Some tips to consider in simple addiction:
{ Posted on Aug 31 2006 by hans }
- Willpower. You’re often stronger than you think, so the key would lie in understanding how a simple addiction can hurt you.
- Small steps. Addicted to ice cream or a bottle of beer before bed? Don’t go cold turkey! You’ll obsess about it all the more. Instead try reducing your intake little by little until you discover that you can do without it.
- Substitution. This works best for those with simple addictions to certain types of food.
- Medication and religious practice. Many mild addicted persons find that long periods of quiet sitting, either of the religious kind Zen, yoga, prayer) or secular concentration exercises, help center the mind and reduce the addictive urge.
- Exercise. Exercise aids in detoxification and can help take the edge of the addictive need.
- Good nutrition. Particularly important for the food-addicted, a good diet can help in detoxification and helps a person addicted to dangerous substances (nicotine, drugs, etc.) recover lost strength.
- Herbal remedies. Angelica root tea and bugle weed are just two of the many remedies available in health food stores that can help relieve complex addictions to drugs.
- De-stressing. Travel, get together with friends, and relax; these can kick both simple and complex addictions.
- Acupuncture, acupressure and hypnotherapy. Self-applied acupressure techniques to reduce the urge for cigarettes or alcohol and to suppress overeating are widely used.
- General alternative medicines. More people are using homeopathy, chiropractic, rolfing (deep muscle massage used as physical and emotional therapy), massage, light and heat therapy, energy healing, and other non-orthodox therapies to control tension and relieve physical dependencies.