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HypnoSOS Episode 34 – Confidence

With your eyes comfortably closed, you can relax now… just take a few moments out from your day to relax now… take three deep even breaths… deep, even breaths… and just relax… all the way through relax… all you need to do for the moment… is nothing at all… no need to listen, no need to think, no need to do anything… just breathe… and focus in on your breathing… and as you do allow your chest to rise and fall… just…breathe… focus in on your breathing now and you can soon find that your mind will drift… your thoughts will wander… and there really is nothing else to do except… to breathe… and you can notice it already your breathing has changed… it’s become deeper… without you having to do anything at all… your breathing has deepened… and the muscles of your chest and start to relax… as you breathe deeper… more easily… more evenly… you can just rest… and any thoughts that are in your mind, you can find that they will simply connect to your breath and move in… and out… as you breathe in… and out… and the thoughts can fade… for there is nothing of great importance to think of right now… and if there is anything you really need to think of or to do, you can just let it rest on your breath… and move it away for a little while… so that after this period of time of rest you can come back to that thought and you will find that… your mind is clearer… and perhaps just perhaps… something which you thought of as a problem, something which may have disturbed or bothered you… can no longer bother you the same way at all, in fact you may find that you can just forget something because they really are not important… and in forgetting allow part of your mind needs to remember clearly, more space and time to think… to process information fully… so you can relax… and deal with the things that you are able to deal with and put out of your mind that which you cannot influence… you change your mind by… allowing yourself to focus on the things you CAN do… and there is an interesting thing that happens… when you focus on the things you can do, they may be small in and of themselves, but they are significant when added together… you find that when you concentrate on the things you can do… your confidence grows… you notice that each day… you are able to do a little more… and your confidence grows…

In a few moments in time… in a few moments in time… you can if you wish, take control of this process… so you can be confident that you are in control… It is quite simple… all you need to do is silently and mentally count down from 10 to 1… use your out breath to time the numbers… or every second out breath or even third out breath… it doesn’t matter which… but as you count the numbers down, you can and you will notice that you go deeper and deeper into this state of peace… and as you do, you can draw upon your confidence… because you know that you’re controlling this process… and as you count down… as you go ever deeper and deeper into this state… you may find that there are moments when you feel as if you’re drifting… or floating… and yet completely supported… drifting and floating into an ever deepening state of physical as well as mental state of deep, deep peace… time to rest… time to recover… time to remember that there are many things you have done that are successful… you have many ways of your own to get things done… you have things which give you confidence… things that you do… things that you feel… things that you think… things that you access… people… places… actions… and in these moments your unconscious mind, your memory can remind you what some of these things are… remember what it is that gives you confidence… and you may find that a thought comes into your mind to remind you… and even if nothing specific comes right now, it will… when you wake after this process, or even in your sleep and in your dreams, your memory holds precious things for you and can remind you how to be confident… what it is that strengthens your confidence… remember… you have control over the way you think… you have control over the way you feel… you have control over the way you do things… and you can choose to be confident… making it a conscious choice… acting as if you are confident and… strangely it does work… until after a while it just becomes an unconscious process and you are confident… confident in the way that you think… confident in the way that you feel… confident in the way that you do things… you have control… and these feelings can grow day… by… day…

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, fully alert… You’ll feel calm, you’ll feel relaxed, you will feel more confident about who you are, about what you have done, about what you are capable of doing, you will remember the positives… so ready… you will hear me count from 1 to 10 and at the count of 8 your eyes will open and at the count of 10 you’ll be fully wide awake… 1… 2… 3… more aware… 4… 5… 6… more alert, having a stretch now… 7… 8… eyes open if you haven’t opened them already, eyes open… 9 and 10… fully wide awake.

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