Seraphita, 5 yrs ago the doc told me I was headed for Type 2 diabetes. So the first week of my new diet, I ate no sugar or carbs or dairy. Right away my body looked better and that motivated me to continue dieting, not as strictly as I had, but I return to that strategy when I need to. I also used EFT tapping to deal with cookie cravings. When I stopped smoking about 40 yrs ago, I NEVER wanted another cigarette which I think was just grace.
________________________________ From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com" <s3raph...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:46 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Beast and the unborn Re Steve Sundur's "Hey Judy, sorry for any nastiness. Seraphita's analysis of the book touched on some of the reasons I did like the book. Addiction issues have always been of interest to me . . . when the discussion of this book came up before, many years ago, I was more confident that the modality put forth in the book could be effective.": If we are still talking about Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend, I mentioned above that he himself never lost his heroin habit. The drug was prescribed for his asthma so maybe he never had a fighting chance to stay clean. Curiously, I used the Beast's ideas when I quit smoking. The gist of Crowley's thinking here is that when a man (say) decides to stop a drug habit (let's say smoking) his surface consciousness comes up with lots of reasons - my clothes stink/it's an expensive habit/I'm coughing up phlegm/ . . . - but his deeper nature (his True Will) is actually rather keen on puffing away. The man has set up an uneven contest that he's destined to lose. When I stopped smoking I did two things. First I decided to only stop for a week. That way it couldn't be any worse than having a dose of flu and there wouldn't be that nagging, horrid thought "I will never again know the pleasure of inhaling on a cigarette". Secondly, as I've always been inordinately curious about whatever takes my fancy doesn't that suggest inordinate curiosity is part of my True Will? So I thought, I'll treat the experience of going cold turkey as if I'd just ingested a novel, experimental drug and I had to keep track and report back on what the effects were. In other words, I made the quitting into a game - and a game that would just be a short, sharp shock. At the end of the week I'd (more-or-less) sailed through the adventure and I knew I'd never smoke a cigarette again. Hey, maybe I should set up shop as an addiction counsellor!
