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Most people (though some don’t, which is already suspicious) have a mental narrator.

What is that?

The voice some of us hear when we think. An internal dialogue. A kind of commentator nobody asked for but that showed up anyway.

It can be detailed and constant, or more visual and quiet. It organizes thoughts, acts as working memory, might sound like your own voice… or a much more annoying one.

So what does hypnosis do?

In most cases, it tries to silence that mental narrator. The idea is that only silence remains. And the hypnotist’s words.

But sometimes your mental narrator doesn’t cooperate.

— Should you obey? No. I don’t want to. I don’t like you.

— Stop thinking. I want to think. Right now I’m thinking about how I’m listening to you.

— Let go of control. I am in control. Of being in control.

— This is safe. I don’t know. When someone says “this is safe,” it usually isn’t.

And there’s the problem.

It’s not that hypnosis fails. It’s that your mental narrator figured out the trick and decided to troll the process by live-commenting the whole thing.

and while you’re reading this… who’s talking now?

Back in 2020, I found myself on this exact path. Trying to "rise above" my feelings and emotions. Little did I know that all of what I was trying to rise above began storing itself in my mind and body in ways I never would have imagined possible. That broke me down a lot more than just feeling whatever I needed to feel right there and then. Only now am I beginning to recover but this recovery is proving much more difficult now than it probably would have been before that path. Never negate your humanity. You have it for a reason. Get in touch with it.

Consistently connecting to just your awareness gifts you an opportunity to gain clarity.When you lean back a little, and connect with your breath, and feel your being in your body, clothes from moment to moment, your focus will narrow back to the present moment and less on your current problems Only from there can you reel your consciousness back towards what you want instead.Imagine how you were…