“No Addictions?” Blog #158
Is it imperative for me to learn to heal myself?
Are my thoughts repetitively dark deep down inside of me?
Do addictions hide inside me, trying to control who I am?
There is a saying out there that “it takes 30 days of practice to change my cravings for my
old addictions”. I decided to do this one day at a time. Believe me, IT WORKS! I started this
“Plan of Action” by eliminating and avoiding the THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL BAD. Smoking
and drinking and drugs …. GONE. Fried, greasy food …. GONE. Soft drinks REPLACED WITH
LOTS OF WATER ALL DAY.
The recipe in life to healthy living is NOT that hard. Too many calories = obesity. Too much
sugar = diabetes and tooth decay. Too much fat = heart disease and cancer. Too much
alcohol cancer and too much meat = prostrate cancer. These are just a few. But I noticed
when I DON’T get up and eat something in the morning that is good for me, I have less
energy, I am cranky and I can’t focus as well. PLUS the Immune System is supported more
strongly with large doses of love, laughter and exercise.
So let’s get to the Addiction part….so many types of Addictions that people have no idea
about. There is worry addition. Worry about something morning, noon and night . How do I
face this day? My life its filled with fear. I have headaches all the time, I need this pill or
that pill to focus. At the end of the day - exhausting. One doctor I read about said, “keep
the body and the mind and the spirit BUSY”. Stay interested daily. Find a good book and
then find another. Keep a couple books going at once. Addictions to anything at all can
be consuming.
How to tell if I feel addicted to something? IF I DESIRE SOMETHING ENOUGH TO LET IT
CONSUME MY THOUGHTS DURING AN ENTIRE DAY, THIS CAN BE AN ADDICTION. Most of us know
there are gambling, gaming, sexual, eating, not-eating, the internet, shopping, drug
addictions, food addictions, and self harm. All addictions are created in our brain. Very
few people understand how powerful our brain truly is. When I decided that I did not, and
could not and WILL NOT abuse myself in any way, I started in a simple fashion. ONE DAY AT
A TIME. I told myself I was NOT addicted to any type of food, drug or behavior because I
AM THE ONE WHO HAS POWER OVER MYSELF. NOTHING CAN HURT ME OR DESTROY ME OR
MAKE ME AFRAID UNLESS I ALLOW IT TO. It is fascinating to find that once I make this
decision, my brain hears that I have set aside my lower self personality in favor of my
higher self spiritual growth! I am on this planet to learn, grow and take part in my own
lessons given to me.
I HAVE GREAT POWER INTERNALLY WHEN I DO NOT GIVE IN TO MY LOWER SELF.
I want to share something with you right now, there are times when life gets dark for me,
there are lots of times when I begin to doubt, times when I cry. YET I LEARNED, this is when I
am most challenged to pick up my tools that I have been given internally. Put my hands
together and say, “Thank you for helping me Jesus - I can’t do it alone”.
I have found the hardest thing about my faith is to have complete TRUST. My belief has
often been likened to a tug of war with Jesus and me. He’s given me this golden life raft
attached to a golden rope. All I have to do? Give him all my struggles and hang on to the
life rope, trusting internally. Yet my human side pulls at it when I use my lower self thinking
that has often tried to trick me into believing I DO IT ALONE.….just keep worrying a little more,
just keep on worrying and stay stuck.
QUICKLY, I catch myself, lifting my thought processes into “higher gear”. I see now, the
addictions are gone. One day at a time I will survive. Most people see life in this order:
Physical - intellectual - emotional - spiritual.
THIS IS WRONG. To have balance in life from addictions we need to rearrange the order of
our life. Therefore my life needs to be:
SPIRITUAL - EMOTIONAL - INTELLECTUAL - PHYSICAL
Why is this? The Spirit feeds the emotion, which balances the intellect, which directs the
physical body to perform one-hundred percent.
Can I let go of my internal addictions and replace them with trust in Jesus Christ?
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