Curing Bad habits
A habit is an addictive thought pattern that can become an obsessive
behaviour. Habits can vary from relatively harmless behaviours like
procrastination to more serious debilitating behaviours like
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). The severity of the behaviour
is determined by the emotional investment made in it. The addiction
is further compounded by attempts to use willpower to stop the behaviour.
When you try to use willpower to curb the detrimental effects of
a undesirable behavioural pattern you aggravate the problem by energising
this subconscious programming. This vicious cycle compounds and
causes negative emotions like anger, worry, anxiety, jealousy, fear,
depression etc. For each addiction you harbour, you pay a price
in lost happiness, physical disease and financial drain.
However, on the positive side when a bad habit or negative thought
pattern is handled correctly it can be a blessing in disguise. If
you think about it, all we really want is love, peace and happiness.
These things are our birthright and are freely available to us right
now. The only reason why we are not expressing our natural peaceful
self is because of the layers of misperceptions we have bought into.
By changing our mind and turning these negative thought patterns
around and gravitate back to our natural state of peace and harmony.
Our bad habits therefore hold the key to Self Realization when we
take responsibility for our predicament and stop wallowing in our
negative belief systems.
How do Habits form?
Any action repeated often enough will become a habit. These thought
impressions that get programmed into the mind can be very useful.
They make everyday actions like cleaning your teeth or driving your
car automatic functions thus freeing up your time and energy. You
can be planning your business meeting while driving to work in the
morning. You don't have to waste time consciously driving your car.
It is when certain habit patterns begin to distort your natural
functioning that problems begin. These problems can compound into
psychological disorders when you attack them with willpower. While
you fight this addiction you dis-empower your self and begin to
believe that this addiction is caused by something outside of yourself.
You completely loose sight of the fact that you created this distortion
in the first place and have the power to instruct the subconscious
mind to let it go. You now seek certain mind-numbing substances
like cigarettes, drugs or alcohol to try to regain the inner contentment
you have lost by going to war with yourself. Alternately you go
to the doctor for drugs to sooth your battle weary mind and body.
It is not only drugs, alcohol and cigarettes that are used to try
and numb the stress created by your dis-empowering misperceptions,
but other obsessions like compulsive shopping, gambling, sex or
overworking, are used. Another common addictive pattern is to surround
yourself with friends all the time. Some people cannot be on their
own for very long and they have to rush out to get reassurance of
who they are by communing with other people. As soon as they are
on their own they have to face the fact that they have lost touch
with that inner self that knows that all is well. Of course it is
important to commune with friends, as we are gregarious creatures,
but time on your own is essential to finding that inner peace. On
the other side of loneliness is freedom.
Will power does not work.
The Twelve Step programme advocated by the various support groups
dealing with addictions such as alcohol and drugs only helps the
addict to cope. It does not deal with the original cause of the
addiction which is the suffers endeavour to find him or her self.
Although Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Rehab Centres
do a wonderful job at the level at which they work, all their efforts
are undone when the addict relapses. The most difficult aspect for
the recovering addict to deal with is not the detoxification phase;
it is the constant battle to stay away from the habit - and the
substance - for the rest of their lives. This battle is created
by the internal conflict between the subconscious mind, which still
holds a negative mental picture of being an addict, and the conscious
mind, which tries to use willpower to hold it at bay. There is a
law of the mind which states:
"Whenever the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are
in conflict,
the subconscious will always win"
If the misperception that led the person to loose sight of the
inner peace which in turn led to substance abuse is reversed and
the body is allowed to detoxify properly, there is no reason why
an alcoholic cannot go back to social drinking and other addicts
eradicated their bad habit forever. After all, doctors are telling
us that after one year we end up with a completely new body so why
can't we be completely free from all addictions.
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