All Metaphysics

If you could quit just one thing in your life, bringing you some form of improvement, what would it be? An addiction is simply something you feel you just need to have, often driving us to have it even at the expense of our health and happiness. Seriously though, we all have some kind of an addiction! Believe it or not, we all tend to be drawn to something that we feel we NEED even if it’s not good for us. The biggest stumbling block for most of us is that change is hard, be it big or little, it’s just hard! We are such creatures of comfort and routine that we self sabotage at every opportunity.

Let’s look at our health and what we struggle with the most. I am going to go out on a limb and say one of our biggest struggles would be to STOP doing certain things rather than to START doing other things. If we drink soda we know its terrible for our bodies but we love that taste, the fizz, maybe the caffeine boost. If someone said you need to drink more water you could probably add some water into your daily routine easier then quitting the soda, its way harder to STOP the soda.

Our addictive personality is set by our subconscious minds and we are destined to use these vices as a fall back. For example, studies have shown that the physical addiction to nicotine is cleared up in just three days but the mental process can take months and sometimes years to get rid of. This speaks to the power of our minds when it comes to how we rely on the control we experience through our subconscious. One trick we have used with success is hypnosis, suggestions implanted in our subconscious minds to make that change easier. We can also use meditation and mantra’s to change those same neuropathways. Both of these methods are awesome helpers. Why do they work? Because your old addictive neuropathways get left behind for newly formed ones.

Sometimes those ways are not that effective though when we struggle with adding them into our lives or have some left over garbage to clear out of our subconscious that has nothing to do with the actual habit! What else could we do to make this easier? We know we want to STOP doing something, we know its healthier for us if we do. Think of it this way, your subconscious mind is all about preserving you, I call this “habits of who you are”. Habits of who you are start with the basics, how you breathe, swallow, walk, etc. Then the next part of who you are is all about learned habits such as facial expressions, emotional reactions and anything else that makes you unique. If we look even farther we see habits held there that we were taught, such as belief systems and ritualistic behaviors.

Ritualistic behaviors simply means anything from what time you eat breakfast, do you call lunch dinner or supper, do you dress up or wear jammies to Walmart etc. Along with this area is the comfort zone we habituate in our subconscious minds that gives us the “I am safe” feeling. Sadly, the “I am safe” feeling is not really about being safe but about being comfortable with something to the point that it feels familiar. How does this have anything to do with soda pop or cigarettes? Good question!

If you drink a soda everyday on your work break your subconscious associates this down time and how to really take a break with a soda and it becomes a steady, a comfort zone per say. If you always smoke a cigarette after dinner it signals this is how you relax and digest your food to your subconscious mind. Neither one is true but your mind has adopted this as fact and these activities become a safe zone. Without so much as a thought as to why, you seek them out, they become your addiction.

If we look at our subconscious minds in this way and realize it doesn’t do this crap to us to purposely ruin us, we can also transform it to do something better for us if we just take control of these habitual signals. Lets replace our soda with something healthy, everyday for at least 30 days. Lets replace our smokes for something healthier for at least 30 days. Why 30 days? Because 30 days is about the average time it takes to begin to reprogram our subconscious minds into a new habit. Every time? Maybe it takes some people a bit longer but for the most part that works and sometimes much sooner. However, most of us also need to let go of some stuff to have an easier time at this. Being successful at quitting something might not last if we don’t also release and heal what makes us be drawn back to it.

Replacing the habit with a newer healthier one makes a huge difference. Just dropping and stopping the bad addiction is terribly hard! Most people fail a bunch before they ever succeed using that technique. Not healing past stored emotions and incidents will sabotage our desired changes. Our subconscious returns to the addictions out of comfort even if they are bad for us. Think about what your addictions are, and how you would feel if you left them behind. Guidance with a game plan and some metaphysical healing techniques to make the process easier is a great place to start!