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I love Smoking and I hate Cigarettes. A practical guide to quit smoking the yogic way.
The book is not a stressful read; it is a fun read. It has message, humor, parables and a yogic process to overcome the habit of smoking.
Throwing away your cigarettes is not as big a deal. It is never picking one up again that is hard. Before you can come off any habit, it may help you to understand the nature of habits. Any form of addiction is a type of habit that has overpowered you. Habits are fulfilled through the body but they live in your mind. Your mind is the source of all actions.
Not everyone can quit cold turkey. It may make perfect sense on a piece of paper but quitting cold turkey is not designed for everyone. In this short book, I will introduce you to three different approaches designed for different individuals. As the first step, you will be required to pick an approach. Thereafter, I am going to share with you a simple program to come off your habit of smoking. It is a three minute process followed by two easy yogic exercises you will need to do regularly to tame your mind, which, in turn, will help you to gain extraordinary will power and stability.
Smoking is not the cause of all your problems. Like any other habit, it is a habit. Like most other habits, this too offers you certain fulfillment; right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad, that is besides the point at this stage. Society labels certain habits as addictions. In a way, most people are addicted; such addictions may range from internet to iPod, from Sudoku to speeding, from cigarettes to cinema, from comics to caffeine, from Facebook to fornication, from overeating to oversleeping. They may or may not be hazardous. The bottom they are all habits.
The fundamental reason of your smoking is that there is no reason. Actions do not become habits based on any reasoning or rationale. If you are going to adopt a logical approach, the mathematical type, to quit smoking, it is not going to work. You did not start smoking after some analysis of pros and cons, of right or wrong, of benefits and harms; by the same token, no cogitation or deliberation can act as the primary trigger for you to come off smoking. Such analytical conclusions may be instrumental, they may inspire you, or even help you to some degree but you cannot hope to quit smoking on such reasoning alone.
If you are the average smoker, that means you probably took up smoking at a very young age; I am specifically referring to taking your first puff below the legal age. Maybe it was peer pressure, or maybe it looked cool, or maybe you had a troubled childhood. Whatever be the cause or the time, the fact is you started it when it did not seem to matter as much. Your priorities were different at the time and so was your mindset. And that is okay. Do not punish yourself for that.
If you can accept the fact that you will have to undergo a period of trial and tribulation, your chances of quitting for good become much higher. The good news is that this is going to be a short phase. Almost all smokers try to quit smoking at least once in their lifetime. They may do so even for a day. But they try. They often fail because they are not prepared to face the withdrawal symptoms. Each time you quit and take up smoking again, you weaken your will power. If you do take it up again, do not feel guilty about it. Stay positive. We will try one more time.
It has been deliberately priced at the average price of a pack of smokes. You let go off a pack to read this. This eBook is written by a monk who spent a significant time in meditating in the Himalayas. It is a short read with just under 7,000 words.
Throwing away your cigarettes is not as big a deal. It is never picking one up again that is hard. Before you can come off any habit, it may help you to understand the nature of habits. Any form of addiction is a type of habit that has overpowered you. Habits are fulfilled through the body but they live in your mind. Your mind is the source of all actions.
Not everyone can quit cold turkey. It may make perfect sense on a piece of paper but quitting cold turkey is not designed for everyone. In this short book, I will introduce you to three different approaches designed for different individuals. As the first step, you will be required to pick an approach. Thereafter, I am going to share with you a simple program to come off your habit of smoking. It is a three minute process followed by two easy yogic exercises you will need to do regularly to tame your mind, which, in turn, will help you to gain extraordinary will power and stability.
Smoking is not the cause of all your problems. Like any other habit, it is a habit. Like most other habits, this too offers you certain fulfillment; right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad, that is besides the point at this stage. Society labels certain habits as addictions. In a way, most people are addicted; such addictions may range from internet to iPod, from Sudoku to speeding, from cigarettes to cinema, from comics to caffeine, from Facebook to fornication, from overeating to oversleeping. They may or may not be hazardous. The bottom they are all habits.
The fundamental reason of your smoking is that there is no reason. Actions do not become habits based on any reasoning or rationale. If you are going to adopt a logical approach, the mathematical type, to quit smoking, it is not going to work. You did not start smoking after some analysis of pros and cons, of right or wrong, of benefits and harms; by the same token, no cogitation or deliberation can act as the primary trigger for you to come off smoking. Such analytical conclusions may be instrumental, they may inspire you, or even help you to some degree but you cannot hope to quit smoking on such reasoning alone.
If you are the average smoker, that means you probably took up smoking at a very young age; I am specifically referring to taking your first puff below the legal age. Maybe it was peer pressure, or maybe it looked cool, or maybe you had a troubled childhood. Whatever be the cause or the time, the fact is you started it when it did not seem to matter as much. Your priorities were different at the time and so was your mindset. And that is okay. Do not punish yourself for that.
If you can accept the fact that you will have to undergo a period of trial and tribulation, your chances of quitting for good become much higher. The good news is that this is going to be a short phase. Almost all smokers try to quit smoking at least once in their lifetime. They may do so even for a day. But they try. They often fail because they are not prepared to face the withdrawal symptoms. Each time you quit and take up smoking again, you weaken your will power. If you do take it up again, do not feel guilty about it. Stay positive. We will try one more time.
It has been deliberately priced at the average price of a pack of smokes. You let go off a pack to read this. This eBook is written by a monk who spent a significant time in meditating in the Himalayas. It is a short read with just under 7,000 words.
40 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 29, 2012
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Om Swami
40 books566 followersOm Swami is a mystic who lives in the Himalayan foothills. Prior to renunciation, he founded and ran a multimillion-dollar software company with offices across the world.
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