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interesting…23…22…21…19. Negative feelings are detaching from your body as you relax your lower backand hips…18…17…16. As you relax your thighs and legs the numbers drift still farther away…15…14…13. When you completely relax your ankles and feet, your whole body detaches from discomfort and negativeness…12…11…10…9…all badness is floating far away from your body. Your toes and the soles of your feet feel warm and comfortable…8…7…6…5. All the muscles, nerves, fibers in your body are relaxed, soft, white, pliable…4…3…2…1.
    â€œYou feel good, secure, comfortable, relaxed, and confident. Thank yourself gently for allowing these sacred, warm, belonging feelings to exist within you. Imprint upon your mind the fact that good feelings are like music: the more you practice, the more skilled you become at doing what you want to do, becoming what you want to become, feeling what you want to feel, and thinking what you want to think . Remind yourself to notice those positive feelings and welcome them.
    â€œAs you slowly approach a perfect body-relaxed state you see your complete package of discomforts disappearing over the horizon. Take three big, big, big breaths. Yawn and jiggle all the parts of your body like your kids used to do when they were little and played ‘rubber man’ or ‘Jell-O person.’ Remind yourself that life is wonderful, intriguing, exciting, and that you are willing on occasion, to struggle through a cold, hard, dark, painful, sometimes frightening, valley to get to the sunny, protective, love-filled hill that lies on the other side. Stretch and flex your muscles. Smile. Open your eyes. How do you feel?”
    â€œGreat.”
    â€œWhat is your discomfort ratio?”
    â€œWow! I forgot about it.”
    â€œWant it back?”
    â€œNo, thank you.”
    â€œIf it does creep up on you again, do you think you can handle the procedure we’ve just practiced?”
    â€œBy myself?”
    â€œNo. With your subconscious mind helping your conscious . That is what hypnotherapy is all about when it’s used properly, which means positively!”
    â€œI think…”
    â€œYou think?”
    â€œNo. I know I can do it! I must! For my girls and my job and my sanity as well as for Sammy. Now, how can I handle the fearful overwhelming thoughts that clutch and claw at me during a lot of torturous, endless black nights?”
    â€œYou can practice the two soothing, relaxing, control exercises I’ve given you. Sometimes we think of control as being an imprisoning, inflexible, concrete thing when actually it’s a part of love’s lifting, releasing-from-bondage process. The kind of control we want is the kind that puts you in charge, makes you the master instead of the slave.”
    â€œThat is interesting. I’d never thought of control as being a friendly kind of word before.”
    â€œSometimes you may have to get up out of your warm, soft bed and exercise vigorously to prove to yourself that you control your body as well as your mind! Tell yourself, ‘MOVE OUT LEGS, MOVE OUT ARMS, MOVE UP LEGS, MOVE UP ARMS, ETC.,’ and whatever you do, don’t let the unseen, unreal NIGHT BOGIES get to you till they control you . I suspect most people on earth have, at one time or another, had the tormenting NIGHT BOGIES creep around in their heads, trying to nibble away their brains. Have you ever heard the old spiritual‘Lord, You Made the Nights Too Long’? Most of us have been visited by the bogies during a death, an illness, a divorce, or one of the thousands of other debilitating traumas, like the one you are now suffering through with Sammy. You are not alone.”
    â€œIt’s reassuring to know I’m not alone . In some selfish, strange way I haven’t been thinking about anybody else’s problems at all. The starving