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Vomiting Anxiety with Hypnotherapy (Reflux & Trauma Support) · 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. Now, if you've ever vomited, not
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  just a bit, but a lot, you know how awful it is.
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  But just imagine how bad it would be if you were vomiting
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  for hours on end and there was no one there to help you and you
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  felt alone and kind of in a way, abandoned.
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  Well, this hypnosis session was created for a child that had had
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  that experience while on a school trip and had vomited for
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  more than four hours non-stop. Everyone else was asleep.
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  Teachers didn't care and because of that their brain adapted a
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  bit of a coping strategy where they would get very anxious
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  whenever they felt nauseous or thought that they might vomit.
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  And this hypnosis session is designed to calm down their
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  nervous system and have certain coping strategies that mean that
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  they can relax, but also to change how they thought about
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  that moment where their body linked it to a feeling of
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  feeling isolated or abandoned or in need of help and not getting
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  it. There's a bit going on here, but
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  at its core, it's designed to help vomiting, anxiety and the
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  hyper vigilance and coping strategies that came from that.
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  So if you get anxious about the idea of vomiting, or maybe you
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  have a child and your child doesn't like vomiting and starts
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  to feel a bit anxious if they even feel nauseous, this session
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  may be very, very useful. Just be aware though, it was
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  created for a specific individual.
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  Some of the references to certain school trips or a screen
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  that plays video games was because that was relevant to the
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  client I was working with may not be relevant to you and your
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  situation. So if you do like the idea of
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  having a bespoke session, there will be a link in the
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  description but also on my website adamcox.co.uk and there
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  you can schedule a free consultation call to explore
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  working with me. For now though, find a 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. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in, and as you breathe in, breathe in.
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  Then long, slow, deep, relaxing breath, and as you exhale, allow
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  your eyelids to close and with your eyes closed, feel a sense
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  of release, releasing tension, stress and worry in your outward
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  breath. Breathe in a feeling of calm
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  relaxation and on that long outward breath, give permission
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  to your body to let go of any thoughts, worries or feelings
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  that have been bothering you either recently or in the past.
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  Breathing in and feeling of calmness.
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  And as you exhale, just imagine as you're breathing out, it's
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  like gently blowing on hot food or blowing out a candle that's
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  far away. Slow, easy, controlled.
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  And each time you breathe out your chest, your stomach relaxes
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  even more. Not forced, just relaxing and
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  loosening. And maybe your shoulders drop
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  and your jaw relaxes. Maybe you notice your hands
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  becoming still or twitching slightly, and you may even
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  notice that your body already knows how to calm down and
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  position your body in such a way where you can really feel safe,
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  calm and relaxed. The deeper you breathe, the more
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  relaxed you feel, and the more relaxed you feel, the deeper you
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  breathe. And as your body relaxes, your
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  imagination awakens. And I wonder if you can imagine
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  a place where you feel completely safe.
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  Maybe it's your room, your home, or a place you've been to
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  because this is your imagination.
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  It could even be a made-up place that doesn't exist, but you
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  still feel safe. And in this place, I want you to
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  imagine people that you love and love you that are there to help
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  people who notice, people who come if you need them.
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  Maybe you can imagine your mother, your father on hand if
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  you need them. And in this place, within your
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  imagination, you are never alone when you don't feel well.
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  I don't need to notice what this place feels like.
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  A safe place with help when needed.
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  A place where feeling safe doesn't mean that nothing
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  uncomfortable ever happens. Here, in this place, safe means
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  that if something does happen, you are supported and just allow
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  that thought to hold, to sink in.
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  And now imagine the screen, maybe the kind of screen that
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  you would watch a movie on or play a video game.
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  And on that screen is playing a movie about a boy who had a
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  really difficult evening while on that residential school trip.
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  And you're not inside the memory.
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  You're watching it like you're in a cinema, watching it on on a
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  big screen. And in that movie, the boy
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  didn't feel well. I want you to observe that boy
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  vomiting not just once or twice, but for a long time.
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  Maybe when others were sleeping, but they were vomiting for
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  hours. And the hardest part wasn't the
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  feeling in the stomach, it was feeling that they had to deal
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  with it all by themself. And just notice that and then
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  pause that movie, freeze it, rewind it to before the vomiting
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  even happened. And then imagine something
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  different happening. I want you to imagine on that
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  same residential, your parents were there.
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  And when you start to feel nauseous or vomit, help is
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  immediately on hand. Calm, kind, steady.
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  These helpers sit beside that boy and they bring water.
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  They ask if they're OK. They stay and they say I'm here.
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  Watch that new movie and notice how you feel different and you
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  can make that boy you if you want.
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  Watch it again and then rewind. And then play the movie again.
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  And as you play it again, suddenly that boy doesn't look
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  so anxious, stressed or scared or worried.
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  They still don't like the vomit, but they don't feel that it's
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  unmanageable. Once you've seen it again,
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  rewind it again. But then imagine going into the
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  screen and feeling what you would feel like if, while on
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  that residential school trip, people that cared were with you
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  when you started to vomit. They had water medicine.
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  They wanted to make sure you were OK and notice what it feels
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  like when you didn't feel that you were alone and just allow
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  that new memory to connect somewhere in your body, your
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  chest, your gut, your head, how it feels different.
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  Imagine leaving that memory and still being in that safe place,
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  perhaps near that big screen, and then bring your attention to
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  your stomach, your gut, and just to check it and just to notice.
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  And I want you to imagine inside your body there's a a dial, A
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  control switch, the kind of thing that you could change the
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  volume of an old radio. And when you breathe out slowly,
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  that dial turns down from an 8 to A7 to A6 to A5 to a four.
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  And you're not forcing it to 0 just turning it down so you feel
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  comfortable because your body listens to your breathing, and
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  those long outward breaths can help calm your body so it
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  doesn't feel like it's in danger or that something bad may
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  happen. So every long slow exhale tells
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  your stomach, your body to calm down.
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  And let's try it now. A big slow breath in, but an
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  even longer breath out. And just imagine dialing down
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  just one number. And maybe that number represents
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  nausea or worry or discomfort. But each time you have a long
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  breath out, it reduces by one number, just dials it down.
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  And I want you to imagine what it would feel like, that you are
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  learning control with that long outward breath.
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  And there's something important, a new way of thinking.
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  Vomiting is unpleasant. Nobody likes to feel sick.
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  But it is temporary and it's not dangerous, and it doesn't mean
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  that you're on your own. And there will be sometimes that
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  your body needs to do it and it does it and then it stops.
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  And sometimes, sometimes there's big storms that happen but don't
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  last very long, but they always pass.
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  And I want you to say quietly, just in your mind, even if I
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  feel sick, I can handle it. Even if I feel nauseous, I can
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  manage. And even if I do vomit, I can
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  cope. And it's not because it's nice.
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  It's because you are stronger than the nausea, stronger than
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  the vomit. And each time you feel that you
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  can manage it well, it makes you stronger for the next time.
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  And I want you to think of a memory before that school trip.
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  Maybe you can see yourself on that screen again, with your
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  friends or with your family, going about places.
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  And I want you to think of a time when even if you ate a lot,
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  even if you were eating spicy food, you didn't feel worried.
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  You didn't feel scared. And just step into that version
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  of you. Like putting on clothes, but
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  you're just back inside that version of you.
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  Like you're a character in a computer game, experiencing the
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  world through their eyes. You to breathe how that version
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  of you breathed. Think what they thought.
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  Think of a time when you felt nauseous all the way back then,
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  and think that way again. You don't like it, but you know
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  that you can manage. And that version of you is still
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  here. Nothing was taken away, but
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  after that residential, your brain just went into protection
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  mode. And that may have been useful
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  for a few days. But you don't have to stay
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  there. And even if there are loud
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  noises or scary news, your brain knows how to tell the difference
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  between real danger and things that just seem a bit scary.
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  But not every loud sound means something's wrong, and not every
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  time you feel nausea means you're going to be sick.
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  These feelings that you have, these sensations, don't mean
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  you're alone. If you need to be sick, your
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  body will be sick. But that doesn't have to mean
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  you're on your own or that you can't handle it.
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  So take another slow breath out and dial down one more number,
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  and maybe it's already at four or three or two.
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  Every outward breath that's intentional takes it one number
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  lower. The nausea decreases, any
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  anxiety or worry decreases, and I want you to imagine a future
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  moment that hasn't happened yet. A time when you feel a bit
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  nauseous, queasy in your gut, the sensation in your stomach.
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  Not big, something mild. And then imagine what you feel,
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  that feeling. You breathe out slowly and
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  imagine dialing down that sensation, reducing it.
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  And you've done that before. You've played a video game where
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  the volume was so high and you know how to turn down the
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  volume. So just imagine you can turn
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  down that sensation. You remember that you're not
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  alone. That feeling gets less and less
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  so that your body doesn't panic or escalate.
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  And just imagine that future moment where you feel that you
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  can handle it just like you did in the past before that
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  residential You are not fragile, your body is strong.
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  There were people around you that care, and you were learning
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  to be the boss, the leader. And every time you breathe out
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  long and slow, you're training your nervous system to relax and
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  calm down. And every time you calm down,
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  even for 10 seconds, your body can cope better than it did
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  before. And you don't have to feel
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  perfect. You can just remember that you
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  are supported, you are safe, you can handle discomfort.
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  That's it. It's time to leave this place in
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  your imagination. So just imagine leaving any
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  screens or memories or ideas of the future and returning all the
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  way to your present. Take a deep breath in through
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  your nose and out through your nose.
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  Just wiggle your fingers, wiggle your toes.
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  Connect with your body right now as I count from 1:00 to 10:00
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  and you will awaken feeling calmer and more confident about
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  the future. Starting to count 123.
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  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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