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"Let go," my hypno-therapist tells me. I'm a bit annoyed. Am I getting my money's worth? Come on, I don't want to work on relaxation. We have been doing this for the last three sessions. I'm also slightly perturbed by Fred too. How can he bring him into a state or relaxation so quickly? He needs to help me relax and doesn't need to sit and be hypnotized as well. He has proven himself quite adapt at self hypnosis already.

I'm just annoyed in general. Pooh is very simple. He doesn't let little things bother him. This guy is yapping, the music is annoying, at least Fred is being quiet. I hear Pooh giggling. He is totting along holding Piglet's hand.
"Let it go. These small things don't matter."
"I won't go to a session next week. What's the use? I can work on relaxation at home. They just don't think I can do this!"
"Let it go. Let things be."
"How come we aren't working on Fred being a partner? Instead he just sits there."
"Let it go. You're letting those things annoy you."
I sink deeper and deeper. Releasing the strings of my annoyances.

Guess what happens? My hypno-therapist sees that I am in such a deep state of relaxation that it tries something new: glove anesthesia. I am aware that he is taking my hand and stroking it. I am aware that he is pinching the skin. Ha! He thinks I can't feel it. It doesn't hurt. Its time to bring us both out.
He asks what I remember. I tell him that I felt him playing with my hand leaving the part out about the pinching. I want him to think that it worked. He tells me that he was actually grabbing skin with his nails and twisting. Hmmm...I guess I didn't feel that. Points for the hypno-therapist AND me!

Know what else? Next week we will work on birth breathing. I guess the little fluff ball was right.