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HypnoSOS Episode 42 – Get Organized

You can rest your eyes now… comfortably closed… you can take three nice deep breaths now… slowly and evenly… for these few moments there’s nothing else for you to do except… listen… and even not that, because there will be times when you forget to listen and your mind wanders, and that’s fine too… You will enjoy this process… and experience it in whatever way feels right… for you… right now… Focus in on each breath… breathe out as deeply and as slowly as you can… as you do… notice your shoulders… and let them relax… move them around a little if you wish… just relax your shoulders… and when you do you’ll breath more easily… more deeply… you may find that there are times when you sigh or even yawn and that’s fine… as it helps the muscles of your jaw to relax… relax the muscles of your jaw… just allow those muscles to relax and as you do, you let go… of tension… you let go of any frustration or unspoken thoughts… you can just let those muscles relax… in these moments there’s nothing else for you to do except… breathe… and you will find in the background at first at least, you may notice your own thoughts… between the words that I say… some of these thoughts may be important… others may not… it really doesn’t matter… you can pay attention to them if you wish… or let them drift if you can… for if these thoughts are truly important, they will wait for you at the end of the session… when your mind will be clear… your thoughts more ordered… and anything which is irrelevant or distracting can be released… in these moments… giving you clarity… helping you to organise your thoughts… your feelings… your actions… In fact, all of this is a perfectly natural process that happens at night when we sleep well, when we dream… we organise that which has happened and plan that which is yet to happen… but sometimes if our sleep is disturbed or there is too much going on, we seem to hold too many thoughts at the front of our mind… and it’s difficult to put structure around what we’re thinking… so that’s what will happen in these moments… a perfectly natural and normal process that happens in your sleep and in your dreams… you can actively engage with in these moments… but the wonderful thing is there’s nothing for you to do… just relax… for the more you relax… the more control you take of the process… the more control you take of the process, the deeper you go… and the deeper you go… the more benefit you can achieve… There is no right way or wrong way… there’s just the best way for you… right now… nothing else matters… you have control…

And… in a few moments in time… in a few moments in time you will hear me say the word nowww… and each time I do… I will suggest to you that you first take a deep breath in… and when you hear me say the word nowww, you will release this breath slowly and completely… and as you do any unnecessary nervous tension, any unease or discomfort… will just drain away… leaving you feeling calm… leaving your mind feeling clear… leaving your thoughts in an appropriate order, and helping to let go of the things that distracted, disturbed or distorted your thinking… so ready… let’s begin… deep breath in… and… nowww… let it go all the way… all the way down to your abdomen… all the way out… and the next breath in can be deep and clean… deep and clean… and it’s fine if you find that you yawn… it’s fine if you find that you let your muscles settle once more into an over deepening state of comfort and ease… letting go of any little pockets or knots of discomfort as you breathe out… so once more… breathing in… deeply in… and nowww…let it go… and be aware of the muscles of your chest as if a warmth is now spreading… with each breath out from now on in this process that warms… radiating… emanating from your chest, as you grow ever deeper… ever deeper… ever deeper relaxed… ever deeper… deeper… deeper relaxed… and your thoughts can drift now… there really is no longer any need even to listen hard to the words that I say or the sound of my voice… and you may notice that… if there are sounds around you… they won’t disturb you… it’s just background… background to your thoughts… background to your feelings… as you reach a level of relaxation that allows you to clear a space in your mind… so you can think clearly… clear space in your mind… where you can put your ideas in order… clear a space in your mind where you can organise your thoughts… and I want you to know that… this simple act of intention to clear a space in your mind for your thoughts… will help to amplify your ability at night when you sleep when you dream… to organise your thoughts… and help you to take action… to plan… to prioritise… to compartmentalise… to discard… some people like to think of an image that will help them… something that means organisation to them… for me it is an old-fashioned filing cabinet with drawers… for you it may a desktop of a computer… or a book in which you write… it doesn’t matter… it doesn’t matter whether you think of anything at all… Your unconscious mind simply by this act of intention to clear a space, to be organised, will find the best way of making this happen for you… so that at night when you sleep, when you dream your unconscious mind organises your thoughts… to prioritise… to organise… and actually to enjoy what you’re doing… and get a feeling of pride in your achievements…

And in a few moments in time… in a few moments in time you will hear me count from 1 to 10 and at the count of 8 your eyes will naturally and easily open… and at the count of 10, you will be fully wide awake… all normal and appropriate sensations back as they should be… and you’ll feel fine… clear in your mind… ready to get organised… so ready… 1… 2… 3… more aware… 4… 5… 6… more alert… 7… 8… eyes open, wide open… have a stretch… stretch now… 9… and 10… rest for a moment.

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