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The River of Resourcefulness - Awakening Confidence and Releasing 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
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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 in this episode of The
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  Hypnotist you're going to be listening to a hypnosis session
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  all about panic and fear. And I was working with a client
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  that had a panic attack in a medical operation.
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  And at the time they thought it was just a one off.
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  But then a couple of weeks later they had a similar panic attack
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  in a public environment. And that put a seed of an idea
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  in their head that they could have a panic attack in any place
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  at any time, but that it would be most distressing if it was in
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  a public place or if it was in the kind of place that they
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  couldn't easily get away from, like being on a plane.
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  And because they had that thought, their brain went into
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  something called hyper vigilance.
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  They were thinking and anticipating all of the kind of
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  things that it would be awful to have a panic attack.
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  And in turn, that increased the anxiety leading to avoidance.
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  And they weren't like that before the 1st panic attack.
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  So in this hypnosis session, you're going to be hearing a
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  metaphor of a river and a former riverbed where rivers used to
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  flow through. And the riverbed that's dry
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  represents how they used to think and feel.
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  And the New River is the thought process, the neural pathway that
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  leads to vigilance and panic. And what this is all about is
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  saying, well, look, that new way of thinking is actually
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  contributing to the very anxiety that they want to avoid.
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  So it's about using a metaphor, direct hypnosis and future
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  pacing to reactivate the old neural pathway.
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  Because when they thought and felt that way, that way of
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  thinking, that resourceful way of thinking meant that they
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  didn't have the panic attacks anyway.
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  So there's evidence within their own experience that that way of
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  thinking is more effective at reducing panic than the new way
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  of thinking. And quite often you find this
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  paradox with people with extreme anxiety that the preparation and
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  anticipation creates the very thing that they're looking to
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  avoid. So this hypnosis session, I
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  think, will benefit anyone that has the fear of being anxious or
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  the fear of having a panic attack.
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  And in particular, if you felt something different in your
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  past, then you'll get more from this session.
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  Of course, it was created for an individual.
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  Some of the references might not relate to you because I didn't
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  know who you were at the point where I recorded.
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  This. So if you do like the idea of a
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  bespoke session customized to your exact situation and needs
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  and outcomes, look in the description for a link to
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  schedule a completely free consultation call because that
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  will enable us to have a chat to see if I'm the right.
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  Hypnotherapist to work. With you directly.
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  For now, though, find a quiet, comfortable place where you
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  won't be. Disturbed.
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  Relax and enjoy. The session.
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  Take a deep breath in, and as you breathe in, breathe in that
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  slow, long, relaxing breath. And as you exhale, feel a sense
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  of tension, stress and worries feeling like it's leaving your
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  body in your outward breath that's in.
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  As you breathe in, just imagine breathing in distilled
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  relaxation and confidence. And as you exhale, allow
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  yourself to release any fears, doubts, worries, or insecurities
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  and imagine the resourceful feeling is a bright, colorful
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  energy. And imagine any of those
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  tensions and fears as dark shadows just leaving your body
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  in every outward breath. And therefore the deeper you
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  breathe, the more resourceful and more relaxed you become.
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  And the longer you exhale, the more it feels that you're
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  releasing old ways of thinking and unresourceful emotions.
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  What if now is exactly the right time to let go of something that
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  hasn't been working? I want you to think of something
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  you bought once that was meant to solve a problem, but it never
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  worked very well. But because you invested in it,
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  you kept it. But it never really did what you
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  wanted it to do, until one day you found something that worked
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  better. So you replaced what didn't work
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  with something that did. And I want you to imagine that
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  several years ago you bought a way of thinking, hoping that it
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  would help. But what if that very way of
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  thinking was the problem and not the solution?
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  And as we plant that seed of an idea deep in your subconscious
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  mind, I'm wondering if it's going to be minutes, hours, or
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  days that you decide to let go of that ineffective way of
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  thinking because something else works so much better.
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  And we don't have to guess what that thing is because you
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  already have it. The way you used to think meant
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  that you found yourself in resourceful, empowered feelings.
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  And when you felt that way, anxiety and panic was elusive.
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  So get that sense that you're already weakening the very
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  foundations of that ineffective way of thinking.
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  That's it. Loosen and release the very
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  foundations. I want you to use the power of
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  your imagination to imagine a riverbank, but I want you to
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  imagine there is a river flowing with water, and not too far away
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  is a dry riverbank. And you can tell that the dry
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  river bank used to be the main river until something happened.
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  And when that thing happened, the water that used to flow that
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  way started flowing into what now becomes the New River.
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  What if the New River is long and winding and the old river
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  was just a much better river than the new one?
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  Imagine staring into the old river and the New River.
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  One is flowing and one is dry, and just get a sense that you're
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  willing to let go of something that is no longer serving you.
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  I want you to imagine seeing both the New River and the old
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  river, and I want you to get a sense that the old riverbed
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  desires to be awakened, because the old riverbed was a way of
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  thinking that made you feel relaxed and resourceful,
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  confident and at ease. And the New River, this New
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  River has a good intention, but it comes at a price.
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  This is the river that leads you to feel anxious about what ifs
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  and maybes, encourages you to avoid.
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  Where was the old river? Would whisper in your ear.
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  You've got this. You can handle this.
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  This is easy for you. And if there's a part of you
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  that would like to reawaken the old way of thinking and feeling,
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  let me know. By nodding your head, that's it.
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  Because your mind was trying to protect you.
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  But in doing so, it leads you away from the very life that you
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  want to live. And there is a part of you deep
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  within that recognizes that you are not the anxiety, that you
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  are simply the observer of all thoughts, feelings and
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  sensations. Just like watching water flow
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  past in the New River without needing to jump in.
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  And even if that river still flows at times, you don't need
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  to follow it. You can notice it, accept it,
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  allow it, and then gently return back to the old riverbed.
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  Because the old riverbed carries you to where you want to go.
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  And it's OK to feel fear. And instead of using avoidance,
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  you step into the fear. Fear is like shadows, action is
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  like light. And often they don't coexist.
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  And every time you carry discomfort an act in line with
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  courage, more and more of that water is flowing into the old
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  riverbed. I want you to get a sense that
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  every time you avoid the new riverbed flows faster, but every
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  time you show courage, it's like building a dam and reawakening
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  the old river. You are not the feeling, you are
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  the river that carries the feeling.
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  And fear may rise like a ripple, but you remain that old riverbed
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  beneath it. In all the times you felt the
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  anxiety, you survived. Sometimes it was unpleasant or
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  distressing, but you survived. You've survived every flood.
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  And now I want you to imagine that you can ride the current.
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  What if Calm returns the more you remember that old version of
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  you, the version that made the evaluation that everything would
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  be fine. I want you to imagine you are
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  now seeing water flowing from 1 river being diverted into the
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  old river, feel the neural pathway of resourcefulness and
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  confidence awakening within you. And I want you to imagine a
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  moment in the near future, the kind of situation or
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  circumstance that once brought fear.
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  But I want you to see yourself like you're someone else, Calm,
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  relaxed and confident in that very situation.
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  See it from all different angles, people nearby, an
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  imaginary camera filming you. See it from all different
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  angles. You in that situation, looking
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  calm, relaxed and confident, unfazed, unbothered.
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  And then imagine stepping into that version of you before the
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  moment has even happened, and feel how it would feel to do the
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  very thing that once brought fear in a calm, confident,
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  relaxed way. And notice you're in a dialogue
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  encouraging you, not trying to pick out dangers and problems,
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  but telling you that you will be fine, that you can handle this,
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  you can manage this, You've done it before, you can do it again.
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  And if any anxiety starts to rise up, I want you to imagine
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  seeing yourself like you're someone else.
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  See yourself managing that anxiety like it's an old echo, a
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  small wave. And when you feel confident that
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  that version of you is back on track, calm and confident, then
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  switch places. Feel back in your own body,
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  feeling calm, relaxed, and resourceful.
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  Echoes of anxiety are part of the process of reactivating that
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  neural pathway of confidence, resourcefulness, and calmness.
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  And allow your mind to imagine those very situations you've
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  been worrying about or avoiding. Assume that they will go fine,
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  and each time you do that you are reawakening the old
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  riverbed. And imagine a year from now the
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  old riverbed is now the dominant riverbed.
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  And imagine yourself, one year from now, doing the kind of
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  things that you could only do if this fear of fear and fear of
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  panic was no longer an issue anymore.
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  See that future version of you, absolutely resourceful, calm and
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  confident, doing the very things that you could only do if a
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  change was made that was permanent.
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  Because when a riverbed reactivates, very quickly it
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  gets deeper and wider. The old riverbed atrophies and
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  the new one becomes dominant again.
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  And I want you to imagine that your old neural pathway is
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  awakening and will soon be the dominant, natural and automatic
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  way of thinking. But you need to train that
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  neural pathway by imagining things going well and then
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  choosing to do things to test that they are indeed going well.
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  And each time you even attempt, you are reactivating.
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  The very way of thinking and feeling that will lead to even
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  more positive evaluations. The self fulfilling prophecy
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  that has been haunting you will now be helping you.
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  So as you look at both riverbanks, see the river of
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  anxiety is now dry and the river of resourcefulness is now in
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  full flow and it's time to leave this place in your imagination.
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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, wiggle your toes, start to
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  connect and calibrate into the here and the now.
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  That's it 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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