Compulsiveness and Habits – Signs of Being Trapped
(Break Bad Habits With Breath)
While habits and compulsiveness are common, they can also act like powerful lighthouses warning us about where we are headed and if disaster awaits us.
Almost all habits in some way or other create difficulties – in terms of physical or mental health, within family, financially, in social settings, at place of work and with colleagues and associates, with friends and loved ones and in almost all areas of life.
Very often, one is aware of their ‘bad’ habits but feel incapable of breaking them. To conceal their inability or weakness, they often pretend to be disinterested in breaking the habit. They ACT as if they are in control and are just not dependent on anything…but they are basically too weak to break their habits.
It’s true, breaking habits has never been easy and never will be. That doesn’t lessen their ill effects and damage in innumerable ways.
The real weakness that anyone with habits has is their unwillingness to challenge themselves.
And, the secret reason behind their weakness and unwillingness is the fact their energy is STUCK. Their energy, being stuck at a certain chakra or level of consciousness incapacitates them and leaves them feeling incapable of overcoming or kicking their debilitating habits.
However, people who are strong-willed usually kick their habits without too much difficulty.
These strong-willed people often have a powerful ally in their lifestyle or practices.
For example, those into yoga, pranayama, music, dance, wellness etc manage to move their energy relatively easily. Often, with a little extra effort they are able to kick their habits.
They might easily pick up other habits…but at least they’ve succeeded in overcoming their old ones.
The new habits may take time to become strongly ingrained or established in them and before they become too strongly established they can be moved and overcome.
In this, pranayama or breathwork can play a very powerful role because breath can move energy higher (or lower in some instances, too) and dislodge the stuck energy from its current location where it may be hard to move otherwise.
In this, breathwork and other sadhana can play a critical role and help one break through.
Adopt simple pranayama techniques to start with and learn to move your energy with ease. For more powerful results, connect with those who’ve done long and serious work with their breath and have discovered the power of breath first-hand.
This is one area where long first-hand experience and observation is far more powerful than training formally at an institution.
Here’s a short list of long-term habits that I’ve kicked:
Smoking – 40 years, with 40 sticks a day for 20 years.
Potty – sitting a very long time on the toilet seat;
Drinking Alcohol – decades of nearly daily drinking although in limited quantities;
Sex and Masturbation – free of all compulsiveness and need.
Moping – thinking and rethinking about what was and may have been;
These are some that come to mind readily but surely there are many others that will strike me soon after I finish writing this piece.
Breathwork can help in ways that little else can. In the process it can help you overcome and cure many small and big ailments, conditions and worse.
DON’T WAIT!
Start right now…with belly breathing, first. And continue to dive deeper to help you sculpt a new and more glorious version of YOU! And, in this, your breath will be your chisel and your hammer!
– rajyogi (rajesh kanoi)
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