A is for Addiction

What are you hooked on? 

You don't have to be a candidate for Alcoholics Anonymous to be an addict.

Addictions can include emotional and/or physical dependency on:

• Substances, like sugar, alcohol, opiates, or nicotine
• Behaviors, like shopping, eating, gambling, or working
• Feelings, like depression, anger, helplessness, or defeat

Whatever you're hooked on - you are a slave to it. You have all the freedom of a caged tiger.

The need to have more of what you're addicted to gradually eats up your will, energy and time ...

Because you're always fruitlessly trying to re-capture the magic of the first time you tasted what you now can't live without.

That's why an addiction can sneak up on you without your noticing. One day, you realize you can't remember the last time you went for one day without your driving need for that substance, behavior or feeling.

Most addictions come from an inability to imagine anything better for yourself than what your high of choice gives you ...

Or from a hole in your soul that can never be filled by anything in the material world.

Would you like to change that now?

B is for "Being Realistic"

Do you rain on your own parade?

Chances are, you have dreams you wish would come true.

Take a moment to close your eyes now and think about one of them.

"Someday, I'd like to __(fill in the blank)__"

Now, notice the thoughts that come up to tell you why it will never happen. They might sound like:

• "I can never have what I want"
• "My mother/father/husband/wife/kids will never let me do or have that"
• "I'm not lovable/educated/rich enough to do or have that"
• "I have to wait for month/years until that can happen"
• "First I have to do X, then I have to do Y, before I can do that"
• "Because I did this, I can never do that"  

It's important to realize these thoughts come from previous experiences, or your parents, or your fear.

They have nothing to do with Reality, which is far greater than anything the human brain can conceive.

Who decided positive thinking = unrealistic fantasy and negative thinking = being realistic?

Negative thinking is actually less realistic than positive thinking because, in a Universe of Infinite Possibilities, you have narrowed your focus (and thus your options) to a few painful possibilities.

You're at a richly abundant banquet, and all your negative thinking lets you see is a few stale slices of baloney.

Would you like to release your addiction to negative thinking now, so you feel free to enjoy what gives you pleasure now, and look forward to more great things to come?

C is for Competition

Are you locked up in "Competition Prison"?   

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