When you're changing an oil pump [(having your car fixed, or plumbing repaired, etc)] , you want a nice clean working area - when everything is installed in just the right way, all the gaskets in place, its so nice to know you can trust the work and have everything flowing smoothly, the way it's designed to.

Every time air enters your lungs, you'll be reminded to relax and take it in fully. When the operation is over and you're coming out of the anesthetic, as you become aware of the sounds of the breathing machine, you will become more relaxed in your mouth and throat and jaw and chest. Each sound and each breath will remind you to relax more and more. You can go to your "comfort place" now and goof off. The machine will be doing your breathing for you and that's O.K., time will pass very quickly. Before you know it, at the right time, the machine will be removed. With each breath, as you breathe in, you can relax a little more. And with every breath, as you exhale, you can relax a little more deeply, letting go, limp and languid, your throat, jaw and chest learning to let go and allow healing to continue. And you can continue to relax any time with a three count.

When you need to cough, just hold your pillow to your chest and clear out those lungs. Just hold your chest. There's something comforting about that.

You are in good hands, and can turn over your care to the staff who will be monitoring everything very closely.

At this time, you can remember that in your "comfort place," your body knows how to do the right thing to protect you, and you don't have to know how consciously. Just like bears and squirrels, who hibernate in the winter - and wake up when the time is right. And you can do that, too. You can hibernate, you really can, while your heart adjusts, finds the rhythms that are right for you - and its comforting to to know that when adjustments are needed, or the synchronization is off, there is a natural warning sign that occurs as a fluttering. If that occurs, that will be your signal to deepen your trance state and let your body make the adjustment. You can hibernate just like the bear, or fly south, if you prefer. You see, these are natural, biological synchronizing activities, just like daytime or nighttime. And there are other cycles just like that, that get out of synch temporarily, like in jet lag when a person's whole system can be off for as long as ten days. That's a long time. Everything in this hospital stay is a lot shorter. Difficulties and discomforts go away in a short time. Irregular heartbeats can be adjusted internally, when the stress is removed.

Hummingbirds are called that because the rhythm of their wings makes a hum in tune with their internal timer. You also have an internal timer, which is found, was deep down beneath the normal stresses of everyday life. The hum that all the other activities arise from. So, go to your comfort place, deep, deep during the recovery as often as you need.

Your body knows what's right for you. You need not know how, you just need to know that you know deep down in the feel of it. That quiet relaxation at the beach, or your favorite activity, when all is well, where you renew and re-create your way. Throats relax, jaws relax, the face gets calm, chest muscles let go and relax as lungs clear, hearts synchronize. Everything becomes coordinated, in time, in the right time. And you can help keep the wound clean and dry and free of infection, just by asking that it be done, in that comfort place. In recovery, a person needs recovery hormones flowing though his body - a guy who's running a race needs other stuff that doesn't help now.

1 - 2 - 3 You will have all the comfort and survival reactions you need, available to you - and every time you see a staff member and hear the sounds in the recovery room ,these will act as cues to deepen your recovery processes and let your worries or anxiety fly out the window, while you stay, comfortable, easy, trusting and flowing along with the recovery - You are in exactly the place you need to be, and everything is as it should be for you. And you have the power to trans-port yourself through this journey. For you will learn a lot unconsciously and consciously, that will bring you through in all the right ways for you. And you will carry your learning with you in the future, into all your activities - your health and your pleasures, your ambitions and desires.

Step #5 Reorientation (give them the option to come out of trance or not,since they'll be using this on tape)

And now, if you are listening to this tape recording you can choose to follow my voice back to full waking consciousness now, as I count from 5 back to 1, or you can just let yourself drift even deeper into a comfortable trance state, or even drift off into a deep and restful sleep. That's OK. Whatever is appropriate for you... 5, ...gently returning, 4, ...in your own time and at your own rate, 3, ...its OK to bring those feelings of comfort with you, it might be nice to realize that you can enjoy these feelings and be awake at the same time, 2, ...and you might want to take a deep breath or two, and 1, ...that's right ...Excellent.