June 19, 2025

(music) SNAKE PHOBIA - Let me bore your Phobia away #2 (19th June 2025)

(music) SNAKE PHOBIA - Let me bore your Phobia away #2 (19th June 2025)
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Hello and welcome. My name's Jason Newland. This is going

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to be a phobia recording. Yeah, a phobia recording. So

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I don't know whether to focus on a particular phobia

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or just generalize it. I will decide at some point

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during a recording. So please only listen when you can

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safety close your eyes. This isn't a sleep recording, although

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you might find yourself falling asleep because apparently my voice

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is not the most exciting voice. It's not well, a

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different a stimulation maybe, but it's not doesn't apparently get

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people feeling wide awake. Oh well, I'll put up with it.

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I don't mind, So okay, I'm going to have that.

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It's going to be a phobia of a phobia of snakes.

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Let's do a phobia of snakes. So, of course I

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don't know where the phobia if you've got phobia snakes,

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where it comes from. I'll put snake phobia in the title,

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so don't worry. So I guess only people with snake

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phobias would listen. The first question is what's the likelihood

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of you actually seeing a snake? Now, if you live

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in the country where I live, it's really unlikely It's

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about as likely as seeing an elephant. You know, it's

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just not likely to happen. I mean, we do have snakes,

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grass snakes and adders and things like that, but I

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think I've only ever seen one in the wild once

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when I was a kid, I say, in the wild,

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but outside. But my friend downstead stairs he did have

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two snakes, and that was the first time because I

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hated snakes just but from I did have a phobia snake.

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I don't have it anymore. I have a healthy wariness

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because I think it's good to be wary of. Like

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it's still you know, you need to be wary of

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something like a snake or maybe a you know, you

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don't have to be scared of a lion, but if

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you see a lion coming towards you, then you need

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to be active. You need to be aware of the situation.

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You know. I'm I'm not scared of crocodiles, but it

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doesn't mean that if I see a crocodile, I'm just

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gonna go up and start patting it on their head,

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you know. So you know, if I was on a

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boat and I saw a shark poking its nose up

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in the out of the water. I wouldn't go to

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give it a kiss. You know, I'm not scared of sharks,

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but in that scenario, i'd have to kind of hopefully

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my brain would work. So, you know, don't be picking

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up snakes if you don't know anything about snakes. But

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then you could say that same is like don't pick

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up a dog or a cat, you know, unless you've

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got to know how to handle them, or a monkey.

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I was going to say giraffe, but I don't even

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know if you could pick a giraffe up when it

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was born, when it's first born, because they're probably the

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size of a horse, and they when they're first born,

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I don't have very tall. Blimey. I think it's the

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tallest animal I've ever seen. I had a funny incident

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happened though, because I went to the zoo. This is

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years ago, BlimE me. You got seven sixteen years ago,

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fifteen years ago, and no, probably sixteen seventeen years ago.

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So I went to the zoo and there was they

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were cleaning the animals. So they had elephants and then

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they had giraffes kind of within the same kind of area,

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and they were hosing them down and stuff and there

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was a big part of school. Kids were sort of

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watching and now I think they were feeding the elephants

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or I don't know, something like that. So I'm looking

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at the other side because on this bridge, so you

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could look down, so I was looking at other stuff,

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and suddenly I hear all these like, well, here the

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teachers laughing, and I hear that the kids laughing. So

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I'm like, okay, my trousers falling down again, but they hadn't,

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so I turned around to see what's going on, and

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there was two giraffes and one was getting it on

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with the other one, and it was, Yeah, it was

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just very funny because it was so inappropriate, but in

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the same side, like, it's just animals doing what animals do,

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but it was very funny. Anyway, that's not really relevant

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to the story, is it. He started off talking about

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snake phobias and ended up talking about giraffes making love

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and in a zoo like exhibitionists as well, Like no, well, yeah,

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but no, that's not what I was kind of going

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to talk about. So part of how I do what

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I do and why I do what I do is

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to try and take away some of the seriousiness of

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something like a phobia, because you know, what does it

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get you, what does it give you, What benefits are there?

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If the benefit is to keep you safe, then you

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don't need to have a phobia of it to keep

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you safe. Seeing a picture of a snake. You don't

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need anything to keep you safe from a picture. Yeah,

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this isn't Jumanji in Jumanji Jimandi Jimanji. You know, no,

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it's not not gonna pop out of the book. You

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don't need to keep safe from a video of a

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snake or seeing snakes on television. You don't. You know,

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you haven't got to feel safe for that, because you

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are safe. So the idea that a phobic response can

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be created just by thinking about something that's not useful,

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how is that helpful to you? It's just not is it?

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I mean generally, you know, realistically, it's seriously unuseful. So

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I guess it's putting it into perspective in a sense

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of you know, when is it useful to be concerned

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about snakes? There is a time, you know, if it's

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a snake. I guess just generally, you know, if you're

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traveling through India or through a country where there's snakes

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that can be poisonous, then yeah, you be careful, you

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see one, you keep away from it. But it's not

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something that we need to think about. Is it a

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kind of regular basis. I don't even think regularly about

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things I like, never month things I don't like. You know,

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it's a few things I like to do in life,

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but I'm not thinking about it when i'm not doing it.

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Well generally, I suppose that's the benefit of just focusing

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on what you're doing when you're doing it and then

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moving on. Perhaps you could change the phobia, swap it

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with something else. What would be something that you'd be

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happy to be scared of that you're never going to do,

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Like for me, bungee jumping. I'm scared to bungee jump.

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I'm never going to bungee jump. It will never happen ever, ever,

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never going to happen. So I'm happy. I'm quite happy

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to a bungee jump in phobia. I wouldn't say it's

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a phobia. It's a bungee jump. You know. It says

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something I'll be scared to do, but I'm never going

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to do and I never see any reasonable point to

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doing it. In the same way, I wouldn't jump out

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of a plane. There's certain things I just wouldn't do,

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not because, yeah, partly because I'm scared to do them.

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But logically it's normal to be scared to do stuff

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like that. It's like, what's the point, what benefit is there?

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I understand some people get benefit by overcoming fears and

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stuff like that, but I wouldn't see that as a

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benefit for me personally because I've never I'm never going

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to do it. I'm never going to do it. It's

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as simple as that. I'm never going to ride on

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the back of an alligator. That's just not going to happen.

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I'm not going to swim with sharks. That's not going

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to happen, hopefully, you know, not on purpose anyway. So

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in that situation, I would be scared. And again, some

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people get something from that, But what could you be

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scared of? What could you change? What could you transfer?

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That phobia? Too might sound like a weird idea, and

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it's possibly something that you've never really thought about before,

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so you can make up. Vinny, Vinny, my little Jack

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Russell here is it looked like it was a bad

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to just sit down and stare at me but I

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think it's time we went. We're going to go out

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again in a little while, are we going? Ah early?

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Start today? Six thirty this morning, wasn't it? Yeah? Six thirty?

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But unfortunately, hey, you growl like me a little monkey.

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Unfortunately he saw a dog that he didn't like and

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he barked, which is way too early, way too early

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to be barking. Wasn't it a A yes? So think

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of something really absurd that you would be scared to do,

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not really absurd. It could be something like eating the

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largest I don't know, I don't know what it could be.

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It could be building the biggest sand castle in history,

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digging the biggest trench. It could be phobic against drinking

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nothing but I don't know what would be a weird

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thing to drink bol drinking nothing but bother reel. So

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you could be a phobia of traveling through a desert

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and drinking nothing but borel, which is the the least

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hydrating drink. I would say there is, and it's like

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marmite but with liquid. So maybe you can think of

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an idea for yourself, something that you could be that's

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never going to happen. So it can be something like

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jumping out of a plane, or it could be swimming

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with sharks, something you've never been bothered about before. But

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maybe you can have that phobia because you're never going

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to do it. Have a phobia be you know of

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like falling into a volcano. Unlikely it's going to happen.

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I mean, if you're going to be like balancing on

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the court on the edges of a volcano, yeah, maybe

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it might happen. But I say edges, I don't know.

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How are they thin? The volcanoes had thin edges. I

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don't know. I've never been on a volcano. I'm never

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going to be on a volcano. The closest thing I'm

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never going to be to a volcano is watching it

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on Telly. So what would be an absolutely ridiculous phobia

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that you can have to replace the snake phobia that

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you used to have. What could be a nice replacement.

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I think part of the snake phobia with humans is

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there's that whole kind of with a lot of people

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is that they've had a bad reputation and they snakes

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have had a bad reputation throughout history. A lot a

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lot of kind of historical a lot of religiously stories

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that have contained snakes, and they've never been good guys,

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are they? He never? Really? However, often do you see

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a snake as the star of the show. I mean

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it depends. Yeah, I'm in a n actual snake, not

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a person that. Yeah, an actual snake, mind you the

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Jungle Book. I quite like that snake because it was hypnotic.

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But yeah, who, I want to be like you? Who.

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We used to have someone at work and he just

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copied everyone. He copied everyone. It's almost like he didn't

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have his own identity and he wanted I guess he

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wanted to fit in stuff. But when everyone in anyone

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says something, he just copied it. And so it became

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so obvious that in the end, whenever he started doing it,

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whenever he started copying someone, we'd all stop working, turn around,

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start dancing and singing, Oh, I want to be like you.

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Oh I want to walk like you, talk like you,

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And then we just turned back and carry on working

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because it's in the factory. To this day, I don't

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think he even knew what was going on, and I

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still don't think he understood that we was subtly, subtly

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trying to subtily does some people pronounce that it's sub

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to leagueuse, it's got to be in it. It's subtle

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and not subtle. Ah. So on the snake phobia thing

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that you add, what what is it? So we think

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a snake snaky snake, snake stake? What just imagine in

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you in your mind? What is it on a level

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of like? Is it like ten? Is it a fifty?

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Is a one hundred? Is it zero? Where is it

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on a scale? I mean, how high does that scale

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of like absolute let's say not pleasure, non pleasure? How

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how high is it at the moment? How high was

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it before you started listening to me biblely on about stuff?

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How high was it then before I started being Some

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would argue a bit of random random, don't worry, this

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is what I do. It might seem strange if you're

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listening to me for the first time. If this is

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just what I do, this isn't anything unusual. It's unusual,

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but it's not unusual for me because it's how my

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brain works. So unfortunately, and because I have to deal

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with it, I share it with others. That's my punishment.

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So where is it? What scale is it? Are you

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still bothered the same way as you was. That's what

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we can do. Imagine imagine someone that you really like,

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like a celebrity, someone that you really okay, someone that

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you fancy, maybe even someone that you find very attractive,

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or just perhaps somebody that you've you've always wanted to meet.

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So if you saw them, and let's say you were

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staying in a hotel and you see them in the

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hotel lobby and you think, what the heck? Why are

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they there? How do you know there's there's a superstar?

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Why or whatever it is? You want to go up

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and sayalo, and you see that they've got a snake

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around the neck. Just guess they've got a pet snake.

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What do you do? Do you still want to go

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and saylo? Do you still what? How does that change?

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Do you know what I mean? How is that? How

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is that a little bit different? Realizing that actually there's

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motivation there because you want to go and do you

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want to meet this person someone maybe you've wanted to

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meet for decades, even since she was a child, he

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wanted to meet. It's like, oh, I'd love to meet

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this person, but they have a snake wrap around their

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neck as a pet. Of course. Plus it's a good opener,

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isn't it. Excuse me, I don't know if you noticed that.

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I hope not to disturb you, but I just want

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to let you know there's a snake around your neck.

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It's an opener, isn't it. It's an opening line. I

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did that to a neighbor the other day. I saw

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my neighbor go out in his dressing gown and get

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in his car. So he rode up the road and

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turned round and started coming back, and I kind of

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got in front of the car. They stopped and he

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said what I said, I think you forgot to get dressed.

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And I think it was a bit too early in

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the morning, so I think he got annoyed a little bit.

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But I thought it was funny. I'm a delivery person.

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It was funny, so but I just thought it was

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just I knew what he was doing because he was

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just going to park the car around the back. But

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it was like, you on the way to work, you've

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forgotten to get dressed. That was a bit more of

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a miss than to hit that one. But it da matter.

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But it's an opener, isn't it. Maybe not very good opener?

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I don't think so, say if if you won the

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lottery and to get the money, he had to walk

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through a shop full of snakes behind in glass cases,

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you know, but he had to walk all the way

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through a big long It's not an Alba twire, it

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avery ovary whatever. They're called, the snakes living, but you

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goalk all the way through that in order to collect

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the money. Would you do it? Motivation? So it's a feeling,

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one feeling versus another feeling, that feeling that you had

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before versus the feeling of being extremely wealthy with life

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changing money. You could take it a bit further. I say, okay,

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once you get that this so you can have the money.

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But if you look in a small print, you do

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have to stroke sake. But you don't have to do

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it now. The money will stay here. All you've got

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to do is stroke the snake. Come back as often

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as you want. So that sounded like there was more

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coming in that sentence in it come back as often

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as you want, and no, that was the end. There was.

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That was a full stop. So come back as often

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as you want. That will do better on it. So

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you can keep visiting there every day with those millions

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and millions in a big briefcase or whatever money comes in,

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but you're not allowed that money. So you've walked through

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the aquarium? Is an aquarium a varium? I think avarium

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might be the word. She walked through all snakes on

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each side. Now you're not even thinking about those anymore.

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That's not even an issue. You're thinking about touching the snake,

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but you're also thinking about the money. Yet, previous to

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this situation, you would not have wanted to have walked.

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In fact, you wouldn't have walked all the way through

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there with those snakes in cases, glass cases either side.

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You wouldn't have done that. But now that's almost like

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it's not even relevant anymore. So you walk into the end.

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You've got the person there. So what if the person

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is there is the person that you really have always

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wanted to see, always wanted to meet, a childhood hero,

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maybe your favorite singer, your favorite actor. Maybe it's someone

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that you've you've got you're secretly in love with. I

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don't know, it could be anything. What would you do?

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Would you would you stroke the snake? It's it's about benefits.

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What what would you do for the benefits? What benefits

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outweigh or more stronger because it's emotions ultimately, isn't it?

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So what emotions outweigh the old emotions, so that feeling

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as you stand there, maybe there's a big table full

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of cash. Maybe maybe it's not in a suitcase. It's

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just a big, massive table full of cash like you're

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seeing those in Yeah, you see it in movies, don't you,

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Sometimes where they go into a bank and a vault

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and it's just on a like a crate or a palette,

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just full of cash, millions and millions, but you can't

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even take one banknote until you strike that snake. It's

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just kind of like, okay, what would you do? What

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do you imagine yourself doing? Do you mention your self like, no,

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keep the money, I don't need money, or do you

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see yourself motivated? Maybe you start to think perhaps the

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idea of changing phobias, it's not a bad idea. Find

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something you're never ever going to do ever in your life.

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So have a phobia of walking on the moon when

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you're ever going to walk on the moon. That's a

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nice phobia to have, as far as it's never going

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to affect you. It's no, it's something you're never going

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to have to do traveling through space, digging down to

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the Earth's core. You know, it's something that you're very

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unlikely to ever do. So having a phobia for that

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walking on a spot on the moon, that's not a

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bad phobia to have if you swap it over, especially

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if it makes you rich. But to be fair, even

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better than money is to have that freedom, because once

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one phobia goes, the others seem to just flip away,

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like as I say, bingos, but dominoes they can't bingos.

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Bingo cards, I mean bingo cards are just flattened. The

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that makes no sense, So it weakens it though it's

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the old analogy, isn't it Like if you've got a

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bit of steel, you can bend it, keep bending it,

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keep bending it. Eventually it will just snap, wouldn't I say,

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bend it. I'm not talking about me bending it, but

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you know, sort of probably machinery. But eventually it will

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snap because it becomes weaker and weaker than more it spent.

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So that thing that was super solid it's now just gone. Accidentally,

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sometimes because listening to this you might have thought, oh

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I just listened to this, this is going to be.

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Especially after first hearing me, you might thought, oh, this

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is just ridiculous. He's just talking crap. He's talking a

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bunch of crap. It sounds like he's here on drugs

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or something. I'm not. I'm on medication, but I'm on drugs.

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I'm on medication. Don't worry, You're safe. But then sometimes

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listening to something like this can have almost like an

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accidental benefit, because your mind changes in a way. It

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can change the way that you view yourself and the

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way you think about things, and those images and maybe

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those little movie clips that you used to play in

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the past about snakes. It seemed to have become a

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little bit muffled. So I've got video tapes, I say, videotapes,

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got video that I made. I used to make videos

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on YouTube, MySpace first, then YouTube, you know, nearly twenty

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years ago, and some of those videos are just worn out,

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even though it's digital. It's just terrible picture. But at

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the time it wasn't that bad. And it's a little

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bit like facts, well not facts. Photocopy is I don't

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know if people usually they use photocopies anymore, but you do.

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The first photocopy is a really good picture. But then

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when you take a photocopy of a photocopy, then a

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photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, eventually it's a

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terrible picture. And it's a little bit like that with memories.

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Sometimes our memories get muddled together. Anyway, that's been proven

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by psychology experts that even our memories aren't exact or precise.

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Which is the same meaning, really isn't. I don't know

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why I said it twice, But how you view yourself?

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How has it changed just in this last little bit

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of time that we're spent together, this quality time of nonsense.

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It goes back to the first question. What benefit is

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there to have any kind of emotional reaction to snakes?

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Where's the benefit? How's it improving your life? How's it

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improving your day to day? Is it making you rich?

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Is it improving your health? So? How often would you

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need to go back to that table, walking past the

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snakes in the glass cases that you're not even noticing anymore?

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How long would it take? How often would you need

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to visit looking at that big pile of money before

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you were able to stroke that snake? How fed up

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would you keep visiting and leaving, especially when you think

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about what you could do with that money and how

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you could help others. So eventually he say, okay, i'll

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I'll stroke the snake and you touch it. I'll touch

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the snake. I did. My friend had a snake. I

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touched it. It was all right, didn't excite me, didn't

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repulse me. I was neutral, you know, I touched it.

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I didn't suddenly want to start collecting snakes. You know,

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every time I see a snake on TV, I don't

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do handstands. You know, I'm not that excited by it.

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But just I touched one. Yeah, it's just it's a snake.

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But I wasn't. I didn't care about it anymore because

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you know, those snakes were in my friend's flat downstairs.

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They weren't always in the case. Often they were just

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he was holding them, and I just got used to it.

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Almost didn't care. Really, Okay, he loved them. I didn't

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really get that. I didn't really understand. But then he

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didn't understand. Why, Oh, is it finny? I was only

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rubbing your tummy. It was such a wallly. Sometimes I

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was rubbing your tummy. You should be in a good mood.

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You've had treats. You've been out, haven't you. Hey. I

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think he's a bit too warm for him today. I

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think it's uh, it's cloudy outside, but it is still

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fairly warm. So yeah, It's kind of one of those things.

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It's amazing how easily our minds change. I know, there's

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this whole thing or it takes ages to change am

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all that stuff, but actually sometimes it can be instantly.

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I remember there was this, uh, this female that worked

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in an office and I just I took a dislike

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to her. I don't know why. I just just she

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seemed I don't know, it's something about I didn't like,

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and she just came didn't come across as particularly nice person.

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There's no real reason for that. And then we had

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the annual ball, the company and your Ball, and I

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was seated next to her. She was lovely, really nice person.

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We had a good laugh and we just hadn't talked.

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We hadn't spoken to each other before. She was in

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a different team to me, there was no reason for

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us to really communicate. But I would see a walk

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past and stick a finger up at me. No, she

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didn't didn't do that, but I kind of regret at

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putting chew incumbing her hair after that, and I didn't

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put che in coming a hair. I didn't, But it's

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it's just how that way I felt changed. Or another

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time I was when I worked in a call center.

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I was talking to this man, the customer, and he

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was an absolute ass all the way through the recording,

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grumpy miserable, which is gets another word for grumpy, isn't it.

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But he didn't want to answer any of the questions.

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And with car insurance there's a lot of questions and

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he was awkward all the way through. And then right

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at the end, I asked him if you've got any

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medical conditions, because that's part of the questionnaire. He said, yeah,

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he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's, only just diagnosed. As soon

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as he said that, our relationship changed, and we were

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just for something changed, like we got on we were

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laughing and we got married last year. No we didn't,

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but yeah, it was really it's like completely changed. His

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attitude towards me changed, My attitude towards him changed instantly

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like bang done. So changes don't have to take ages

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and ages and ages. In fact, there's ways of changing

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something a lot quicker than the length of this recording,

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but I think it's worth heard a bit of fudd

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along the way. You know. So, if you've got two images,

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putting one next to each other, one's image of walking

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on the moon, the other image is of a snake,

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you just have to choose one. Choose one that you're

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not bothered by, Choose one that you would not do.

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So it's not like you're bothered by a picture of

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someone walking on the moon because ultimately, you know, what

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does it matter. It's just a picture and you probably

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see it many times over over the years. But the

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idea of walking on the moon yourself is not something

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that you can want to do, or you could go

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even sillier with it. Forget the moon bit. Imagine trying

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to Yeah, so I'm just thinking of a helicopter made

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of cheese. So trying to take off in a helicopter

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made of cheese? Would you do it? So if someone

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said to it, I know it's ridiculous, but it's supposed

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to be. If someone said, oh, we're going to take

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00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:13.719
you in a helicopter, I said, okay, helicopter ride, and

467
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:17.000
and you walk up and it's you'd like, wait a minute,

468
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:22.639
that looks like it's made of cheese. And they laugh

469
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.280
and say, yeah it is. It's a it's a new prototype.

470
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:38.880
And you say, but it's made of cheese. I said, yeah,

471
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:44.960
all of it, I said, yeah, yeah, apart from the engine. Unfortunately,

472
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:49.000
the engine it just kept melting, so we didn't. We

473
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:53.440
couldn't couldn't have a cheesey engine. But everything else is cheese.

474
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:59.280
And the good thing is when you're inside, if you

475
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:03.280
look a bit hungry, you can just take a little

476
00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:05.880
bit off, have a little bite. Some people bring their

477
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:12.280
own bread, a little toaster. I said, what about the propellers, Yeah,

478
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:17.079
propellers and meda cheese. Would you get into that? I

479
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:19.719
mean I'd get into it, but I wouldn't want to

480
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:22.199
go up in it. I don't have a little look.

481
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.000
I mean, how could you not want to have a

482
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:27.079
little look? But would you get up? Would you go

483
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:32.519
up in that helicopter if it was made all of cheese?

484
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.719
Or if you're about to go on a big cruise

485
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:44.079
and you got there, you got to the ferry or

486
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:48.239
wherever it was that the ships are, and you saw

487
00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:51.920
your ship and instead of being like the normal ships,

488
00:44:52.639 --> 00:45:01.719
it was a huge, huge piece of paper shaped into

489
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.320
a boat. Same size as a ship, but just one

490
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:12.199
huge piece of paper and it was floating on the water.

491
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.199
And they said, that's your ship. Let me show you

492
00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:22.480
to your cabin. Is a cabin made of cheese by anyway,

493
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:26.519
and said, how did you know? Would you get on

494
00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:33.519
that ship? So may argue this is getting a bit absurd.

495
00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:37.599
What's this got to do with not caring about snakes?

496
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:43.199
But I just thinking, if you think of an absurd

497
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:47.719
situation that you wouldn't be worried about because it's not

498
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:55.480
going to happen anyway, I think of another thing. Let's

499
00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:04.920
think I can't think that. There's lots of things, but

500
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:06.559
I mean, I don't want to get too caught up

501
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:20.280
in absurdities. But what would you choose? Maybe a train

502
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:25.480
made of match sticks? Match sticks do still exist, I think,

503
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:39.440
so a train made of match sticks, an oven made

504
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:42.400
of match sticks? Wow, that wouldn't be a good idea,

505
00:46:42.400 --> 00:47:01.000
but it get to use it once self lighting. So

506
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:08.679
when you think about snakes, what's changed? Be honest? What

507
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:13.280
is you're bothered by? It? Really bothered by a snake? Ooh?

508
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:19.880
A snake? Is it? That might come across as a

509
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:25.880
bit mocking, but I guess it was supposed to it,

510
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:35.960
not a bad way, just in a mocking way, in

511
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:42.360
a way where it sounds like someone's doing a washing

512
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:45.639
up down there, but they're doing it angrily and angry

513
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:48.360
washer upper. Don't we get that? You hear that, and

514
00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:52.920
they're just smashing the plates down, which is funny because

515
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:57.039
only one person lives down there. Maybe it's a month's

516
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:01.199
worth of washing up. I did that once. I had

517
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:05.599
about twenty plates loads of stuff. In the end, I

518
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.000
had to do it wash them in the bath, to

519
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:11.280
soak them in the bath because they were just solid.

520
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:15.440
Everything on them was solid. Now I've only got one plate,

521
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:21.280
two dishes, one plate, two spoons, one knife, one fork,

522
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:26.320
which means I can't I can't really get behind in

523
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:34.480
the washing up. You may wonder what's that got to

524
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:42.960
do with not caring about not caring about the snakes

525
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.360
washing up and how many plates I've got. I don't know.

526
00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:54.440
It might have something to do with it. I mean,

527
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.400
this is like, let me boil your phobia away, So

528
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:04.159
it is that's kind of what it is. Did I

529
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.760
mention that let me buil your phobia away at the beginning?

530
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:11.280
I don't know if I did. Sorry, Yeah, So this

531
00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:13.159
is when I just talk about a phobia and I

532
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:19.280
just waff along. I've actually got a podcast specifically for this.

533
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:24.880
I believe it or not. Oh yes, I do, I

534
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:28.519
really really do. I can't believe it, but I do.

535
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:42.239
I might have some ice cream ice cream. That's a

536
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:44.079
good time about it. That's a good time. That's a

537
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:47.320
good thing about the time this time of year, because

538
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:54.119
I like to have the odd cornetto probably once a day.

539
00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:57.440
That might be a little bit too often, but yeah,

540
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:00.800
I like to do like a little bit of ice cream.

541
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.239
I do also need to be careful my sugar intake,

542
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.480
but I don't think there's any sugar in ice cream.

543
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:13.320
And the cone there's chocolate. There's no sugar in chocolate either,

544
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:17.639
I don't think, so it should be fine. I don't

545
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:22.599
know about the cone though, the cone, the cornetto cone,

546
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.559
I don't know if there's any sugar in that, but

547
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:30.840
the rest of it should be fine. And the strawberry sauce,

548
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:32.920
well that's strawberries, so they're good for you, and they

549
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.880
so imagine the sauce is just made of pure strawberries,

550
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:42.639
perhaps melted strawberries, because when strawberries melt, they go or gooey,

551
00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:52.000
don't they Or that's more when they dissolve, if they

552
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.239
are frozen, or if you tread on them, they go

553
00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:06.440
gooy as well. How do you feel different to the

554
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:13.840
way you felt before you decided to listen to my

555
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:25.079
squeaky voice talking maybe about random things throughout this recording,

556
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:30.480
perhaps not as serious as you thought it was going

557
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:37.119
to be, possibly, but how do you feel though? That's

558
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:42.119
the thing that's the bottom line as far as I'm concerned,

559
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:46.400
regardless of what I do or say, It's about how

560
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:59.760
you feel different, how you could notice those changes with

561
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:11.519
the in yourself, and perhaps you're surprised at those changes.

562
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:36.400
Maybe just notice how relaxed you feel, and how you

563
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:55.480
realize that your mind changes so easily. And once you

564
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:59.320
realize that you're no longer bothered by snakes, you know,

565
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:11.400
not with bother by them. It's that simple, and you

566
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:32.880
can relax, really really relaxed, let go completely, dissolve completely,

567
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:48.480
and maybe maybe you've noticed, or maybe you haven't noticed,

568
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:53.920
that your mind has slowed down. You'll breathe and slow

569
00:53:54.000 --> 00:54:09.679
down and become deeper naturally your body is relaxed. Maybe

570
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:15.960
you've noticed, or maybe you haven't noticed. That you're feeling good,

571
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:24.519
you're feeling calm. Perhaps those parts of your body, there

572
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:28.000
are parts of your body that feel pleasure, and perhaps

573
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:39.519
that pleasure can spread and you can feel that sense

574
00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:45.239
of release not just in your muscles, but in your

575
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:56.239
bones and your eyes, your face, and your shoulders and

576
00:54:56.280 --> 00:55:03.639
your back, your chest and your stomach, your neck, hands

577
00:55:03.679 --> 00:55:19.920
and fingers, arms, your hips, legs, feet and toes, all

578
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:26.000
the way from the top of your head, moving down

579
00:55:26.119 --> 00:55:33.639
your spine, moving through your nervous system to every single

580
00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:53.519
part of your body. Calming, loosening, relaxing, peaceful, and that

581
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:57.800
brings us to the end of this recording. So please

582
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:02.119
remember to be to yourself because you do deserve to

583
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:06.679
be happy, and be gentle of yourself, because you deserve

584
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:13.000
to feel safe. And you can listen to this as

585
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:16.519
many times as you need to, and every time you

586
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:24.480
do listen, you become more relaxed and your mind will

587
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:37.280
open up and absorb more of the positivity. Lots of love. Bye,