Your Brain Under Addiction
There’s a variety of deadly addictions on the planet. They are all around us, but we don’t notice their trap until is too late.
Category: Addiction Recovery
The Battle of The Addict’s Mind
How to stop feeding the bad desires of our habits “Our problem is not drifting into bad habits but the routines created around them.” On more than one occasion, when I thought I had a well-laid-out plan. All coldly calculated. Like watching a 3D movie, I realized I would ruin all my proposed plans. I […]
Practical Steps to Overcoming Addictions
The first step is to accept that you have a problem These steps are my guide based on my personal experience. And my resume of experience has all levels of alcoholism and drug addiction. From hidden to casual and social, all the way to homelessness. And all because I wanted to be floating in space […]
Why Is It So Easy to Slip Back Into Bad Habits?
We won’t stop slipping back until we hate its outputs. Even to the astonishment of the human being, the most incredible evolution has been to develop consciousness, aside from straightening up and walking on two feet. It is rationalizing and interpreting our surroundings with the power of intelligence. The hardest part for humans is understanding […]
Escaping The Whirlpool Of Homelessness
Only Persistence manages to escape the gravitational force of attraction. This morning, I decided to walk downtown to find the direction for my writing thoughts. I like to take long walks, especially where addictions and despair previously dragged me down. I’m wary of the gravitational force of attraction from which I escape. Those places are […]
Decisive Mindset is What You Need to Succeed in Life
This is not about Champagne and Resolutions but about *True Commitment* How many *New Years* have passed without you achieving your resolutions? I imagine many. It seems that Champagne gives us a passing emotion, only to wake up again as if it were just another day. The inspiration of the toast vanishes before the rooster […]
Don’t Let Your Inner Desires Destroy Your Exterior Life.
You don’t need to lose everything to learn to be responsible for what you have. Pleasures seduce human beings by nature, but many of them have no benefit other than satisfying carnal passions and exciting our senses with mental surges of dopamine. I start with this deduction to understand why our mental balance leans more […]
A Proven Strategy To Recover Your Life
The first Life-Lesson helped me to get off the ground As babies, we learn to walk through stumbles and falls, but after all the tears are over, we get back up and try again; until we get a hold on learning how to walk. As soon as we get momentum after many attempts — we become unstoppable. […]
Why Do I Keep Stumbling Over the Same Bad Habits?
Could it be that I’m secretly in love with bad behaviors? It was five in the afternoon, the day was mild, and my comrades were already gathered having fun. I kept trying to stay away from addictions, even covering my ears and closing my eyes to not see how everyone seemed to enjoy life “supposedly.” At […]
When People Admit They Cannot Change, It’s Mostly “A Lack Of Incentive”
Create the incentives and your behavior will follow suit. I remember so many times that I tried to avoid drinking with a lot of effort — proposing a distance transformed into time. I set the space in my mind to stop drinking for at least a month. And how well I look through the process! The change […]