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101 Tips for Overcoming Addiction (80-86)

Tip #80: Addiction and Response
Responses, cues, and stimuli sprint together without stop, in random order. How the addict responds to certain situations and to internal cues can play a almighty role in the recovery process. In this perception of internal cues, we can’t blame some random event (a teacher being unkind to us in third grade) for our current state and our current actions. This perception forces us to sit up and take responsibility for our internal cues and our actions, rather than allowing our circumstances and emotions to control us.

A positive action when it comes to addictions is dealing with resentments. Some of the methods that a recovering addict can handle past, present, and future resentments is by:

· When you beginning feeling resentful find serenity in prayer and meditation.
· Work with a 12-step program to deal with your past wrong doings.
· Take time out for deep breaths so that you could focus on your recovery.

Tip #81: Letting External Cues Affect your Thinking
Internal cues are associated to perception is the technique that we enable internal cues to influence our perception of events, of ourselves, and of other people. We will often confuse internal cues with fact. If we meet someone new and have poor internal cues - if we are stressed by our day, for example, and resent being introduced to yet another person - then we tend to perceive that person more harshly. This can lead to our own low self esteem and cause us to turn even more to our addiction.

If we are in a wonderful mood and in a positive emotional state, isn’t it also true that we tend to give more people the benefit of the doubt and we generally obtain along better with everyone? Similarly, isn’t it also true that when we are in a wonderful emotional state, external reasons are perceived very differently? Consider the temperamental fax machine at the office. Isn’t it true that when we are in a bad emotional state we tend to think “oh, amazing here is something else going wrong today” while when we are in a wonderful emotional state, a mess with the fax machine hardly seems to faze us? Without consciously realizing it, we let our internal cues influence our perceptions. Advertisers use this logic all the time. They use visual cues and sound in commercials to put us into a positive emotional state and then flash pictures of a product. With ample repetition, we come to associate the positive state with the product. This is what the recovery way is all about when it comes to addiction.

Tip #82: The Addict and Decision Making
Often, we make decisions to act based on our internal cues - “I am hungry so I will eat,” “I need to calm down so I will smoke,” “I am exhausted so I will sleep” - but if we observe that internal cues are only clues rather than truths, we can beginning to make more conscious decisions and examine our motives more clearly. This is can bring the addict back to the fundamental survival skills of life without focusing on their addiction.
Maybe we want to eat because we really are hungry; maybe we are nervous. Maybe we really are tired; maybe we want to sleep to avoid working late on a project we don’t like. By refusing to accept inner cues as truths, we can observe them as clues to our state or hints of what may be going on with ourselves. This can aid us make better selections and decisions.

Tip #83: The Power of using Affirmations
Affirmations have long been considered a very effective technique of generating a positive attitude. The idea is to repeat - in a very positive tone of voice and with a high degree of conviction and positive emotion - statements such as “I am becoming a better person every day” or “I have the skills to make it” various times a day. The idea is to use positive statements that are in the present. Affirmations work even better when visualization is used. If you picture yourself achieving your affirmation as well as just saying them, you even further convince your mind of the truth of the statement, and so you produce positive cosidered and action in your life.

Tip #84: Why the Addict requirements Personal Power
Personal power will aid the addict in the recovery way so that they are able to (1) comprehend the destructive nature of their addiction, and
(2) so that they learn the coping skills to live without their addiction.

One of the key aspects of personal power is the inner confidence to know that you could do anything you want to do. You can attain the goals that you deserve because you have all the skills and processes that you need to be successful.

When you have personal power you have the assertiveness to do what’s best for you. It’s this combination of confidence and assertiveness that is going to push addicts towards their goals and a aid them attain these goals.

Tip #85: Attitudes and Beliefs
Three necessary elements for the personal success of addicts from the recovery of addiction are:

· the attitude that they have toward their personal and professional life
· the beliefs that they model their personal and business life around
· the behavior that they have towards themselves and others

These three elements are tightly connected and interwoven, and can either make or break the personal and professional confidence of each employee. Let’s break these three elements down even further.

· Attitudes are the methods that you respond to situations, and to people, based on the assumptions and the beliefs that you have learned.
· Beliefs: Your beliefs are the conjectures that you make about yourself, other people, and situations. Your beliefs are based on what you think and how you think things are. Your beliefs will make you respond the technique that you do and cause your expectations to remain within a certain framework of thoughts.
· Behaviors: Your behavior is how you implement the attitudes that you have adopted towards situations and people.

Tip #86: Successful Treatment Factors
The successful treatment of the addict involves the following factors:

· Taking into account the personality of each individual.
· Taking into account the personal situation of each individual.
· The clear cut issues of the addiction.
· How far the addict has deteriorated.

The first step in dealing with any type of addiction is an understanding of what the addiction is all about.

Listening: Pay recognition to what others around you're saying and you may be surprised when you have a more intense experience than you intended. When you listen without judgment, distortion, or interpretation, and pay close recognition to what others are is saying, you’ll often be able to hear more than you first cosidered you were hearing. There are four levels of listening:

· Hearing. This is the superficial level.
· Listening to. This is when you listen with a question in mind.
· Listening for. This is when you listen with your own filters in place and with the expectation that something clear cut is going to be said. Many periods you may be listening with a judgmental ear.
· Conscious listening. This is a level of deep listening, and listening without any judgment or minimal judgment.

“Matching” is copying the behavior of others with wonderful recovery in a delayed manner so that they feel that they are acknowledged and that you're listening. Mirroring is copying the behavior of successful people so that you have a role model to look up to.

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