C5 Session 33 - Habits vs Addictions

Key Questions

WHO has the power to stop your addictive behaviors? 

WHAT emotions are present or not present when you engage in addictive behaviors?

WHERE are you most comfortable when engaging in addictive behaviors?

WHY do your unwanted behaviors affect you ethically, physically, spiritually, mentally, and maybe even financially?

WHEN did this become a go-to behavior?

HOW do you plan to learn from your experience and empower others that are struggling to stop?

Trigger- Something that subconsciously or consciously causes a reaction or emotion. Triggers happen when you stimulate one of your senses; hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, touching all causing a thought/memory to pass through your V.E.S.P.M. plans leading to a reaction. 

Habits – The subconscious choices you make when you do something. A habit can be given up by making changes in your routine.  Can also be changed with different people, places, and things. A psychological habit that is hard to give up can feel like an addiction.

Addiction –  What you want to stop doing only because it is harming yourself or things in your life in some way. You feel you can't stop because it makes you feel good for a while.  To have an addiction is to have a dependency, dependence, craving, or enslavement for something.  Performing this action causes the brain to release "a feel-good chemical" Some addictions require professional help to break but all addictions require a change in the way you think. 

Habitual Behaviors - A person who has stopped the habit or addiction but still displays the behavior of such a person is more likely to relapse. 

Have you changed the way you: Act, Look, React, Talk, Hang around

Top Additions - Legal and Illegal Drugs, Alcohol, Gambling, Sex, Self-gradification of all kinds.

Self-Reflection Points

Example

Before I eat lunch with Suzy we go outside to smoke a cigarette together.

Habit behavior – eat lunch with Suzy

Addiction behavior -  smoking a cigarette

Trigger Point: There is nothing wrong with eating lunch with Suzy but if it triggers you to smoke a cigarette then you probably should stop eating lunch with Suzy. This will be the first step in breaking your habit which contributes to the addiction. 

Steps to Breaking Unwanted Habits

1. Change your routine, when you do it, or who you do it with.

2. Replace the unwanted behavior with something else positive or healthy.  

3. Spend time with activities and with people who are not in support of this unwanted behavior.

Faith doesn't make things easy... it makes things possible. AMEN 

"For with GOD nothing shall be impossible" Luke 1:37 KJV Holy Bible

Q - How will continue to become the best version of yourself?

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