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I can open my eyes.

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But by pretending that your eyes won't open, we're saying, settle down, conscious mind. I'm choosing the imagination.

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And by doing this, you're putting the cart before the horse and entering hypnosis. And it may seem strangely simple, like that's it, but it is. And it's not that weird.

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Actors do this when they play characters.

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Kids do it when they play pretend. We all do it when we daydream. And although our society sort of poo poos the imagination, considering it's sort of flighty or silly, it's actually an incredibly.

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Powerful part of your mind, maybe the most powerful part.

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So that, Janet, is why we wiggle the eyebrows, pretending that our eyes won't open.

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We could do it other ways.

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Maybe imagining that your hand is heavy and won't lift, or imagining that balloons.

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Are tied to your wrist, making it so light that it lifts. It really doesn't matter, except that it.

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Engages your imagination fully. And from that place, suggestions I make become clearer, more vivid, and are accepted much more easily.

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We all have those nights when our.

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Thoughts feel a little too awake, looping, wandering, refusing to settle.

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