It is said that quitting smoking is about as difficult as trying to quit a heroin addiction. People who were never addicted to smoking themselves have no idea of the hold a smoking addiction takes on the mind and body. It is not just a physical addiction, but a psychological one as well. However, meditation techniques that enable you to train your mind and reverse the thought patterns that lead to cravings may help you stop smoking.
You Are Not Your Addiction
Realize that you are not your addiction. A lot of people believe they are smokers because that is what the ego constantly tells them. Lie down and begin your meditation by taking in deep breaths. As you become more and more relaxed, envision a new you without an addiction. Imagine yourself running through a forest with no boundaries. You are free. Picture yourself living a healthy and active lifestyle. Whenever the urge to go smoke or cravings arise in your mind, simply set them aside. Do not become attached to these cravings. They are simply your thoughts and just like a smoking addiction, you are not them. Your thoughts do not make yourself who you are.
Cleansing Your Body With Breath
Breathe and feel the abdomen slowly rise and fall. With every inhalation visualize white light entering your body. This light is divine and healing. Feel it come in and purge your lungs from all of your lethargy and negativity. As it fills your lungs it permeates through every cell in your entire body. Exhale and visualize the addiction as a thick black cloud. Shrouded in this cloud is all the guilt, pain or suffering that smoking has caused you and your family. Imagine it leaving and dissolving into nothing. Inhale once more and continue imagining the divine light cleansing your body. Do this for at least 15 minutes.
Break the Chain of Addiction
Visualize your addiction as a chain that you are attached to. Picture how it has affected your life and what it has kept you from accomplishing. Imagine how it has negatively impacted your life and those around you. Feel the pain. If cravings to smoke arise during this exercise, feel their power, but do not become attached. Analyze why these cravings arise and why you even started smoking. Continue to imagine the addiction as a chain. You are trapped and cannot move; you are at the mercy of the addiction that is your life you live everyday. As you inhale, imagine a giant mallet as big as the universe rising above a link of the chain. As you exhale, smash the mallet down with your mind, shattering the link into pieces. Do this for at least 15 minutes or as long as you feel like. Feel freedom and liberty from the addiction with every blow of the mallet. You are no longer bound by the smoke and are no longer a prisoner of your addiction.
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