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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 1:23 PM

Train Your Mind, Kick Your Craving

By Sharon Begley
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Posted By: jillcatrina (November 12, 2008 at 12:33 AM)

Meditation includes the mental training of attention, which involves the selection of goal-relevant information from the array of inputs that bombard our sensory systems. One of the major limitations of the attentional system concerns the ability to process two temporally close, task-relevant stimuli.

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Posted By: Enigmamcr (July 20, 2008 at 3:59 PM)

            FORTITUDE RIGHTEOUSNESS CONVICTION

The myth that addiction is a disease must be exposed for the lie  

That it is, along with the AA/NA , the private treatment centre’s and worse consultant Psychiatrists, who reject science which should be the very cornerstone of their treatment in favour of a pseudo religious fellowship, where their is no empirical evidence to prove any of the steps cement abstinence . This is supported  by the fact that more zealous  treatment centre’s are now escalating the myth for people who relapse by intensifying the program in manner that the addict is coerced into believing  the relapse was their own fault for deviating or not accepting the program in its entirety.

They indoctrinate vulnerable people with their virus like

Propaganda, which enslaves people to a lifetime of nihilistic meetings where prophets of doom brainwash addicts and alcoholics into believing there is no other choice: which ultimately leads to the eroding of ones self-belief in ones own willpower. The decision to use is a conscious one so the decision to stop is a conscious one. It is as simple as that!

Reverse the impetus. Put the same energy into not using as using. We all have a duty to stop this insidious coercion.

Free people to live in contentment, in the knowledge that the only power that the addiction has over you is the power you give it

Also of concern are the financial implications behind the motives of

the so called all embracing we accept anyone into are fellowship. If an addict/alcoholic, cannot afford the scandalous costs of the private  treatment clinics or worse cannot continue to fund the ongoing fee’s, sympathetic words from staff such as keep going to meetings everyday, until financing is in place are the last thing addict/alcoholic needs to here after having their willpower eroded by those dreadful group sessions.

Only Fortitude that gives one the resilience to go on even when conventional thinking says otherwise. Righteousness, which gives one the belief that despite being abandoned by everyone and losing everything of value gives one the belief to persevere. Conviction gives a person the courage to put their beliefs to the ultimate test and draw a line in the sand even at the cost of their own life.


Posted By: mleger (July 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM)

AA/NA/CA/WHATEVERA is a joke.  I ask you the following question.  Would you treat a person diagnosed with cancer with an exorcism?


Posted By: C. MacLean (July 1, 2008 at 9:58 AM)

Well of course you can think your way out of addiction - that's part of how 12 step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous work - you learn to think differently, which leads to acting differently.