Addictive Habits

USE THIS REMEDY IF:

you have a constant or recurrent desire for stimulants or a mood altering activity or substance. This can be any substance, any activity, which alters your mood or behavior in a pleasant way, or which helps you avoid an unpleasant thought or feeling.

Your addiction might be to coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, alcohol, over-the-counter medications, prescription medications, or illegal drugs. It might be just a personal habit that seems to control you. Or it could be an addictive behavior such as gambling, sex or watching television. In each case, the mechanism is the same. You remain dependent because you keep repeating your behavior without learning something from it that would allow you to change.

Any addiction has a psychological component, which is a repetitive pattern from which one is unable to learn. It can be overcome by confronting what is being avoided, or learning what to learn from one's experience.

This remedy can help break the pattern of repetition.

It promotes insight into experience, so that you can understand it more completely. This may bring forth painful memories you have been avoiding. Sometimes when you change established habit patterns strong emotions will surface. Often these were feelings you avoided by your addictive behavior. In these cases, you may have to deal with these painful feelings before your pattern of repetition can be broken.

Note that you can use STRESS, HURRYING, WORRYING, or other Paper Doctor remedies to cope with any strong feelings you experience from breaking your addictive habit.

This remedy can help change a diverse number of destructive habit patterns, whether they arise from substance or behavior addiction, from being accident prone or even from having a minor learning disability.

SPECIAL INDICATORS: (You may have one or more of these.)

Have difficulty learning from mistakesTendency to repeat previous errors
Regards the past as insignificant

HOW TO USE THIS REMEDY:

Make and drink this remedy twice a day (two times in succession morning or night) for up to a week.

Stop using the remedy when you begin to have new insights into why you act in a self-destructive manner.

Note: This remedy does not decrease or remove your carving for any substance, which is the result of some part of the body becoming dependent on that substance. In some cases this remedy may work best when used along with an addiction treatment program or professional counseling.

If you experience no improvement after using this remedy for a week, switch to the most appropriate among the alternative listed below, or use the RESISTANCE, page 229.

ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES TO CONSIDER:

Regularize Erratic Lifestyle, page 225
Physical Injury, page 205

Addictive Habits

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