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Hypnosis for Smoking When Emotionally Triggered · 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 genuine
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  issues. Brought to you by the
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  hypnotherapist, demanded by celebrities, CEOs and even
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  royalty. Adam Cox.
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  These recordings took place live from Adam's clinic in London's
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  world famous Harley Street. This podcast features powerful
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  hypnosis, so do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
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  This recording is not suitable for those with epilepsy or
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  severe mental health issues, 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 then this hypnosis session,
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  you're going to be listening to a hypnosis session about
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  reducing smoking and particularly smoking cessation.
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  And some people are just habitual smokers, but there are
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  people that tend to smoke either more or only smoke.
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  When they become. Emotionally triggered and I was
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  working with a client and that was their situation.
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  So although I've. Published lots of hypnosis
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  session sessions about either quitting smoking, becoming a
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  non-smoker. This was more dealing with the
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  emotional triggering side of smoking and if that feels like
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  you and you know that you smoke more when you're stressed or
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  bored or. Angry.
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  Or frustrated, then I think you'll get some value from this
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  particular session. Please bear in mind though, that
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  it was created for an individual and therefore the suggestions
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  that were entirely appropriate and suitable for the client that
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  I was working with wouldn't necessarily be perfect and
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  suitable and appropriate for you and.
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  On that. Basis Lots of people learn about
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  me by hearing a session I recorded for someone.
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  Else and then. Thinking, well that's OK, but
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  it's not quite right. And then they go on to work with
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  me individually. So I create a hypnosis session
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  and we do the hypnosis live. And if that sounds like
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  something that it could be of interest to you, look in the
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  description and you'll see a link to book a free consultation
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  call to explore working with me. For now though, find a quiet,
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  comfortable place, ideally where you're not going to be
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  interrupted or disturbed. Relax and enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in and on the outward breath that's here,
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  close your eyes breathing in a feeling of calm and relaxation
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  and as you exhale, just feeling a sense of release of any
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  tensions, stress and worries leaving your body in that
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  outward breath. The deeper you breathe, the more
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  relaxed you become, and the more relaxed you become, the deeper
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  you breathe. Just allow yourself to elongate
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  the outward breath, and the longer you breathe out, the more
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  you create a vacuum in your diaphragm so that the next
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  inward breath becomes deeper than the last breathing in a
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  feeling of resourceful relaxation and exhaling that
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  tension. Just imagine, with each breath
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  you are activating that parasympathetic nervous system,
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  the part that likes to be calm, relaxed and connected.
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  And the more you activate, it's a very natural process, the more
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  your body relaxes and the more your imagination awakens.
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  And I want you to use the power of your imagination to imagine
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  walking, walking out on Hampstead Heath just before
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  sunrise. Perhaps you can even imagine the
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  specific route. Just imagine walking in that
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  exact same direction, leaving your home, walking in that
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  direction. And maybe you could imagine and
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  hear the sounds of the paws of dogs walking or running with
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  you. I want you to imagine it's still
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  dark, but you're finding your way to a place on the heath with
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  the perfect view of sunrise. I want you to imagine just
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  seeing, seeing the colours in the sky.
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  Imagine it's a clear day, no clouds.
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  See those hues? Those shades start to light up
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  the sky. Some people consider different
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  parts of their life as different chapters, but you could imagine
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  a sunrise is evidence that every day is a brand new page.
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  That you could look back and extract the wisdom of the past
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  without needing the emotions of the past to affect the present
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  day. It's almost like every new day
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  wipes the slate clean. You retain the knowledge, the
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  wisdom, the experience, but you don't need to hold on to any
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  emotions that sabotage or interfere with the quality of
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  your life. Hold on to the good stuff and
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  release that which does not serve you.
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  That's it. I don't want you to imagine
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  because it is just your imagination there on the heath,
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  the most comfortable chair that's ever existed and ever
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  will exist, plumped there on the heath.
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  And I want you to imagine how good it would feel to sit in the
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  most relaxing chair ever while looking out the continuation of
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  that sunrise, hearing the sounds of playful dogs enjoying their
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  time. And notice with every breath it
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  takes you deeper and deeper. Relaxed.
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  I'm going to countdown from 5:00 to 1:00 with each descending
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  number. Give yourself permission to sink
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  into a state that some people would call hypnosis, some people
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  would call deep meditation, and some people would call a trance.
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  5 Letting yourself go now. 4 Nothing to do, just allow.
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  Allow yourself to go to that place.
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  Place where powerful changes can happen easier. 3A Place where
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  neural networks that exist can be reactivated or perhaps mapped
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  across the new situations or environments that that would be
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  useful. 2 Just feeling your arms and legs feeling limp, loose and
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  heavy. Breathing gets deeper and
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  deeper. And then one just imagine
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  drifting off into a dreamlike sleep there on that chair, on
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  that heath, whilst sunrise start to shift into daytime.
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  I want you to get a sense that there is an ability within you
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  to effortlessly deal with tantrums.
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  I want you to imagine thinking back back in time, where you're
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  seeing yourself deal with one of your children, perhaps five
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  years old, throwing a tantrum. Be the observer, not the
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  participant, and see how that younger version of you had the
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  perfect strategy to deal with the tantrum.
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  I'll put petrol on the fire, but to let the fire die out.
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  See that version of you handling that tantrum in a way that
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  allowed that five year old child to express their frustrations,
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  to communicate their need for attention, but realising that
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  you didn't have to play their game just because they're
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  playing it as the observer? You can see that back then you
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  didn't take the bait, but also you didn't need to soothe
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  yourself afterwards. You could imagine that version
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  of you surrounded by an unconscious force field.
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  Their energy and their intention never affected yours.
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  You were able to maintain your composure even though they
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  wanted you to raise your voice. They wanted you to react and
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  instead you responded. And you responded by giving a
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  meaning to what was happening. The unconscious meaning is that
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  this is what a 5 year old does. But you don't have to respond in
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  the way that they wanted you to. You had agency and options and
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  choices, and by playing the game the way you want it to, it was a
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  disincentive for them to throw those tantrums, partly because
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  you couldn't be provoked. You didn't take the bait.
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  You played your game, not theirs, and you can go backwards
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  and forwards in time and see this wasn't just something that
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  needed willpower. In fact it was the opposite.
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  Your automatic way of handling A tantrum was to maintain your
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  composure. Step into that version of you.
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  But this time I want you to see not a five year old child, but a
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  grown woman acting like a 5 year old child.
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  Imagine them doing the kind of things then is an adult
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  equivalent of throwing attention.
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  See them attempting to provoke. See them encouraging you to take
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  the bait, to push your buttons. But feel a sense of composure in
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  a peace. You're still protected by that
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  force field. Their game does not affect your
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  game. In fact, the harder they try to
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  rile you, provoke you, trigger you, the more composed you
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  become. Doesn't even have to be in
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  person. You could imagine a message, a
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  voicemail, an e-mail, not even from them, but from someone
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  they're working with, a relative, a lawyer, some other
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  entity. But it's still the same thing.
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  A 5 year old trapped in the body of a fully grown woman and you
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  feel the same way you felt when dealing with your children.
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  You feel a wonderful sense of you're in control.
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  Your breathing doesn't change, your heart rate doesn't
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  increase. You feel protected in that place
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  of peace. I need to now go back to a
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  different point in your past. I want you to see see yourself
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  in a work situation where someone is trying to get under
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  your skin, someone is trying to rattle you, trying to get you to
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  take the bait, trying to provoke you, and see that version of you
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  immune to it. You're immune to the games
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  because you know what they're doing and you know that it's
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  counterproductive to play their game when your game works so
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  well. In fact, the more they try, the
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  more composed you become. You are immune to it, protected.
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  Perhaps you can see yourself with that invisible force field
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  that whatever they try and do doesn't matter because you have
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  a way of dealing with things like this.
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  And then step into that version of you feel, how resourceful you
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  feel when someone is trying to get a reaction, trying to
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  trigger you. There is a sense of knowingness
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  then it just doesn't work with you, doesn't affect your
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  breathing, doesn't affect your emotions.
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  You are able to remain in that incredibly resourceful state
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  irrespective of what anyone else is trying to do.
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  Really feel that powerful, resourceful energy and notice.
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  Notice that when you feel this way, what other people do
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  doesn't matter. And then imagine still feeling
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  that way, but seeing the person and the situation change.
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  Just imagine you're now in your your own home.
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  You know there's someone else in that same house with you, but
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  feel that same way of feeling that it's impossible for you to
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  be riled. You feel protected.
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  You feel that stoic sensation, that hybrid of acceptance and
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  control, a feeling that you can weather any storm.
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  I want you to get a sense that you're in your own home and
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  recreate something from the past that did trigger you, but now
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  place it in your future. But imagine feeling this way,
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  this resourceful way, Immune protected.
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  And the harder they try to roll you, the more resourceful you
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  feel. And the more resourceful you
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  feel, the more you're reminded you already know how to deal
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  with situations like this. I want you to get a sense.
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  Then you are activating the very neural networks that are useful,
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  but now shifting the context to an area of your life that would
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  be most beneficial. From these strategies, these
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  beliefs, these evaluations and these emotions, I want you to
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  feel that the next year or two becomes a boot camp training at
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  altitude. This could be the perfect time
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  to give you new levels of resilience.
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  I want you to get a sense then. A monk meditating in a tranquil
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  monastery is already in a peaceful place, but someone that
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  can remain their composure in a place where they are being
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  insulted, tricked, manipulated, attacked, that is a truly Zen
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  state. I want you to get a sense that
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  there is an opportunity here to treat this temporary situation
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  as a way to level up, to unleash and unlock new levels of
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  emotional resilience, new levels of self-control.
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  I want you to get a sense then this is temporary.
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  But when this temporary period ends, what if you have a whole
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  new level of emotional maturity, of new perspectives that you
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  become the calm in any storm? And the more you think of
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  tantrum throwing children in adults bodies, the easier it is
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  to see the funny side of what's happening.
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  Maybe you can imagine them with pigtails and ribbons in their
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  hair, that cross face that only children can have when they're
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  throwing a tantrum, the feet stomping.
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  You've seen it all before. And when you look at it through
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  that lens, the inner dialogue changes from how could they do
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  this to me to something like, of course they would do that.
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  That's what they do. And when you frame it that way,
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  you activate all of the resources necessary to make you
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  feel that not only can you handle this, you can handle this
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  elegantly, gracefully, with a stoic resilience that means that
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  your temperament is bulletproof, and the more you think about
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  that, the truer it becomes. And what if occasionally
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  resulting to cigarettes is not the problem, but the litmus test
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  Canary in the coal mine that lets you know how well you are
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  managing these emotional triggers?
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  That as you harness the resources that already exist
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  within you, you simply don't need these coping strategies.
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  Because it never got under your skin to begin with.
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  Your unconscious is willing to look at smoking as something
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  else to let you know if you're in the right lane, in the right
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  direction. That's it.
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  I want you to get a sense then there is an opportunity here to
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  elevate and enhance skills that are already strong.
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  And in those moments that you do feel triggered, I want you to
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  consider smoking is just one thing on a menu of possibilities
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  and there are so many other appetizing things on that menu
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  that would work even better. And maybe that is exercise, or a
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  swim, or a cold plunge, or deep breathing, or even laughter, or
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  going for a walk or a drive. There are so many other things
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  on the menu that work better and enhance your life.
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  I want you to consider that if you were to change something
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  that is destructive for something constructive, that it
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  almost becomes advantageous, whatever happens, that if they
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  can't rile you, then you're not triggered.
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  But if you are triggered, you're triggered to do something that
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  enhances your life, then whatever happens, you're moving
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  forward, evolving in exactly the way that you would like.
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  Before we leave this place, let's go back to one final
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  memory. I want you to go back to a
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  moment where you're seeing yourself being hypnotized to be
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  a non-smoker. Just imagine you're an invisible
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  entity in the room. When it happens, see how you
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  were sitting, how you were breathing, and then allow
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  yourself to step back into that version of you where all the
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  suggestions that you heard back then, you're hearing now.
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  That you are reawakening the identity of a non-smoker that
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  has no desire to smoke. When you feel that you've
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  reawakened that identity, that that is simply who you are now,
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  let me know by nodding your head.
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  That's it. I want you to go forwards in
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  time now to the kind of situation that in the past would
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  have provoked you to smoke and notice it doesn't work now.
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  And whether there it is an emotional trigger or a social
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  trigger feel being in that exact situation with no desire at all
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  to smoke. You now get the dopamine from
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  the good feeling of being a non-smoker, then the dopamine of
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  that temporary nicotine hit. Every time you make the
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  evaluation that you are free of that old identity, it feels good
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  because you are in control of your life and the direction that
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  you're taking it. As you leave that chair, find
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  yourself back on a chair there on Hampstead Heath, feeling that
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  you've been on a journey in your imagination.
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  A journey of thoughts within thoughts, dreams within dreams,
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  and ideas within ideas. But you have awakened the very
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  neural pathways and networks to harness powerful ways of making
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  evaluations and harnessing useful, resourceful emotions to
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  give you more choices as to how to respond rather than react.
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  And when all those changes feel like they've integrated with you
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  in the present and the here and the now.
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  Let me know by nodding your head.
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  Do you imagine leaving that chair, walking back with your
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  dogs, but not back to your home, back to your physical body, now
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  back to the here and the now? And then take a deep breath in
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  through your nose and out through your nose.
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  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 wide awake,
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  wide awake, wide awake. Thank you for listening to The
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