So I have this friend. He comes from a poor neighbourhood in São Paulo, Brazil. His father was working as a driver for this rich family. Since his dad was always over at the rich people's home, my friend, let's call him João, would hang out with the rich family's son. The rich kid would drive around in his cool car, go to the shopping mall (that's where kids hang out in Brazil as it's safe), hang out with friends and sometimes he would take João with him. So young João would hang out with the group of rich kids who would smoke cigarettes and joints, drink beer and have fun, make out with girls and do what rich teenagers do. After 30 years of smoking, doing less and less exercise, having infected teeth and needing an operation my friend begged me to help him. He was finally ready to kick his addiction.
I then asked him what he wants and he said: To finally be free!
My next question was how he sees life without smoking. His answer was long. He wanted to breathe freely, do lots of exercise, be able to love not smoking, keep a great mood, his perfect day was to wake up, spend time having breakfast, enjoying the taste of the coffee, go for a run because his energy levels are amazing, have wonderful connections with great people, have a beer in the evening and feel great saying: no thank you! when someone offered him a cigarette. He wanted to be able to sleep perfectly without pott and even asked me to make his mind connect to something disgusting when he smells smoke.
So I dove into his subconscious and this whole feeling of being part of a group was connected to smoking. João did not feel part of that group of rich kids because he came from a poor family. So what did he do to get the feeling of connection, of belonging? He started smoking. He was only 13 but there he was smoking with the older rich kids and feeling cool. Many years went by and João got himself out of that poverty and moved to London. There he quickly found amazing friends who would also smoke cigarettes and pot. He feared being rejected if he quit. No human wants to feel rejected. We need to be connected to survive. We always move away from rejection and toward connection. This was the reason it was so hard for him to quit. Having this new found knowledge, it was easy to understand and break the old beliefs, make them part of the past and anchor the new beliefs in his subconscious.
I am not going to lie, it took him at least a week in which he smoked a lot(!) until it clicked in his mind. By listening diligently to the two personalized hypnotic recordings I have made him, he is finally free and absolutely loving life! His energy levels are soaring! He now loves exercising, he's running every day, the colour of his skin changed to a healthy golden glow and his wrinkles look way smoother. He loves the freedom of not thinking about where to smoke, when to smoke, whether his lighter will work, if he still has enough tobacco or pot, whether people will smell smoke, whether people will notice he's high... all this is gone. His teeth have healed and the recovery from the operation was instant.
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