Sometimes the way out is in. The day before I quit smoking, I smoked more than 2 packs of cigarettes, to the point that I was sick from them and of them, which made it easy for me to not smoke for the next day. Then I don't remember what I did except that it was damn difficult to quit smoking, and I now haven't smoked in about 30 years. I also think about the biblical advice to resist not evil, which I've come to believe means that whatever I don't like about me (and others) is still part of me, since we are all one, and to resist it as in to alienate it and declare it evil and the enemy is to create a war that goes on for a very long time, and to not resist it but to own it becomes absorbing it and living harmoniously with it and learning from it -- I don't fully do that or always know how to do that, but I do believe that is the way to deal with the parts of ourself (and others) that we dislike. Declaring war does little and often seems to make 'the enemy', including an attachment or addiction, even stronger. In this country, we are attached to attacking and making war, be it on cancer or drugs or poverty or another people or whatever, and each of those things seems to still be thriving and stronger than ever, so I am convinced that attacking and making war, be it against an addiction within me or otherwise, doesn't work. 'Indulging' in the attachment certainly is worth trying.
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On Dec 3, 2013Anne Adams wrote :
I agree. Allowing it to be part of me allows awareness of habits, which leads to more self-knowledge, more choice based on authenticity, and more power in my own engine.
On Dec 1, 2013 david doane wrote :
Sometimes the way out is in. The day before I quit smoking, I smoked more than 2 packs of cigarettes, to the point that I was sick from them and of them, which made it easy for me to not smoke for the next day. Then I don't remember what I did except that it was damn difficult to quit smoking, and I now haven't smoked in about 30 years. I also think about the biblical advice to resist not evil, which I've come to believe means that whatever I don't like about me (and others) is still part of me, since we are all one, and to resist it as in to alienate it and declare it evil and the enemy is to create a war that goes on for a very long time, and to not resist it but to own it becomes absorbing it and living harmoniously with it and learning from it -- I don't fully do that or always know how to do that, but I do believe that is the way to deal with the parts of ourself (and others) that we dislike. Declaring war does little and often seems to make 'the enemy', including an attachment or addiction, even stronger. In this country, we are attached to attacking and making war, be it on cancer or drugs or poverty or another people or whatever, and each of those things seems to still be thriving and stronger than ever, so I am convinced that attacking and making war, be it against an addiction within me or otherwise, doesn't work. 'Indulging' in the attachment certainly is worth trying.