Here and Now...What's Happening?

[AwakeInADream]

Thanks Ulli! I remember the longest I went without smoking (2 months), I did replace the habit with a quite intense fitness regime. I might try that again. I'm sure I could come up with a few more strategies too, like reading a lot or learning something new and focus on growing in mind and body(or belly on the gummy bear diet lol).

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by AwakeInADream (here)

Posted by yukondiva (here)
Good morning, I know I am new but I need help. I have smoked since 11 yrs old ( I am 47) and today I want to quit. I am asking for your thoughts to be directed towards my goal. I know a collective conciousnus exist. I am ready to let go of this useless habit and you can help. Thank you to all the people who have welcomed me to Avalon, I have found my family. Lots of love and Thanks

Hi Yukondiva! Welcome! I want to quit smoking too.
I've noticed from my last few attempts to quit, that sometimes I have will power and other times I just don't.

So what is it that governs will power?

I wonder if the Astrologers on here could help us?
Is there a particularly good time to quit smoking Astrologically speaking?
(tomorrow always seems like a better time than today lol)

I'm asking the Angels (Here and Now) to increase your will power 1000 times!

Once a decision is made to pursue a certain course one has to ask oneself who is it that can disobey such a decision later on in the day or week.
Is it lack of memory? Sureless not. Or is it lack of awareness?
What I first learnt from reading Gurdjieff's teachings is that we are made up of three centers...
a)the instinctive,
b)the emotional and
c)the intellectual center.

What one does not realize is that the intellectual center which makes decisions is actually the weakest of those three.
The most powerful is the instinctive, since the survival instinct is seated there. This centre runs on automatic.
Breathing, sexual drive, sleep rhythms, digestive processes, heart beat, etc., are governed here.
The emotional center deals with preferences...such as liking or disliking certain foods.
This is also where habits come in, and smoking is one of those.
If one can use the intellect to trigger the emotional center, such as a doctor would,
when he spells out that unless one stops smoking one will lose ten years of life span. Or a partner who can't stand the smell says unless you sop, I'm leaving you...then fear becomes a strong motivator that can override the desire or habit.
But the mind by itself doesn't have enough fuel to combat habits, it needs an extra force to enter.

What works sometimes is to replace the smoking habit with some other new habit, like eating gummy bears,
but then there is that weight gain to consider.
But just getting this knowledge about the weakness of intellect can help one with designing a strategy.

P.S. ...and just as there are Archons at the denser end of the spectrum, so equally there are Angels at the opposite, lighter end, and they do respond to calls for help. Like, they might see to it that smokers stay out of one's orbit, and non-smokers start calling. it helps of course if one decides on what company one wants to keep, because company is a major factor....

[greybeard]

Stopping smoking---
As a hypnotherapist I helped 1000s stop

I smoke for a while my self then stop ---I am not smoking at the moment.

The important thin is not to make a big deal of it---- you are not trying to stop for ever. just this moment.

I try to change my routine-- I dont go into the shop I buy tobacco
Its a good idea first to change to roll ups--they dont have the chemicals of ready made,

So I have just enough tobacco to roll one up in the morning which I smoke on getting up.
That takes the edge off--- then each time I feel like having one I say to myself---soft and nice "I wont have one just now"
No pushing forcing---simple--- I know if I really want I can go round the corner to the shop.
If its demanding I do something different and say I wont go to the shop just now.
Keep it simple--- one moment at a time---just postpone having one--- the day will pass then another and on.

God luck Chris

[donk]

Allan Carr's book reminded me of a self-hypnosis type situation, I highly suggest it. The lessons are self-evident, the way he explains it (over and over), is like "quitting an addiction for dummies"...I never would be recomending a book, but that one is legit...what do you have to lose?

It really attacks the WHY of your "habit", and comes from the angle that helped me before....freeing you of the slavery.

[eaglespirit]

...because company is a major factor.

That's why the Village is here, now : )

[skippy]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
...because company is a major factor.

That's why the Village is here, now : )

Truth is simple.

[yukondiva]

Yukondiva thanks

[yukondiva]

Yes but we have a body that craves, seperate from mind, emotion and intelect, overiding physical addictions is harder because of that. Thank you for the post pick a day and yes perhaps there are days astrologically that are better, I am sure we will find out. I quit for two years started again quit for four so I know I can do it, the health benefits alone would be life changing.

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Thanks so much it really is a precence thing isnt it?

[yukondiva]

Thank you so much so far so good. One this morning and i am on my way.

[1inMany]

That was a long day. It's only 5pm. I guess it is coffee midday again for me. There are people with real problems, so I almost don't even want to talk about my Here and Now. I don't have any real problems. I'm just merely exhausted. Lordy, I do not know how people over forty parent small children. I'm on the backside of forty, I realized that today (funny how even as the specific numbers would appear on birthday cakes, the reality of those numbers did not sink in). I was doing a speed-brush on my teeth with one foot out the door and saw these wrinkles that made my skin look...less...elastic. Those are different from laugh lines or deep wrinkles, like my Mom had when she aged, like my Grandma had when she aged, and that I now have as I age.

I figured out how to deal with all that wrinkly aging sh!t a while back, though. I don't take long looks in the mirror. I just act my internal age, and it works for me.

Upon having this moment of realization today, that I sit here a shell, and that caring for this Little Joy has divided my attention and energy yet again, I'm about to just fall over. Oh, sh!t. I'm getting old....funny, that's okay with me except for when I'm expected to look hot for some dumb banquet...but I digress (what's new there, lol?) I have the love to give, and it is strong and has a good foundation...the vessel is weak.

I'm pooped. Tuckered out. Not one iota of energy left. Nada.

How can I feel so much love, but not have the energy to deliver it? I'm trying to stay connected to my own power source, calling on my True Self throughout the day every day. I'm visualizing a cord going up and one going down, taking time to visualize the release of all that is no longer serving me. I am also, many times throughout the day, checking to make sure if I have allowed anyone to attach to me, that they unplug, or I unplug them, or whichever the case may be.

Where's that hammock, Rocky...mind if I borrow it for a bit? Y'all, please keep an eye on all the little ones hopping, skipping, jumping, and singing through the Village just for a moment. I just need one...moment...

Much Love,

[Marianne]

Here's a chuckle and sincere wishes to Yukondiva and AwakeInADream, and everyone making an in-the-moment move away from smoking.

I like Greybeard's approach ... that's how I avoid desserts mostly. I say, I'll have some later. Then later I'm busy with something else and forget about it.

I've also heard that lobelia (lobelia inflata) is effective. It grows wild, I have made a tincture with it. It's very effective for asthma. Will open up your lungs like nobody's business. Don't ever eat it fresh in the wild unless you have someone with you who knows how to do it.

Interesting that it's a lung remedy, and smoking involves the lungs. Nature makes these connections ... I love noticing them.
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EDIT: This is NOT the lobelia you grow as a garden or window box flower. It's NOT the little blue flower with a low-growing pattern. It's a wild plant about a foot tall with a flower that looks like a tiny balloon (hence the Latin name 'inflata') ... not particularly attractive by the usual standards, but a powerhouse of a plant.

[RunningDeer]

To: YukonDiva & AwakeInADream

Here. Put these on. Come fly with Us.
They said you’d know what it means.

From: messenger pigeon

Posted by yukondiva (here)
I want to quit. I am asking for your thoughts to be directed towards my goal.

Posted by AwakeInADream (here)
I'm asking the Angels (Here and Now) to increase your will power 1000 times!

[yukondiva]

Thanks love the idea of the cone it could stop you from all sorts of bad habits.

[yukondiva]

Thank you I feel strong and smoked once today, tomorrow I am through went to town avoided the store now i just have to find juicy fruit gum in Costarica every gum is sugar free I would rather take sugar as the lesser of two evils.Day by day.

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by ulli (here)
I was on the Horus Ra thread myself, for a while. Had to ask myself why I would need that info at all, since I knew all along that my work here on earth was not along those lines. Neither in tracking down the members of those groups, nor in being the one who informs the world of their existence. I am certain there are others whose soul contract is about exposing and eradicating them, and who are therefore far more courageous than I.
Where focus goes, energy flows, and sure enough, after a short time of reading those pages I started to manifest unpleasant experiences. My job is about inspiring people to try and tap into their latent creativity, and find that occupation that they most enjoy, and drop out of the rat race, and leave unfulfilling jobs that make them feel miserable. Instead define exactly their vision and hold it until it becomes their reality.
So even in that we have choice, and a calling.

I agree, get some bad vibes from that thread too Ulli.

[AwakeInADream]

Me too! I want solutions not more problems. Why dwell?
Awareness is great, but once you wake up and smell the coffee, you don't want to bathe in it too.

EDIT:

My conspiracy hat makes me feel bad, so I only put it on for special occassions.LOL.

[Carmody]

My posts in the past 24 hours have been interesting.

I was out for a while, and when I came back the satellite dish was not working.

It was stuck on the cricket channel. but the image was blank. a sports, a game channel. But blank....As in "not cricket".

So I turned it on and off, and went back to my music channel.... and the tune that was playing, immediately said "This ain't no game", and then "I hope".

Such is the nature of the universe.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SC5jYNRLA-A

regarding sugar, the "trelahose" I listed earlier might be the way to go.....

http://metamodern.com/2010/09/15/tre...-repair-sweet/

[Marianne]

How about this?



Here's the reality I like ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg

[Marianne]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HTh8YYzlN5s

[AwakeInADream]

"I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, they're really saying, I love you!" That really cheered me up! thank's Marianne!

What a wonderful world! Indeed!

[AwakeInADream]

OK SYNCHRONICITY Right there! MLK video is 4m32s long! 432! That's my magic number, and many others besides here in the village!

I know what your really saying!('I love you'). What a magical world!