Now we're going to move on to the section and resolve in addictions. So many of us have got addictions. Some of us may not be aware of the addictions that we've got. Often this is the case in more than Western society. There's many, many foods on the market, which are highly addictive. We spoken before about sugar.

And now sugar and cocaine. I've got the second set of the same receptors in the brain. So just goes to show really how addictive these foods can be. Fats as well hydrogenated fats, we can be addicted to salt. There's so many different things. I mean, that's without things like drugs, alcohol, coffee, they're all the things that we know we can be addicted to.

So whether these addictions come from Why have we got them. addictions can come from many different places. Often, we can have addictive personalities. Because of our parents, for example, our parents may have had addictions, then we've learned from our parents to become addicted to the same things. Sometimes it can have the adverse effect or for example, some children will have aka, of alcoholics whose parents will grow up, actually to work with alcoholics and to be alcohol free for the whole of their lives because they've seen them under pain that their parents and family members have been in. So that's one place it can come from is that conditioning and it can come from our parents, but it can also be like, people think that it comes to like all my, my father or my grandfather had it, so I have it.

But this can be common also because they've carried the same deficiencies down the line into their system. So, for example, if my grandfather had a deficiency in zinc, and then that went down To my father, which then eventually come down to me, zinc is known within the naturopathic world zinc is known to be linked with addictions and when zinc is low, then people will often play out the behaviors. So this is something we looked at when we have one to one sessions with people is to have a look at the history and to have a look where these potential losses maybe would have come from. So, when another way to solve addictions is by hydrating because if we do drifted, then we may be going for stimulants usually with addicted to stimulants. Why we addicted to stimulants, we want a stimulant because you were feeling tired.

So if we get hydrated, and the tiredness will be less, so then we won't be feeling the need to go for these addictive things in the first place. Are these stimulants Again, when we're more alkaline internally, then we don't create these acidic foods externally. Now I wish that more people would know about this because especially in the drug and alcohol world, this can be a lot easier way or a deadly way of getting towards conquering these addictions. Because if you're only going on the mental, emotional and only going on a physical and you're not combat in it on from every level, which we can do. Likewise, if you combat it from the physical, naturally, sometimes the things from the mental and emotional levels also start to cleanse. So it's doing what we can and it's very simple actually, if we start to change our diet, then like the very simple thing of I'm in like a high pH walk there.

So if we have no water, that's all of a sudden Ph. Many tap waters now like five, maybe six pH and the acidity level, dependent upon where you live, but if you live in close to the city, for example, and it's More likely to be more acidic. So if we're having alkaline based waters and our diet is very alkaline also then the likelihood is that we're going to be able to get over these addictions a lot easier. Another thing that can affect our addictions is when our liver gets congested. Now, in modern society, there are many things like hydrogenated fats, stimulants, high toxic diets, there's food, a non organic foods, so the Polly's going to work back much hard and especially the liver has got to work that much harder to get rid of all these toxins. Now, it can cover prescription drugs, drugs, alcohol, so it can come to a point where it gets overloaded.

So when our liver gets overloaded, it's not as good utilizing our Getting rid of detoxing the toxins within the system. When your liver gets congested, then it can be a time when we again crave some of these stimulate stimulating foods, because temporarily they make us feel good. That's the trick. So it's it's short term gain for long term pain, but we wouldn't be going for short term, possibly short term pain for long term gain. So what we do, it may feel like pain initially, but it's not pain in the long run because when we start to put these things into practice, we start to really enjoy it but initially, it may taste it may not taste that good because we're going against the grain of what's inside. Because we acid inside we're going to be craving acidic foods.

So when we start to have the alkaline rich foods, then we may start making faces, not not enjoying them as much. But after we start out Every time we start to enjoy them that much more because our palette starts to change, and our tastes change also. So that's another trick that we can use in order to help us get over these addictions. We can start to cleanse, hydrate, and help help our livers because I will never work hard enough on a day to day basis with the amount of pollution in the ag sector. We don't want to be putting more into our bodies, but I will invest to get rid of those are a couple of tips to help us off and addictions. We're going to go on with a few more Just a minute.

Something we touched on briefly there was conditioning when we've learned or learned behaviors. So when we can learn behaviors from our parents or people around us influential people when we were younger, then we can start to do those things habitually. We're creatures of habit. So it's been said understudies that it takes 21 days. To break a habit. So if we want to make a change in our diet and our lifestyle, if we want to take out a new new fitness regime, for example, we want to do it for 21 days non stop.

And then after 21 days, in theory, we've created a new habit. So likewise with eating patterns, for example, if we're starting to change over eating habits, we want to do it for at least 21 days. And after 21 days, it all starts together much easier, because we started to create a habit because we're creatures of habit anyway. And that's how we've learned most of the things we do these days. If you imagine it just like like the neurological pathways in the brain. If you imagine it just like a path, you see a path and it's overgrown with trees and plants, etc.

To get through that path is quite difficult. Now if you saw a path right next to that, which didn't have anything in its way, then The likelihood is you're going to take the path of least resistance. But what we're doing to create new habits is we're chopping down within a shed the abdomen, chopping down all of that overgrowth, and we're creating a new path. When this new path gets created from a little bit of effort, it does take a bit of effort. Then in time, we start using this new path and the other path starts getting overgrown. So that that's a nice analogy to see how easy it can be to change our new long logical pathways in our habits.

But for many years, we've been experiencing out these habits, negative habits that we've learned, a simple when maybe sugar in your tea, for example. The parents always had sugar in your tea, your grandparents always had sugar in it, and every time they make a few quick chicken necks, you're gonna use nice sweet taste and taste Time again. And now you take show unity, yes to shirtless me, please, without even thinking about it, you take two sugars without even thinking about it, you get the sugar out and permitted. But then when you start to learn actually how bad sugar can be for you. And you may try to get off that habit, but it's not only the physical addiction, but it's the habit that you used to do. And as well as the people around us can also get used to our habits.

And it can be difficult for people because sometimes we don't like change. So when we when somebody else around us starts to change, then that can flick a switch within SME can think or no, maybe I need to change now. So then it can we can start to push other people's buttons and they can start to get frightened by the changes that were making. So those are some ways how we can try to break habits. There's a lot of different techniques you can use this is a short section that we're not going to get into that now. But there's a lot of different ways that you can look at changing these habits.

When we one simple tip, like I was saying was 21 days, so whatever you're going to do, if you want to change your habit do for 21 days, at least 21 days first, give it a try, and then see what you like after that. I'm sure it'll be a lot easier after you've gone through the 21 day process. Because you just like brushing our teeth, for example. brushing our teeth initially was difficult as a child. But then how many of you think, you know do you think about brushing your teeth in the morning in the evening is just a bit too. So that just goes to show how easy it can be for us to influence with good eating habits with good, healthy, healthier choices.

It can be that simple, but it's just takes a little bit of effort and work and in the beginning, but then it pays off in the long term. Have you ever used term changes as good as the rest, then our body is also welcome change. So when we start to put these changes into place, like we're talking in relation to resolve and addiction. So when we start to put these changes in place and our body goes, wow, it's been so used to be in the path of addiction. But when we start to make a change, it keeps us on our toes and it keeps our body on its toes as well. It can react in a very positive way.

So you may be surprised when you start to change your addictive behaviors and addictive patterns. You may be surprised how your body starts to reward you in the positive action. We spoke about transitioning into a plant based diet. One of the things that can come up regularly with regards to addictions. Sometimes there's people who want to transition into a plant based diet. But unfortunately we feel like that addicted to animal based proteins and, and fat, that's actually what they're addicted to, but they may not be aware of it, then addicted to the easy proteins and fats.

And then if they went to a more plant based diet, then if they're not getting the essential fatty acids and amino balance and the fact that amino balance and their fats in place, then they can start to struggle. And lots of people will fall off the wagon if you like when they go to a plant based diet, then they may start getting drawn back to the meat when, when they've got these deficiencies which are playing out because they can be deficiencies which have been playing out for many years, even even coming down from our ancestors as well. So what we want to be aware of is making sure that we're getting an F of an F proteins and amino acids and not fat, and then that should be enough in itself to switch off the addiction to things like Animal based proteins and animal based proteins.

So that's a nice little tip, especially if you're trying to transition in a plant based diet to a plant based diet. Because we've had clients and students which can be hard on themselves sometimes because compassionately they don't want to eat animals, but they find that they really struggle when they do actually try and give it up. So when we look at it just on the physical level, and we start to understand on a more deeper level, then it's a lot easier, easier for us to make that transition.