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Author: [[Allen Carr]] Full Title: The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine Category: #books FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS You could spend a lifetime trying to break into a safe and still not succeed. But if you know the correct combination or have a key, it’s ridiculously easy. Lose the key or miss one part of the combination and you’ll remain trapped. This book contains the key, the combination of information you need in order to become free. It will enable you to escape. Your second instruction is: DO NOT QUIT OR CUT DOWN UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK Please do not try to cut down or stop consuming caffeine until you have read the whole of this book. Just carry on consuming caffeine, whenever you want, as much as you want, until that point. You might find that a strange instruction, but it’s important. To find it easy to quit, you must achieve a frame of mind whereby, whenever you think about any caffeinated product, you feel a sense of freedom and relief that you don’t consume it anymore. That’s the only way to become, and remain, truly free. Changing, or more accurately correcting, your perception of caffeine will actually be an exciting, eye-opening, and positive experience. No doubt you find that hard to believe, but read on – you have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. In the meantime, the third instruction is: START OFF IN A HAPPY FRAME OF MIND The fourth instruction is: THINK POSITIVELY Cast aside all feelings of doom or gloom. There is no need to be miserable. You are about to achieve something marvellous. See your journey through this book for what it really is – an exciting challenge. Just think how proud you’ll feel when you’re free. The fifth instruction is the most difficult to follow: KEEP AN OPEN MIND I can’t over-emphasize the importance of keeping an open mind. Some people believe my method is a form of brainwashing. Nothing could be further from the truth. But it does involve counter-brainwashing and the reversal of beliefs that you may have held your entire life. What are the experts actually measuring? Is caffeine harmful? Can the body take it? My question is not about whether something can be tolerated by the body. My question is: “What is the point of taking it at all?” For me, alarm bells start ringing when people justify something by minimizing the negatives. Telling someone to limit their intake of an addictive drug is like telling someone that they can jump off the top of a cliff as long as they don’t fall more than a few metres. Your body can survive consuming junk, but that in itself is not a reason for doing so. Taste Do you recall your first experience of the taste? It was probably a cup of coffee. Most people remember that they really didn’t like the taste. It’s a bitter substance that tastes horrible. Your first experience of it was probably with milk and sugar to disguise the true taste. The fact is that your brain has taught your body to cope with the foul taste, so you can get the drug to which you have become addicted.

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The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine by Allen Carr presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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