Dina AbransonNeuroscientist Dr. Yahav Dickstein and “Hakol Efshari” college offer a method based on neuroscience. The method is successful in treating any type of addiction in a short time by direct instruction to the subconscious parts
You have told yourself a thousand times that it’s time to stop with cigarettes or sweets. You know it’s unhealthy, you realize it’s unnecessary or just plain expensive, but you just can’t stop.
The comforting thought is that you are not alone in this cycle. At any given moment, millions of people around the world are trying to quit smoking, emotional eating, drugs, phobias, porn or stress. Millions of people promise themselves every evening that this is the last time they surrender, but when morning breaks, they discover themselves returning to the same old pattern, unable to control themselves.
“The reason is that who really controls you is not your conscious mind, but the unconscious mind. and what it thinks or feels is more powerful than any simple awareness,” says Dr. Yahav Dickstein, a lecturer on addictions at “Hakol Efshari” (lit., everything is possible) College. “At some point in your life,” says Dr. Dickstein, “your subconscious learned to associate feelings of pleasure with the object of your addiction, and ever since then it pushes you to continue.”
Just one more cigarette
Dr. Dickstein researched the subject of addiction as part of his doctoral dissertation in the life sciences, claiming that “asking an addict to stop consuming cigarettes or sweets is almost like asking a Parkinson’s patient to stop shaking; it’s on the verge of the impossible.
“The reptilian brain has learned that every time you consume nicotine, caffeine, marijuana or gluten, you release hormones such as dopamine or serotonin in your brain that boost your personal happiness. It also learned that every time you avoid your cigarette, your coffee, the Internet or sweets, you simply go into a state of mental or physical pain. Plainly, it realizes that avoiding a cigarette is life-threatening, so it will do anything to keep you addicted.
“For this reason,” Dickstein says, “no matter how many decisions you make, how many times you swear to yourself or your dear ones, how many books you read on the subject, how many appointments you make with the psychologist, it will be very difficult for you to stop the addiction. Why? Because addiction cannot be quit by mental understanding while your subconscious sees it as something essential to your basic survival. ”
So, how is it still possible to quit addiction and regain control?
“By studying brain research, we can know scientifically how to stop inhibitory patterns and conditioning that we have created,” explains Yizhar Mahpud, founder of “Hakol Efshari” College. “The brain needs to be retrained to understand that the addiction is no longer essential to survival. The process required for this is short, with much success.”
Mahpud is an expert mentor for changing patterns of thinking, addiction withdrawal and post-trauma release. He has been in the field for over twenty years and has mentored thousands of people. The method has also been successfully tested on people who have been addicted for many years. The Internet is full of testimonials from people who attended courses at “Hakol Efshari” College and attest to a welcome change in their lives.
“In ‘Hakol Efshari’ College, an innovative method has recently been developed, which breaks down the neurologic pathways created in the smoker’s brain and causes the desire to smoke cigarettes to completely disappear. Rewiring of the subconscious cures any kind of addiction, phobia or trauma. I lead the workshops together with Dr. Yahav, and together we developed a short-term work process that allows anyone to recover from negative habits by working on the subconscious.”
How does the process actually work?
“Just like it’s possible to train the body and develop muscles, the brain’s plasticity, too, is flexible and can be trained, developed and taught new patterns,” claims Yizhar Mahpud. “A man with an addiction pattern sees the world through a particular filter, so no matter how hard we try to explain reality to him, he can only see it through the screen he has built for himself. Our job is to build a new filter through which he can look clearly at reality, teach the brain to skip the framing it created for events and see life as it really is.
“I compare the situation to a computer that is no longer functioning and works very slowly. A good computer technician will know how to scan the computer components, reveal what software or viruses are causing problems, know how to remove them, reformat the computer and then everything will work properly again.”
How is this done?
“The first part of the workshops is more scientific. It deals with understanding the principles of the brain, what it consists of, what holds us back, why we fail to let go of things that are harmful to us, what the latest research in neuroscience says. Dr. Dickstein leads this part.
“The second part is more practical. We work on the subconscious and let go of conditioning, inhibitory patterns and addictions, using the techniques that I have worked with successfully over the years. In addition to the workshop, support is provided for three months through a closed Facebook group and Webinar workshops that take place once every two weeks.”
It’s not enough to just stop smoking
Many people mistakenly believe that avoiding the object of addiction for a certain period will bring the solution. The misguided thought is that if we avoid cigarettes, sweets or computer games for a month, then we’re clean of them and they can no longer affect us.
However, Dr. Dickstein will tell you that avoiding drugs, for example, does not necessarily mean that you’re clean; sometimes even the opposite. “As part of my research at Bar-Ilan University, I investigated the possibility of quitting cocaine,” he says. “We discovered that when someone stops using a drug, that doesn’t mean he isn’t attracted to it anymore. When he encounters the drug again after a period of time, the temptation will be much more powerful.”
This understanding is based on an example study performed on rats that were exposed to cocaine. The study shows that a rat who stops receiving the drug still has a craving for it, and the longer the period of time the rat is not given the drug, the more aggressively it consumes the drug when offered it again.
“Avoiding the object of addiction doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. People who went to rehab villages for several months and stopped using drugs thought they were cured. But their brains weren’t really at rest; the addictive pattern was there all along, waiting for the smallest chance to find the drug again and reclaim it with wild passion. To really get clean, the brain needs rewiring; otherwise, the process can take several years.”
Recent research in the field shows that it’s better to stop at once and not gradually. But if you try to quit smoking without actually altering the pathways in your brain, it will be hard to resist the temptation every time you come across a picture of a cigarette, a smoking friend, every time you drink alcohol or after a good meal.
In fact, in every situation where our brains are used to getting the cigarette. In addition, it is important to know that, when quitting smoking, the body undergoes a nicotine-detox process. This detox activates mechanisms in the brain that cause stress, which is one of the main causes of relapse, that is, a return to the addictive behavior. It is therefore important that the rehab procedure also involves methods to reduce stress and prepare the brain in advance for this condition.
At “Hakol Efshari” College, we developed a method that can help you reduce your craving for cigarettes while strengthening the brain mechanisms that protect you from stress.
Quit cigarettes within a week
“Becoming free of an addiction or trauma can occur in a matter of minutes,” claims Yizhar Mahpud, “just like it takes only seconds for the trauma to begin.
“In my clinic, practically every day, I see the success of addicts who, after years of cigarette, drug or emotional-eating addiction, instantly end their addiction. How does that happen? As soon as they allow their brain to return to its original language, as soon as they remove the parasite attached to their survival mechanisms.
“With knowledge in brain research, the addict can be brought to a state where he will not return to his compulsive behavior. His addictive survival behavior can be traced and redirected to true survival.”
Is it really possible?
“Everyone has, in their subconscious mind, endless energy to create a change. It doesn’t have to be a long process or demand too much effort. It just requires the understanding of how the brain works and agreeing to reteach it what it has forgotten. Everyone has the ability to make the change, and it endures for the rest of their life.”
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