Bad habits — how to get rid of them?

We can substitute one concept for another, but the real story is all about ignorance and addiction. It is an absence of spiritual manifestation.

There must be strength, aspiration, conviction, belief in this aspiration and a high goal. If a person does not have a higher goal or does not strive for it, their energy manifests itself through vicious actions.

If one relies only on external means to overcome bad habits, such as smoking or alcohol consumption, over time this attachment may reappear due to circumstances. A person who is able to look at a cigarette and not get cravings or be drawn to it is free and doesn’t have to fight with themselves.

The same can be said about self-development.

This knowledge is here, but you keep getting distracted.Usually, it is an external influence. A person is being manipulated through the mind, attachments, emotional reactions – these are the infernal forces at work.

I suggest a very simple and effective way of dealing with habits or mind programmes.

Take a sheet of paper and divide it into two parts. On the left, write down what you want to be free of. On the right, write down what you want to have, who you see yourself as. For example, on one side you write down — “I am lazy”, on the other one — “I am strong-willed”. Once you’ve made your whole list, you cut off the left side and burn it, shifting your attention completely to the right side — to who you want yourself to be. And now you work through each of these items, repeatedly rereading and working through the list all at once or each item individually.

Little by little, old habits will leave you because you focus on the positive, on what you want to have, and through this you will achieve your destiny. Why? Because you have analysed it and approached it mindfully.

This technique can be used by those who do not know spiritual discipline, because if one is engaged in spiritual practice, then there is no need for this method. Sadhana itself — the spiritual practice — balances everything out.

Master Imram

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