all that she could stand. The peace and silence would drive her 'crazy', and she could not wait to return to the city where she would sigh with relief. Her apartment faced the street, and from her open window, she could talk to anybody, hear the hustle and bustle of the city, and feel secure—all in the midst of the lower East side (her 'motherland'), despite all the noise and muggings. She was in a situation that another person might consider stressful.

A lot of people might consider that part of the city scary indeed. What she experienced as security—being there in the throngs of people, with the sounds of garbage cans and garbage trucks making a racket at 5 AM, was reassuring to her. In contrast, peace andnature of the unconscious, which creates the opportunity for that to occur. There is the person who is 'accident prone' because that belief has taken hold in their mind. Unconsciously, the person just manages to get their body in the right place at the right time in order to get hit by the fender of a car, or slip down the stairs, or get hit on the head. There is no need to worry about it because the mind will find a way. People just slip into a sort of hypnotic trance and expose themselves to the correct opportunities to make that program manifest in their lives (e.g., extreme sports, climbing Mt. Everest, etc.).

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