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icted to, if you can stay off it for 30 days, your dopamine will get back to where you want it. So in other words, if you can keep off something for 30 days, you'll start to not miss it. Now I added my own experience, which is when it comes to food, my experience is it takes about 60 days, because there's not just your body that has to get acclimated to the dopamine but also your brain, because yo…
← Previous segment →'d always be eating things you liked all the time. So that's my suggestion: never let yourself be hungry while you're dieting. Just change the mix of things you're eating. All right, but do them one at a time. Don't get rid of all your addictions at the same time. So even getting rid of sugar all at once is tough, but getting rid of that ice cream you eat before you go to sleep, you know, just work on that. And then if you can get that one after two months, maybe work on dessert after dinner and then just that one. So that'll work for you, believe me.
All right. I was asked on X if hypnosis could be used for breaking addictions such as drinking and drugs. And the answer is, I'll give you the answer that my hypnosis teacher taught me, which has basically changed my life. You've heard this in another context, but in the hypnosis context it's really strong. My hypnosis instructor taught me this, which I've seen to be true my entire life: that when somebody has decided to quit their addiction, drinking, drugs, food, smoking, whatever it is, when they've decided to quit, it doesn't matter what method they use. They could use hypnosis a
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nd it would work totally, would work. They could use reading a book that gives them some tips, totally would work. They could say, "Oh, I did it my way. I went to a desert island." That would work. It all works once you've decided. Everything works. But you might want to do something. In other words, don't do nothing. It probably helps that you pick some method you're comfortable with. But the fli…
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