🎵Music🎵 This self-hypnosis program consists of four tracks.
This introduction.
Two deep trance sessions.
One that nurtures your self-value.
And one that builds a healthy relationship with anxiety.
Find a space for these two where you won't be interrupted.
And one two-minute long on-the-spot state shifter.
For quickly managing anxious feelings on the spot.
🎵Music🎵 These sessions are designed to be listened to in order.
But it's not a rule and they can be effective in any order.
Repeat listenings are recommended.
Listen as many times as you feel beneficial.
🎵Music🎵 Jill Bolte-Taylor,
A neuroanatologist,
Observed that from the moment an anxious or similar feeling begins.
There follows a maximum of 90 seconds of chemical process.
Producing that strong feeling in your body.
For a feeling to continue beyond that point,
It can only be a result of a choice to perpetuate that pattern of thinking and feeling.
That choice may not have been deliberate.
But you can be deliberate now about choosing to watch and feel it happening until it goes away.
After it has gone away,
Simply stop and carry on with something else.
With practice,
This shift to observing awareness can become second nature.
Using the track from this program entitled on-the-spot state shifter,
I will guide you through this 90 second process.
Just make sure you can access it as and when you need it.
If any anxious feelings arise for any reason,
On your phone for example,
And find a safe place to listen for just two minutes.
Chances are,
You've just been busy doing something else.
There may be thoughts floating through your head about any number of different things.
Some may be concerning,
Some reassuring.
Some you may wish were not there,
Others you may wish were there all the time.
Nevertheless,
They are all floating by and that's okay.
We all imagine differently.
Some see bright vivid images,
Others hear sounds or feel feelings.
Some may experience none of these and simply have a more abstract inner awareness.
While others may simply be aware of nothing.
Whichever way you're imagining occurs,
Just listen and let it happen or not happen.
This isn't a test or a task,
This is your time.
There are two different types of crises.
The crisis out there in the world and the crisis between your ears.
This process is focused on overcoming the crisis between your ears.
So that you can adapt to and respond to the crisis out there.
The word crisis comes from Greek.
And the original meaning is the decisive point of a disease.
It is a crucial point at which a decision can lead to two or more vastly different outcomes.
When a decision such as this is made,
Everything changes.
Our worlds get turned upside down and we have to make sense of everything from scratch.
We can't see a precise outcome and our choices may involve more faith and less clarity than we are accustomed to.
It is this the unknown that scares us the most.
The source of much of our anxiety.
We don't reliably know how long this situation will last.
How it will affect us or our loved ones and so many others across the world.
We don't know the future and what it will bring for our work,
Our education or the economy of the world.
The answer to these questions may not be under your control,
But what goes on between your ears is.
When faced with an uncertain outcome,
We simulate the possibilities for that outcome.
And this can initiate anxious feelings.
We have the remarkable ability to draw upon our past experiences to make predictions about the future.
While anxiety may be future focused,
We feel it in the present.
This can be enormously useful.
However,
Not all our experiences are positive.
And our simulations do not discriminate.
When the future is less predictable and the stakes are high.
Naturally,
We spend more time predicting and simulating and less in the present.
Add to this a tendency for negative thought that comes as a default setting for us humans.
We are far more inclined to fear the worst than the best.
These cautionary predictions activate chemicals in your body to help you run from,
Fight with or hide from immediate danger.
But not all dangers are immediate.
And many dangers are best overcome with a calm and present mind.
If indeed the danger is real at all.
And so you may find yourself physically primed for a sprint around the block.
When what you really need to do is to think rationally or creatively.
And to make considered actions.
This is your mind trying its best with what it has available.
Your mind requires your patience,
Empathy and deliberate input to help it learn new responses.
You can think of it like training a dog or even raising a child.
It has drives and desires.
It thinks independently.
And it will only do as you say,
When it has good reason to.
You can only teach a dog to sit when you reward it with what it wants.
A treat or some affection perhaps.
So what does your anxiety want?
Well,
You are in the best position to answer this.
But it likely has something to do with security.
Your heart rate increases.
Your breath becomes shallow.
You break out in a sweat.
You may feel restless or on edge,
Unable to think clearly.
Perfect for running,
Fighting or hiding.
Actions which can save your life in the short term.
So to achieve security in the short term,
You need anxiety.
And to achieve security in the long term,
Your anxiety needs you.
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