Eliminating Smoking, Coffee Addictions, & chocolate

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Sat Nam,

 

Considering the above and chocolate, two essential points were made.

 

The first is you have to examine your basic motivations and root causes.

Although toxic addictions are destructive, at some level we want to feel

good, we want to reach out for more life, and ultimately we want to

experience the Divine. We have to reach to this level to access our will to

change. What destructive motivations substitute for the above?

 

I remember years ago at Ladies Camp, there were 40 women taking a course and

the teacher asked, "Who thinks about how they will feel in 3 hours before

putting food into their mouth? Only four of us raised our hands. I was

shocked.

 

But I did have to train myself. When I realized the relationship between

food and how I felt, I trained myself to only put in my mouth what would not

interfer with my well-being.

 

We can train ourselves to be addicted to feeling good.

 

The second point by Adarsh is to find something to live for. Life is very

prescious, special and all too short. If we live for chocolate, we are

limiting our experience. There are so many other things to live for that

reduce our need to go for quick fixes to dull the pain. We can find some

way to serve and to uplift those in need, including ourselves.

 

And I will add a third point. Find substitutes. We need the earth element

in our diet -- sweets, fruit, millet. There are very tasty desserts made

with honey and fruit sweeteners.

 

Here is my butterscotch sunday substitute. (The last time I had one was 28

years ago.)

 

One banana mashed with roasted sesame tahini and ground cardomon topped with

goat's milk yogart. (The tahini has to be roasted and good tasting on its

own. Turkish is the best. The "health food" tahini's don't do it for me.)

 

Also you need a good diet that satisfies your body to reduce cravings. The

impulse may before chocolate, but the underlying need could be for some good

nutrition to feel the body. The lack of protien causes sugar cravings.

 

Find your substitutes and enjoy them one bite at a time. Deprivation

doesn't work. Enjoying life in a healthful and meaningful way is a key to

many of our ills.

 

Many blessings,

 

Gururattan Kaur

 

P.S. I hope the moderators pass this email, but I found a great site by a

devoted naturalpath www.wisdomsways.com He has a product called Wise Choice

that is supposed to help quit smoking. Please do not discuss this and other

such products on the list unless you try it and find it very successful.