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The Mary Poppins Magic Bag of Preparation - Hypnosis to Be More Prepared · The Hypnotist

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  Hi, it's Adam here. And in.
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  This hypnosis episode. You're going to.
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  Be listening to a hypnosis session All about preparation
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  and I was working with a client that wanted to feel more
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  prepared in two specific areas of their life.
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  Firstly was work. They wanted to really feel that
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  they could prepare more for certain projects, certain things
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  they were working on meetings and that would give them an edge
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  and they also wanted to feel this element of when.
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  It comes to food. Quite often if they felt
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  stressed or just tired or hungry.
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  They would. Spontaneously and impulsively
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  snack and eat. But when they prepared, when
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  they knew what they were going to eat in advance and even kind
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  of already have the food bought, that would create a very
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  different dynamic in them. Instead of snacking, they would
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  just eat whatever they'd made or prepared or bought and then
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  actually. Stick to.
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  That eating approach. So this hypnosis session really
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  ties in these themes, but it uses an interesting metaphor and
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  I asked the client which fictional character.
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  Did they perceive to be? The most well prepared, and they
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  said Mary Poppins. And if you're familiar with Mary
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  Poppins, it's this fictional character.
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  It was made famous in a Disney film, I think in the 1980s or
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  something like that. But effectively you had this
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  nanny that was looking after an American nanny, looking after
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  British children. And she was very organized, very
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  elegant, very well prepared. But she also had this bag.
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  And in this bag, anything she needed, she could just kind of
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  dig deep and kind of almost like a magician's hat.
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  She could just take out whatever she wanted.
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  And this becomes a very useful metaphor to enable this client
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  to feel like they have the resources that they need.
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  And also that in many ways, preparation is like magic.
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  If you have everything ready before you need it, then when
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  you need it, it's instantly there.
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  So there is this idea of giving a.
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  Gift to your. Future Self by being prepared.
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  So if you can connect with this idea of never really being
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  prepared, leaving things to the last minute, having to have a
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  crisis because you hadn't already done things that might
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  help beforehand, then I think you'd really benefit from this
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  particular session. The ideal way to get the most
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  out of this session is going to be to find a nice, quiet,
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  comfortable place, the kind of place where you're not going to
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  be distracted or disturbed, and then really relax and enjoy this
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  session. Take a deep breath in, and as
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  you breathe in, breathe in that long relaxing breath.
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  And as you exhale, just allow your eyelids to relax and notice
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  that with your eyes closed, you're able to focus more on the
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  sound of my voice. Breathing in that relaxation and
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  exhaling that tension allow each breath to take you deeper and
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  deeper. Relaxed.
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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 I wonder if, as your body relaxes, just how much your
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  imagination awakens. And I wonder if you could
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  imagine what it would be like to be a child being read a story.
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  I want you to think of an old childhood bedroom, a particular
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  bed, and just imagine being on that bed and someone reading you
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  a story about Mary Poppins. Just imagine that feeling of
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  relaxation. Who doesn't like to be read a
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  story, hearing the sound. Take them deeper into that world
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  of their imagination and just imagine drifting off to that
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  place where when you hear a story, you turn it into a world
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  within your imagination. And I want you to imagine seeing
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  Mary Poppins with that combination of elegance,
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  organization, fun, boundaries, but also preparation.
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  Mary Poppins nose in advance what she will do before she does
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  it. But I want you to get a sense
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  that Mary Poppins also has an incredible and useful resource.
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  She can open a bag, and whatever she needs is exactly what she
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  will find in that bag. And I want you to imagine
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  stepping into the story and feeling what it would feel like
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  to be Mary Poppins. Imagine yourself as highly
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  organized, intentional, and prepared, and I wonder what it
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  would be like to have that bag and whatever you needed, it
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  happened to be there in advance. I want you to get a sense that
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  you could accomplish almost anything, because whatever you
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  needed, you would have when you needed it.
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  As you imagine. I want you to imagine this bag
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  also contains meals. I want you to get a sense that
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  if you wanted a delicious salad, all you would need to do is
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  instantly open the bag, put your hand inside, and you would find
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  a perfect salad already prepared in that bag.
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  Or a healthy soup, or a healthy juice, or a healthy meal.
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  I don't want you to get a sense of just how easy it would be to
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  eat healthily if all you had to do is reach into Mary Poppins
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  bag and take out a healthy meal. If it was that convenient, that
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  accessible, isn't it the case that eating healthy would be
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  easy? And consider yourself planting a
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  seed of an idea deep in your subconscious mind as you think
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  back to a time in your life when you were highly prepared.
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  And maybe it was a time that you were prepared in work, doing the
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  work to prepare and articulate all of those things that you
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  were competent and capable in. I want you to get a sense that
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  all of that preparation had a big payoff.
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  And then I want you to think of a different time in your past
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  where you were well prepared with food.
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  Maybe you knew what you were going to eat before you even
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  went to the supermarket, before you even prepared or cooked it,
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  and certainly before you ate it. I want you to embrace the idea
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  that preparation is the antidote to cravings and impulses.
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  An impulse or a craving or a compulsion is thinking of
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  something in the moment and then just eating or doing that thing.
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  Preparation is setting an intention before you do the
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  thing. And I want you to get a sense
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  that it feels the preparation is just as magical as Mary Poppins
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  magic bag. That you could prepare in
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  advance for things that you will want or need before you want
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  them. And in doing so, at the point
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  that you want or need it. Just like that magic bag, it's
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  already there, maybe in the refrigerator or maybe in the
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  freezer or maybe in the cupboard or maybe somewhere else.
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  Preparation enables you to give instant access to that future
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  version of you. From this point forward, you
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  will consider preparation an act of self love and an act of
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  kindness to your future self. And maybe you've heard of that
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  phrase. Paying it forward preparation is
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  just paying it forward to that future version of you.
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  Doing exercise today is giving the gift of strength to that
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  future version of you. And eating well or shopping well
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  or preparing food in advance is giving the gift of health and
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  vitality and confidence to that future version of you.
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  I want you to imagine you're still in Mary Poppins Home.
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  And I want you to imagine somewhere in that home is a
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  private cinema. And I want you to imagine you
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  are now seeing the future version of you on that cinema
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  screen. And you will hear suggestions
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  that are giving inspiration and ideas to your unconscious mind
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  that will help the future version of you.
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  Preparation is just manipulating time.
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  As you see yourself in the future, I want you to get a
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  sense that every act of preparation is a gift that your
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  present self gives to your future self.
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  And the more you prepare, the more your future feels lighter,
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  easier, and more enjoyable. And maybe when you imagine your
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  future self thanking you, you get to feel proud to prepare in
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  advance, because preparation makes you feel good in advance
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  and in the future. Preparation is like feeling good
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  twice and sometimes even more. Your subconscious mind will
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  accept the idea that each small preparation today creates a
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  chain reaction of ease and success tomorrow.
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  And maybe you can see yourself on that screen, shopping for
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  healthy foods and seeing that version of you that it feels
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  like. Shopping for healthy foods is
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  almost like choosing energy, clarity, and vitality in advance
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  of feeling it. And when you set the intention
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  for your meals, you feel grounded and in control before
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  hunger or cravings ever speaks. You'll get the sense that
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  cooking and preparing food in advance feels like laying the
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  foundations of future health, and even you might experiment by
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  labelling containers with the day and time, or which meal you
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  will eat it under is like giving supportive messages to your
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  future self. Each organized container feels
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  like a magical step towards discipline, and discipline is
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  like a roundabout where the effort is needed to begin with,
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  but gets easier and automatic over time, Just like that
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  roundabout spinning by itself. And preparation doesn't
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  exclusively apply to food. Preparing for meetings feels
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  like polishing a key that opens opportunities with confidence.
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  Each moment of advanced planning helps that future version of you
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  become sharper, calmer, and more persuasive.
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  And projects can feel like a stage production.
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  And when you set the stage in advance, it feels like a play
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  that's been rehearsed to perfection.
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  So much so that preparation at work creates freedom later
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  because the path ahead is already clear.
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  Don't expect everything to be smooth and easy and exactly as
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  you wanted. Life will give you tests and
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  challenges to test your preparation, to test your
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  resilience. And every now and then you'll
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  have a set back. But you will consider these
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  temporary blips, like a bump in the road or a small traffic jam,
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  not enough to deter you from making progress towards your
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  destination. And the great thing about a set
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  back is that every time you bounce back, your resilience
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  grows even stronger, like a muscle trained by lifting heavy
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  weights. A bad day does not undo your
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  preparation, it simply makes your preparation even more
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  valuable. The act of preparing for good
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  days makes those challenging days shorter and easier to
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  manage. More importantly, preparation
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  feels satisfying, like putting the final piece in a puzzle
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  before it's even needed. And the more you prepare, the
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  more you feel a sense of calm certainty that you are always
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  ready. The more you prepare, the easier
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  life gets, and the easier it is to make excellent choices.
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  So see that future version of you on the screen getting
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  healthier, happier and more successful in work as a direct
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  side effect of the preparation that you did in advance and
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  before long. Preparation becomes your natural
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  way of caring for yourself, creating a rhythm of success
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  that continues to build. And I want you to see that
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  future version of you duplicating, almost like there
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  are two versions of you. And I want you to see a version
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  of you that consistently prepares for five years,
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  prepares your meetings, your work, your projects, your food,
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  your shopping. And the other version never
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  prepares, always reacts, follows cravings and impulses.
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  And imagine seeing their journey until five years have passed.
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  And allow your intuition to let you know which one will give you
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  more of the life that you want. The version of you that
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  prepares, or the version of you that responds, reacts, follows
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  those impulses. And if your intuition, your
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  subconscious mind knows the preparation increases the
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  probability of gravitating towards the life that you
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  desire, just let me know by nodding your head and step into
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  that version of you, that version of you that doesn't have
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  to prepare but wants to, that wants to help the future version
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  of you in advance. Activate those feelings of
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  desire to prepare. And just think of two or three
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  things that you could do today or tomorrow that would help the
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  future version of you and set the intention to do those
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  things. And when you awaken, you will
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  feel a craving to do the preparation.
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  And every time you prepare you will feel proud in advance.
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  The dopamine will come from the preparation, not from any
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  snacking or foods. Preparation will make you feel
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  good. But imagine leaving Mary Poppins
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  cinema and then imagine what it would feel like to leave Mary
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  Poppins house and float all the way back into your reality.
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  You will awaken very soon when I count from 1:00 to 10:00.
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  Feeling a desire to prepare in advance to help your future
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  self, knowing the rewards will far outweigh any time and
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  inconvenience in the preparation.
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  So take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your
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  nose. Wiggle your fingers and wiggle
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  your toes. That's it.
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  Connect and calibrate into the here and the now as I now count
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  from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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  Starting to count 123 waking up 456 more alert 7-8.
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  Open your eyes. Open your eyes 910.
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  Wide awake. Wide awake.
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