The Addiction Releasing Process

Addictions are hard to control. Perhaps you have tried in the past to quit smoking, drinking or drugs, or quit emotional eating, just to realize how hard it really is. The power of will is often not enough. And so you start many Mondays thinking this will be the beginning of you changing your habits. The first day passes, and because of the strength you gathered, you can keep going. The second day comes, and even if everything seems harder to manage, this day passes too. But then, when the third day comes, and something seems to be bothering you more than ever, you say to yourself, “Oh, how much this bothered me! I’ll smoke just one cigarette, and then I’ll quit.” And from that moment on, you go back to what’s familiar, without having really changed anything in your life.

And so the story goes on, and you repeat this pattern countless times. And though you know the disadvantages of failing all the time, you feel you have no strength to change anything. You would really love to succeed, but you don’t know exactly what kind of piece is missing from your success story.

As a matter of fact, your brain has millions of neuronal circuits that function as a bridge between what is important to you and the addiction you have. So, what is necessary in this case is that you replace old circuits with newer and stronger ones, and those powerful associations get connected to new values, priorities, and habits.

Truth be told, in one way or another, we all have addictions, but some of them are socially accepted while some of them are not. And in all practicality, addictions can’t be healed, but they can be transformed into socially acceptable habits.