.
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  And again, imagine that version of you excited about those
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  invitations. You say yes before any thoughts
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  can pop into your head. If any thoughts pop into your
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  head, make them doubtful and just think.
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  Let's see, you've got a feeling that everything will be fine.
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  And we can call that feeling optimism.
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  Imagine what it would feel like to sleep well in the evenings
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  before you go. And when you go out there,
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  imagine your brain wants to have the best night's sleep ever,
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  just to prove to you that you can.
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  Why doesn't a child look at the monster under its bed?
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  That scares them because they don't want to see a monster.
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  But every time they don't look, the monster gets bigger, and all
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  they have to do is find the courage to look once, and then
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  they know the monster was never there.
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  And I want you to think that more than 99% of your warriors
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  and anxieties are imaginary monsters, and the moment you act
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  like they're not real, they disappear.
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  Fear are like shadows, Action decisions are like light.
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  And every time you decide and act like they're not real, the
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  shadows disappear. And I wonder how many times you
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  have to call the bluff of these shadowy monsters before you come
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  to the conclusion that they're not real.
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  Maybe it's just three or four times you look under the bed and
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  see there's no monster. To realize there never was.
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  Imagine you're now back in your bed, no longer in Bermuda, head
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  on a pillow. And just imagine that very soon
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  I will count from 1:00 to 10:00. And if you're listening to this
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  at a time when you want to awaken with alertness, that when
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  I count from 1:00 to 10:00, you will awaken with alertness.
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  But if you happen to be listening to this in bed, head
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  on a pillow with a desire to sleep, well, then when I count
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  from 1:00 to 10:00, you will drift off into a wonderful deep
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  sleep and awaken at exactly the time that is suitable for
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  awakening. And perhaps that's the very next
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  morning, perhaps just a minute or even seconds before you would
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  normally wake up due to an alarm or something else.
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  Isn't it wonderful how the mind works?
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  Starting to count 123, 456789 and 10.
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