HOW TO OVERCOME ANY ADDICTION
Do you have a nagging habit grab you and push you to do what you vowed you wouldn’t do? You give up coffee and shakes. Suddenly bang! The craving hits. What do you do?
I have found a very practical way which can assist you if you can borrow it. I tried it and infact it worked for me, rather than, trying to stop suddenly the habit you have already created we trick into continuing with the current habit we have or something which you want to stop and cheat your way out of it, what I mean is that instead of stopping it we can trick the subconscious mind that you will have it later.
For example you have a craving for coffee and you have understood that coffee has become an addict to you and feel should stop it but don’t know how, instead of stopping it you can have a strategy in which you have merit, for six days you can take other beverages apart from coffee and then on the seventh day you can take the coffee the whole day as much as you want.
This “cheat day” tricks you into controlling your craving instead of allowing it to control you. So that when you look inside your freezer and find coffee and want to take it you can tell yourself that am going to have it on Sunday anyway. But a funny thing is that you will Sunday and find out that the desire for it was just an impulse of the moment.
I have been trying this strategy in my stopping of things which are not congruent with my beliefs in life and which are not empowering and have found it to be a very good strategy. Have shared with others too to try and am getting positive response from it even though some few individuals sound like a cop out, especially when they are trying to make a complete lifestyle change in life. The feeling good about it is the answer to the habit you have because what you imagined was better than the real thing.
posted by HESBON at
10:19 AM
Do you have a nagging habit grab you and push you to do what you vowed you wouldn’t do? You give up coffee and shakes. Suddenly bang! The craving hits. What do you do?
I have found a very practical way which can assist you if you can borrow it. I tried it and infact it worked for me, rather than, trying to stop suddenly the habit you have already created we trick into continuing with the current habit we have or something which you want to stop and cheat your way out of it, what I mean is that instead of stopping it we can trick the subconscious mind that you will have it later.
For example you have a craving for coffee and you have understood that coffee has become an addict to you and feel should stop it but don’t know how, instead of stopping it you can have a strategy in which you have merit, for six days you can take other beverages apart from coffee and then on the seventh day you can take the coffee the whole day as much as you want.
This “cheat day” tricks you into controlling your craving instead of allowing it to control you. So that when you look inside your freezer and find coffee and want to take it you can tell yourself that am going to have it on Sunday anyway. But a funny thing is that you will Sunday and find out that the desire for it was just an impulse of the moment.
I have been trying this strategy in my stopping of things which are not congruent with my beliefs in life and which are not empowering and have found it to be a very good strategy. Have shared with others too to try and am getting positive response from it even though some few individuals sound like a cop out, especially when they are trying to make a complete lifestyle change in life. The feeling good about it is the answer to the habit you have because what you imagined was better than the real thing.
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