Guidance From Cyberspace

[ratz2thaquene]

  Damn whoever created smoking...Oh wait, it was MY ANCESTORS, so scratch that...well whoever Created Tobacco, Oh wait, that was CREATOR. So DAMN, no one but me to blame for abusing it! Hmmmm, sucks donitt? The following sums it up for me...borrowed from a facebook friend.

"Be courageous...
Who ever said it would be easy... But living with an ache to experience the destiny of my creation was really no fun... I wanted to begin again... Big. Bright. As me being completely me.... Yet there I was, scared out of my mind... that I wouldn’t...couldn't make it.... I wanted to be seen and yet I cowered at the idea.
What changed? I began to want me...my great and amazing life...more than I wanted to be safe... More than I cared about failing... Or being rejected. ..I wanted this life I dreamed up. It was all I cared about... So I embraced the discomfort of stepping out of my comfort zone.
This simple act of courage... I found my place in the world. ... I checked inside myself.... Asked for help....Made beautiful changes.... And kept on going....that is the key ....to keep on going...
It’s a choice.... One of daring... One of love.... For yourself. ...For your dreams... It’s a big deal to let go of the comfortable bubble created by fear and journey into the world of what it is you are living to create... Yet, it is just a choice... One that you can make at any time... Choose to stop caring what others will think... Choose to embrace the idea that sometimes things will get messy... Choose to know that failure can only come if you give up... Let yourself feel uncomfortable and you will come to quickly know that it is not the end of the world...
In fact, it may be the beginning....
Courageous..."

[beckie-56]

It is fear that holds us back.  Go for it!  It is not as scary as it seems in the beginning! 🙂

[Strudel]

Fear is indeed the thing that holds us back. I still - even after over 620 days - remember all those YEARS of thinking there was no way I could live without smoking! However, once I BELIEVED that I could (from the reading and the support here) and after each day of success building confidence to face the next - I found out that there actually was nothing to be afraid of!! This life of freedom is SO VERY MUCH worth the short time of discomfort!! It is SO worth it!! Believe!! 

[ratz2thaquene]

Thank you Beckie& Strudel...for me, fear is an acronym for FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL...And it can consume me!

I have smoked so long that it occurrs to me, I DON"T KNOW HOW TO NOT SMOKE! So I am learning. So I am learning.

I heard in a meeting last night that I am "...just a puff away from a pack a day...". I also heard that being Nicotine free is wonderfully soothing; smoking is stressful.

So at present this is a mental/Spiritual basket for me and I am quite analyzing way too much...escaping the inevitable fact that to quit, I MUST first put out the smoke and take the leap to believe that I will be ok without nicotine! Again the fear...sticks in my throat.

But as Hellen Keller said (paraphrased) "the only way through to the other side, is through it..."

Frankly, I feel as though I'm going to a hanging...not knowing what it will feel like, what happens to me, how long it will take or even IF I can get through TO the other side. Planning on spending a day of prayer tomorrow, in the presence of Power where I feel safe.

Lyn

[owlfeather]

Now how did I miss you?  Oh wait... I had moved and was without internet....

This is a great blog, and how goes it with you now?  

I also like the way you make me laugh.  

"Humor is the WD-40 of healing." (Wilson Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds)

Gonna friend you, hope to hear way more from you

Owl