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Hypnosis to Stop Drinking Alcohol for 30 Days · The Hypnotist

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Hi, Adam here. And you're about to listen to a
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hypnosis session all about alcohol reduction.
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And I was working with a client that knew that the path that
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they were on in terms of the quantity of daily drinking
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probably would have a very serious health consequence at
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some point in the future. Now they didn't know exactly
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when that was going to happen. It was just highly probable
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based on the amount of, in their case, beer that they were
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drinking and the frequency and the quantity that they were
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drinking it. So they had an idea that they
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wanted to avert that danger on the horizon.
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It's almost like if the Titanic had seen the iceberg.
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Ahead early enough. Then they could have made a
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detour. Now the iceberg in this case
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would be. Some.
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Serious health condition, perhaps even a heart attack or a
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stroke or something. Just horrible.
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And he knew it. Was on the horizon and there was
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an opportunity to avoid them. So this hypnosis session starts
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with an element of disassociation and induction on
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a boat and then it goes through this element of timeline and the
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first timeline takes them to a horrible future if they continue
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to drink at the level where they're drinking.
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And the second is actually a process of.
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Three key components 1. Tapering off, so 5 or 6 days of
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just reducing how much they're having and.
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Then a beginning. Transitional phase of not having
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any alcohol at all, and that's important.
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Because. By having no alcohol at all, the
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body then adapts and gets used to having no alcohol.
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So then when they introduce moderate amounts of alcohol,
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that actually feels like a win compared to just going from
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drinking lots to drinking. Less you need.
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Something to change things and the withdrawals that it was
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highly likely that they were going to experience are
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positioned in this hypnosis session as a signal of the body
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adapting and that is what withdrawals are.
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The problem is is that most people give a.
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Different meaning. To withdrawals and that is that
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they're feeling something horrible and going back to what
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they were doing before. Will make the.
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Withdrawals go away and while that's true, it traps people in
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the destructive behaviour that they want to change, so
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therefore the true meaning. Of.
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Withdrawals is that the body is freaking out.
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Because it doesn't. Have what it's normally getting
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and in doing so it then has to adapt.
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And at the point where I'm actually recording this, I'm 2
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1/2 days into a four day fast, so I've not.
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Eaten any food? For nearly three days and in the
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first couple of days your body is freaking out because it's
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used to having food. But once you.
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Give it the connotation that, OK, this is required for the
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body to adapt, for the stomach to shrink, for the energy levels
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to go down. Then it takes a different
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meaning at all, and then it becomes a very manageable thing.
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Now, obviously this client was about alcohol.
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What I'm going through right now is about fasting and I'll
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probably do a. Recording soon.
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Just to help anyone else want wanting to go through a fast for
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either health benefits or weight loss benefits now.
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Speaking of. Weight loss benefits and health
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completely free. Without my intro, without my
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explanation, without the outro, just the hypnosis sessions.
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So if you do like this type of hypnosis that I do but you don't
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want to hear me rambling on. Beforehand, click the.
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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 and as you breathe in,
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breathe in that slow, long, relaxing breath.
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And as you exhale, just allow your eyelids to close.
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And as they close, feel a sense of release that any tension
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around your eyelids feels like it's melting away.
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And when you breathe in, breathe in the slightly deeper than you
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normally would, breathing in a resourceful feeling of
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relaxation. And as you exhale, just imagine
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that in the outward breath that as you exhale, stress, tension,
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any worries is feeling like it's leaving your body in that
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outward breath. And some people think of their
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intuition as a communication channel of the unconscious mind.
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And I want you to think of a colour that represents
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resourceful relaxation. And whatever colour comes to
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mind is your intuition giving you a clue that that's the right
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colour for this feeling. And then as you breathe in,
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imagine breathing in a bright colour that represents that
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resourceful relaxation. Imagine that bright colour going
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in your nose into your lungs. Perhaps.
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You can even imagine your heart just as it takes oxygen from
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your lungs. Imagine it taking that
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resourceful relaxation and imagine it pumping it around in
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your blood cells. That resourceful relaxation to
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every cell in your body. And as you exhale, instead of
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imagining that it's just that carbon dioxide, I want you to
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imagine seeing dark grey shadows leaving your body in the outward
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breath and allow these dark shadows to represent anything.
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Unresourceful feelings of dependency, reliance, stress and
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worries. Anything unresourceful, just
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imagine it leaving your body in your outward breath.
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So as you breathe in that bright color and exhale those dark
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shadows, imagine what it would feel like that just by breathing
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in. And breathing out is like an
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emotional transfusion, giving your unconscious the resources
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it needs and releasing any of those emotions or feelings that
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impede a wonderful state of change.
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And just imagine that the deeper you breathe, the more relaxed
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you become. And the more relaxed you become,
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the deeper you breathe. And as your body relaxes, your
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imagination awakens. And I'd like you to imagine what
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it would feel like to be on a boat.
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Imagine that boat is out on the water.
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Perfectly calm weather, blue skies, sunshine, kind of weather
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where you can be on the boat and not need to do anything.
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And I wonder if you could imagine being on that seat at
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the rear looking out at the water.
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And I know sometimes you've looked out at the water and
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started to Daydream. I did you imagine how you want
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things to be. So that seat on that boat
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looking out of the water is already a place where you know
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how to go into a trance like state because you've done it
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before. And as you imagine looking out
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of the water, continue to breathe in and resourceful
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relaxation and continue to exhale any stress, worries or
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tension as you feel like you're drifting to a place, a relaxing
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place, eyelids feeling heavier and heavier.
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That's it. Very soon I'm going to count
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downwards from 12:50 and with each descending number I want
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you to focus on a different part of your body and imagine what
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that part of your body would feel like to completely release
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any tension. 10 Focusing on your eyelids, breathing in relaxation
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and exhaling tension, taking you deeper and deeper.
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Relaxed 9 Focusing on your forehead.
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Now you know the muscles responsible for expressions like
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surprise or concern. As you breathe out, release any
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tension in your forehead, taking you deeper and deeper.
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Relaxed 8 Now focus on your jaw. As you imagine breathing in that
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relaxation, just feel your jaw loo loosen and relax.
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That's it, letting go, breathing in and breathing out even deeper
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and allow your body to do the breathing for you.
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No need to force a breath in or force a breath out.
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Just notice it getting deeper and deeper, slower and slower,
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more and more relaxed. That's it.
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And then seven, focus on your neck and your shoulders.
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And I wonder if you could imagine crystals of ice fused
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into your muscle tissue. But on that sunny day on the
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boat, imagine those crystals of ice that represent stress and
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tension just melting away. That's it.
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Feel the neck and shoulders relax.
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And then the seven turns into 6. Just feel that relaxation
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spreading down your arms. I want you to imagine what it
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would feel like for your arms to be so relaxed.
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They feel like the limbs of a puppet with no strings.
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Limp, loose, relaxed. And it feels good to become more
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and more relaxed with each descending number.
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And then 5, focus on your lungs, your stomach, your heart, and
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imagine what it would feel like for your internal organs to
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relax. That's it for going down into
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your gut. And if the neck and the
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shoulders is where stress is sometimes stored, the gut is
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where echoes of anxiety lay. And just feel any anxiety there
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in the gut, even if it's an echo just melting away now.
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And then. Three, feel that relaxation
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going down into your legs, top of your legs, feeling more
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relaxed down into your calf. Feel the calf muscles more and
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more relaxed as three becomes 2 down into your feet.
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And then one. Just imagine a ripple of
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relaxation from your toes to the top of your head all the way
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down to your fingertips, and imagine drifting off into a
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dreamlike sleep. And in that dream, imagine
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you're still in the same boat, but now seeing that version of
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you in a dreamlike sleep. And just check by lifting up one
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of your arms to feel how limp, loose and relaxed that arm is
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and let it go down by your side. That's it.
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And I want you to feel what it would feel like to imagine that
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from this boat, you can now see a hologram.
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And this hologram is your future, and we're going to
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explore two different futures. A future where you continue
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drinking at the quantity and frequency of alcohol that you
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have been drinking. But I want you to make this
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hologram look so real. That you can.
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See your future self. I want you to see yourself a
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year from now, a year drinking at the same quantity, the same
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frequency. And maybe there's not much
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change. Maybe you're just seeing
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yourself slightly heavier, slightly less energy, needing to
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drink to sleep. But I want you to take it five
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years out, five years of drinking this way.
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And if you can see a future where there are clues of a
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deterioration of health, just let me know by nodding your
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head. That's it.
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And I want you to imagine stepping into the hologram and
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feeling what it would be like to have five years of drinking this
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way. Maybe you feel heavier, maybe
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there's more inflammation on knees and ankles.
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Maybe motivation has slipped. Maybe it's caused some issue in
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a friendship or relationship. I want you to go another five
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years in the future and keep going forward until there is
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something that can't be reversed.
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Maybe it's a health scare, a diagnosis.
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Maybe it's something that impedes your mobility.
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I want you to use the power of your imagination not to show you
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what will happen, but what could happen.
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What is the worst thing that can happen of 10 years of drinking
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this way? I want you to get a sense then
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something is happening that if you had a time machine you would
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love to go back 10 years before and make a change.
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But sometimes we have to make it worse before it can get better.
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I want you to go forwards in time to the point of maximum
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pain and distress, where something is happening linked to
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the drinking that means you would do anything to change it.
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Maybe you're on your deathbed. Maybe someone you care about is
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following in your footsteps because they respect and admire
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you. They're drinking like you are.
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Whatever it takes to find the point of maximum emotional
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leverage. Go to that place.
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So much so that this feels not like a should, but a must, an
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absolute must to make a change. Make it as bad as it needs to be
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to create a powerful emotional lever, a desire to change.
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And when you're at that place, let me know by nodding your
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head. That's it.
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Feel that determination, that decisiveness, a feeling of being
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so resolute nothing will stop you.
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And then allow yourself to go back on the boat and seeing a
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different hologram. I want you to see a version of
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you that for the next 5 days or so, reduces proportionately what
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you're drinking. Consider this five days of
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tapering. I want you to see that version
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of you adjusting, adapting. And then following that five
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days, perhaps starting on a specific Sunday, I want you to
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take all of that emotional leverage, that feeling of
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tenacious determination, that part of you that says enough is
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enough. And I want you to see that
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version of you without alcohol. And in the first few days of
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that 30 days, I want you to see yourself drowsy, fatigued, maybe
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see yourself cranky, grumpy, easy to lose your call.
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See that when you sleep, you might be restless, agitated, but
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I want you to see you smile because that version of you
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knows that these withdrawals are evidence of your body adapting.
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What if the withdrawals are the chickens coming home to roost?
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Nature of any habit is that it's easy to start and difficult to
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leave. But I want you to see yourself
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with those qualities that you exude in other areas of your
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life. Defiant, relentless.
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I want you to see that version of you that embraces the
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challenge. The fact that it's difficult is
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what makes it appealing. So when you're going through
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that rocky period, you realise the more intense the
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withdrawals, the less time they go on for.
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And then see yourself perhaps 567 days of no alcohol.
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I see that your body is already starting to adapt.
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I want you to see that you're sleeping well.
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I want you to see a clue that you're already starting to lose
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some weight. And I want you to see yourself
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on a weekday night enjoying a meal.
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And alcohol doesn't need to be there.
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And I want you to see yourself on a Friday or Saturday evening
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hanging out with a friend and then drinking.
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But you're drinking water or another soft drink.
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And I want you to see the look of pride on your face,
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accomplishment that the pleasure you get from becoming an
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evolved, enhanced version of you feels better than whatever
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alcohol wasn't doing for you anyway.
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I want you to see that the first week was definitely the hardest,
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and the second week there's moments you're not even thinking
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about it. I want you to see other people
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are encouraging you, and whenever anyone encourages you,
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that puts the wind in your sails.
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But whenever anyone tries to talk you into becoming that old
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version of you, destined to crash into the rocks, that
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provokes defiance and eagerness to prove them wrong, to be your
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own person. I don't want you to see that two
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weeks turns into three and then four.
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I want you to see that your body is already adapting with just
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four weeks of no daily drinking, a brightness to your skin, in
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your eyes, a spring in your step because you're sleeping better.
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And that enhances your cognitive powers.
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You're sharp. The ideas are better.
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And then I want you to see that future version of you beyond the
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month that has created unconscious boundaries, rules of
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engagement. In the same way that you don't
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drink on a boat, I want you to see that version of you not
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drinking on a weekday. I want you to see that version
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of you not drinking alone. And what does that mean?
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It means that when you are drinking, it's socially, it's on
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a Friday or a Saturday evening, and it's always with people to
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enhance a moment, not deal with anything.
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I want you to see that version of you choosing to drink but not
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needing to drink. And if you can see that future
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version of you with the kind of relationship with alcohol that
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feels that you can just live that way forever, let me know
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about nodding your head. I want you to see that version
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of you is ready for this challenge.
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And I want you to flashback to a time, a time when you did
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something challenging where there was a part of you that
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could have given up, but you didn't.
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And I want you to harness that feeling that whatever you felt
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doing that difficult challenge in the past, step into that
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version of you and awaken it within you now.
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I want you to get a sense that you don't have to do this.
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You are choosing to do this. And I want you to think of your
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why. Why are you doing this?
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You don't have to, and yet you're choosing to.
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And every time you remind yourself why, you unleash the
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resources to facilitate the how. And when you're crystal clear on
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your why, let me know by nodding your head.
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That's it. And I want you to amplify that
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why. Perhaps the why that links to
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what happens if you don't change.
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A good why means that you're rewarded for making the change,
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and there's a penalty for not changing as you remind yourself
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whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.
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And each of these holograms, you can choose, you can, you can
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choose to stay the same or you can choose to make a change.
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And I want you to think, think of a time when you were at your
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maximum level of tenacity. I want you to get a sense that
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tenacity means that even if there is a set back, you double
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down. You double down on your resolve
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to continue. And in the past, maybe it felt
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like Snakes and ladders, that just one drink was permission to
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go all the way back to square one.
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But not this future version of you.
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This future version of you is relentless.
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It will not allow a set back to represent failure.
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I want you to get a sense that you are relentless.
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Any set back increases the resolve and any progress gives
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you the feeling of momentum. Whatever happens, you're moving
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forward and I want you to think of that version of you that
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changes your relationship with alcohol, tapers off for five
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days, no alcohol for 30 days, and then only social drinking on
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the weekends beyond that. And I want you to see that
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version of you 10 years from now.
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I want you to see that version of you looking healthy, full of
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life, so many wonderful memories and moments.
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And sometimes all it takes is to compare 2 futures, the future of
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not changing, and contrast that with the future of making a
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change until it becomes obvious not what you should do, but what
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you want to do. This is an empowered choice you
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are choosing. And when you're clear that you
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know what you want, why you wanted, and how you will get
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there, let me know by nodding your head.
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That's it. So allow that to feel like a
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seed has been planted deep in your subconscious mind, already
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starting to take root. And over the next few days you
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will notice new thoughts that weren't there before, new ideas
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about what you think about your future.
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You will see people that have not made the change.
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All these thoughts will just pop into your brain and you won't
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have to do anything because your unconscious is going to work for
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you. And now that seed has been
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planted. Just imagine being there in the
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deck of that boat, seeing you sat in a rear facing chair
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looking fast asleep. Step into that version of you.
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So the unconscious and the conscious are now one and very
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soon I will count from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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So take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your
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nose. Just wiggle your fingers, wiggle
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your toes, start to connect and calibrate into the here and the
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now as I now count 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, wide awake.
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