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not taunt you with a conscious memory, but rather with a deep emotional
sense of imminent doom. The thought process format I have suggested
above will help you simply notice and accent the process your gremlin is

using to scare you, and will help you to escape the world of make-believe.
This will afford you some clarity and perspective from which to choose
your action.

Accenting the process your gremlin is using to scare you will diminish
the fear. This is related to the Zen Theory of Change we discussed earlier:

I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am
imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself.

It may simply be that, like the proverbial child with his hand caught in
the cookie jar, your gremlin, once caught, becomes embarrassed and stops
what he is doing. Once your fear is diminished, you may still choose not to