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Hypnosis to Drink Moderately and Enjoyably When on Holiday · The Hypnotist

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  Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside
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  access to cutting edge hypnosis with real clients facing
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  genuine. Issues.
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  Brought to you by The Hypnotherapist, demanded by
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  celebrities CE OS and even royalty Adam Cox, these
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  recordings took place live from Evans Clinic in London's world
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  famous Harley Street. So get yourself comfortable and
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  enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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  Hi, it's Adam here. And you're about to listen to a
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  hypnosis session all about drinking moderately while on
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  holiday. And I was working with a client
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  that had dramatically reduced their wine consumption to a
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  level that they were very proud of, but they were worried about
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  an upcoming holiday to Rome. And they thought because they
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  like drinking wine with good food, that it would be either
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  something where they would be depriving themselves and wanting
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  to drink the feeling that they couldn't, or having the
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  temptation to drink to excess, which they also didn't.
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  So this is about moderate based on their definition.
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  And their definition was one or two glasses of wine with a meal.
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  And for them, they would prefer an evening meal.
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  But it uses multile levels of disassociation and nested loos
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  to get them into that point of thinking about what it would
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  actually be like to do that. To actually feel that they're
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  not depriving themselves or having too much.
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  And that there's various metaphors here, like being in
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  the the lane of a motorway that if you drift off either side,
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  you can just kind of correct yourself.
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  But also to feel that even if they did have excess, that would
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  just feel like they're stealing tomorrow's moderation and
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  framing it that way means, well, why would I do that?
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  Because they actually end up having a worse day the following
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  day, which for them would be true.
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  So there's a bit going on here. And I think who would benefit
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  most is not those people that want to quit drinking, but want
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  to have a better relationship with alcohol and feel that they
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  can navigate either holidays. And this would also apply not to
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  physical vacation type of holidays, but even festive
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  periods. A lot of people feel this way
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  over the festive, the Christmas season because again, it feels
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  like all bets are off. All rules are different and a
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  lot of people drink to excess over that period.
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  So if you feel like that's you, and you want to drink moderately
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  during a vacation, a holiday, or the festive season, then you
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  might benefit from this session. If you want something more
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  customized, or if you want to access any of my free resources
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  like a free course or anything else, check the link in the
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  description and you will see the ability to either schedule a
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  free consultation with me or download some free stuff,
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  whichever feels more desirable for you, or do it all.
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  For now, though, find a quiet, comfortable place where you
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  won't be disturbed. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in, breathing in relaxation and exhaling
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  tension. As you breathe in, breathe in
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  slightly deeper than normal. And as you exhale, just allow
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  that breath to feel like you're releasing any tension, any
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  stress, any worries, feeling like each breath takes you
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  deeper and more relaxed than before.
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  And just focus your attention on a tiny dot that you can imagine
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  is there in your forehead. And as you focus your attention
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  on that dot, I want to temporarily increase the
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  tension. Your eyes are looking up at that
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  dot. You might notice any tension in
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  your forehead. Breathe in, focus on that point.
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  But as you exhale, just release all the muscles in your eyelids,
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  there, there on your forehead, just release it all.
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  Allow that relaxation to drift down into your cheeks and jaw.
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  And as you breathe, just allow your body to do the breathing
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  for you. Well, you don't have to force it
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  at all. Just allow your body to help you
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  breathe, breathing in deep, exhaling for longer as you
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  awaken those muscles in your diaphragm, not just the chest
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  doing the breathing, but the diaphragm too, so you can
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  breathe in more and exhale for longer.
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  Releasing any of those old ideas that aren't serving you anymore.
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  Because for many years you had a belief that you needed to drink,
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  you needed that glass of wine. It was really helping.
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  But now you realize that many of those thoughts and ideas and
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  beliefs were just narratives that were never true.
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  So every outward breath just released more of similar things,
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  out of date ideas, old cravings, perceptions.
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  I want you to get a feeling then you have full permission to feel
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  proud of all of the progress you've already made.
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  I want you to congratulate yourself and all those subtle
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  changes that have compounded, evolved to get you to this
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  point. The point where you can feel
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  that you can take it or leave it when it comes to a glass of
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  wine. And maybe you have an explicit
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  or implicit criteria of what it would take to feel like you do
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  want it. And maybe that would be a meal
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  at a nice restaurant or celebrating something specific.
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  But I want you to set an intention now as to how you get
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  to do both to enjoy a nice meal and to celebrate something
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  without crossing the line from moderation to excess.
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  That's it. Think of what that is for you.
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  Or maybe that's 2 standard glasses of wine.
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  And beyond that becomes excess. And you might know that it
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  becomes excess because your body warns you, reminds you, tells
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  you. Nope, that's too much.
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  The deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you feel.
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  The more relaxed you feel, the deeper you breathe.
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  As your physical body relaxes, your imagination awakens.
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  And I want you to imagine drifting through space and time
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  and finding yourself in the centre of the Colosseum in Rome.
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  And let's just imagine that there are no tourists there that
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  day. Blue skies above, autumn sun
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  shining on your skin and you have the whole Colosseum for
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  you. And I want you to get a feeling
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  of being in the centre, looking around, seeing those impressive
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  stone shaped structures, you in the centre of this incredible
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  stadium of the past. And here in this place, I want
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  you to make a distinction between choice and obligation,
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  of choosing to do something and having to do something.
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  And I want you to think back to the old gladiators there in that
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  Coliseum, many of which were slaves.
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  They didn't want to be there. They had to be there.
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  And just think of all of that stress, coercion, threats, all
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  of that heavy energy. And I want you to feel that when
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  something has to be a certain way, it can feel like that, that
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  there is no choice. Whereas the spectators looking
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  from the stands above, they could choose to sit there or
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  they could choose to leave. It was their choice.
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  And I want you to feel that isn't it an easy decision to
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  make, given the choice of being the slave, forced into a
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  situation on the spectator, choosing whether to watch or
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  not? But it's better to have freedom
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  than coercion. And I want you to think back to
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  a time when you felt that you had to have that bottle of wine,
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  even if it was just in the same house.
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  Maybe you felt sometimes that you needed that glass of wine.
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  And I want you to get a feeling that that isn't freedom.
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  Many people describe breaking a habit or an addiction as feeling
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  liberated. And I want you to feel that
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  there was a time when you felt that way, but now you feel
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  completely free. You can choose no obligation, no
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  having to, no needing to. You can choose to if you want
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  to. I don't want you to imagine what
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  it would feel like to float up out of the centre of that
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  Coliseum and fly over Rome to the city of the Vatican.
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  I want you to imagine seeing that impressive cathedral
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  floating down to Saint Peter's Square and just imagine you have
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  the whole of the Vatican to yourself.
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  Just imagine walking into the cathedral, finding yourself in
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  the Sistine Chapel and looking up at that incredible art, and
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  maybe you can picture the two fingers almost touching.
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  And I want you to come to an evaluation.
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  That's how far away you are from this healthy future that you
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  desire. Some people never make it this
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  close, but you're there touching distance from really becoming
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  this healthy version of you. Even just two months ago, it was
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  much further away than what it is now, but now it feels that
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  close, and all it takes is to continue the journey that you're
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  already on. So as you stare up at the
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  ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, I want you to imagine how you
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  would want things to be your relationship with alcohol in
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  Rome for those 10 days. Avoiding both extremities.
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  Deprivation might mean not drinking anything or not having
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  a drink with that evening meal, and excess might be more than
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  two glasses. Waking up with hangovers,
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  feeling it in the head and the stomach.
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  But as you stare into the ceiling, I want you to imagine
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  what it would be like to enjoy those 10 days with just the
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  occasional glass or two. With a meal, any meal.
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  But maybe you decide that the evening meal would feel more
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  enjoyable than a lunchtime meal. And just imagine different
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  places. Maybe inside a restaurant, maybe
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  outside table and chairs looking out at a Piazza.
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  But I want you to observe yourself where it's exactly as
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  you would want it to be. Moderation.
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  No deprivation and no excess. Exactly the right relationship
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  with alcohol for you. And I want you to imagine that
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  moderation is like driving a car in the middle of your lane.
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  Intuitively, if you're driving in a lane, you find yourself
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  coasting outside of your lane, it's no big deal and you just
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  steer it back in your lane. So if it if it ever feels like
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  deprivation, then you can steer it a bit more in the middle.
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  And if it ever feels a bit like excess, steer it the other
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  direction. Because you are in control here,
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  you decide what the relationship is.
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  You just imagine seeing yourself in a particular restaurant
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  enjoying a meal, see yourself ordering maybe one glass but not
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  sure whether to have the second. You just step into that version
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  of you and feel what it would feel like to feel empowered to
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  enjoy, but feel no desire to drink to excess.
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  And you know that if you did, all you're doing is robbing
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  Peter to pay porn. You would be taking tomorrow's
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  moderation to create excess for today.
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  And that's a bad choice. I want you to feel that the way
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  that you maximize your enjoyment across all the days is not
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  deprivation and not excess, but moderation.
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  Getting it just right. And if it feels like you know
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  exactly what that would be like, let me know by nodding your
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  head. And I want you to feel that you
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  don't normally eat at a restaurant every evening, so
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  this is training your brain to be moderate whenever you eat
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  out. A glass or two with a nice meal
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  is moderation, and you might be having more meals because it's a
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  holiday, but when you return you will feel that you will take
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  that type of moderation linked to that context.
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  So when you return, there's no desire to drink every day, but
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  only when you go out for that nice meal or special occasion
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  will you feel that it's moderate to have a glass or two of wine.
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  And that's more than enough. I want you to feel that you are
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  training your brain to have a moderate desire and no more.
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  And then imagine what it would feel like on your final day
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  flying back home. Imagine you're on the flight or
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  maybe in the departure lounge, smiling because you're proud of
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  yourself. You feel.
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  Then you got it just right, not depriving yourself and not
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  drinking to excess, but just the right amount.
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  And then imagine landing and just imagine that next day
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  returning back to your home, picking up the dogs, feeling
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  like you're returning to a normal schedule, normal
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  routines. You're bringing that moderation
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  with you. There's no desire to even think
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  about drink. Your desire is to get some
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  delicious vegetables, some good quality natural foods, to have
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  every ingredient you need for a delicious healthy meal.
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  And I want you to imagine returning, opening up the door
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  to your home, walking inside, feeling that you have trained at
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  altitude because if you can avoid drinking to excess on
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  holiday, then you have absolute certainty that you can do it in
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  normality. And as you enter the home, I
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  want you to imagine seeing something that relates to
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  swimming and to feel that you can build on this foundation of
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  pride, this momentum of health to unleash your desire to swim.
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  And whenever you swim, you're going to feel energized,
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  galvanized, feeling like you have awakened this healthy,
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  reinvigorated, vitalized version of you.
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  And if you feel that this holiday becomes the end of 1
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  chapter in the beginning of a new chapter, and that new
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  chapter is healthier than the one before, let me know by
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  nodding your head. That's it.
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  And so it becomes. I want you to imagine finding
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  yourself all the way back there in the Sistine Chapel, staring
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  up at a ceiling, feeling that you were lost in a wonderful
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  Daydream. Imagine leaving the cathedral
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  and floating all the way back to the centre of the Coliseum.
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  But I want you to feel free, liberated and empowered.
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  And then imagine floating all the way back to your present,
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  realizing that this it's been a wonderful journey in your
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  imagination of thoughts within thoughts, ideas within ideas,
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  and dreams within dreams. But now it's time to return back
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  to the here and the now. So take a deep breath in through
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  your nose and down through your nose.
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  Just wiggle your fingers and wiggle your toes.
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  Connect and calibrate into the here and the now as I now count
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  from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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  Starting to count 123 waking up 456 more alert 7-8.
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  Open your eyes. Open your eyes 910.
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  Wide awake. Wide awake.
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  Wide awake. Thank you so much for joining me
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