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You’ll need:

1. Avoid alcohol or any substances that affect your mind for 175 days. This is desirable but not mandatory. If you do use such substances, wait until withdrawal symptoms subside.

2. Ten to fifteen minutes of your time each morning or evening.

3. A short wooden prayer beads and a pocket calendar – or download the mobile app (link at the end of the book), which replaces the prayer beads with simple games.

Why is it not recommended to take intoxicating substances during the course of reprogramming the subconscious?

Because when you are sober and when you are under the influence of such substances, you are essentially different people. If you get rid of an addiction (smoking, for example) while sober, you will most likely keep smoking when intoxicated. Your states under different substances come with their own habits and values. You could say that you and you under alcohol or other mind-altering drugs are different versions of the same person.

If you have been drinking, do not try to continue your training. For your drunk version, it will be like the first time. It’s as if a university suddenly started teaching final-year subjects to people off the street who only look like bachelor’s students.

And that’s not the only reason. The main danger is that your vices are alive and have their own “intelligence.” It’s you. They will resist. Yes, you will resist yourself. As soon as your harmful patterns understand which practices will force you to stop reinforcing them, you will immediately feel a strong urge to keep doing the things that slow the replacement of bad habits with useful ones.

You are made up of automated brain programs. Your bad habits are programs just like the useful ones. And they too are programmed to exist and fight for their right to survive.

Simply put, you will suddenly feel a strong urge to continue taking whatever caused the pause. So you can veer off your normal life path because of alcohol. Or get hooked on antidepressants. People say cannabis isn’t a drug, but psychological dependence on marijuana hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s worse than gambling addiction because after long-term cannabinoid use, suffering can be felt physically, too. Everything in a person is interconnected. Substances are substances; chemistry is chemistry. If you smoked marijuana while fighting your addictions and took a break, the urge to keep using marijuana products will become hypertrophied.

And so it will be with any substance that affects the brain, pushing you to pause on your way from harmful to useful.

It’s easier to hold out for six months than it seems. For example, most pregnant women go through pregnancy and nursing without cigarettes and alcohol. Is your wife pregnant? That’s a good reason for you not to drink for at least six months. The use of tobacco products is not prohibited due to their low impact on consciousness change.

Conclusion:

If you can’t refrain from any intoxicant for six months, you shouldn’t start working on yourself with this method. IT’S DANGEROUS! There’s too high a chance that while trying to get rid of a minor bad habit, you’ll strengthen a more dangerous one. If you used to drink once every couple of months only on holidays, now you’ll subconsciously start leaning toward more frequent random occasions. And they’ll appear, you’ll see. As if by magic.

There is no magic. That’s how your brain works. More naïve people even dream up theories about smart energy fields that allegedly fight for their adherents, who serve as batteries. These fields (egregors) supposedly arrange things so that you don’t leave their sphere of influence. For example, gamblers and addicts are “sent” visitors at just the right time. Friends with free booze suddenly start visiting an alcoholic who has decided to quit, and old buddies with easy schemes or debt claims start visiting a criminal.

These are esoteric fables for people who believe in horoscopes and numerology. In reality, this struggle happens only inside you. People tend to seek explanations, and everyone finds them according to their development and worldview. They make up gods. Or egregors. Or brownies, goblins, and guardian angels.

You will begin, unconsciously, to arrange such situations for yourself. And no one else.

If you couldn’t resist and still took substances that alter consciousness and perception, wait for the withdrawal to pass and then continue the course. It is forbidden to practice while in an altered state of consciousness.