Mission: Successful

My sister and I attended Motor City Comic Con this past weekend and had our picture taken with David Tennant and Freema Agyeman from Doctor Who. It was a blast! I was totally chill as we stood in three different lines, one to get in the con, one to redeem our photo op, and one to take the actual picture. A couple of minutes before we went in to meet the celebrities, I got an adrenaline dump and started giggling with excitement, but that was it! A world of difference from my experience last fall with Tom Hiddleston. No nausea, no faintness, no anxiety. It was just fun! My sister wasn’t as fortunate. She’s an empath, and the negative energy of all the stressed out people surrounding us made her miserable for the first hour or so. Fortunately, she did relax during the actual picture!

Once again, I am simply floored at how my quality of life has improved since I started hypnotising myself daily. I swear it’s like I’m a completely different person. Do I still have down days? Of course. But they are fewer and further between, and my depressive funks don’t seem to last as long. I am able to enjoy myself more thoroughly when I go on fun outings and I am not nearly as stressed out at work (or anywhere else for that matter). I only wish I had discovered this wonderful tool years ago.

I realise that my results aren’t necessarily typical. I am a natural somnambulist and apparently quite adequate at coming up with my own scripts and suggestions. My sister is actually jealous because her experience with hypnosis hasn’t been quite so dramatic. Only one of the scripts has worked consistently for her. She also doesn’t have time to do it everyday, and I feel bad for her because of that. She doesn’t have the confidence to make up suggestions on the fly the way I do. I only wish there were something I could do to help her. Sadly, I can’t transfer my talents to her. I am just blessed to have been born with them.

Unfortunately, I did seem to come down with “con flu” after the event, as I lost my voice Sunday night and woke up with a low grade fever and a cough Monday morning. I was so busy hypnotising myself to be calm at the con that I neglected to boost my immune system with one of my pre-written scripts. I stayed home from work, so the event ended up costing me another $160 in lost revenue. Oh, well. At least the picture turned out great!