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Let Love In: Open Your Heart and Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner by Debra A. Berndt, CHtBerndt, a clinical hypnotherapist, believes that hypnotherapy techniques used for smoking cessation and weight loss can also be used to secure a happy relationship. As our fears, insecurities and relationship baggage is often deeply ingrained in the unconscious, Berndt offers a three-pronged plan to revealing and overcoming those unconscious obstacles: uncovering the issues, taking action to eliminate “roadblocks,” and maintaining a healthy mindset. Each chapter is full of checklists, journal suggestions and step-by-step self-hypnosis exercises, as well as warm and friendly guidance that’s blissfully low-pressure (and low-risk): “you need to be in only a light trance to experience the benefits of hypnosis,” not much different from being engrossed in a book or movie-except that the goal isn’t to check out of reality but to confront it on its most hard-to-read levels. A useful, relaxed approach to cognitive therapy, Berndt’s guide gives readers an intuitive, healthy way to confront romance-defeating thoughts and behavior.                          Contents   Acknowledgments                                   ix   Introduction                                       1   1   Relationship Assessment                        7PART ONEUnpack Your Baggage and Get Ready for Love!         13   2   Your Dating Destiny: It’s All in Your Mind!  15   3   Releasing the Beliefs That Keep You Single   59   4   Forgiveness: Leaving the Past in the Past    79   5   Get How Great You Are!                       93   6   Being Clear on Why You Want Love            107   7   A Clear Definition of Love                  123PART TWOTaking Action: Roadblocks on Love’s Highway        139   8   Don’t Give Your Feelings the Cold Shoulder  141    9   Seduction, Substitutions, and Settling         159  10    Just Do It: The Nonaction Trap                 177PART THREEStaying in Your Lane of Love: Keeping the Faith        201  11    Dancing with the Green-Eyed Monster            203  12    Feeling Desperate When Dateless                213  13    Letting Down Your Guard and Opening Your Heart 221  14    Gaining Access to Your Spiritual Resources     237  15    Pulling It All Together                        247  Conclusion: You Are Already Perfect                 267  Index                                               269