Are you excessively concerned about Coronavirus?Constant worrying is bad for your immune system and can render you more vulnerable to infection. The hypnosis file embedded below will teach you how to build a sense of psychological safety in a time of plague, allowing you to dial down your panic to a rational sense of prudence about using proper protective practices.
Are you irrationally unconcerned with the pandemic?
Failing to take adequite precautions could put you and everyone else at risk. Please use the hypnosis file below to brainwash yourself into washing your hands and taking other precautions. The life you save may be your own.
Pandemic Prudence
Right now society is in a trance
We're all frozen in place
Watching the big scary number
Getting bigger and bigger
Feeling the fear Increasing
As the number grows
Out of Control.
It's only natural to feel Helpless
against something As enormous in scale as this is.
against something As enormous in scale as this is.
Wouldn’t it be nice if your mind could find a way
To reduce your level of anxiety about the crisis
To the amount that is rational for your situation
By engaging in the very behaviors that doctors
Recommend In order to prevent contagion?
You’d want to learn more about that, wouldn’t you?
Yeah, I thought so. Well, if that’s what you’re looking for,
Then all you have to do is just keep on listening
And you will learn the secrets of how to face the day
Calmly and rationally in a time of plague,
While maintaining your mental health
Against the constant assault of bad news.
Because that big scary number
Is gonna keep on getting bigger and bigger for a while now
And you need to learn to address this rational fear
By taking rational action to protect yourself.
So let’s see if we can let go of that anxiety, shall we?
Now I want you to simply notice that you are breathing.
Breathe in, and feel the sensation of the air entering you.
And as you breathe out, feel yourself relaxing, and let
All of the tension in your body leave with that breath.
You’re still breathing, and therefore you are alive.
And as you feel that tension fading away more now,
You notice that you can finally relax. Let go of the stress,
And take a moment to be grateful
that nature built you to keep on living.
You are the product of the survival of every person
Who lived before you, all the way up your line
To the dawn on humanity and beyond to the beginning.
So clearly you have a strong instinct to survive,
Even in difficult situations given to you by nature.
And if these natural instincts persist on a timescale
Of millions of years then it stands to reason that
They are effective in helping creatures to
Achieve the end of continued survival.
And it improves your chances of survival
To stand down from the constant arousal
That the primitive parts of your brain have had you in.
So I’m gonna show you something you can do,
When your instincts DEMAND that you do something
In response to the present crisis.
It is right and proper that your instincts
should protect you from existential threats.
Survival instincts are good, and when possible
We should allow ourselves to be guided by them.
Because frustrated survival instincts are the
Underlying cause of much of your distress.
But those instincts lack the capacity for reason and
Because your subconscious mind relies on
Your conscious judgement to determine what action
Should be taken to address a threat,
Using the most reliable information that is available
To develop a behavioral trigger
You can build yourself a little placebo button
To press when your mind needs an outlet,
Which is unlikely to do harm, and may actually help
To reduce your risk of infection by this disease.
Now I want you to picture yourself Washing your hands.
Looking down, watching the water
Hearing the sound of the water, feeling the soap,
Slippery on your fingers, dissolving into the water,
Washing away all of the contamination,
And washing away your concern with it.
It’s only natural to want to extend this moment,
Lingering in the action of washing, so calming,
Almost hypnotic in its repetitiveness:
Cleaning off every trace of worry about the situation,
Leaving only the rational concerns,
directly relevant to this moment.
This is a symbol of the state
of prudence that we seek:
A rational concern without worry,
Driven by taking rational actions
In order to address rational concerns.
And every time you take action,
To rationally address your concerns about the situation
you feel less and less out of control about it,
Even if your actual level of control has increased very little.
Doubt is removed by action.
And even the illusion of control
Can help you feel better about things
you are simply beyond your power to resolve.
The CDC has declared that we are all allowed
To wash our hands as much as we need to
In order to feel better about this present crisis,
As excessive sanitation is generally harmless
And infinitely preferable to the alternative.
Because disinfecting the screen of your smartphone
May not do anything for the people dying of plague
In foreign countries that you just read about,
But it might just reduce your own chance of infection,
While giving you an earned sense of security to rely on
To strike a deal with your subconscious
To satisfy your basic instincts about the situation,
Is just a variation on the ancient instinct
To “Hide from the big scary thing.”
A strategy so simple that an insect can do it,
And so basic to survival that evolution
Has retained the instinct all the way down to you.
So your own subconscious mind can easily comprehend
All the actions you take to protect yourself.
Because once your subconscious mind
Understands that a basic evolutionary strategy is in play
You can stop being frozen in terror and begin
To use your conscious mind to develop
a calculated response to the situation.
Allowing you to escape the paralysis of fear,
And achieve a place of prudence about it instead
Because safety is an integral part of the psychology
Of hiding from a predator, and any action that you take
To protect your home against the virus
Increases your sense of safety in your home.
Letting you be alert to danger
Without overt anxiety about it.
Because even if the big scary number
Is growing exponentially at the moment
The threat it represents remains the same,
And the measures required to hide from the threat
Also remain the same because hiding from
A swarm of predators is exactly like hiding from one.
Your instincts already understand this,
And once you transition to a pschology that makes sense
For basic human instincts, you find that your actions
Are suddenly more satisfying to you.
And that every step you take to erase your own
Contamination in the world is suddenly satisfying:
Wiping away your traces from the grocery cart,
Hiding your face behind a surgical mask,
Keeping your distance from strangers in public,
Even something as simple as cleaning your traces
From light switches, countertops, and doorknobs
All suddenly satisfy that primal need to hide;
Making it feel satisfying and right to adhere
To the sensible guidelines that protect public health
Because once you transition to a hiding psychology,
You find yourself shifting from being stuck at home
And helpless against a force too large to fight
To being safe at home and leary of the outside world,
While at the same time letting you feel less anxious
As you hide from the virus, safe at home.
Maintaining enough awareness to remain apprised
Of the changing nature of the local situation,
While also taking the time to recharge and
Focus on maintaining your sanity through the crisis.
And as you begin to find the
ways and places in your life
Where you can integrate
And form or improve your healthy habits,
You will find that you may not be sure
Exactly where the placebo ends
And your genuine good health practices begin.
Even a placebo button makes you safer,
If it keeps you from crossing against the traffic light.
And That may be just the thing you need
To realize that you are doing all you can
To stay in good health (as best you can?)
In body and in mind
By giving yourself the time, like right now,
to working on your outlook and approach
To the conditions of the world ,
By starting at home and in your own spaces
Providing yourself a sense of security
Within your own mind, First and foremost
With that image of washing your hands
That you can think about and return to,
any time that you need to, in order
To cleanse away those concerns that
you’ve become aware of and taken care of
To reassure you are doing what you can
So that you can continue functioning
Despite changing and challenging circumstances
Because it shouldn’t take a pandemic
To realize that prudence is the solution
To a great many problems other than disease,
And that many times simply feeling safe
Because you’re doing what you can about the problem
Is infinitely preferable to paralyzed helplessness,
And perhaps it’s better to learn it now,
When the problem is of incomprehensible scale,
So that these lessons can prove usefull Against
Less overtly existential challenges in the future.
Because there will be a future, someday.
And it’s good to keep sight of that fact.
While we sit and wait and console ourselves
That it’s impossible for the number to grow forever,
And that it rationally must start to come down again
As humanity begins to get the virus under control.
When we all can begin to awaken to the world we know
Until then, just aim to stay positive as best you can,
Knowing That you are going to do what you can.
finding the ways you can usefully contribute,
So that you can take comfort in your personal responsibility,
Until then, Stay calm, and wash your hands…
