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HypnoSOS episode 33 – Gratitude

Close your eyes if you haven’t already done so… make yourself nice and comfortable… and focus in on your breathing… If you need to move around during the process to make yourself even more comfortable, you can, you will…. just as you do sleep… in a few moments in time… in a few moments in time, you can take control of the process itself… and decide how deep you want to go… It’s very simple… all you need to do is silently and mentally… focus in on each breath… and with your out breath… you can say to yourself… ‘let go of the tension’… let go of tension… and on your in breath you can say to yourself ‘breath in calm’… let go of tension… breath in calm… and it really doesn’t matter what words you use… whatever you choose that says the same thing to you will help you to… relax on your out breath… and bring within feelings of peace… and as you breathe in and out you will go deeper and deeper relaxed… ever more calm and comfortable too… any intrusive thoughts that have no place you can just let them go… along with the tension… and you may find that your mind begins to remember good things… as you bring in feelings of peace… breath in calmness…

You will find that after a little while… you forget about the words… your breath alone carries these feelings… so really, all you need to do is breath and your breathing becomes ever deeper… ever deeper… ever deeper still, as we go on… ever deeper…deeper still… deeper and deeper… and for a little while… you can just lose yourself in these moments… no need to think of anything… no need to be aware of anything at all… simply the sound of my voice… and your awareness as you go deeper… and deeper into this state… and you may notice that even though your eyes are closed… you can still see… shapes… shades… even colours… and watch them change as you go ever deeper… and deeper… deeper and deeper… and you may wish to choose one of the darker colours or shades… and connect that to your out breath… and as you breathe out any tension you find the darker colour fades… and a lighter colour comes in its place… you may wish to choose that as you breathe in you focus on the lighter colours… and as you do, those lighter and brighter colours increase… so even though your eyes are closed… you become aware of light… and as you go ever deeper and deeper into this state of peace… you feel lighter… stronger somehow… feeling better than you did… and you may find that every so often you take a deep breath… a sigh really clearing out that tension… and fully taking in feelings of calm… and as you go ever deeper… ever deeper… ever deeper still, there may be moments when you feel as if you are drifting… drifting or floating slightly and that will be fine, just fine… drifting into an ever deepening state of physical as well as mental state of deep… deep… peace… deep… deep… peace…

And in this state you can call upon your unconscious mind, your memory, to bring to you gifts… memories of… things to be grateful for… and whether they are about you, and your health, your situation… or good people around you, or things that give you joy… it doesn’t matter what they are… it doesn’t really matter if you can remember them… but what is important… is to focus on things to be grateful for… because sometimes we forget… good people in our life… things that make us happy… good memories… connect with them… and be grateful… for they help you to look forward… to more things to be grateful for… more things that give you joy… and it’s important as you remember… that perhaps if you haven’t spoken to somebody for a while or done a thing for a while… it’s time to do it… or at least plan it… it’s important to look forward… it’s to remember… how lucky you are in many ways… focus on those things… It may not be easy, but those things are there… and they will help you be stronger… make decisions… move forward… smile a little more… be kinder to yourself and to others… for we each in our own way create our own reality… it’s time to make yours… a good one… shaped by you…

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 gently and easily open… and at the count of 10 you will be fully wide awake… all normal positive sensations will be back in the present… and you’ll remember that the word present also means gift… it’s time to give a gift to yourself… so ready… 1… 2… 3… more aware… 4… 5… 6… more alert… 7… 8… eyes open… wide open… 9 and 10… fully wide awake… have a stretch now… you have control.

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