people they shocked electric booster their heads against the horrible drugs
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and they were absolutely certain that schizophrenics couldn’t be hypnotized in
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fact they spent millions and millions of dollars at Stanford proving that only a
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certain percentage of the population could be advertised
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innovative people there was a guy named Spiegel and he was one of the first
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people to formalize rapid hypnotic inductions he had people roll their eyes
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back in their head and then close their eyes and did it to measure who is
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hypnotizing and who once the further you could roll your eyes back in your head
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to the deeper you could go according to him I took somebody who scored as 0 on
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the Spiegel test and not them into a deep trance and it every hypnotic
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phenomenon they used to say that in order for people to be hypnotized it
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took hundreds if not thousands of hours to learn to do D plans these are
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hypnotist saying this isn’t even psychologists psychologist didn’t
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believe that it was website valuable tool they said it only treated the
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symptom now I don’t know about you guys but I think treating the symptom is
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first and foremost one of the very important things that you do it somebody
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is terrified of elevators making it so they can get it in one and go up and
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down is a good thing and it only takes a couple minutes to do it even if it comes
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back later you can do it again that giving people freedom is what my work is
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about now one of the freedoms that I want everybody to have has to do with
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your ability to learn because Milton Erickson is is the first person I ever
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saw do a rapid induction and by the way I gave me credit for doing the handshake
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interrupt paralyzed on the right arm that would have been impossible I did
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that to see if anyone was paying attention nationally did is he took
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somebody and he took the whole of their arm he lit up and he looked him in the
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eye and he began touching them ambiguously so that their arms sort of
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stayed I deaths and then pretty soon after 45 minutes they dropped into a
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drams well take that long and over the years I’ve studied different techniques
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and I found that there are really two types of hypnotic inductions that were
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quickly one has to do with catching people between programs that go on in
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their mind that you do something they did have not the conduction once where
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this guy doctor came up out of the audience and walked up to Milton Keynes
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hand up like he was going to shake it and actually looked as if he went like
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this and the guys stuck his hand out and Milton bent over entitled to do and the
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guy was like this and then sit in the chair and drop into trance
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was really the first handshake interrupt for me over the years one of the things
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that I’ve tried to do is to find ways of making it so that people can go into
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trance rapidly quickly and easily so I’m taking these kinds of techniques now the
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other category which you’ll see today is there’s a lot of techniques that have to
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do with exceeding your gaze and your concentration hypnosis is not escape a
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lot people think if you go into a trance you can’t see and you can’t hear that
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ok that’s a different stage when you’re dead you want to see or hear or feel
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hypnosis is really a state of heightened awareness it’s a state where you go into
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and focus your attention more than you do normally you actually hear better you
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actually have control over your feelings you can control your heart rate your
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most people can do that in the waking state last year when I was in the
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hospital the nurse came in every hour and checked I guess to see that I was
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alive which is a good thing but she put this is looking on my finger and and
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this little digital document it would go you know your heart is beating this many
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beats per minute and I have to admit I was somewhat bored so I started putting
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it on my finger when she wasn’t there and practice and then which he would
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come in you know what what do you how many beats a minute do what my heart to
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beat that’s what I’m just finding out what it is doing and I said how about 60
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seats and I’d stick my finger in ago
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66 and then I go 8282 and then she looked at me and I said controlling your
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neurology concentration through meditation meditation is not different
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accepted it’s less directive that when I learned to do meditation the first time
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that is repeated over and over again we went inside and said a Hindu word for a
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certain color and repeated it over and over and over again we got so bored we
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drifted into an alternate said it also habituate because by firing the same
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neurons over and over again it has a tendency to alter your state many of you
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were you were young focused on Campbell you stared at it and went into a
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somewhat relaxing said it’s a trance state it’s not something that’s out of
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the ordinary I see it every day in the hotel when I get in the elevator people
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go in a press the button they look at the Florida thing doors open and they
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start to jump out and I’m not getting off your well that’s true but the doors
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open the command is lead program driven up behind somebody in the car in front
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of you stops and the light changes and they don’t and that’s just because they
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drifted away from having your mind wander is not out of the ordinary having
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your mind focused so intensely on something that you can begin to really
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relax in our modern society i think is a good thing I find that if I trance
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people out that a lot of the things that are difficulties recently hired a guy
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that beat his nails down to the ball every single fingernail on every an was
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gone he was of course I would say a little too tense
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he was way too tells every thought every day all day long he would ask the
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question am I going to die because the answer to that is yes but not right now
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worrying about it wasn’t making it so they got anything else in life done and
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you know today given the economic situation and all the chaos going on in
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the world there are still more people with warm and dry and a chance to enjoy
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freedom than there ever has it doesn’t mean the world is perfect and it doesn’t
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mean that there are places where awful things are going on but if we spend our
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time feeling bad about it rather than doing something about it
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things will never get better so one of the things in this boards that I want
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you with is the ability to get around the long conversation a little
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conversation goes like this they pulled out there violins and they come in and
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they go well you see I’ve been here for four years
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let me tell you all the inside I discover and I always an excuse me do
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you still have your problem and they’ll go yes everything you’re about to tell
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me no interest but I spend a lot of money on it
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understand my problem and it used to be that people believe that you understood
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your problems your problems with change and it’s a nice idea it just doesn’t
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work lots of people understand how they got screwed up and they’re still just as
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screwed up as they were I did you get people out of their normal mode of
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thinking and put in some new ideas it’s pretty easy for people to do things I
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know in this audience here alone that some of you have had experiences that
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really only took a few moments and things that have played do for years are
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not there I see my favorite needle phobia about their way if I asked you to
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come down here and get me Shot did you do it today
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yeah because you have an experience which has changed everything
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one of the things you have to do when people come to you is to convince them
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and this is why I think rapid inductions are so important that it saves a lot of
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time that that if you can do rapid inductions with people no matter how
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much their beliefs are built up that everything is going to be the same
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they’re going to come in one sleek and wine and for years and years and years
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when you look at them and raise one eyebrow and the next thing they know
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what they’re sitting in a deep trance that’s the thing that will help you so
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that you get buy lots of stuff because you provide people with a convincing
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experience to start with with one that which is fairly common we got here
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what’s your names are familiar
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and began to talk to them so that he began to go into a trance which he spent
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most of his life and he began to touch ambiguously and as he touched
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ambiguously suddenly you look at the person inside your eyes now really relax
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and as you do so you’re going to do the very same thing you did when you first
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do no firm plans in a minute I’m gonna ask you to sit down and when I do I want
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you to drop all the way into a deep trance really relax and go deeper and
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deeper still while you’re dropping down into the deep comfortable relaxed
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wonderful state you’re learning something like you very first did when
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you first went to school then you saw the task of writing letters and numbers
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of the alphabet you didn’t know just how much it would give you an infinite
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amount of opportunity to read books about different things you know right
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now you can begin to slow your heart rate down to blood pressure can drop
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slightly and certainly from your past ideas will begin to bubble up silly
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ideas ideas with a giggle attached to them to grab ahold of your head I’m
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going to slowly pull it forward as I do I want you to go all the way down deeper
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and deeper and deeper still
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now I know it says in the books about hypnosis that it takes hundreds of hours
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to teach people to go into a trance I’m just not that beach
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and neither does right now while he drifts down deeper and deeper still I’m
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gonna reach over and I’m gonna pick up his left arm and I’m not gonna tell them
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to put it down any faster than he goes into a trance thats deep and comfortable
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well only silly things from its past begin to emerge with the giggle attached
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to them things that you maybe haven’t thought about 10 years as the amazing
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thing about giggling is it happened at a time when we did our best learning when
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you’re with your friends and playing games when you are in school and the
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teacher did something and you started laughing and you couldn’t stop that was
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there was the foundation of what do you strengths later in life now I know that
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you know more about you than I do and that’s a good thing is I’m very critical
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I also know that things which bother you in the present may not in the future now
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because one of the things that you can do is that hand goes down it’s begin to
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double that giggling and double it again
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double it again it seems so silly and every dime things seem silly you’re
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gonna take this feeling and by the time your hand touches your needs
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totally is right now why you keep that silly peeling I want you to take a
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serious problem in your life
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having a perspective that you get a chance to do things differently now I
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know that it’s important that we learn to make changers so that when I tell you
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to even go deeper and sleep that’s right I’m very serious about it because I know
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this is only the beginning a really drifting down into a much deeper and
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because one of the things that they kept telling me was that that that they had
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people locked away in hospitals and they didn’t know what to do with them and yet
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they said unless you had the same skills they had you couldn’t send to their
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skills didn’t work it seemed to me that we needed new sets of skills so I made
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up the term neuro-linguistic programming so that because I knew they would have
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no idea in those days computers were in four-story buildings floppy disks were
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they were called RKO vives tape drives a table is this sticker on them they had
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flashing lights there were more satisfying than a laptop that looks at
17:24
you and there are no hard disk crash that’s my favorite one cuz when it says
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that I take it is a command like that yesterday and they sent me a little note
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and it said we saw you do a non-verbal induction and all you did was look at
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this and it went into a trance and they said can you teach me to do that you
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told you how to do it
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ok now you can have the candle but I don’t have one so we’ll have to lose and
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rather than hallucinate that all I’m gonna ask you to do is just to look at
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look at me because I’m gonna show you where D Prince is because I’ve
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discovered over the years that people learn very fast
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just really relax in a minute if you watch the just have to catch the right
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moment and to mark it off so that people can go into a state where they can begin
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to learn to just relax till because the process of learning whether or not you
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have somebody fix on something or whether you interrupt the pattern it
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really doesn’t matter that much it’s just a chance to teach people how to go
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into an altered state where they get good feelings that will stay with them
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for the rest of the life has not only does he have giggles in his past he has
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them headed in his future that’s right and he’s not the only one that knows how
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squarely on your shoulders before you drop all touch you on the shoulders and
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I’m gonna do it gently when you do this there’s no reason to pull anybody gonna
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do is take my hands but I’m not gonna squeeze and when I relax so will you
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hear you should learn the secret of being a strong woman story your tension
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in other men my wife did it and it worked perfectly
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she would walk up to me and goal in the GB fine and I could do the kitchen
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counter really needs to be cleaned it might have germs on
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inside your mind says got ready 13 down down on the waves of time and change its
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about time you found a way to find yourself feeling good in spite of
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yourself so the more you try to not relax of course the more you will and
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you’ll just drift down and all that stuff go you don’t need that stuff here
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1237 double double it again and then think of something totally silly double
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that now I’m gonna pick up this attraction to new learnings and the
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globe and that’s it seems the more relaxed you’ll get the whole intentions
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your face all the way down deeper and deeper life is tough
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Saturday Night Live’s get your name please
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my point you know now I know you believe that is coming up tomorrow if you
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thought this was the last day on earth you can believe it’s as simple as this
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is right I just take a deep breath and drift because if you let yourself for
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that instance just threw it back inside yourself and feel yourself underside of
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your phase beginning to cycle like this right around like that consciousness
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move because the thing that creates altered states is taking your
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consciousness and doing something with it that you don’t normally do
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kind of control lines and therefore get stuck up here like this because we want
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you to go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper because I want you learn
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something of importance is still in the process of learning because while you
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religions we do that the country just to the flight to do such silly stuff in
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america school they probably don’t do that kind of stuff we hid under our
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desks from atomic bombs up like that’s really going to work sorry about that
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anyway now while you guys relax what you doing here but you need to
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you know discovered 400,000 people in vietnam that would double the population
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of the country just ridiculous
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big war protests and people were you know free speech movements you know like
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speech was in jail or something crazy stuff and then it started getting
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weirder and weirder I like to reagan reagan was kind of funny because he
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couldn’t remember from one minute to the next what was going on I thought that’s
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a good thing for president he would go mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall
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creates really deep States is something called Curia cranial osteopathy I just
28:45
noticed we needed people went into powerful Thursday’s has to do with
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pacing the fluids underneath the brain at about a pulsating beats a minute and
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if you pays them just like if you pay somebody’s reading if you put your hand
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on their chest and when they breathe out of your hand up a little bit and when
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they agree then you move in a little bit and pretty soon you can move it out a
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little bit further and in a little bit further and you begin to really relax
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try all the way down though you don’t need it right now is what we want to do
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is to find some of the things that you can do
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states which will help you to make changes that could stay with you for the
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going to ask you is there is there anything in your life that you think
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maybe you take too seriously
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think about what you feel that about
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across as a gift for your birthday John the Baptist
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thing so when the guy told me he said I said I was in the hallway and he came by
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and I said no thanks I said in there done that and i said but I’m John the
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Baptist and I said people have been asking about you
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something in the car for you and I just happen to have a fire axe about four
36:20
feet long and I came in with the prior acts and I said yeah so how you doing I
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feel more relaxed I have long shoulder and so it’s overdue Italy game
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yeah I want you to just imagine the lights cube right here in somebody to
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the ice and spread it over here
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start to get so cold that you admire would focus on the temperature and you’d
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forget about the pain that thing about pain is that it’s a message from your
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unconscious it says you need to do something about it and once it’s been
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done and it’s time to stop and the only reason it doesn’t it’s caused the
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inflammation and the information becomes irritated the limit issues softens and
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softens and softens it begins to go away his hand and I’m gonna robert and I read
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it and I want you to soften it did a deep breath in it all the way out can go
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inside the old control room in your mind and say enough is enough because if you
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have pains and you have worries no matter what caused them it’s not
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important what’s important is that you begin to heal them so you begin to heal
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the things in your life will happen to me I was in a car wreck actually get a
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car with a motorcycle not a good plan and when I did I woke up I had terrible
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pain and the doctor came to me to ghost geez I thought what a national
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right now and I tell you I’m gonna squeeze everything disappears and the
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magic worlds and just unconscious sir
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unconscious response find their finger in the air right now so right now I want
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to ask her unconscious willing to go inside soften the tissue those things
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that are signals that are no longer useful at the time that this started it
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was a good reason for it but the reason it’s gone so now it’s time to focus your
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attention on something important like the feeling in the bottom of your feet
40:49
your consciousness can only absorb certain amount and if you have little
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pains here and pains their attention to them so I want to go to your big toe and
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amplify the feeling in your big tall some good feeling from your past a time
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when you really were determined and strong and did something wonderful
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there’s probably lots of them and take that feeling in double it and in the
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instance between your toes and your good feeling there’s a space which everything
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releases and when you’re unconscious is ready to take responsibility for making
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this pain go away you can tell me yes and it knows how to tell me go down at
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your conscious makes all the necessary adjustments
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around and worry about getting it so you have an assignment you need to get done
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rather than doing it you worry about it
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the right dress dress down and when you do this in your brain
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great now I like to thank all of you you’ve been very cooperative and so I
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want to leave you with a little present because I hope that all of you realize
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that what you’re seeing here is just a demonstration that shows you you could
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turn anything into a hypnotic induction that somebody that’s the thing that goes
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on the end of the screw and it just fell out of the ceiling fan ceiling fan was
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going around and I was talking to this guy and he was a psychiatrist he was
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explaining to me how he’d actually used hypnosis with a couple of its clients
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but he found it very difficult to do with most people and in fact he had been
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detailed aren’t slab in Stanford and taking the test now by the way the
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tested the people who have used was in these long time ago they put a little
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tape recorder with 25 inch wheels on the chair and
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of you and it had a hypnotic induction which sounded much like this I want you
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to see an escalator and go down down down the escalator down down down down
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and you see an elevator and go down down down the elevator and you saw another
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escalator and UN down deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and
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deeper in fact there was not even voice inflection because they believed you had
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to be monotone otherwise people would not go into a trance the truth is human
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beings are very responsive they giggle at the touch of a finger
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resistant I find that silly things are what get people to do better
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Aug good feelings and you make your good feeling better
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such that they begin to feel your whole life problems in the worries seem to
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disappear and you get on with things and giggling can spread from one person to
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the next person and its friends on to the next person they start giggling
46:35
person starts giggling
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and when I do is look at the things that have worked and try to distill from them
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what they have in common technique had nothing to do with the eyes it had to do
47:53
with the fact that he had people doing something they don’t normally do when I
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tell somebody to pay attention to the outside of their face and to move their
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consciousness around like this it’s not something that they done so therefore in
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order to do it they have to alter their state of consciousness and I know that
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you can begin to make these kinds of things up you’ll begin to notice them
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everywhere it’s very very simple it’s a simple set of principles and the deeper
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you can go the deeper you can take others and the more you can wake up the
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more you can wake up others want to wake up and giggle
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way to feeling better that seems to me ludicrous and if your past caused the
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future then you wouldn’t be able to change its going to therapy would be
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ridiculous hypnosis has for over 2,000 years being used to do things I mean
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everybody from faith healers excuse me but they’re using hypnotic techniques I
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know them and it doesn’t matter to me whether they say God makes it happen the
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universe makes it happen your neurology makes it happen I’m not at their
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attention I don’t have to know why I believe that if you have strong beliefs
50:45
whether their religious beliefs or your belief in human beings it doesn’t matter
50:49
to me as long as they’re strong your strong beliefs if they include the idea
50:54
that people can have a happy and fruitful lives and get rid of all pains
50:59
recently somebody I have people’s questions down and give them to me and
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one of them told me that their friend and lost an arm and when he lost at the
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doctors gave him morphine because he had phantom limb pain no I asked him i said
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doesn’t give you the shot in the arm that is there or the one that’s not
51:20
there and he looked at me like I was crazy and he said well of course he
51:25
gives it to him in the arm that it’s there and I said well how did the drugs
51:29
get from the arm that is there to the arm that’s not there to make the pain go
51:32
away he looked at me like what’s the matter with you
51:37
but when I look at the doctor giving you an injection with the real needle in a
51:42
real arm for pain that’s not there after the Vietnam War I worked a lot with
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vietnam thats imposed stress syndrome I mean I had some of them that lamp shades
51:53
on their head with a broom in the middle of the night going from garden garden
51:57
that would like himself in the bathroom and drab knives through the door
52:02
screaming in the middle of the night and he wasn’t qualified to go to the
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Veterans Hospital I can’t imagine what you had to do but when he went there and
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said I’m reliving vietnam back in the jungles you know you know its bombs
52:15
going off and they said well I’m sorry we’re all you know you’ll have to go
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home but if you come back in three months we may have a bit for you some
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things just don’t wait and to me
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treating phantom limb pain with drugs is not the right approach what you need to
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use as a whole is needed deal with illicit drugs see I used to get people
52:38
placebos that was empty gelatin capsules and he made said that that was not good
52:43
cause I was practicing medicine and I wasn’t really I was practicing voodoo
52:47
medicine and when I said that to this doctor who is trying to drive me and say
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you shouldn’t be doing this you’re taking away people’s pain without a
53:02
medical license how dare you and I said yes but I’m not taking away real pain
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I’m taking or imaginary pain and I have a big imagination I have enough that I
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can imagine opening and then I said do you see my point and by the way what was
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the one that for a minute I just wanted to show this to you that as I stand in
53:32
front of the Gerald ok just in case that when I realised interrupt a single
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pattern of behavior and continued it somewhere it’s much better than if you
53:45
just leave it hanging so I took Milton’s handshaking iraq tonight a new to this
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so I just said look at your hand
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notice the changing focus of your eyes as you close them and drop deep into a
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trance that’s right standstill relax comfortably because that particular
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handshake interrupt one where the hand comes out in rather than doing it you
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just gently moving in front of their face and say look so that they begin to
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follow your commands when you capture the moment then you can do just about
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anything when they say it takes hundreds of hours hundreds of hours into an
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instance so that people can realize in a moment I’m going to reach over and I’m
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going to touch on the back and she’s gonna have a lyle’s the great feeling an
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unexplainable sense of well-being