Spiritual Thinking is the ultimate help to overcome addiction
When we think of addiction we frequently think of addiction to drugs, alcohol, smoking, or prescription medicines. Less frequently, though not as bad or daily habits such as dieting, coffee, games, TV or several other things which by itself are not dangerous like the former nevertheless we are distracted by.
What is addiction? Addiction is something or an activity that we overindulge without being aware of it and cause major or minor harm to ourselves or someone else. Whereas drinking coffee too much causes no harm to others, other addictions such as drugs, etc can cause serious harm to yourself or others. For example, if you overdose on drugs or alcohol or both, you may kill someone or yourself, either by driving or in the case of drugs die yourself. As the term implies. Addiction is something that you have no control over and you need some help in dealing with it.
Let us see what causes addiction. When you try something for fun, and you like it and keep repeating it until the body cannot do without it. So you do more to the extent it becomes harmful in one way or other. The body under normal conditions has no unusual desires. When you get excited about something naturally, your body generates more adrenaline, and that is very good when you are competing in a sport or a challenge such as a debate, etc. However, if you are bored and you want some excitement either through comradery or by yourself you do drugs or drink. This creates an artificial mental excitement and you are tempted to do things that you would not normally do like speed driving or abuse someone. When you return to normal behavior and are sober, you regret what you had done.
On the other hand, if you are thinking spiritually, that is thinking about all the wonderful and positive things around you, your mind is stimulated by all the wonders and the body generates another set of chemicals called β-endorphins and you feel enthusiastic and upbeat. Some of the early anti-inflammatories such as aspirin, paracetaminophen have a carbon framework like endorphins. These tend to calm the nerves similar to positive thinking and the neuro-transmitters do not pass the pain signals to the brain.
To overcome any addiction you have to first know that you have a problem Let me give you some examples of things that I go through sometimes. After my wife and daughter passed away, I started keeping myself occupied by solving some Sudoku puzzles. Sometimes I would get so engrossed in them that I would leave something to cook on the stove and forget about it. I would realize only when I smell something burning and then I would have to throw the meal away and order something from outside. I was bothered by it and that is the first step. Then I was thinking about God and the Divine Mind which is always perfect. Slowly over the next month or so, automatically, even if I am doing some Sudoku, I will remember that I have things on the stove and will prompt me at the right time to go and turn it off. Since I practice spiritual thinking all the time, I had a good connection between the human mind and the Divine Mind and will get the messages intuitively. Of course, this comes by constant affirmations and prayer, as I have alluded to before:
https://www.thinkspiritually.net/affirmations-and-prayer-an-essential-component-for-divine-mind-synchronization/2021/12/19/self-improvement/uncategorized/
Because I have been practicing these for several years, my actions become intuitive once I realize a problem and corrects it
Getting to the addictions, it is similar. Once you recognize that you have a problem, you sincerely seek help from the Divine Mind through prayers and affirmations of one reality, that God, Divine mind is, all in all, your, human mind starts to follow Divine Mind’s directions, and you will not crave anymore. Spiritual Thinking is the ultimate help in overcoming addiction. You will be healed in no time.
You can read more in the author’s book: Think Spiritually – Spiritual Thinking For Life. Available at Amazon.com
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