A guided hypnosis session that teaches your unconscious mind to recognize and overcome self-imposed mental boundaries. Using the metaphor of an electric fence horses learn to avoid, it shows how internalized limits can be released so you move freely toward goals you've been blocking yourself from reaching.
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That's right. With your eyes closed, you can begin to relax. Though at first, you may be more aware of some things than you were before. The different sounds in the room, the sound of my voice, the different sensations in the hands or the feet. I can feel my feet. The different thoughts and images that just pop into your mind automatically. Because with the eyes closed, it becomes easier and easier to become more and more aware of a variety of things that would typically go overlooked. Different thoughts, feelings, sensations, and the alteration of awareness Notice as the mind begins to experience that gradual letting go. Letting go even of the effort that it takes to be aware of exactly where the arms are positioned, or the hands, or the fingers. And even the effort that it takes to be aware of which leg seems to relax more quickly or completely than the other. That may even seem to be too much effort to even bother making, but it takes It takes time to experience that letting go. Your own time, in your own way, as you begin to learn even more than before about your own ability to relax and let go. And the mind begins to flow down toward that place of quietness and calm awareness. A place that almost seems to give off signals that direct awareness down toward it, into it, more and more completely. A place of effortless relaxation and letting go, where even the effort that it takes to be aware of the sound of my voice or the meaning of my words may almost seem to be too much effort to even bother making. It's so much easier simply to relax and to allow events to occur almost by themselves, a drifting down and a drifting back upwards towards the surface of wakeful awareness at times. And that's fine because it all belongs to you. Because see, you have a conscious mind and an unconscious mind, and the unconscious mind, that very back of the mind, can continue to hear, to understand, and to even respond to those things that I may say without the need for you to do anything at all. It's so much easier for the conscious mind to just relax and to enjoy that drifting down into that place of quiet calmness. An effortless awareness of many different things without needing to make an effort even to remember exactly how to make the effort it might take to tell the exact position of the arms or legs or the entire body that seems to float in time and space. That free-floating space of effortless letting go and allowing events to occur in their own time and in their own way. That's right. The unconscious mind can allow that drifting to occur now while the conscious mind drifts off someplace else entirely now. That's right. In your own time, in your own way, aware of events that occur along the way as the unconscious mind begins to utilize that opportunity to alter your experience and to continue that learning in whatever way is the right way for you. Learning that feeling of letting go, of allowing the unconscious mind to assume more and more responsibility for the guiding and directing awareness as you continue to explore your own abilities and capacities to learn. As you relax, as you relax, enter into that trance more and more completely, more and more comfortably, more and more effortlessly than ever before. That's right. Going deeper and deeper into that beautiful world. And as you go into that even deeper state of trance, I sit here and burn with curiosity as I wonder— wonder if you are familiar with fences, especially those electric fences used to contain horses. Those fences have a few tiny strands of wire, and through those wires goes a current of electricity. What? Electricity. Not the kind of electricity that is dangerous, just the kind that gives you a quick jolt, like static electricity you get from walking on rugs, a sudden sharp spark. These wires stretch all around the field, and as the horses walk from place to place, they quickly learn where they can go and where they don't want to venture. All it takes is a few brushes against the wire, a few sudden startling zaps, and being very smart They learn to look but not to touch. They learn so well, in fact, that after a while the farmer can turn off the electricity or even replace the wires with strings, and the horses will stay put, fenced in by nothing at all, stopped in their tracks by a thought, by the feeling that some places are off-limits, that where they are is safe, and as long as they just stay put, satisfied to be where they are, they'll be safe as well. An invisible barrier or boundary created by nothing more than the mind. But once one horse goes through it, then they all will follow. That barrier shattered and broken with no restraints on where they go next. But where to go next is a problem, a problem everyone faces, and not everyone knows how to solve, which is probably why you can earn a fortune these days telling people their fortunes and giving advice on what they should do. We don't know how a horse knows where to go, but we do know that once they know where they're going, it is difficult to stop them or rein them in. Because once a tired, hungry horse sees that stable or barn at the bottom of a hill, all you have to do is give it free rein and it will take you there as quickly and surely as it can. Because it wants to be comfortable and it wants to be fed. And once it knows where to go to get what it wants, even an imaginary boundary, can be leaped over on the way to that goal. What fun to hold on tight and just to let it run, trusting that it will take you there swiftly and surely. That is a pleasure every child can treasure if they allow themselves to do so. And so, before you allow yourself to drift up completely into consciousness, wake Full alertness. It may be useful for you to utilize this opportunity now to think about what you've experienced, the thoughts, the images, the understandings, and how you might use these things later on from one day to the next. Because as we stated earlier, you have an unconscious mind, you have a conscious mind, and those 2 minds can learn from your experiences here today some things that you can utilize to deal more effectively with those things that have been problems for you before. And so before you continue to drift up into conscious awareness, normal wakeful awareness, it is your privilege to use this comfortable self-awareness to become more aware of those things you can use later on. Those learnings, abilities, and skills you may have overlooked before to give you a new view of the possibilities for a new way of thinking, feeling, and doing things. That's right. Take some time now, a brief time that seems to be It may be a long time to review a plan, and at some level of awareness, those things you will do later on, those things you may change later as you begin to use more and more of you. You can use that time now because in a few moments from now, when you drift up and awaken, It may be interesting for you to note that in the drifting, relaxed state of mind, where thoughts drift by like dreams that enter awareness for a time and drift through the mind, while some are left behind to be utilized later on, and others are remembered or seem to be remembered at first, but then become more and more distant and forgotten over time. And the entire experience can seem so far away as your unconscious mind protects the conscious mind and leaves those things behind, forgotten but remembered too. And time changes too, so you can know what a trance has been when you begin to know that what seemed to take a short time turns out to have been a long time, or what seemed to be a long time was really no time at all. So for now, as the unconscious mind allows the conscious mind to become more aware of sounds, sounds in the room, the sound of my voice, the different sensations in an arm, a leg, the variety of thoughts and feelings as the conscious mind drifts up and conscious wakeful awareness returns quite completely now up to the surface of wakeful awareness, restfully refreshed, comfortably awake, even as the mind drifts up completely and the eyes are allowed to open right now. That's right, eyes open and wakeful awareness returns completely right now.
