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Episode 21819th January 2024 • The Demartini Show • Dr John Demartini
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Dr Demartini addresses the power you have to alter your perceptions and transform your brain chemistry.

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You have the power to

change your perceptions.

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I want you to know you have that power,

because that can change your life.

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You probably heard out in the

literature or on television,

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so-and-so had a biochemical imbalance.

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And the model today for depression

is the biochemical model.

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That started around 1991

and has been partly debunked

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more recently.

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I'd like to address the power you have

in transforming your neurochemistry,

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your brain chemistry.

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If you perceive something on

the outside of you is supporting

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you and it activates the

parasympathetic nervous

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system, which is a rest and digest

aspect of your autonomic nervous system,

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you relax, you feel

comfortable, you feel at ease.

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And your neurochemistry gets an

increase in dopamine and encephalons

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and oxytocin and vasopressin,

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estrogen and acetylcholine.

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And you get a series of chemistries that

go up and rise when you feel supported.

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When somebody praises you and supports

you and makes your life easier,

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these chemistries go up.

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If somebody comes along and challenges

you and criticizes you and really makes

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it challenging in some way in your life,

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your testosterone goes

up, your cortisol goes up,

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your osteocalcin goes up,

your histamine goes up,

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your substance p goes up, your

adrenaline and noradrenaline goes up,

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and the other chemistries go down.

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And these changes in your

chemistry, neurochemistry,

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can change within 200 milliseconds.

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I use the analogy if a tiger was

to jump through a room and leap

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towards you with salivating fangs, and

it looks like it's about to eat you,

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the osteocalcin, testosterone

and substance p and, you know,

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all the chemistry of fight or flight

is going to be surging within the

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moment you perceive it and

are consciously aware of it,

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those chemistries are changing.

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But if all of a sudden the

tiger stopped midstream,

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I got a men in black pen and stopped it,

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and you did your

neurochemistry and measured it,

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you would find it skewed over towards

the sympathetic side and you'd see

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dopamine all suppressed and encephalon

suppressed, acetylcholine suppressed,

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et cetera. And so the chemistries are

changing literally based on perception.

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The ratio of your perceptions

are affecting the ratios

of your neurochemistries.

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Now,

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if all of a sudden I did that

men in black pen and reactivated

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it, and now the tiger stops, stands up,

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puts his arms around you,

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holds you up and hugs you

and says, you're great,

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I'm Tony Tiger.

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And as a child you always wanted to eat

frosted flakes and you wanted to meet

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Tony Tiger, he was your childhood hero.

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Now your chemistry is reversed and

now you feel supported and now you get

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complete change in 200 milliseconds.

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So your chemistry is changing based

on your ratios of perceptions.

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If you perceive something supporting

it, the chemistry goes in one direction.

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If you see something challenging,

it goes in another direction.

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And it changes clearly faster

than you can blink an eye.

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But what's interesting is,

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this thing is fluctuating based

on your ratios throughout the day,

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as you're having things occur

that you're not expecting,

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that's not meeting expectation,

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you get the fight or flight

responses and those chemistries.

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If something exceeds your expectation,

you're very joyful about it,

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it gets another set of chemistries.

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Every ratio of your perception of

what's going on changes your chemistry.

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If I say something around you that's

really supportive and makes you feel proud

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of yourself, your serotonin's going up.

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If I say something makes you feel

ashamed, your serotonin goes down.

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If I say something that makes you

fight or flight, your glucagon goes up,

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your adrenaline goes up, your blood

pressure tightens and goes up,

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your blood sugar goes up,

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and your blood circulation

and heart rate goes up.

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Your chemistry is changing

those immediately, like that,

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in about a billionth of a second,

200 milliseconds they say.

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But what's interesting is I'm sure you've

had a situation where you're sitting

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in home on a Saturday or Sunday,

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you're married and you've

had a fight with your spouse,

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and you're having a go at each other,

you're having a yelling match going on.

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And all of a sudden the

doorbell ring, ding-dong,

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and you stop what you're

doing, you freeze that,

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you go to the door, you

haven't completed the argument,

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you're still frustrated.

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You go to the door and a friend of yours

you hadn't seen in 20 years comes to

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the door. Well, I was in the neighborhood,

stopped by and everything else,

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and you put on a smile and you

kind of fake it till you make it,

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and you go there and you're

playing a nice thing and you know,

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you're trying to put that on hold.

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And then what happens is the person leaves

an hour later, you had a great time,

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it kind of changed your mood a little bit,

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but you didn't want to

talk to your spouse.

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You still were upset and you festered

on it, and then you didn't work it out.

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And the next day you went to work and

you went out shopping or whatever and you

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still didn't work it out. You never

rebalanced that. And it's stored there.

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And those stored memories

that are still imbalanced,

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that are stored in the subconscious mind,

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which when the amygdala is seeing

an imbalanced ratio of perceptions,

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it goes to the hippocampus and

assigns a valency, a charge on it,

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it stores it in those memories for

short term, for survival mechanisms,

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and it sits there. And while it's there,

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it's throwing your

chemistry out of balance.

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And so stored subconscious baggage

that's never been brought back into

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balance, that's sitting

there and festering inside,

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fantasies or nightmares,

pleasings or displeasings,

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peace or war perceptions,

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stay in the psyche until they're brought

back into balance and seeing both sides

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simultaneously. They'll stay in

there and throw your chemistry off.

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And if you do neurochemistry

studies, you'll find, oh,

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you have a biochemical imbalance.

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They don't tell you that it stores

because of all those incomplete

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awarenesses and judgements

that you've never resolved.

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They just say you have a

brain chemistry imbalance.

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And so we need to go balance

it with neurochemistry.

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Here's a drug to take care of. Well,

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the psychology or psychiatry and

medical profession loves to promote that

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because you don't have to do anything,

they just go and try to regulate it.

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It's not as effective as resolving

your issues and balancing out your

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perceptions and returning back to

appreciation and love with each other.

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But it's a secondary thing and people

don't want to have to go be accountable,

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they want to be right, the

other person wants to be right,

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so you have this festering issue that

doesn't get dissolved. In the meantime,

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you're throwing your chemistry off and

you end up have neurological imbalance or

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neurochemical imbalance. So

I'm not into that. I'm not,

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I don't believe that the neurochemical

balancing act is going to be anywhere

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near as effective as resolving

the issue in the first place,

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and being accountable to go

back and calm down the system.

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That's why I put together the Breakthrough

Experience Program to teach people

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how to do what I call the Demartini Method

on how to dissolve and resolve those

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stored, subconsciously stored emotional

baggages that we carry around that

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imbalance our chemistry, that

throw our physiology off,

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that create signs and symptoms

psychologically and physiologically,

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and show you how to

actually dissolve them,

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how to ask the right questions to make

you fully conscious and aware of the

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balance that's there that you're

overlooking. In other words,

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whenever we judge something on the

outside that's positive or negative,

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it's because we're too humble or

too proud on the inside to admit

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we have that and we do that same

thing. You know, it was Romans 2,

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the New Testament that made a statement

that whatever you judge in others,

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you do the same things. And that's true.

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I've seen that in thousands and

thousands of cases in the Breakthrough

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Experience.

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People judge people for things and then

they don't realize it's them they're

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judging ultimately. Whatever they resent

in people on the outside is a shame,

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a thing that they're

ashamed of on the inside.

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Things they admire in someone on the

outside is a thing that they admire on the

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inside and they're proud of on the inside.

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And as long as you're proud or shamed,

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you're exaggerating and

minimizing who you are.

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And as long as you're infatuated

or resentful to others,

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you have an imbalanced idea who they are.

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And therefore you're not authentic and

you're not allowing them to be authentic.

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And there you create symptoms

and biochemical imbalances

in the brain to let you

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know that. The imbalances in

the brain are not illness,

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they're feedback mechanisms to let you

know that you don't have a balanced

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perspective.

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And they'll stay there irrespective of

time and space until you balance them.

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And if you balance them,

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the chemistry goes back into balance

and so does your psychology and

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physiological symptoms,

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and you cure yourself or heal yourself

instead of taking some medication that

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has side effects.

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So I'm a firm believer that if

you don't take command of your own

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perceptions and don't take

command of your own chemistry,

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you'll probably have a

deficiency of drugs in your mind,

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and you'll think you'll have to take

some drug to take care of it, balance it.

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But I find that most of the people that

are relying on that are just unwilling

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to actually go back and discern what

it is that's imbalanced their mind,

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it's been, they've got so many

stored in the subconscious mind,

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they're overwhelmed by all

the different judgments,

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and they're holding themselves back from

actually knowing how to dissolve them.

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That's why I put together the Breakthrough

Experience Program and the Demartini

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Method to help sift through those one

by one and methodically balancing the

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chemistries and balancing the

perceptions, the ratios of perceptions,

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then bringing them into

appreciation and love again,

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which normalizes and heals the chemistry.

And then the brain chemistry changes.

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I've had people that had their brain

chemistry and even their blood chemistries

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checked,

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and they found out that they have high

glucagon levels and they have got low

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insulin levels and they've

got signs of diabetes,

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then I go in there and find out where

they're bitter and resentful and they're

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in a fight or flight

response and challenge it,

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calm down that bitterness and resentment,

rebalance out their perception,

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and the insulin and glucagon

levels come back into balance.

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And I've seen this many times

and we've been told that, well,

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you've got a damaged pancreas and your

beta cells are not producing or whatever,

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and suddenly they're

back into balance again.

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So I'm a firm believer giving yourself

power and not robbing yourself of the

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power. And I'm not saying that

the medicine doesn't have a place.

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In some people's case, they're so far

gone that they haven't adjusted it,

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their physiology's gone

awry but in most cases,

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these people have the capacity

to bring them back into balance.

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They just don't know how and they

haven't been trained on doing it.

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And so I do my best to try to

educate them on how to do that.

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And they got nothing to lose.

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They can always go and return to the

neurochemistry that they do from the

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pharmaceutical industry,

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but you just might surprise yourself

what you might be able to do on your own,

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and get your power back. So

that's what I'm interested in.

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I'm trying to give people their power

back instead of becoming dependent.

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And in some cases, that's

exactly what happens,

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and that's the thing that's

worth the time spent. But,

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the neurochemistry is a byproduct

of your ratios of perceptions.

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Change the ratio of your perceptions,

you can change your neurochemistry.

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That's a very powerful tool.

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I have people that come into

the Breakthrough Experience

that have unrealistic

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expectations. They're depressed, they've

got clinical diagnosis, depression.

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In the Breakthrough Experience,

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I find out what are the

unrealistic expectations.

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They have usually a perception that

somebody else is supposed to be one sided

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more than another. They're

going to be nice, never mean.

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So their expectation are not met. They

feel a let down and they're depressed.

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Or they have an expectation of other

people to live in their values,

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not their own. And then they feel

again, unrealistic expectation,

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unmet expectation, anger, depression.

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And so the the body is creating that

symptom to let them know they have an

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unrealistic expectation, but nobody's

paying attention to that expectation.

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They believe that their expectations

are grounded. They're not.

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They're sometimes ridiculous

expectations I find in people that are

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clinically depressed.

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And so I go in there and I dissolve the

fantasies about how they think life's

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supposed to be and lift up the depression,

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show them the benefits of what's happening

and the drawbacks if they got what

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their fantasy was. When I bring those

into balance, the chemistry changes.

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Suddenly they're not depressed.

They go back and say, well,

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your chemistries have

changed. And I've seen that.

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So I'm certain that you have the power

inside to make a difference in your life,

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if you're willing to take the time and

do the work. I show people how to do it.

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It's up to them to do it. I help guide

them. I take them through the process.

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I balance it all out in the

Breakthrough Experience.

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And once they learn how to do

it, they can change their life.

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And they're not having to be dependent.

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I'm not a promoter of taking

a drug as the first resort.

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I think that's the last resort.

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But I am a firm believer that you can

be accountable in your life and take

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command of your expectations.

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Everybody here has had a moment

where they've had a letdown,

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they had an expectation of something

happening and they felt let down.

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But have you ever stopped and asked,

was the expectation really real?

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Was it grounded? Was it something

that was not delusional?

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And you'll find out if you're let down,

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many times it's because you

had an unrealistic expectation.

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I see this in relationships.

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I see men and women have expectations

on their spouses or boyfriends or

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girlfriends about doing certain things,

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and in the process of doing

that, they don't live up to it.

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They're now angry and bitter and they're

down and depressed and resentful.

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And it's because they have an unrealistic

expectation for that individual to

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live in that, the person

that's upset, values.

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Or that they're supposed to be

more one sided than another.

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Or I see people do it to themselves.

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They expect themselves to be one sided

more than the other or expect them to

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live outside their own values.

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There's a whole lot of unrealistic

expectations that people have.

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And then they challenge their life.

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They throw their chemistries off because

their ratios of perceptions are off,

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and then they end up having

a biochemical imbalance.

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So I'm just taking a few moments here to

kind of wake you up to the possibility

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that you have more command and more

power in your life than you thought.

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And what I do is I teach people in the

Breakthrough Experience and doing the

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Demartini Method on how to ask quality

questions that bring your neurochemistry

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back into balance by bringing your

psychology and your expectations and your

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perceptions back into balance.

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If you balance your perception and

all you have is gratitude and love,

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I take people in the

Breakthrough Experience and

they've got major resentments

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and major frustrations and setbacks and

broken hearts and all kinds of things,

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grief, and I show them how

to ask series of questions,

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balance their ratios of perception,

change the chemistry in their body,

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their physiology changes,

they have tears of gratitude,

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their heart opens to life again,

and all of a sudden, their anger,

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their depression, their

chemistries are returned to normal.

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And I see that and I go,

people deserve to know that.

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And they deserve to know they have the

power inside themselves to do something

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about it. And so that's why I'm

sharing this message here today,

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just in case you didn't know that you

have more power. Now, is it work? Sure.

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And if you don't want to do the

work, well, you'll take a drug,

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but you will have side effects.

Almost every drug has a side effects.

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Don't take a drug without

going through the PDR,

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physician's desk reference and

read all the side effects on it.

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Because you want to be informed of it,

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because sometimes you'll

have a symptom from that,

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then there'll be another drug

and then a symptom from that,

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and there'll be another drug and you'll

chase down and you'll end up with 20

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drugs as you get older. I'm trying

to give you your power back.

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I'm trying to teach you how

neurochemistry in the brain works.

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I'm trying to teach you how you have

the power to change your perceptions.

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I want you to know you have that power

because that can change your life.

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When you feel that you're dependent,

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you don't have the same positioning

in life as you do when you feel you're

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capable of taking command and

restructuring your perceptions and your

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chemistry. So I just wanted

to take a moment on there,

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on the chemistry of perceptions,

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and know that every one of the

transmitters in your brain,

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every one of the modulators, regulators,

hormones, every signal molecule,

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even signal molecules at the

cell level in the DNA level,

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even little signature molecules

going out of every cell,

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even your excretion systems,

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all cell releases are all

changed by your perception.

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Change your perception, change

your chemistry. You can actually,

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I've seen people automatically get a

headache from a change in perception and

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dissolve that headache the second they

change their perception and balance it.

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I've seen people that have

hormonal imbalances and

they've got problems getting

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pregnant.

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They change their perceptions and all of

a sudden they're able to get pregnant.

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I've seen so many changes in the

last 40 something years of doing this

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that I'm speaking out about it.

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So if you'd like to learn how to

take command and balance out your

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perception so you can have a balanced

ratio of hormones and transmitters

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on your own, come to the

Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me show you how to take resentments,

infatuations, pride, shames,

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griefs, reliefs, anything that's

an imbalanced ratio of perception,

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that making anger,

aggression, blame, betrayal,

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anything that you have false

causalities on or attribution biases on,

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that's imbalanced, I can show you how

to balance them out and result in,

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'Thank you. I love you.'

Anything that's not 'thank you,

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I love you,' is going to throw your

chemistries out. Anything that's balanced,

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that really has a deep appreciation and

you see the hidden order in your parent

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chaos is going to return your chemistries

to normal. It's going to help.

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That's why I still think that gratitude

and love are still the greatest healers

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on the planet.

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Because they help us balance out our

neurochemistry and our physical chemistry

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and helps us basically

take command of our life.

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So I just want to share

that message today.

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I know that if you come to

the Breakthrough Experience

what I'll teach you there

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will be life changing

and trajectory changing,

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and you can take command of your life.

If you don't want command of your life,

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that's another story.

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But if you want command of your life

and want to be a master of destiny,

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not a victim of history, and not want

to blame a biochemical deficiency,

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'you have a deficiency of drugs,'

that's to me is, that's insane.

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I'm haven't taken drugs in my life.

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I'm a firm believer in taking command of

my life. If you're interested in that,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience.

Let me show you how to do that.

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Let me have you experience it yourself.

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Watch the change and go and do your test

if you want before and after and see

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what happens. I watched a lady that

one time had all kind of biochemical,

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hyperlipidemia, hypertension,

anemia and everything else,

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and we cleared six major male figures

in her life, cleared them out,

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went back and somehow all her

chemistry was normalized again.

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And the doctor didn't, I don't know

what you did but whatever it is,

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it's back to normal again. And I explained

it. She and I know what happened.

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We changed our perception, changed

the ratios of our perception,

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changed our chemistry, changed

her life. If you want that,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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I look forward to thanking you

and watching the transformation.

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And I will look forward to seeing you

next week. Thank you for joining me today.

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