View Full Version : Life style changes is a very effective way to treat addiction
hazephase
10-07-2007, 02:18 PM
A lifestyle change can be a very effective way to treat you addiction or our addictions . In some cases you would need to take medication but over all a few changes and you will be free .
Thank you for your words of encouragement. The most effective lifestyle change would be to adopt the 12-steps as a way of life. Millions of recovering addicts can't be wrong...Admitting you have a dis-ease called addiction and its impact on your life, seeking assistance from a power greater than yourself, and then allow that power to work in, through and for you in your life are the first 3 steps on the road to recovery.
Archbob
10-15-2007, 10:37 PM
Sometimes a lifestyle change is far more effective than anything else. If you find new things to do in life and more ways to stay busy and take up your time, you mind will wander less about the substance you are addicting to. Having other things on your mind will also help to stop cravings.
jr_sci
10-21-2007, 05:14 PM
That's a very effective technique. As we get rid of our normal stresfull daily life, we become somewhat more relaxed. This helps us to recover soon.
Life is as it is...my life does not always show up as 'vanilla or chocolate: choose'. Sometimes it looks like 'flat tire or flat tire: choose'. It is who I am, how I am being with flat tire that makes the difference. The ability to choose is one of the greatest gifts of recovery; but without working a solid program, including working steps with a sponsor, practicing spiritual principles, going to meetings and doing service, your choices will be limitted. A solid program of recovery allows us to be powerful in the only area that we can truly ever be powerful in: Who we are being in any given moment. This is regardless of circumstances or whatever life looks like at the moment. So when 'flat tire' shows up (illness, money problems, etc...life stuff), who will you be?
I agree with Moja about the recovery program. Addiction is a multi-tentacled monster, and a recovery program can help destroy some of those "tentacles".
Another thought is this: You're right that sometimes the choice is "flat tire or flat tire". I think one thing that's important to remember is how fortunate we are when "flat tire" is the only option. Some people's only options are so much more awful. My point is, I think no matter how crummy things in our lives our we do need to always keep in mind the ways in which we're fortunate. Sometimes hanging onto those things can make the difference between feeling too overwhelmed and feeling miserable but able to keep going ok.
mambios
10-25-2007, 08:47 PM
The best way to ensure a higher success rate in recovering from many addictions is to break all the ties that you once had with it.
It may mean moving away or losing friends but I feel that if you want to get clean enough you'll make the hard yards and do all that it takes.
grant1971
11-03-2007, 04:52 PM
Thank you for your words of encouragement. The most effective lifestyle change would be to adopt the 12-steps as a way of life. Millions of recovering addicts can't be wrong...Admitting you have a dis-ease called addiction and its impact on your life, seeking assistance from a power greater than yourself, and then allow that power to work in, through and for you in your life are the first 3 steps on the road to recovery.
I agree with you on this. Changing to a 12step way of life not only is effective in recovery but can improve other areas of your life as well. It has been very beneficial to me thoughout the last few years and I can honestly say my life would be down the drain if I did not live this way.
attagirl
11-05-2007, 04:55 PM
Recovery can really change a person and their way of thinking, so I have to agree about the tenticle monster thing mentioned above. As new things occur old ways of life end and therefore things that were once important even before the addiction may no longer exist.
Ronaldo
11-12-2007, 06:20 PM
As long as we live, we must learn to enjoy it. When it becomes a curse then it becomes hard to manage our life smoothly. So better change the lifestyles regularly.
Tina Peters
09-29-2008, 04:17 AM
It was a gift from God that I discontinued interacting with those I'd boozed it up with; so to speak. Had that not been the case and I had kept hanging out in "the hood" and such, I might not now have the 24 yrs. of sobriety that I have; let alone the spiritual maturity I've required through Christ who's given me peace and hope.