seangoh
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Hi carnation. In my personal experience, it is difficult to shun those thoughts. However, it is possible. I was watching a documentary about addiction which cast experts on addiction and how they view addiction. Some say it is a disease of the brain in which the victim had no control. So if a person is addicted to smoking, he can't be blamed because it's a brain disease. In another case, if a person had an alcohol addiction and went out to kill someone else while drunk, he can't be charged in court because it's just a disease. I find such belief unacceptable and luckily some smokers in that documentary and other experts agreed too. If there is no control over yourself, then it's not worth living because your whole life is uncontrollable. One smoker understood that it was a choice and she declared to the group that she was going to stop smoking. And since that show, she has never picked up a cigarette.carnation said:
The amazing thing is that God gives us decisions to make. Whether you're addicted to alcohol, you still have that control of your hand to decided whether you want to pick up that bottle. And for our thoughts, we have our mind to control whether we want to think about them. I think i should elaborate more on this. As you not think about negative thoughts, you need an alternative to think about. That is good thoughts. Just like someone who is going to stop smoking. He feels the addiction for a cigarette but he's determined to quit by eating an apple to kind of distract his addiction. After doing this for a while, he becomes more successful in stopping smoking. This is what i found out, that we must have a bucket load of positive things to think about in our lives. When we go about our daily chores and come across something worth keeping in our minds because it inspires or motivates us to "move on", then we remember them. I find too that discipline in my own life is very important in helping to stop spending much time thinking of negative thoughts. Each small thing i do at home or outside needs to be done for a purpose with responsibility and discipline. Force yourself to be disciplined and once the body is disciplined, the mind would be put under control as well. This is another theory that i'm currently "testing" but i think it makes sense.
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