Stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking-according to Hari Sharma and Rama K. Mishra, the litany simply doesn't work. People know it's bad for them, but they just can't help themselves. If they could, it wouldn't be an addiction.
In their book 'The Answer to Cancer' the authors offer a quick refresher on the harmful effects of smoking. "Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society...tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States...Approximately half of all continuing smokers die from diseases caused by smoking. Of these, approximately half die in middle age (35-69), losing an average of 20 to 35 years of life expectancy."
Lung cancer is a particularly revealing "refresher course," because it shows how harmful smoking is and how powerful a little effective prevention would be. Says the American Cancer society,"Thirty percent of all cancer deaths and 87 percent of lung cancer deaths can be attributed to tobacco." The rate of death from lung cancer is about 22 times higher for men who currently smoke and 12 times higher for women who currently smoke, as compared to those who have never smoked in their lives. One of the most encouraging things about lung cancer is that it an be almost totally prevented. One of the most disturbing things about it is that it continues to take so many lives each year.
What if addicted people just didn't feel like smoking? What if the pack of cigarettes was sitting right there on the coffee table, the matches were next to it, nobody was around, and the one-time addict just didn't feel like having a cigarette just as that moment.
Imagine that one can transcend the urge. Transcending creates that feeling of "I just don't particularly want a cigarette right now." When you transcend, you bring your mind into contact with an inner field of your consciousness that is pure "you." Your heart cells, liver cells, brain cells, come from there. When cells transcend, they celebrate a little bit. They feel fulfilled...at least a little bit more than before that moment of transcending.
When you (and that means your cells) are fulfilled, you don't crave something else. Craving is the uncontrollable seeking after something you don't have. It's a need. When you are a little bit more fulfilled than the moment before, you have a little bit less craving. You are a little bit less addicted. Transcending fights addiction.
There is quite a lot of research showing that transcending can counteract something so massive as nicotine addiction. Affirming that TM results in decreased smoking, studies have appeared in International Journal of the Addictions, Bulletin of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, and Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
Feeling good already is probably the best way to prevent yourself from reaching for something to make you feel good. Being independent is the best way to keep from being dependent. Transcending makes you feel good. The self opening to the Self is the very definition of independence.
The most amazing book-'The Answer to Cancer' Hari Sharma and Rama K. Mishra with James G. Meade.
Louise L. Hay offers more support to those trying to give up smoking. She supposes you are saying "I am willing to release the 'need' for cigarettes. As you continue to do this, you notice your relationships becoming more uncomfortable.
Louise L. Hay offers this as a sign that the process is working.
You might ask yourself a series of questions like: "Am I willing to give up uncomfortable relationships? Were my cigarettes creating a smoke screen so I wouldn't see now un- comfortable these relationships are? Why am I creating these relationships?"
You notice the cigarettes are only a symptom and not the cause. Now you are developing insight and understanding that will set you free.
You begin to say, "I am willing to release the 'need' for uncomfortable relationships."
Then you notice the reason you're so uncomfortable is that other people always seem to be criticizing you.
Being aware that we always create all of our experiences, you now begin to say, "I am willing to release the need to be criticized."
You then think about criticism, and you realize that as a child you received a lot of criticism. That little kid inside of you only feels "at home" when it is being criticized. Your way of hiding from this had been to create a "smoke screen."
Perhaps you see the next step as affirming. "I am willing to forgive..."
As you continue to do you affirmations, you may find that cigarettes no longer attract you, and the people in your life no longer criticize you. Then you know you have released your need.
This usually takes a little while to work out. If you are gently persistent and are willing to give yourself a few quiet moments each day to reflect on your process of change, you will get the answers. The Intelligence within you is the same Intelligence that created the entire planet. Trust you Inner Guidance to reveal to you whatever it is you need to know.
If this type of work intrigues you and you are interested in releasing a persistent need, I offer you Louise L. Hay's book 'You Can Heal Your Life.'
In their book 'The Answer to Cancer' the authors offer a quick refresher on the harmful effects of smoking. "Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society...tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States...Approximately half of all continuing smokers die from diseases caused by smoking. Of these, approximately half die in middle age (35-69), losing an average of 20 to 35 years of life expectancy."
Lung cancer is a particularly revealing "refresher course," because it shows how harmful smoking is and how powerful a little effective prevention would be. Says the American Cancer society,"Thirty percent of all cancer deaths and 87 percent of lung cancer deaths can be attributed to tobacco." The rate of death from lung cancer is about 22 times higher for men who currently smoke and 12 times higher for women who currently smoke, as compared to those who have never smoked in their lives. One of the most encouraging things about lung cancer is that it an be almost totally prevented. One of the most disturbing things about it is that it continues to take so many lives each year.
What if addicted people just didn't feel like smoking? What if the pack of cigarettes was sitting right there on the coffee table, the matches were next to it, nobody was around, and the one-time addict just didn't feel like having a cigarette just as that moment.
Imagine that one can transcend the urge. Transcending creates that feeling of "I just don't particularly want a cigarette right now." When you transcend, you bring your mind into contact with an inner field of your consciousness that is pure "you." Your heart cells, liver cells, brain cells, come from there. When cells transcend, they celebrate a little bit. They feel fulfilled...at least a little bit more than before that moment of transcending.
When you (and that means your cells) are fulfilled, you don't crave something else. Craving is the uncontrollable seeking after something you don't have. It's a need. When you are a little bit more fulfilled than the moment before, you have a little bit less craving. You are a little bit less addicted. Transcending fights addiction.
There is quite a lot of research showing that transcending can counteract something so massive as nicotine addiction. Affirming that TM results in decreased smoking, studies have appeared in International Journal of the Addictions, Bulletin of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, and Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
Feeling good already is probably the best way to prevent yourself from reaching for something to make you feel good. Being independent is the best way to keep from being dependent. Transcending makes you feel good. The self opening to the Self is the very definition of independence.
The most amazing book-'The Answer to Cancer' Hari Sharma and Rama K. Mishra with James G. Meade.
Louise L. Hay offers more support to those trying to give up smoking. She supposes you are saying "I am willing to release the 'need' for cigarettes. As you continue to do this, you notice your relationships becoming more uncomfortable.
Louise L. Hay offers this as a sign that the process is working.
You might ask yourself a series of questions like: "Am I willing to give up uncomfortable relationships? Were my cigarettes creating a smoke screen so I wouldn't see now un- comfortable these relationships are? Why am I creating these relationships?"
You notice the cigarettes are only a symptom and not the cause. Now you are developing insight and understanding that will set you free.
You begin to say, "I am willing to release the 'need' for uncomfortable relationships."
Then you notice the reason you're so uncomfortable is that other people always seem to be criticizing you.
Being aware that we always create all of our experiences, you now begin to say, "I am willing to release the need to be criticized."
You then think about criticism, and you realize that as a child you received a lot of criticism. That little kid inside of you only feels "at home" when it is being criticized. Your way of hiding from this had been to create a "smoke screen."
Perhaps you see the next step as affirming. "I am willing to forgive..."
As you continue to do you affirmations, you may find that cigarettes no longer attract you, and the people in your life no longer criticize you. Then you know you have released your need.
This usually takes a little while to work out. If you are gently persistent and are willing to give yourself a few quiet moments each day to reflect on your process of change, you will get the answers. The Intelligence within you is the same Intelligence that created the entire planet. Trust you Inner Guidance to reveal to you whatever it is you need to know.
If this type of work intrigues you and you are interested in releasing a persistent need, I offer you Louise L. Hay's book 'You Can Heal Your Life.'
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