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Pets Are Best For Relieving Stress

JonesCarpeDiem
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3 26 217
‎02-19-2017 08:00 AM

Pets Are Such A Blessing

Such A Stress Reliever

Unconditional Love

Makes All Of Us Believers.

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         I believe pets are a wonderful help to unfocus from ourselves and refocus in the moment.

         They calm and thus, enrich our lives.

         Hoggie was born 2 feet from my head.  We've been close ever since. I even took him with me when I went to Canada for a month.  We go outside every day so he can run and eat grass if he is so inclined until he's ready to come back in.

I can always tell he's ready to go back when he heads toward the gate.

         When I moved here from L.A. and built out my space, we built a place for him outside my window and under the deck and stairs so he can go outside and sit in the sun and always be protected from the coyotes that roam the canyons.

         At last count, rescued from a coyote's jaws, I believe he has either 5 or 6 lives left.

         I just wish he could decide what he wants to eat. I'm going to have to cancel that autoship.   🙂

      Please post a picture of your pet if you are so inclined.

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.