Addiction hijacks our Brains!
It's the essence of our Recovery to re-claim our Brains!
We do that by recognizing and utilizing our Executive Control Functions purposely.
Science explains executive function like this:
Executive functions are self-regulating and control functions that direct and organize behavior. These include planning, decision making, directed goal selection, self-inhibiting, self-monitoring, self-evaluating, flexible problem-solving, initiation, and self-awareness (Zoltan, 1996).
Stop letting your Addiction rule your behavior!
You will have feelings and thoughts that motivate you to smoke - that's the nature of Addiction's effect on our Brains. But you also can decide to executively override those thoughts and feelings. We all have neuroplasticity - the ability to choose.
Today, this moment, any moment you can still your mind and reset your Brain. That's the proven fact behind Meditation. It works.
Meditation is defined:
"The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.”
Do it! What do you have to lose?
Your Addiction!
