refer systems over goals people get confused and they say wait repeating the thing you want in your mind and visualizing it isn't that like a goal without a system? To which I say no the system is the repeating it. Because the repeating it is what causes your brain to create filters that allow you to notice things and act upon things that maybe you wouldn't have noticed or acted upon. So using affirmations can help you program your brain.

Somebody says Jack Herer is your daytime friend for marijuana. Yeah that one's well I don't say anything about that right now. I think I might do it. I was thinking of doing a separate Periscope on how to smoke marijuana if you're a medical marijuana user because I don't recommend it for recreational use. Someday I'll do that.

Avoidance. If you fill your shelf space and avoid unpleasant thoughts they will then reduce in power through atrophy. So the avoidance is very similar or related to the shelf space. Just focus on the good stuff and the bad stuff will shrink in importance.

And then I also advise you to learn and increase your talent stack as much as you can over time because that also programs your brain for recognizing connections. I don't remember if I thought I was going to say this or actually said it when I was talking earlier so I'll say it again. So you remember Watson and Crick figured out the shape of the double helix you know the DNA stuff. And it was Crick who I learned just recently had been a code breaker in World War II. So a guy who had two skills. One he was a scientist and two he had been a code breaker. The code breaker broke the code on DNA. It took a code breaker. Now if he had not been a code breaker by training would his brain have been tuned? Somebody says he was on LSD that would have helped too. Would his brain have been tuned to the idea of patterns in terms of codes? Probably not. So anytime you can learn a second thing that works well with your other thing you can you've more than doubled your power. So learning two things gives you what you already had plus the new thing but it doesn't just double your power because you have two things plus all the things that are new that are the overlap or the combination of some things from those two things. So adding a second skill does more than double. It's sort of like two hundred and fifty percent better. And if you get that math right it really helps. That's what the talent stack is all about.

All right so repetition, thinking positive things, changing your preferences by association. These are the tools of the hypnotist and they're the ones that you can easily apply to yourself. If you are not managing your brain circuitry the way I've just suggested you are sort of randomly going forth into the world. Because remember your reality may or may not be entirely subjective. We don't need to solve that today. But certainly your experience of your life is completely subjective right? There may be something out there that's just there but your experience of life for sure is a subjective experience. And that subjective experience is very much within your power over time. Whatever you do on one day might not make that much difference but if you develop habits over a long term you learn to fill your shelf space with provocative ideas. You learn to build a talent stack so you can combine and contrast ideas and you build associations and triggers in your own mind. They get you to where you want to be and you've got affirmations that are running in the background all the time telling you what you want. You'll start noticing things you wouldn't have noticed before etc.

Somebody says can hypnosis help with depression? I don't know the answer to that question because I don't know that it's been studied. Here's what I do know. I'm certain that a hypnotist can boost your body chemistry. I don't know that this has been tested but I'm gonna say based on everything I know I think there's a fair, I would say my confidence on this would be ninety five percent. I'd say there's a 95% chance that a good hypnotist working with the right person and of course that matters. Hypnosis doesn't work the same with every person. Twenty percent of the public can have a really strong effect from hypnosis. The rest can have weaker effects but some effects. So if you had the right person somebody who was susceptible to what's called the phenomenon, which that's a hypnosis term of art it just means that they could actually feel and experience something as if it's real just from suggestion. If you have that kind of person and they're suffering from depression and part of that could be influenced by boosting their serotonin or dopamine, a skilled hypnotist working with somebody who's in that 20% who can feel and experience things as if they're real could be hypnotized to feel and experience something which naturally boosted your serotonin and dopamine for example. I could tell you that you're in a beautiful forest that you really enjoy and the sun is shining on you and you feel just perfect and you're walking through the forest and you're ful