Did you ever have an imaginary dog your parents said would keep you safe.<\/p>\n

And it would either lie on your bed or under it.<\/p>\n

It \/you would fight the imaginary monsters or fear of the dark with it.<\/p>\n

My children named theirs Brutus.<\/p>\n

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And, almost like magic, they were far easier to get to bed.<\/p>\n

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I always wonder how \/why that works when ‘everyone’ knows it’s just an imaginary thing.<\/p>\n

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Then again so is the fear.<\/p>\n

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Ok, so?<\/p>\n

Well, if you currently have fears \/worry etc…<\/p>\n

Create an imaginary Brutus to attack unwanted thoughts.<\/p>\n

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You would be surprised at how quickly this trains<\/strong> your mind to stop useless, repetitive thinking.<\/p>\n

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Too simple to even try it?<\/p>\n

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Really?<\/p>\n

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72<\/strong> Technique<\/a> – 194<\/strong> F.E.A.R.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever have an imaginary dog your parents said would keep you safe. And it would either lie on your bed or under it. It \/you would fight the imaginary monsters or fear of the dark with it. My children named theirs Brutus.   And, almost like magic, they were far easier to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,23,27,38,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-emotions","7":"category-fear","8":"category-habits","9":"category-imagination","10":"category-personal-growth","11":"category-worry","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}