How to Control Addictions Without Using Thoughts or Language

There's different ways we can change behavior without relying on thought. For instance, somebody's a warvet who, in a tour of afghanistan, saw a terrific event when they hit a roadside land mine and their boddy was blown to bits. And every time they returned to domestic setting, whenever they hear truck back fire, they jump and scream and run. We want to help them d trigger that response, but we don't do it by simply saying, you're not at war any more. That's the p t s d drama response is imbedded in a preconscious are of the brain - caled the amigula. So just that technique, using the

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