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by Sheila Garghill
The need to become more health conscious becomes even more
urgent in those moments when stressful situations occur.
We can all agree that the way to stop a bad habit is to
stop it cold and don't go near it again. We tell ourselves
that we can quit smoking, drinking, drugs, overeating...
whatever.
When I decided to quit smoking one day, I found the longer
I resisted the urges the less intense they were as with
any cessation.
Once I had quit though, I realized how badly I had felt
physically before and was uplifted and transformed because
I had the strength to resist the terrible urges one day
at a time.
It is strange that when something negative happens in our
lives, one of the first things we think to do is something
self-destructive... like picking up bad old habits once
again. It happened to me once I had been laid off from my
job.
What kept me from again turning to cigs? Not certain but
I believe it was my reason for quitting in the first
place. It was strength of character that I had developed
and the place I was in when I had decided to quit smoking.
What about your nutritional habits? Yes, that is another
way to ward off the blues and to keep you in there slugging
away. Everyone knows that life is not fair, nor is it
easy.
Sometimes we become preoccupied with our misfortune and put
off treating ourselves well. Treating yourself well IS the
answer though. When you do that, you reaffirm that you
deserve to be treated well and things just naturally begin
falling into place.
The body, mind and spirit all work together to get you
healthy and to keep you that way. Feed it healthy stuff.
Easier said than done? I agree. alcohol, cigs, drugs,
wild sex and fast food are all potential danger zones.
How rude... what else is there?!
These things are all short term fixes and the longer you
depend upon them to comfort you, the more you begin to
realize that.
Better to take a step back and analyze the situation with a
clear head. Put off making the decision to lean on
self-destructive habits. Make it a fighting effort!
Give yourself healthy alternatives. When you take a break,
have a little treat. Try not taking rejection so
seriously. Everything happens for a reason and what
normally occurs is that you come back in an even better
position than you were before the upsetting incident.
You can make it through situations whether you pick the bad
habit up again or not. Why not try looking ahead to how
much better you will feel AFTER you are back in your
element again, when you can say to yourself "I DID make
it through, didn't I!"
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