You know smoking is harmful to your health, but you continue to smoke. The only thing actually stopping you from breaking free of your smoking addiction, however, is your mind. Meditation can help strengthen your resolve to quit smoking. It can also help by empowering you to overcome the restlessness, anxiety and agitation you experience when trying to quit.
Instructions
1. Lie down. Begin your meditation by breathing deeply through your abdomen. Feel your abdomen slowly rise and fall with each respective inhalation and exhalation. Once you begin to feel more relaxed, envision yourself without your smoking addiction. Imagine yourself feeling completely free. See yourself living an active and healthy lifestyle.
2. Focus more on your breathing. When you inhale, imagine bright white light coming into your body. Feel it clear your lungs of all negativity. Visualize your smoking addiction as a dark, thick cloud filled with suffering and guilt. As you exhale, imagine this cloud leaving your body and vanishing completely.
3. Repeat step two for at least 15 minutes.
4. Imagine your smoking addiction as a chain that binds you so tightly that you cannot move. Visualize how it has prevented you from living the kind of life you truly desire. Feel the pain your addiction has caused you. Begin to contemplate why you started smoking as you continue to visualize your addiction as a chain.
5. As you inhale, picture a huge hammer above one of the links of the chain. As you exhale, visualize shattering the chain link completely with the hammer.
6. Repeat step six for at least l5 minutes, or longer if you like. Feel yourself become freer from the chains of your addiction with every exhalation.
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