Lies about addictions: from the book " Right recovery for you"- Marilyn Bradford

Hi Fapstronauts
Hope this contributes to you. What if it makes a difference to your NOFAP journey that you thought was not possible?

This book was magical for me, currently on day 33 streak achieved 'with ease ' by applying this book unlike before wch was struggle, So sharing.

Content taken from one of the 3 free chapters offered by the author downloadable from net.

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Lies about addictions:
Lie1: Once an Addict, Always an Addict
Lie2: Addiction Only Happens to a Small, Dirty, Underground Population Another one of the big
Lie3: The Best You Can Hope for Is to Manage the Symptoms of Addiction
Lie4: You’re Weak, Selfish, Dishonest, Immoral, Sinful, Wicked, Criminal and Unethical for Having This Addiction
Lie5: Everyone in Your Life Actually Wants You to End Your Addictive or Compulsive Behavior
Lie6: You Are Powerless Over Your Addiction
Lie7: Only Someone or Something Outside of You Can End Your Addiction
Lie8: Addiction Is a Disease


The great difficulty with buying the lie that you are powerless over your addiction is that it puts you in the position of being the effect in your life rather than the creator of your life. It strips you of your power.
addiction is not a disease. You are not sick. Addiction is an entrenched pattern of avoidance and/or escape from a life that appears
to be too overwhelming, confusing and painful. It is a place people go to not exist, to not experience the pain of self-judgment and to avoid the sense of being inherently wrong.

When you find yourself experiencing a craving or desire to engage in your addictive or compulsive behavior, here are some questions you can ask yourself. It’s helpful to write your answers down.

(note: this method of questioning to create change is called "Afformation". Afformation has been taught in a book by NOah St. John. Also in "Access Consciousness by Gary an Dain which is used in this book by Marilyn)


• What event occurred just prior to my desire to engage in my
addictive or compulsive behavior?
• What was my reaction to that event?
(Example: My husband/wife called me an idiot and I went
to the wrongness of me.)
• What thoughts did I have?
• What feelings did I have?
• What was I aware of that I didn’t want to be aware of?
(Example: That I was back in my old pattern. I was making
my husband’s/wife’s opinion of me greater than what I know
to be true of myself.)
What action could I have taken that might have interrupted
this pattern?

 

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