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EMDR and Havening for Extreme 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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  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 with very, very extreme levels of.
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  Resting anxiety. We're talking about hyper.
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  Vigilance. A state of adrenal fatigue that
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  comes from just. Being in this.
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  Heightened state of fight or flight for a long period of
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  time. We're talking.
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  Over a year of being in this state, which is not good for the
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  body. You know, this kind of fight or
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  flight response, this sympathetic nervous system is
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  fine for a few hours. If you feel like there's a big
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  danger or a threat, but. You don't meant to live like
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  that as a permanent state of being so.
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  This was less about one individual.
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  Thought an anxious thought, like a phobia or anticipatory fear,
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  but just their whole nervous system on high alert.
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  So what you're going to hear in this session is a combination of
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  certain modalities that have been proven to alleviate
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  traumatic responses and this hyper vigilance.
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  The first is called EMDR, which is eye movement desensitization
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  and reprocessing and effectively.
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  In a nutshell. You hold on to a thought that is
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  traumatic or creating a exaggerated emotional response
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  and your eyes go from left to right.
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  Now you can enhance that by this kind of bilateral movement.
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  So moving something from one hand to another hand.
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  So. There's an element.
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  Of that in the first section of this, then there is a process
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  called Hevening. And recently I actually had
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  Stephen Travers on on my podcast talking about Hevening.
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  And I tend to use more of the linguistic talking forms of
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  hypnotherapy, but Hevening is a very good complementary tool to
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  kind of calm down the nervous system and effectively that is.
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  Rubbing your own. Arms or or back of the head to
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  create this kind of soothing response and it has a
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  neurological impact on the body. And then the classic NLP patent
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  interrupts. So there's three different
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  modalities fused into one, and I think it would be useful for.
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  Anyone with? Amplified emotions, whatever
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  they may be. Now that might be anxiety, that
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  might be really high levels of stress.
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  But it could. Be overwhelming sadness or or a
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  different emotion. So I would say the best way to
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  get the most of this is to think of one specific memory from the
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  past that still causes some kind of emotional trigger and one
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  thought about doing something in the future that also.
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  Causes a. Similar emotion, so worth
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  thinking about those now before the session starts, so that when
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  I ask you in the session to recall a memory or think of
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  something, those are the things that come up.
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  So to get the best out of this session, I would say find a
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  quite comfortable place. The first section of this keep
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  your eyes open and it's the final 2/3 which are more a
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  combination of havening and hypnosis.
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  The first bit is more that classic EMDR and it's helpful.
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  To think of. Something that you can look at
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  to your left and your right, so you've got a focal points when
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  your eyes move back and forth, they're going from.
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  The same thing. So you might see an object in
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  front of you to the left and then an object to the right and
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  then just skip from left to right and then find that rhythm.
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  Obviously, this was created for a specific individual.
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  And if you do have amplified emotions, you know, high resting
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  levels of anxiety or stress, and you feel like I might be able to
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  work with you individually to create some kind of a
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  breakthrough. Then there will be a link in the
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  show notes where you can schedule that free consultation
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  call. For now though, find a quiet,
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  comfortable place where you won't be disturbed.
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  Relax and enjoy the session. Take a deep breath in, and as
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  you breathe in, just breathe in a relaxing feeling of calm and
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  resourcefulness. And as you exhale, just feel
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  like you're letting go of tension, of stress of worry,
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  breathing in that feeling of resourcefulness and exhaling
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  feelings of worry or anxiety. And with your eyes open, just
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  fixate on a point at about eye level in front of you.
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  Continue to find that rhythm with your breathing and
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  breathing in a feeling of relaxation and resourcefulness
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  and exhaling whatever your body would like to release.
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  And I want you to think of a specific memory from your past,
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  perhaps something then still triggers you emotionally, maybe
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  anxiety, maybe guilt, maybe even something traumatic.
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  And just know that this is a safe place.
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  And I want you to hold on to that thought.
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  Keep your eyes open and hold on to that thought, and when you
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  can retrieve that thought and perhaps even echoes of the
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  original emotion, just let me know by nodding your head.
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  And as you hold onto that thought to begin with, just
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  allow your eyes to find something to the left of you.
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  Keep your head still and just glance off to the left until you
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  find something and then glance to the right and slowly glance
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  to the left and the right, back and forth, still holding on to
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  that thought as it goes back and forth, almost like your head
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  still, but you're in the middle of watching a tennis match or a
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  ping pong match. Your eyes go left and right and
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  back and forth and notice after a while they find that rhythm
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  back and forth. But maybe you can notice that as
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  you hold on to that thought, that traumatic memory, that
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  moment of deep emotion from the past, I wonder if the emotion
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  starts to drain away. I wonder if a block becomes
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  unblocked. And I want you to find the small
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  object that it's possible to pass from one hand to another
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  hand, perhaps at the same frequency.
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  That's it. Your eyes are scanning from left
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  to right. That's it.
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  And continue to hold on to that thought.
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  And the harder you try to make it make you feel anxious or
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  guilty or sad or traumatised, the harder it becomes.
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  It feels like you're scratching ACD, so the CD doesn't play
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  right back and forth, back and forth.
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  And the harder you try to feel that original emotion, the more
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  elusive it becomes. Just take a pause now.
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  That's it. Just hold on to that thought
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  again. If it feels that the anxiety has
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  gone down, let me know by nodding your head and then try
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  again. Try and amplify the anxiety,
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  Amplify the original emotion. Feel like you're reliving that
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  memory and when you're there reliving it, allow your eyes to
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  go left and right. That's it, left and right and
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  just feel the release happening. An emotional release has been
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  built up. I just feel that it's about to
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  be letting go, that the block is about to be unblocked.
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  You've been building up all of these emotions for a long time
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  now. I want you to imagine sometimes
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  big earthquakes take hundreds of years just building up friction
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  and friction and friction. And then one day they just allow
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  all of that energy to be released.
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  And I want you to think of these moments of the past as building
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  up friction, building up energy, and what if it's time to release
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  it? What if it's time to release it
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  now? Because whether you think of a
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  moment from the past or perhaps a moment from the future, hold
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  on to an idea in the future now that hasn't happened yet, but
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  could do, maybe even will do one day.
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  And as you hold on to that thought, allow the eyes to go
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  left and right and I'll speed them up.
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  Left and right, left and right. That's it.
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  Try and keep your head still as you go left and right, left and
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  right, left and right. It might feel like a weird
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  sensation in your mind as you continue to scratch that CD.
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  And then when you hold on to that thought, the thought just
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  doesn't seem to have the same emotional impact anymore.
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  That's it, back and forth. Just place that item down.
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  Now just place it down. And perhaps now when you try and
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  think of that memory from the past or moment from the future,
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  you either feel nothing at all or you feel like something has
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  risen to the surface and you can allow it to be released.
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  Breathe in and breathe out as we now go to a soothing level.
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  Hold onto that memory or that idea that is causing this idea
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  of loss or trauma or sadness. Only now the eyes don't go left
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  and right. All I want you to do is put your
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  hands on your shoulders and just start stroking your hands up and
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  down. But as you do that, just allow
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  your eyelids to close as you hold onto that thought.
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  That's it. Just stroke your arms up and
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  down. Do you feel the soothing
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  sensation? Release, release all of that
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  built up emotion. Not to bury it, not to sweep it
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  under the carpet, but to release it.
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  Do you feel a wonderful sense of soothing that this emotion?
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  It's time to leave your body. You've been keeping it in your
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  body and in your mind. It's time to release it.
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  Allow it to be released. And maybe it's being released
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  with this soothing sensation. As you continue to stroke your
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  arms and your wrists, your neck and the back of your hand.
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  Each sensation feels almost like it's brushing off this emotion,
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  Like if it's in your hands, you're washing the sensation off
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  your hands. That's it.
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  And the harder you try to bring that emotion back, the more
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  elusive it becomes as you imagine it changing, evolving.
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  Maybe Think of that memory from the past, but now replay the
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  movie like it's an animated cartoon.
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  The details remain the same, but everyone is cartoon characters
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  brightly coloured with silly voices.
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  The memory is still the memory, but the feeling now changes.
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  That's it. Keeps soothing and stroking and
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  giving that comforting, reassuring feeling to your body.
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  This is you giving unconditional love to yourself.
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  Embrace it, feel it, that's it. There is something powerful with
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  the sensation of a hug or a cuddle, a caress, and just do
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  that to yourself as you give permission to release.
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  That's it. As that memory evolves.
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  Now imagine watching everything backwards.
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  Starts at the end and ends at the beginning.
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  It all happens backwards. That's it.
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  Continue those strokes. Soothing sensations.
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  That's it. Now, as you think of that
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  memory, just mess it up. Have it go backwards.
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  Have it go backwards, then forwards, then jump back and
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  forth. Turn everyone into cartoon
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  characters. Make inappropriately silly music
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  like circus music or comedic music.
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  Silly, funny music. That's it.
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  And maybe think of that moment from the future.
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  That would be traumatic. But now see yourself like you're
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  looking at you in the moment. And I want you to see yourself
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  composed, resourceful, because if you can handle an intense
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  emotion, your brain figures out you can handle anything.
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  That's it. Continue the feelings of rubbing
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  and stroking. That's it.
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  Feel like you're calming your nervous system down and it needs
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  to calm down. It wants to calm down.
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  It would like to calm down. That's in.
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  Release it now. Release it in whichever way
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  feels right. That's in.
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  It's time to release it. And I want you to imagine now
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  just shrinking down those memories, and the next time you
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  think of them, you will know they happen, but it will feel
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  like they happen to a different version of you a long time ago.
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  Recall that memory from the past and they'll see yourself like
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  you're a character in a small movie very far away as it feels
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  like all of the emotion is dialled all the way down.
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  All the way down. That's it.
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  It happened, but it no longer bothers you.
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  And anything that happens in the future, you can dial the emotion
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  all the way down. And every time you soothe
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  yourself, you're dialling the emotion down.
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  All the way down, that's it. And you can stop the caresses
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  and the strokes. Just relax your arms, take a
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  deep breath in and on the outward breath just release all
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  the tension in every part of your body.
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  Make yourself comfortable. That's it.
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  I want you to imagine a part of your brain that's been blocked.
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  Perhaps you could imagine the calcification or crystallization
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  of certain parts of neurons. And I just want you to imagine
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  whatever that crusted block is is now dissolving.
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  You've dissolved it, that whatever the block was is being
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  released. Your body and mind already knows
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  how to live without anxiety, but you don't want a future where
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  you need medication to create those feelings.
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  What if you create those feelings just by knowing that
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  the the block has been released, but it feels like it's been
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  released. Perhaps you can recall the time
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  when there was a block bath or a block synced.
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  Know what they took was one big push or plunge and the block was
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  gone. And just feel that whatever that
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  block is, feel with one big push, it's released and allow
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  your body to act like that's true.
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  Breathe the way you would breathe without any anxiety.
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  Feel a wonderful sense of relaxation without any anxiety.
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  Think the way you would think without any anxiety, because
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  maybe this chapter needed to be there to teach you how to value
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  what's really important. Love, connection, people and
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  experiences. I want you to get a sense.
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  Then you can extract all of the wisdom from what you've gone
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  through so you don't need to relive it to become wiser.
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  And if your unconscious is willing to do that, to extract
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  the wisdom, but decide that this isn't a place to go back to, let
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  me know by nodding your head. And maybe you've done that with
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  a city or a country, a destination you visited, and
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  that was enough. No desire to go back.
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  And what if this feeling is OK in small doses of a few minutes
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  or even half an hour, but it's not a place that you want to go
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  back to. So allow the block to mean that
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  you can move forward down. And in unblocking feel that a
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  cup that was filled to the brim is now draining away, giving you
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  all of the resources, the feel that you can cope, giving you
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  energy, hope and positivity. And now if you were to try and
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  think of those memories or future moments that were causing
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  emotional overwhelm, I wonder if you could try, try and bring
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  that emotion back and it's just not as intense as it was before.
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  And what if each time you think about it, it gets less intense
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  than the time before until you can think about it in the future
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  with no emotion whatsoever? And what if your brain learns it
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  can do that with all of the memories feels so overwhelming
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  and all of the things in the future that feel outside of your
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  comfort zone? Before long it just generalises
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  it to everything and what was impossible feels possible.
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  What was overwhelming feels manageable.
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  What was the cause of anxiety now becomes a cause of
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  excitement, or at least an evaluation that you can handle
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  it, whatever it might be. So take another deep breath in
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  through your nose and out through your nose, a nice long
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  breath to release any remnants of anxiety.
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  As very soon I will count from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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  You will awaken feeling things will get easier.
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  You will win with one victory at a time, one choice at a time,
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  one decision at a time. You don't have to do everything
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  all in one go, but do the things you thought you couldn't do
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  until you can do them without any worry at all.
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  And before long, all of it will become true.
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  All of it will be manageable. All of it will feel completely
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  within your capabilities. Starting to count to awaken you.
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  123 Waking up 456 more alert. 7-8 Open your eyes.
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  Open your eyes. 910 wide awake, wide awake, wide awake.
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