Addiction and the Power of Temptation

Part of what keeps many people from kicking an addiction is the power of temptation — that desire to have or do something that they know they should avoid. The pull of the ‘forbidden fruit’ is just too strong.

Why do people ‘give in’ to temptation even when they know they will be unhappy with the consequences?

It’s because temptation works by shutting down time. When something you want is right there in front of you, your attention focuses on the object of desire. Little by little, everything else gets shut out until nothing else exists except the present moment. You forget any past failures. You lose sight of all regrets. Any fear of future consequences vanishes. There is only now … and the pure satisfaction you believe you will experience as you surrender to the impulse.

You see, when there is nothing else in your mind’s eye, it makes perfect sense to succumb to the immediate allure of the desire. It’s only afterwards, when time returns, that you wake up to what has happened. It’s not a pleasant awakening.

The good news is that temptation can be overcome. There is a way to stop sabotaging yourself in your efforts to overcome your addiction.

It’s accomplished through hypnosis. By allowing the power of suggestion to work on your subconscious mind, you learn to counteract the pull of temptation.

To learn more about how hypnosis can help you beat your addition, click here and you will be taken to a page where you can download Resist Temptation, an audio hypnosis session.

If you’ve been trying and failing in your efforts to overcome your addiction (whatever it may be), this may finally be the turning point towards recovery.

Addiction: Causes and Recovery

The truth about addiction is that it can be experienced by anyone — movie stars, athletes, politicians, university professors. Even you.

Some additions are considered primary; namely, food and drug addictions, alcoholism, gambling, internet addiction, obsessive-compulsive attitude, even sexual addiction. These primary addictions usually require professional treatment because a habitual attachment has formed around the particular behavior or substance.

What causes addiction? Based on medical and scientific studies, addiction is often caused by a person establishing a coping mechanism to deal with an unpleasant event in their lives, e.g., childhood abuse, societal and family distresses, ignorance, trauma, and/or prejudice.
Rather than resolve the problem through outside help, people ‘self-medicate’ to help them deal with their psychological issues. In other words, addiction becomes a way to handle a messed up situation.

The first step in overcoming an addiction is recognizing it. The second step is to accept that you are suffering from an addiction. Many people are able to take the first step, but refuse to take the second. Instead, they make excuses and rationalizations and insist they can stop “anytime.” But acknowledging that you have no control over your habitual thinking, feelings, or behavior is essential to complete recovery.

Recovery may involve counseling and intensive activities that bring out a person’s inner inhibitions and feelings regarding their problems. This isn’t always easy and people often experience some depression and/or resistance to the treatment.

Always keep in mind that recovery doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and patience — not only from the addict but from family and friends as well. However, if you stay vigilant in your efforts, the process will become easier.

As you unlatch yourself from your addiction, you will wonder why you waited so long. Everyday living takes on a new meaning as you experience the deep joy of knowing you are in control of your life.

Overcome Addictions with Subliminal Messaging

The internet has become a great resource for self-help. We can learn about — and often solve — problems or concerns in our lives without ever having to share or discuss them with family or friends.

Some people have turned to subliminal messaging for the very same reason. This type of ‘self-help’ takes confidentiality to a new level because even if someone ‘catches’ you listening, there are no audible words or phrases. As far as others are concerned, you’re just listening to music — or perhaps nature sounds — to relax.

How It Works

Subliminal messaging is basically a soft form of hypnosis. Both accomplish the same results — a positive outcome and a change within the mind. Hypnosis works by bypassing your conscious mind, as does subliminal messaging. The primary difference is that rather than going into a trance-like state for 30 minutes, you listen to a subliminal message while remaining active and alert. You are easily able to carry on with all your regular activities. You can exercise, garden, wash dishes … even sleep … while listening.

Consciously, you won’t hear anything. However, the subliminal statements are still making their way into your subconscious mind. Eventually, as they build up to a certain level, they start to flood your mind and create changes in your thinking patterns. In turn, you begin to notice external (and lasting) changes.

Some people experience very quick changes, but generally it takes a couple of months before you begin to see changes and improvements in your thoughts, beliefs, and physical behavior.

Subliminal messages have proven to be very effective in overcoming addictions and bad habits, such as smoking, gambling, alcohol, nail biting, drugs, etc. They have also been shown to help in other areas, such as:

• Boosting self-confidence
• Increasing self-motivation
• Overcoming self sabotage
• Conquering panic attacks and anxiety
• Losing weight

Subliminal audio isn’t right for everyone, but if you’re serious about making a change in your life — and are willing to put forth the required effort — subliminal messaging could very well give you the boost you need.

Want to try it out? Click here to download three FREE subliminal MP3 audios!

Break Your Bad Habit in 21 Days or Less

Let me ask you something. Do you have one of these bad habits?

• Smoking
• Overeating
• Procrastination
• Drinking
• Drugs
• Wasting time
• Not taking care of your body
• Biting your nails

Whether you suffer from one of these bad habits or something else, you know it’s something you shouldn’t be doing, right?

And yet you continue.

And continue.

And try to quit … then continue again.

You’ know what I’m talking about. Everytime you try to get rid of a bad habit, you fail. Why? Because the pull is just too great.

Maybe you’re in a similar situation right now? If so, I’d like to suggest you try something that may very well help you break that bad habit now and forever.

It’s a system developed by Lee Milteer. She’s a best-selling author and Fortune 100 coach who has trained CEOs from across the globe to drop bad habits within just MINUTES. She’s worked with top dogs at Disney, AT&T, IBM, Xerox, the US Navy, and many more. She’s also been featured on several national TV and radio shows.

Her “Habit Busting Secrets: How to Break Any Habit in 21 Days” system is revolutionary! It shows you how to take control of your life and put an end to the cycle you’ve been on for so long.

In her four audio CDs and workbook, you’ll learn why willpower isn’t enough to break bad habits, how to replace bad habits with good ones, how to change your thinking to overcome the pull of bad habits, and so much more.

It won’t take but a few minutes to investigate what Lee is offering, so why not click here to get all the details. You never know. It may be the best thing you’ve done all day!

Overcome Your Nicotine Addiction

Nicotine addiction is a serious dependency that requires a serious approach to quitting.

Quitting isn’t easy — and each time you try to stop smoking and fail, it becomes even more difficult. There are physical and psychological reasons for this:

• Physically — your body builds up a resistance.
• Psychologically — you begin to see yourself as a failure, someone who cannot beat the addiction.

If you need help and support to quit smoking you are not alone. Most people do. While it is possible to go “cold turkey” and quit smoking without assistance, it isn’t for everyone and it can be very difficult to do. So difficult in fact, that the number of people who break the habit without help is very small.

If you’re serious about quitting smoking, the Stop Smoking UltraPack program may be your answer. The ingredients are all herbal and homeopathic and contain NO nicotine.

It involves a three-step program:

1. Prepare to quit (4 weeks)
2. Break the habit (4 weeks)
3. Stay nicotine-free

Read more about the program here, as well as testimonies from ex-smokers.

Break Free from Addiction Forever

Is alcohol or drug use badly affecting your life or someone’s life that you care about?

Did you know there is a new recovery program that offers a permanent, natural cure for an alcohol or drug addiction?

“Addiction Free Forever” is an at-home, work-at-your-own-pace recovery program that shows you how to permanently take away your cravings and start living a more productive life.

If offers you something better than drugs or alcohol … and the result is your desire or cravings for drugs or alcohol completely disappear over time.

The program has been developed by an EX-user who understands addiction and knows how to resolve it from the inside out.

For much less than the price of a visit to a therapist or rehab center, this recovery program is well worth the investment for you or someone you may know who is struggling with addiction.

Don’t put it off another day. Take advantage of this opportunity to transform your life. Permanently lose your addiction and start living a happier, healthier, more rewarding life.

P.S. This method is far better than any 12-step program that only controls addiction. Addiction Free Forever will cure you of your addiction.

Breaking Bad Habits and Addictions

A Story About David Lucero

David Lucero knows where he wants to go: He wants to go to El Paso, Texas.

David is about sixty years old and for the last three months, he has been living on a sidewalk across the street from a Greyhound bus station.

No one knows how long David has been homeless. He is one of America’s walking wounded—mentally ill, unable to take care of himself, unable to cope with the business of life. He is always happy to talk, although you have to repeat yourself a few times before he can understand you because David is losing his hearing.

One day someone tried to take him to a shelter for the homeless. All he had to do was get into the pickup truck. He had to make a decision — get in or stay on the street. The right decision could have started the cycle of healing and change, but it was more than David was capable of doing that morning. He decided to stay on the street, waiting for his imaginary ride to El Paso.

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We come into contact every day with people whose lives and families have been torn apart by bad habits: people addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs; over-spenders, overeaters, and chronic worriers; negative thinkers, procrastinators, and people who won’t forgive themselves for something that happened long ago.

We have all seen firsthand how bad habits keep ordinary people from living happier and healthier lives. Everywhere you look, people want to know why they are unhappy. And they want to know what they can do about it.

The talk shows offer a constant menu of miracle cures for every type of bad habit imaginable—everything from quick weight-loss programs to 20-minute lessons in positive thinking that promise to cure depression. We are constantly bombarded by programs that promise effortless and immediate results: Lose weight fast while eating as much as you want! Guaranteed to work! Sure.

We are overwhelmed with solutions today. And the more solutions there are, the harder it is to find one that works. Many people have failed so many times that they’ve almost given up the battle. Others gave up a long time ago.

Establishing New Priorities

Can you change yourself? Is it possible to free yourself from bad habits? Can you really change in a meaningful and long-lasting way?  The answer to each of these questions is “yes.” But you can’t change in 24 hours, as some programs and self-help books promise.

What does it mean to change? To change means to establish new priorities—to choose a behavior that’s different from the one you’re using now. David Lucero is stuck on the street, waiting for a solution that doesn’t exist. When a real solution is right in front of his nose, he can’t see it.

David’s story is one of bad habits and bad decisions, and it’s probably filled with bad people and bad situations as well.

But at some point, we have to discard the factors, the people, and the situations that shaped us. Focusing on the past won’t help us solve today. At some point we have to take responsibility for our own lives.

It was most likely bad habits and bad choices that brought David to this point—day after day and year after year—until he hit rock bottom. That’s always the way it is.

Learning how to free ourselves from bad habits starts with the realization that we cause our own feelings. We are the major cause of our own problems. The moment we grasp that simple fact, that’s when we’re ready to step into the process of self-change that will lead to freedom from the habits that keep us from living a more satisfying life. And when we’re free from our bad habits, the people around us will be free from the person we used to be.

All people can bring about superficial changes in themselves. But freeing yourself from a self-destructive habit like smoking or overeating requires a deep, long-lasting change. A bad habit is like an iceberg. You can’t beat the habit if you approach it as if it were only as large as what you can see on the surface.

Franz Kafka said, “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Any book or program that aims to help people break bad habits must reveal the whole iceberg that lies below the surface.

You can’t eliminate the whole thing in one day, but if you take a step-by-step approach, you can eliminate the bad habit sooner than you thought possible. It is going to take effort on your part.

You can’t eat whatever you want and lose weight, no matter how many times you hear it on the talk shows. But you can learn to eat more healthy foods and stop eating the unhealthy stuff that’s part of your life now.

To free yourself from bad habits, you must stop hiding the truth from yourself.

Overeaters, smokers, and chronic procrastinators have more in common with people like David than meets the eye. They all go to great lengths to hide the truth from themselves about the destructive nature of their bad habits, and too often lives and families are destroyed before they become aware of the fact they are trapped in a cage of self-destructive behavior.

Does professional therapy work? Can it help people break bad habits before the habit destroys their lives? The dropout rate is astonishing: 45% of clients who seek a professional therapist drop out of therapy after two or three sessions.

Do programs help? Millions of smokers have quit forever without following a treatment program. On the other hand, many people who try a smoking-cessation program are not able to quit, no matter how many different programs they try. In fact, some research suggests that for every person who quits smoking by following a treatment program, there are almost twenty persons who quit on their own.

What conclusion should we draw from all of this? It’s pretty clear, I think. You have a better chance of freeing yourself from a bad habit by becoming your own coach — by taking responsibility for your own program. And by facing the truth about yourself.