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The $600 an Hour Mindset Hypnosis to Stop Cheap Dopamine and Protect Your Attention · 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. Now let me ask you a question.
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  Do you spend too much time doom scrolling or doing the kind of
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  things that just give you cheap dopamine?
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  Maybe it's checking social media notifications or spending too
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  much time on videos that just get you hooked in these
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  algorithmic loops. If so, you might benefit from
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  this session because I was working with a client that was a
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  high level executive at one of the biggest tech companies in
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  the world and they found themselves in their spare time
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  chasing that cheap dopamine. Now in real terms, when you look
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  at what they were earning as a salary plus their stock options,
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  they figured out that an hour of their time was worth $600.00.
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  That's almost like, you know, if you think about it in terms of
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  60 minutes, it's kind of like, well, $10 a minute.
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  So therefore they could really get a sense that if they spent
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  an hour doom scrolling, it was costing them 6. $100.
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  And that was acting as a pattern interrupt and they didn't really
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  want to feel that way now. This.
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  Hypnosis session is designed to do 2 key things to let them know
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  that actually dopamine is a. Wonderful thing.
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  If it is linked to progress, if it's linked to accomplishment,
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  if it's linked to things that they can take pride in,
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  dopamine's a wonderful neurotransmitter.
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  It keeps people growing and moving forward.
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  This is why throughout history and civilization, we try to
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  accomplish more and more things because dopamine is the reward
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  system. But companies have figured out
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  that they can create a almost a a nation, a planet of addicts if
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  you get them hooked on the dopamine linked to short form
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  entertainment. And social media is the the best
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  example because a lot of people find themselves from doom
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  scrolling. But it could be gambling, it
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  could be a game, it could be social media feeds that aren't
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  necessarily video related but more text related like Twitter.
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  Some people will constantly check a post every time they get
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  a new notification. Because it gives them.
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  That dopamine, Now what this is about is about not saying
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  dopamine is bad, but saying cheap dopamine is actually
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  stealing time, stealing resources, and there's an
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  opportunity cost. And it's based in Hawaii for the
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  induction because they had a recent holiday there.
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  And it links into certain themes and principles to enable them to
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  imagine a future of what they accomplish if they traded in the
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  cheap dopamine for the quality dopamine.
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  And there's a few metaphors in there as well.
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  Now to get the best out of this session, I would encourage you
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  to think of where are you getting your cheap dopamine from
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  now? Is it from YouTube?
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  Is it from social media? Is it from something else like
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  WhatsApp messages or dating sites?
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  Wherever you're getting your cheap dopamine, think of that
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  and get a sense of what an hour of your time is worth.
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  So when you hear hear the $600.00, it could be more, it
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  could be less depending on how much money you earn.
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  And that isn't to say that there is no value in having rest and
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  relaxation and recreation, but there's a big difference if
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  you're choosing to spend your time to watch a movie on Netflix
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  to feeling like you have to to kind of get that need of
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  dopamine met. So first of all, think of where
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  you're getting your dopamine from.
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  And then secondly, think about what would life be like if you
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  could take all of that time that you currently spend chasing
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  cheap dopamine? And what would it happen?
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  And what could happen in your life if suddenly you took that
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  same time, that same energy and fuelled it into something that
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  gave you the dopamine that comes from accomplishing or learning
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  or growing or evolving in some way.
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  And then you get more value from this session.
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  Now if you want a bespoke one-on-one session with me, the
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  way to do that rather than just listening to my recordings is to
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  schedule a free consultation call.
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  Now I have a website whichisadamcox.co.uk, and there
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  you can book a free consultation call.
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  We'll have a chat around about half an hour over Zoom.
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  I'll get to know you and your situation, and I can let you
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  know how many sessions I think might be useful to help you in
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  whichever area of your life feels like it would be most
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  beneficial. For now, though, you might get
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  some value from this session. So find a quiet, relaxing place,
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  the kind of environment you're not going to be distracted or
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  disturbed. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in and as you breathe in, breathe in that
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  calm, slow, wonderful feeling of relaxation and as you exhale you
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  feel a wonderful feeling of relaxation.
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  Position your body in such a way where each breath takes you
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  deeper, relaxed, and you can sink into that wonderful feeling
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  of ever increasing relaxation. That's it.
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  And the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed you feel.
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  And the more relaxed you feel, the deeper you breathe.
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  As your body relaxes, your imagination awakens, and I want
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  you to allow your imagination to take you back, back in time not
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  long ago to a time where you were in a Cove with a lagoon
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  there on a beach in Hawaii. I want you to imagine wearing
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  whatever is comfortable and appropriate to be on that beach
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  by that lagoon. Imagine the sunshine on your
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  skin. Perhaps even imagine paddling in
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  the shallow waters of the lagoon.
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  Maybe you can recall the temperature of the water, the
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  sensation of wet sand between your toes.
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  And I want you to imagine what it would be like to imagine that
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  you have that entire beach, the entire lagoon, all for yourself.
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  It's just your imagination. Let's make it a private beach
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  just for you. And I want you to imagine
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  somewhere you see a tiny plant. And I want you to imagine that
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  that tiny plant has brightly colored different leaves.
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  And I want you to imagine that each leaf of this plant enhances
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  or activates your sensory and perceptual abilities.
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  And I want you to imagine what it would feel like to take one
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  leaf of that plant there in that Cove, on that beach, next to
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  that lagoon, and just place it there on your tongue or under
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  your tongue. And just imagine that this plant
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  has psychoactive or psychosensual abilities, enhance
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  neuroplasticity, a higher level of sensory acuity and perception
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  of the unperceivable. And then imagine going on an
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  adventure within your imagination.
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  Perhaps you can imagine a hammock or perhaps a blanket and
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  blanket on the beach. And just imagine eyelids feeling
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  heavier and drifting off into a wonderful magical adventure
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  within your imagination there on that beach.
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  And as you breathe in, imagine breathing in a color, a color
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  that represents the creator consciousness.
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  Not a consumer, but a creator. And if that has a color, imagine
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  breathing in that color can imagine a color that represents
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  calm authorship and breathe in that color.
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  And this feels like a swirl of colors, empowering colors.
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  And as you exhale, I want you to imagine exhaling an attachment
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  to cheap dopamine. I want you to think that there
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  are some animals that exist that when a parasite takes hold, they
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  are influenced by the parasite. It changes what they crave to
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  eat. It can even change what they do.
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  Most addictions the like parasites, once it takes hold,
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  it can encourage a human to do more of something that benefits
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  the parasite more than the host. So as you exhale, I want you to
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  imagine breathing out a color that represents any parasitic
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  holds that you may be attached to.
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  Maybe they're dark and grey, breathing in an empowered
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  consciousness and exhaling anything attached to being.
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  The host. Of a parasite or the slave of a
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  neural pathway. Each breath feels liberating,
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  freeing, exciting. And perhaps you can hear the
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  sound of gentle waves nearby. And I want you to feel that a
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  lagoon is like the sea, but protected, still and clear,
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  where the water is shallow enough to see the sand beneath,
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  and just soft ripples move gently across the surface.
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  And when the sun is shining, the sunlight breaks into patterns
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  that shift without effort. Sometimes a lagoon is created
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  because it's shielded by a reef or by rocks.
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  The reef or the rocks do the hard work so the water inside
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  can remain calm. I want you to get a feeling
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  here, in this place, in this journey, in your imagination.
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  I want you to feel that you are protected.
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  This is a safe, still place, a calm place.
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  Nothing you need to do. And I want you to feel that your
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  mind, your mind is a wonderful place.
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  It can be volatile, but also calm.
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  And right now feel that your mind is like the warm Stillwater
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  of a lagoon. Imagine your physical body is
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  still there on the beach. Within your imagination.
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  Imagine there is a part of you stepping slowly into the water
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  and as you look back you can see your physical body there, there
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  on the beach, and notice how the water is warm.
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  It doesn't need to be exciting. It doesn't need to be dull.
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  I want you to feel that the water is just right, and your
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  nervous system recognizes this immediately.
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  Because just the sensation of water on your skin is not the
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  feeling of chasing dopamine. It's a feeling of connection and
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  mindful sufficiency. Nothing to fix, nothing to
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  consume, and nothing to prove that when you're in nature, you
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  have presence. You are there in a symbiotic
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  relationship with the nature, and as your body settles, I want
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  you to feel that calm does not reduce power.
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  Being calm concentrates it. I want you to think of a
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  advanced martial artist. They can be calm, composed,
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  powerful and intentional. Just because there is the
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  capacity to do something doesn't mean there's an obligation to do
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  it. It's better to be the warrior in
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  the garden than the gardener in the war.
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  And then imagine floating in that lagoon.
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  I want you to become aware of two very different modes of
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  being. One is consumption, absorbing,
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  reacting, scrolling and grazing, and always responding to what's
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  already been created by someone else.
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  And the other is creation. I want you to think of a movie
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  how people used to get their dopamine.
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  It would take a producer, a director, a writer, and actors
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  and editors months, perhaps even years to create something that
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  could be consumed in 90 minutes. Creation is deliberate.
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  Creation is slower. Creation takes time.
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  But creation is intentional, and somewhere deep inside, I want
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  you to connect with the creator consciousness within.
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  You were never meant to live on cheap dopamine.
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  Your mind is too capable, too powerful.
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  You were designed for meaningful output, and I want you to
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  imagine your attention as something tangible, not
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  abstract, not vague. Maybe you can picture your
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  attention as capital, clean, liquid, valuable, like a scarce
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  resource. I want you to imagine that if
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  the price of your attention is the same as what your time is
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  worth to pay you, and every time you chase cheap dopamine you
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  realize how expensive it is, I want you to connect with one.
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  Just 10 minutes of looking at some mindless videos online that
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  don't enhance your life don't educate you.
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  Would you pay that much? For that content, I want you to
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  think of how much you've spent on theatre tickets, shows,
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  performances, and it dawns on you.
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  You've spent more money on something that is truly
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  impressive, and you're spending similar amounts or more in the
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  value of your attention on things that are limited,
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  wasteful, gratifying, but not valuable.
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  Because if you can calculate your hourly rate, you can
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  calculate a rate per minute. So when attention is spent on
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  cheap dopamine, that mindless scrolling, reactive eating, late
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  night stimulation, it isn't free.
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  It's expensive in a way you hadn't labeled before, and that
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  awareness lands calmly, not critically.
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  But some people believe that when you know better, you do
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  better. And what if you had to pay
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  $600.00 an hour for cheap dopamine?
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  Would you still consider that dopamine cheap?
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  No shame, no self attack, just clarity and new evaluation.
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  Cheap dopamine isn't cheap, it's simply mispriced.
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  And once something is correctly priced, it naturally uses a
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  different part of your perception, a part that asks, is
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  this worth it? And they're in the lagoon.
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  You notice how everything follows an order where stillness
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  equals clarity equals movement, and never the other way round.
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  I want you to create a new perception that stimulation
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  feels best after regulation. Dopamine lands cleanly after
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  focus. I want you to think that some
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  people, if they're paid before a project, will get a bonus before
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  a project. They lose all motivation.
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  The reward follows the effort. When something is earned, it's
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  appreciated by linking these things after after you do
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  something regulated, after you do something focused, and
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  whether it's exercise or a fast, whether it's learning something
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  new or doing something you've been putting off, when you do
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  the thing intentionally, calmly, deliberately, you earn the
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  dopamine. And once you've earned dopamine,
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  the cheap stuff doesn't really have any appeal anymore.
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  It's almost like when you were a child or a teenager playing a
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  game. Back then, it was powerful,
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  enticing, desirable, and yet now kind of boring, mundane,
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  ambivalent. And I want your brain to make
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  that same connection. There was a time that cheap
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  dopamine felt like a mind hack, a Trevor trove of unlimited
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  desire. But once you've experienced
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  dopamine that is fought for, earned, the cheap stuff feels
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  cheap. And the irony is, sometimes the
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  cheap dopamine is even more expensive than what you worked
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  hard for. I want you to get a feeling that
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  in the past you've applied rules, rigidity, but it's your
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  nature to break free from rigidity.
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  So instead of thinking of rules to follow, I want you think of a
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  lane to drive in. And what lane would that be for
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  you? A lane as a creator, A lane
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  that's intentional, A lane where you're making progress,
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  evolving, growing. And I want you to consider
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  distractions and gratification as drifting, straying outside of
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  your lane. And in the past that would have
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  been an excuse to spiral to think, wow, I've messed this up,
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  now I can do whatever I want. But whatever you want,
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  ironically, is to stay in your lane.
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  To build such resilience and optionality that no matter what
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  the future brings, you can handle whatever life throws at
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  you. If your unconscious is willing
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  to choose effort, growth, and intentions as your lane, and
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  gratification and distraction is out of your lane, let me know by
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  nodding your head. And whenever you stray, think
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  about what you would do on a freeway if you were straying
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  outside of your lane. Nothing dramatic, just
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  adjusting, refining and moving back in your lane.
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  And I want you to feel it's that easy.
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  No big deal, no guilt, no shame. Just refinement, adjustment to
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  do what you want to do more of and less of that stuff that was
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  just depriving you of what you really wanted anyway.
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  Imagine being back in that lagoon.
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  Now imagine walking back to the beach and seeing yourself there
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  in a deep sleep. Imagine the two separate parts
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  of you become one. The conscious and the
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  unconscious, with a collective mission to unleash the most
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  valuable. Capable parts.
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  Of you and to be free of a parasite.
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  Parasite that was feeding on attention.
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  But if attention is your capital, you will be more
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  discerning about where that attention goes to anymore.
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  And instead of feeding your parasite, you will feed your
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  future self, that proud, capable creator that is waiting, waiting
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  for you to become them. So it's time to float back now,
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  back to the present, taking all these thoughts and changes with
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  you. Take a deep breath in through
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  your nose and out through your nose.
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  Just wiggle your fingers, wiggle your toes, connect and calibrate
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  into the here and the now as I now count from 1:00 to 10:00 to
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  awaken you. Starting to count 123 waking up
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  456 more alert 7-8. Open your eyes, open your eyes,
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  910. Wide awake, wide awake, wide
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  awake. Thank you so much for joining me
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