Posts tagged Bad People
How Thoughts Can Change Habits
Sep 30th
What is addiction? According to Webster’s dictionary, addiction is the act of putting oneself to a habit. Meaning a person is reliant on something to the point of obsession. Such habits are generally viewed as harmful, since they can be uncontrollable at times.
What is the cause of addiction? Some addictions are traced to sorrowful incidents encountered during childhood. According to some research children who are prone to addiction are those who have undergone physical maltreatment, embarrassment, degradation and those who are neglected.
Bad habits most people are addicted to, are excess alcohol intake, drugs, smoking, gambling, sex and over eating. Do you experience being addicted? It is a very difficult task of getting rid of something, when you are used to it.
Misconceptions concerning bad habits or cravings rule over our society today. Having a craving is awful and distressing. It will oblige you to live with it and rule your life. It is hard to resist because it’s always on your mind. We rationalize just one more. It will keep us hooked in that, it becomes very difficult to eliminate.
Don’t believe in these in these fallacies the truth is you can withstand it. As you begin to resist and continue resisting it will eventually pass. Believe you can over power your urges and you will. Some habits are not harmless but if you do any thing to excess it can be bad. Drinking alcohol occasionally is not harmful but if it causes you to drink every day the effect to you would be detrimental.
With bad habits that are detrimental you can always go to a rehabilitation center. How ever you don’t want yourself to be stuck in a rehab center just to run away from vices. The best thing to do is just don’t let your urges overpower you. In simple terms, don’t let them lead you to addiction.
You may think that you are to weak to be able to resist your urges on your own. This is not true believe in yourself. Just follow these simple steps. Slow down, set back and delay. When it attacks your brain, and it keeps on harassing you, stop and start using your self talk. We cannot think of two things at once and it only takes thirty seconds to change your mind.
Stay away from places that have any thing to do with your addictions. If you are a drinker or a smoker stay away from bars. Mingle with people that don’t drink or smoke. It doesn’t have to be forever just until you no longer crave your addiction. Find substitutes and every time you are tempted look at your list and find the best replacement.
Affirmations, self talk and self-motivation are the best ways to fight an addiction. Believe you can make your way out of addiction. If the case is severe seek an expert or Doctor don’t let something control you for any reason.
Maintaining a Positive Mood – Try to Find the Good in the Bad
Sep 6th
Psychologists have named the “finding something good in a bad situation” a benefit-finding. There have been a lot of studies which have shown that, for example, some patients which had some really bad diseases, like breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, heart disease or rheumatoid arthritis are able to identify at least one benefit from the fact that they are ill.
For example:
*they usually appreciate a lot more of everything that life offers.
*they have the capacity to develop deeper relationships;
*they usually have a bigger sense of compassion;
*they can examine themselves better;
*these people have less tension, less anger and less anxiety;
*they are much more active;
*they have a better mood, they try to have a smile on their face;
*they act really nice with all the people around them.
We should admire these people and try to learn from their experiences. We should all understand that we do not need to experience something bad in order to become happier people.
But, when something bad happens to us, we need to understand that life offers us many surprises: some of them are good and some of them are bad: we have to see all these surprises as a part of our life, as things hat were supposed to happen. The best we can do is to try to learn something each time that something happens. We should always try to think that there are people who have a harder life, who have bigger problems. We have to be satisfied with what we have and try to keep the smile on our face.
