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Hypnosis to Rewire a Fear of Rats and Mice · 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, CEOs and even royalty, Adam Cox.
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These recordings took place live from Evans Clinic in London's
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world 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 reasonably
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short hypnosis session that uses elements of disassociation and
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association to help a client that had a fear of mice and
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rats. Now, I'd already done a lot of
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work with the client before this final 15 minutes.
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This was a way for them to go through their memories.
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Think of all the times they felt real anxiety at either seeing a
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mouse, seeing a rat or thinking about them.
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A lot of people with phobias get most of their anxiety from the
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thoughts about them rather than the actual event.
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And what this does is has this idea of a cinema.
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It's a very useful tool for stage disassociation.
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They see themselves as they were in the memory, then they imagine
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rewinding it, seeing themselves as they would want to be with
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lots of confidence. And when they're absolutely
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certain that version of them has the resources to handle that
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situation, then they take a first person perspective.
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So what this does is it disassociates from the anxiety
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and then starts with disassociation from a resource
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state like confidence, before associating into the confidence
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in the same context that would cause the anxiety normally.
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So what we need to do is to remove the link between anxiety
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and the stimulus before introducing a new resource
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state. This was for mice and rats.
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You can use a variation of this for almost any phobia.
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So essentially you're seeing a memory of what actually
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happened, but as if you're were observing yourself like you're
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someone else. You rewind it, you play it
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forward with the resource state and then imagine jumping into
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that and experiencing it from a first person perspective,
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knowing that if any anxiety comes up, you can just jump back
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out and then observe from a third person perspective until
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you can get all the way through the memory from a first person
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perspective while feeling resourceful.
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And this links to this idea of neuroplasticity creating a new
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neural pathway linked to the very context that had the
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previous neural pathway. If you have a fear of mice or
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rats, you'll get more value from this.
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But if you would like a bespoke session and the majority of what
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happened with this client is not what happened in this hypnosis
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session, it's what happened before.
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So if you do like the idea of. Getting rid.
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Of a phobia that maybe you've had for many years, maybe even
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decades. There will be a link in the
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description where you can schedule a completely free
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consultation call. We'll have a chat.
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And it might be that I end up helping you to completely
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eliminate your phobia in just a few sessions, as I've done for
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many hundreds of other people. So if that appeals to you, check
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out the link in the comments. For now, 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, breathe in that resourceful feeling of calm and
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relaxation. And as you exhale, just feel a
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wonderful feeling of relaxation, as if on every outward breath
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you're releasing more anxiety, more stress, more tension.
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Each breath takes you deeper and deeper, relaxed breathing in a
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wonderful feeling of resourceful relaxation.
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And as you exhale, feel that feeling of release, as if each
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breath takes you deeper to a place that amplifies neural
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plasticity. Neurologists say neurons that
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fire together wire together. And what if there are errors in
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your life that you ooze confidence, a feeling of your
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skills and capacity exceed the demand, that you're facing
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situations that would intimidate other people, but for you, you
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feel calm, composed, confident. And what if those neurons that
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know how to be confident start firing when you start thinking
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about mice or rats? I want you to get a feeling then
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your anxiety linked to mice and rats is just a conditioned
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response. At some point in your childhood,
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you felt intense anxiety to either what they looked like or
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what you imagined them to be like, and that created a
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trigger. But what if that trigger was
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based on false information? What if mice only make you feel
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anxious because you believe that they make you feel anxious and
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the moment you can feel confident while seeing or
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thinking about a mouse then means that you don't mind if
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there is a mouse there because it no longer makes you feel
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anxious anymore. As you breathe in and breathe
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out, I want you to imagine a staircase leading to your own
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private cinema. And as I countdown from 12:50,
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you will imagine walking down that staircase, opening a door
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and walking into your own private cinema. 10 Taking the
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first step down, feeling more and more relaxed. 9 even deeper
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breathing now. 8 feel relaxation in your jaw, around your
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eyelids, your forehead, and seven your neck and your
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shoulders. Start to let go of any tension
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they're holding onto. 7 becomes 6 and your arms feel limp, loose
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and heavy. Five, your breathing slows down,
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breathing out for longer than you breathe in.
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And four, feel that relaxation going down into your gut.
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That's it. 3 even more relaxed legs feeling limp, loose and
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heavy and two down into your ankles and then one from the tip
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of your toes to the top of your head all the way down to the
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tips of your fingers. Feel that ripple of relaxation
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as you find yourself at the bottom of that staircase.
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Imagine opening the door and walking into your own private
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cinema. And in that private cinema, find
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the most comfortable chair on the screen.
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I want you to see a time in your life where you've had
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unshakeable confidence, something that might intimidate
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or make someone else nervous, but you then in that moment had
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unshakeable confidence, certainty that you could handle
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that situation well. I want you to notice how you
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breathe, your facial expressions, notice your
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posture, and just start to mimic how you look when you have
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unshakeable confidence. Breathe that way, feel that way,
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and then step into the screen and feel how you would feel to
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have unshakeable confidence. Notice that you might be
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breathing longer, deeper, more from the diaphragm.
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You're in a dialogue, if you have any might say, I can do
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this, I know how to do this, this is fine and it would be
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true. And then I want you to imagine
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keeping that feeling of unshakable confidence moving
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back to the chair where you can see the screen.
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And then I want you to think the time in your past that you had
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some kind of anxiety linked to a mouse or a rat.
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And I want you to imagine seeing that memory on the screen like
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you're an actor in a film. You were not in the movie.
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You're just observing the movie. And I want you to see that that
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mouse, that rat, well, the idea of it changed how you were
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breathing, change your facial expression.
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And that just means that in the past, seeing or thinking of a
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mouse or a rat did make you feel that way in the past.
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But I want you to imagine rewinding it and just imagine
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that unshakably confident version of you dealing with the
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same situation. And that version of you has No
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Fear, no anxiety of mice or rats at all.
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And I want you to see how you would handle the same situation
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differently again, like an actor on a screen, if that version of
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you had unshakable confidence and if you could imagine that
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version of you handling that situation well.
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Let me know about nodding your head and just rewind it, Do it
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again. Try different variations.
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And in every iteration and variation, you have no more fear
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of that mouse, that rat, or even the thought of one.
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See yourself handling the situation well, and when you are
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absolutely certain that that version of you would be unfazed
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and unbothered by a mouse or a rat or the thought of one, let
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me know about nodding your head. Try all the iterations until you
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find your favorite. A version of you, confident,
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unbothered, dealing with the situation in a way that means
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you handle the situation but with the absence of anxiety.
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And when you see that version of you on the screen, confident,
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even if there is a mouse or a rat or the thought of one, let
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me know by nodding your head. That's in.
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Rewind it all the way to the beginning and then imagine
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floating into the screen. Just imagine you're now taking a
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first person perspective as someone with unshakeable
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confidence I want you to feel. Then you would be unfazed,
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unbothered, thinking or seeing a mouse or a rat.
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And then imagine reliving that memory as you would want to if
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you weren't bothered by it. Feel yourself breathing
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confidently, moving confidently, even thinking confidently.
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And then imagine the same situation.
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And yet now it doesn't bother you.
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That mouse, that rat, or the thought of 1 is no different
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than if it was a Sparrow, a Robin, a parrot.
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It's as insignificant as that. It doesn't bother you at all.
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I don't want you to imagine going from the beginning of the
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memory to the end in this new way, feeling unshakably
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confident, unbothered, unfazed. And once you've got to the end
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of that memory, feeling proud, confident.
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I want you to feel then what happens in your mind can easily
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be transferred to reality, because the neural pathway to
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imagine something vividly is no different from the neural
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pathway that would handle it in reality.
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If you've had anxiety at the idea of something, you already
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know that to be true. But if you can have anxiety at
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the idea of something, you can also have self-confidence at the
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idea of doing something. And when you've experienced that
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memory in that new, calm, confident way, let me know by
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nodding your head. And you get to do as many times
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as you want. Do it one more time just to make
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sure that you feel. Then no matter what happens, you
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can deal with it. And once you're certain that the
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look of a mouse or the shape of a rat now just seems to make you
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more confident, more defiant, you still don't want it anywhere
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near you. But you can handle it.
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When that feels like it's true, let me know by nodding your
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head. And you realize you can go back
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here to this screen, harnessing different times of confidence
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and thinking of different memories of anxiety.
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And all you're doing is imagining what it would be like
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to see yourself confident in that same situation and then to
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feel confident in the same situation.
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And the more you do that, more those neural pathways are
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linking confidence to the idea of a mouse or a rat until it
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becomes second nature. You didn't walk at your first
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attempt. You had to fall over a few times
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until you found your balance. Your mind is building a new
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neural pathway to feel confident at the thought or the idea.
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The more you practice and the more you change memories into
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new ideas, the quicker it becomes a reality.
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If your unconscious mind understands, let me know by
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nodding your head. That's it.
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So imagine leaving that screen, that seat, walking out, opening
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the door, walking up a staircase.
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And then imagine floating back to your reality, taking that
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feeling and that belief with you.
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You were never afraid of mice or rats.
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Your brain had just linked a particular emotion to how they
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look and how they sound. And that's now changing.
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And once it changes, you don't have to work at it.
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That's just the way it becomes to float back to the here and
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the now. Taking a deep breath in through
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your nose, hand out through your nose, Just wiggle your fingers,
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wiggle your toes, connect and calibrate into the here and the
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now as I now count 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, wide awake.
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