How Meditation Can Help You Stop Smoking
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: advice, coaching, environment, fitness, habits, happiness, health, management, meditation, other, self help, smoking, stress management, success, UncategorizedIf you would like to give up smoking, you will have to use each weapon in the armoury, but above all you ought to decide on a key technique that you believe will help you.
This may be cold turkey, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, gradual reduction or meditation. It is rather senseless to attempt acupuncture if you do not have faith in it.
There are two factors why it is difficult to give up smoking: psychological dependence and physical addiction and you have to tackle both of these fronts at the same time if you are to be successful.
The psychological addiction is frequently related to stress or so lots of smokers claim while the physical dependence may be as trivial as not knowing what to do with your hands.
One of the most natural methods to deal with stress is meditation. It requires no tablets, no oils, nothing; only a blanket. Meditation can be carried out either in conjunction with exercise like Yoga or on its own. Meditation is one of the best stress-busters and may actually cure some illnesses through willpower alone according to ancient Indian scripts.
No doctors have ever vilified Yoga or meditation like they have acupuncture, aromatherapy and some of the other ‘alternative therapies’. It stands to reason that if meditation can relieve stress and stress is a grounds for smoking, that meditation can help you give up smoking too.
In the Developed World, we tend to think of gurus meditating in some contorted posture in the middle of a field, on a beach or on the top of a mountain. Although some people do meditate like this, it is a bit silly of to think that you have to. Most individuals in the Developed World and in the East meditate quietly sitting on a mat in the house or in the garden.
You will have to purchase a book or training video on yoga, meditation techniques and breathing exercises. Perhaps you ought to do some research on Google first to see whether you are interested in yoga, but you ought to learn some breathing exercises because they can unwind you in seconds.
Before meditating it is customary to have a shower and brush your teeth et cetera. Then sit on a blanket in an open space where you are not likely to be disturbed. Your book will almost certainly instruct you to do some breathing exercises first.
The effects of this meditation session ought to last nearly all day, so it is a wise idea to do one in the morning and one in the evening. Thirty minutes a session should be enough, but you will almost certainly want to go on for longer. While you are in work, you will be able to ‘top up’ your calmness with a minute of breathing exercises as required.
Meditation is the cheapest and most healthy manner of quitting smoking and you will learn techniques that will help you for the rest of your life. If you need to use nicotine patches and gum, there is no reason why you should not.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, is currently involoved with quitting smoking statistics. If you are interested in quitting, visit our website now: Health Risks to Smoking
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