Why Take Our Exclusive 12-Week Webinar Series? | Ashok Gupta | Gupta Program |

Hello and a warm welcome to our Gupta Program webinar series. I'm so glad that you're here with me today on our very first session. It's always very exciting when we start our webinar series with a new group of people always intrigued to know what kinds of questions will come up, what kinds of topics we're going to cover, and how far you are along your recovery journey. So if you don't know by now, my name is Ashok Gupta. You'd be in the wrong place if you didn't know who I was. And I'm going to be guiding you through our 12 weeks of webinars, where essentially we're going to be looking at some of the sessions in the main Gupta program and answering your questions, as well as going into some other bits of material or supportive information that can support you along that journey. And in terms of why we do a webinar series, well, there's a number of different reasons why we have this webinar series. The main thing is that connection. We don't want you to feel like you're at home by yourself using the program without a kind of connection to me or other people around you. So each week we're going to be meeting at this time to give you an opportunity to be accountable to yourself and accountable to the people around you as well, to make sure you're putting some of the techniques into practice. And it also means you have that connection with people on the forum as well, because we will be asking people to post some of their experiences on the forum of the webinar and what they have progressed with and learnt, and that's a great way of staying connected as well. And secondly, of course, motivation. When we're at home doing this by ourselves, it can feel like we're feeling demotivated or finding it hard to move forward with things. So this is a way of once again, staying connected. And of course, we want to answer questions and make sure that we are getting the program fully applied to your personal circumstances. And I'm here really to give you that weekly inspiration that recovery is possible. What is the ultimate fear that we all have with this condition, whatever condition you're experiencing? What happens if I don't get better? What happens if this stays with me? How will I cope? That is the mind's ultimate fear. And I'm here to tell you that we've helped hundreds, if not thousands of people recover from these conditions. You can read lots of their stories on our website, and I believe that everybody can certainly improve their situation and get to a full recovery. So that's what I'm here to do, is to give you that inspiration that it is possible many before you have walked this path, and so can you. And just, just to give you a background as to how these webinars will work so that many of you are perhaps new to the program. Some of you may not have even received your welcome pack in the post, which incorporates your little book here as well as a floor chart. And some of you also bought the usb. So you may have received that in the post. Perhaps you haven't received that in the post. And that's okay. And what we'll be doing is each week I'll ask you to watch certain sessions online from the Gupta program, or you can watch them on your usb. And then we'll be going more interactive. So rather than me covering the material again, which you already have, we'll be asking questions, asking you questions, asking things that you can share. And it just creates that community spirit, community feel. And once again, why is that so important? Because when we have these conditions, the feel good chemicals in our brain like serotonin, oxytocin, the endorphins, they all go down. So we feel more lethargic, we feel more down. We find it difficult to be motivated because of a lack of dopamine in the brain. So it often does take that connection to your fellow retrainers on the forum and tuning in each week to keep up that momentum and to feel good and positive about your recovery and to have faith in it. Faith and belief are the strong sales that will carry you forward along your journey. Let's just give you an idea of how the format of these webinars will work. So we will be having these webinars each Wednesday evening. There may be occasional weeks when we take a break for whatever reason, if I'm traveling or I can't do the webinar. But generally we'll be having them each day, Tuesday evening at 6pm UK time, and within 48 hours you will receive a recording of the webinar in case you missed it. Now, of course, it's once again easy to think, oh, I don't need to attend live because I'll get the recording. But so often it becomes then difficult to remember to watch the recording or it gets put pushed to the side once again. So I'd really encourage you that no matter what's going on in your life, can you commit to just tuning in for this hour, hour and a half each Tuesday evening? It'll be so beneficial to your recovery. And it will appear in the webinar tab of your online system. So online you'll be able to see. It says webinars. Click on that and you'll be able to see the recordings of each of the webinars appearing there. Good. And what we will do is generally, I'll speak for 20 to 30 minutes, and then we'll take a little breathing break, and then we'll go to questions and sharings and various other surprises that we may have in store for you. And we'll be answering questions towards the end. Okay. And in terms of your camera and your audio, you won't be appearing on here, and we won't hear or see you. But at the same time, we do like to bring guests on. So I will sometimes ask, is there somebody who'd like to share something on camera? Because it's always nice to see fellow retrainers. So if you wanted to contribute, just make sure that your microphone and your video is connected and we can bring you on and you can share however you want to share. Now, as I said, many of you, you're new to this, so perhaps you already bought it yesterday and you're thinking, wow, I'm on this webinar. What's going on? Some of you are seasoned retrainers who perhaps have made a recovery, and you're coming back just to have a bit of a refresher, as many people do. They often repeat these webinar series. And if you are repeating or you've already been through the Gupta program, I really encourage you to come at the program with new eyes. So as I go through something, it's very easy for the Internet to say, oh, I already know this, I've done this before, it's fine. But then we're not truly listening and we're not absorbing the material, because each time we watch the videos, each time we do some of the exercises, there are new learnings. You know, the first time you go through the Gupta program, you're probably only going to take in about 50% of it, if that. So when you do it again and watch the webinars again, new insights, new understandings will come on board. Because knowledge is often like a spiral. So rather than it just being up and down, it's a spiral. Because as you change and you evolve and go up, then the knowledge, you repeat back the knowledge and it changes. And then you could something else changes, and then you keep coming back to the knowledge and you get higher and higher. And each time that specific bit of knowledge has a different application for you, has a different meaning for you at the stage that you're at. So always notice the alarm bells ringing when you think, oh, I already know that. I already understand that. It's always worth revisiting. And that's why people repeat the webinar series as well. So come at it with fresh eyes, as if you're looking at everything for the first time and we're repeating some of the exercises and some of the sessions.