Good morning Exer's!! I haven't been around for a bit due to some very busy and yes, stressful times. Those times are now reaching a calm point once again. It's not any kind of issue but I mention this for a reason. You see, it wasn't until I was over the hump that I realized something. Something that is amazing and wonderful to me.
Never once during this stressful time did I even think about lighting a cigarette. To me this means that yes. Eventually over time we can disassociate smoking from life events. I always believed that this could eventually happen to us, but now it has become a reality! And that's not all.
There were so many things that I believed would eventually come true. Like finding peace and living a life of freedom. And one by one, these beliefs have become a reality. One by one, the things that used to torment me have vanished. One by one the evil urges and triggers have become a thing of the past, just as I believed they would.
The constant internal struggle is gone as well, just as I always believed it would be so long as I stuck to the path of freedom. So long as I never turned my eyes from the summit of Mt. Freedom.
I think there's an important lesson here for some of us. As we progress on our journeys we have to find a way to believe in ourselves. We have to find a way to believe that things really can be different. That by training a part of our minds to forget the very things that we used to long for, we can find peace. We have to believe that our freedom is so much more important to us then the alternative. But mostly we have to believe that we can go through the process that frees us and know in our very souls that this is what we want.
Once we can believe in a future without cigarettes and long for that, then eventually our belief will become a reality. Eventually we will find the peace that we always believed was there.
So I would say that it really is a good idea for some to take the daily pledge or come to the freedom train every day just so we can reinforce our belief in success. So that we can each day find the strength to get through because I can tell you that whatever it takes is worth it.
Give your mind and body whatever it might need to bolster the belief in success for as long as your thinking of success then it becomes pretty hard to think about failure. Walk each day with a belief that the next one will be better. With a belief that no matter what happens, we will eventually find that peace.
And guess what? Eventually that belief really does become a reality. We really do get to live that life we always believed was there. And when we reach the reality of what we always thought was there. When we take a moment to look at how our belief has become a reality. These are the days of joy that are so worth the trouble it takes to get there.
So get out there! Bolster that belief. Look to the reality that is just over the horizon and then one day, like me, you too will realize that your no longer living a belief. No, your living a reality that no one can take away from you! A reality that is a taste of life like you've never experienced life before. It's right there waiting for you. Believe in that reality and soon you'll be living it!
Keep your eye on the prize!!
ONWARD TO FREEDOM!!!
