“MAKING AIR/OXYGEN YOUR NEW ADDICTION”
IMHO, not being a therapist, but in the past, having my fair share of addictions, I offer what helps myself.
First off, aside from the alcohol habit, if you are otherwise pretty healthy, you are blessed with great good fortune. You possess a strong foundation to conquer all your foes.
Life is nothing but “addictions,” or its slightly younger brother, “habits.”And, we rarely give up “addiction” completely. We merely trade-up, or trade-down for another addiction or habit. Obviously, it is better to trade up for a healthier choice.
You released yourself from your marijuana addiction, for which you deserve high praise. And, now you seek to trade out of the alcohol addiction.
What will you latch onto as an intermediary step that gives some pleasurable reprieve without harmful consequences.
For myself, the constant availability and health and healing benefits of deep breathing exercises offered great solace.
Any way in which you choose to take in a higher amount of good quality air/oxygen into your system is acceptable for your purposes.
Deep breathing, calisthenics, short periods of physical exertion, hot and cold baths, a bit of running, sprints, climbing stairways, gyms, The Tibetan Five Rites of Rejuvenation, yoga, boxing, martial arts, gyms, et cetera.
But, you need go nowhere to instantly feel the oxygen inebriation. As long as you have a “nose” and “lungs,” you’re good to go. Nothing to buy; nowhere to go. You only need a good resolve, a commitment, a game spirit.
You don’t have to be strong in any area of athletics. You can find the easiest available form of exercise that increases and changes your breathing patterns.
The breath and mind are called “The Twin Sisters In Life.” You change your breathing habits, your mind must also change. Your old stale habits soon disappear.
Breath and mind mirror each other. It is said that every sickness, disease, habit, addiction has its own concomitant breathing pattern.
Once air/oxygen fills your blood stream and brain. You start to enjoy the effects of oxygen as much as you once did substances.
Also, bathing/ showering in extremely hot water (not scalding) followed by extremely cold showers or baths, in that transition from hot to cold, forces a massive amount of oxygen into your system, via a huge gasp, giving you a natural high, along with the stimulation of millions of pores all over your body. If you remain conscious, a simple cheap hot/cold shower/bath can help break the previous stranglehold desire for substance, giving you reprieve, awareness and pleasure.
Meditation is another method that involves breathing and control of te senses.
Simple pushups, jumping jacks, bicycle, sit-ups, a new routine involving powerful inhalation of vital oxygen can conquer your old addictions when you set your mind and willpower on it.
Any way in which you prefer to capture the abundance or oxygen all around you, and bring it into your system for your strength and healing is okay. And, then, just relax, sit and feel the effects of abundant oxygen in your system and all around you. The high is better than substance. You gain stability and increase your capacity daily. You will feel younger. You can design your own program from scratch to suit you. But, you can search the internet for ideas and then alter them to fit your present condition.
DON’T OVERDO IT!!! There is always tomorrow to take yet another step.
When I am feeling glum, and not wanting to face my exercise session, I take a little coffee and play my favorite music from the golden age of rock and roll, and jump into my session. Brings me back to my youth when I did everything with utter ease and pure joy.
In conclusion, if you can breathe, you are alive. The only thing that separates you from life and death is your present inhalation of rich delicious air from the cosmos. How powerful and precious is this air/oxygen all around us that we move freely in and around, breathing copiously as much as a fish depends on water to live in their watery environment. Air is to man as water is to fish and sea creatures.
Increase your capacity. You will feel young and alive. And share your powerful new found energy with your lady. She will proclaim you her Superman.
You definitely don’t need alcohol.
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