The Holodeck of Resourcefulness to Rewire Anxiety

Face the situation that used to tighten your chest, and find there is nothing left to brace for.

You know the pattern: scanning for danger and quietly avoiding it, all in the name of staying safe. Vigilance and avoidance have been running the show for a while now, and neither has made the anxiety any smaller.

This session works through a kind of virtual reality room, a holodeck where the same situation can be lived and relived until your nervous system stops treating it as a threat. The scene can be anywhere, a garden you cross the road to avoid or a room you hesitate to enter, replayed as if days have passed in seconds. You walk through it once with nerves, then again as though a week has passed, each repeat a little easier and the fear a little harder to find.

Seventeen minutes, and the aim is not courage, it is indifference, the moment when the old fear simply stops being interesting enough to notice, and you walk on without a second thought.

Listen to The Holodeck of Resourcefulness to Rewire Anxiety free on The Hypnotist Podcast.

These sessions are for education, relaxation and personal empowerment. They are not medical treatment and are not a substitute for professional medical advice.