This session opens with a beach/sunset visualisation and progressive relaxation using imagined sunlight moving through the body, before rising to float towards the moon and gain perspective on the earth below. The core teaching uses the classic 1950s dog-in-a-box experiment on learned helplessness as a metaphor for how repeated failed diets create a disempowering belief cycle that shuts down resources like motivation and discipline. Adam then guides the listener through a two-mirror exercise, contrasting a future without self-belief against one with absolute certainty, before reframing body fat as stored energy that can be released through belief-driven choices. The session closes with future pacing around consistent better choices, resilience after setbacks, and reframing failure as feedback rather than defeat.
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