control your addictions to control your reality
hi everyone! missed yall sm!!
todayās post will be a cross-over between loass & self-dev, hope you like it!
first of all, I wanna preface this by saying that Iām absolutely not gonna impose limitations on what you need to do in order to manifest. manifestation is simple, and you donāt need to āfixā anything within yourself in order to manifest.
and I am ofc not here to shame you for struggling with addictions, just offering a mindset perspective on them. also, my advice is not medical & this post mainly refers to everyday unhealthy habits so donāt apply it to severe or clinical-level addictions without seeking a professional.
when I say urges, I am not talking about actively wanting to do x thing that society might deem unacceptable or excessive. for example, wanting to just spend your day doing nothing out of genuine desire, even if others would call you lazy for that. rather, I am talking about you, within yourself & according to your own code, feeling quite unhappy during/after your actions because thatās genuinely not how you wanna use up your time & energy.
also, I donāt subscribe to the grind/male-centric idea of what it means to be disciplined. to put it simply, if you feel out of control when it comes to your actions & habits + out of control when it comes to what manifests or plays out in your reality, then youāre describing two sides of the same coin.
because the path to mastering manifestation can look different for everyone. this is what I realised when I delved into what techniques work for me and when I noticed how different things like mental discipline & manifestation correlate. if this post doesnāt resonate w you & youāre alr happy with how manifesting is going for you, then wipe it off your mind.
at the end of the day, I am writing this cos I know thereās others like me who both value discipline & want to have a say in what happens in their reality ā and who upon reading this post, will be motivated to work more towards that. like I said lack of discipline & feeling out of control are both issues with the same root cause, so if you fix one, youāre fixing both. and with that, letās dive in!
2. the path to self-trust
if you are someone who truly feels like you canāt trust yourself when it comes to promises you make to yourself: saying stuff like oh! today I will do x, y, & z but you donāt and end up feeling genuinely dissatisfied with how you acted today, then youāre probably feeling out of control when it comes to life itself. and thatās not a cute look for a master manifestor. if you canāt do something as simple as command your brain to not indulge in addictions, then are you truly capable of directing your brain when comes to your thoughts on your reality? because at the end of the day, urges are just that: thoughts.
if you canāt even control your mind in terms of what you crave, can you control your focus & reactions to the 3d? if you canāt control your urges & impulses, can you truly say that you can control your thoughts & state-of-being? can you truly be firm when things donāt appear your way? sure you might manifest successes here and there, but are you confident enough to say that you have mastered reality?
discipline builds self-trust, when you can keep the promises you make to yourself, you show cohesion and trust within all of your mind. your mind is not on board with your plans only when youāre in the mood. you donāt just affirm when you feel like it. and self-trust is sexy because it builds self-confidence, and that builds your self-concept! so if you want a more āactionableā way to build self-concept, start with building discipline & self-trust!
3. disciplined mind = disciplined reality
I promise you when you start doing the things that you actually wanna do, not the things you feel pressured or urged to do, reality will feel quite controllable. you wonāt be spiralling because if you can control your urges, you sure as hell can control your other emotional states. ofc emotions donāt manifest, but doesnāt it feel fvcking great to be stable and calm at all times?
I am not here to shame you into changing, esp. when youāre happy with how things are going. I am not here to say uāre ālazyā or ālacking drive.ā quite the contrary! for me, becoming more discipline was about working LESS and becoming devoted to what I personally want, not what society wants. the more disciplined I became, the more fun I introduced into my life, because I donāt do things cos I āhaveā to or because I āneedā to, I do them because I WANT and I CAN & so now my desires have no choice but to show up, not because they have/need to but because I want them to & I know I can do it.
hereās a challenge for you: can you control your mind enough to the point where quitting anything feels effortless? can you live every moment of your day in accordance to how you see the ideal version of you living? because that right there is true self control!
personally, I like this challenge because it is easy to track & evaluate. for context, when I decided that I will become someone disciplined, someone who keeps herself in check despite wtv emotions I am feeling, I used both loass & traditional self-dev techniques to make that work, and guess what? months later, I am still as disciplined as I wanted to be.
why? because I shifted my identity to be a disciplined person. and if youāve been here long enough, you know that identity shifting is the most āautomaticā way to get what you want. so as a by-product of this shift, I noticed that I got better at sticking to my true story & instant manifestation. getting what I want felt effortless cos my mind, now disciplined, can never make things difficult for me, not mentally or emotionally.
5. the psychology of discomfort
and speaking of emotions, I wanna elaborate more on the emotional/psychological pov to why controlling yourself is the key to controlling your life. becoming a disciplined person requires sitting with discomfort. discomfort of what? discomfort of thoughts that youāre ignoring. if you cannot sit down with unpleasant thoughts, do you really think you change them? if someone truly believes theyāre rich, do you think theyād scroll through their phone all day to avoid thinking about a bill thatās coming up?
when you face your thoughts & donāt run away from them, you⦠a. learn their depth and true form, b. understand that theyāre just thoughts, and c. get real-time opportunity to flip your thoughts instead of letting them run in the background.
you have to start seeing your addictions as signals, signals that you have some type of fear which was born out of some type of thought that you need to address. and you can address it through traditional healing techniques like journalling or meditation and/or loass techniques such as flipping your thoughts or some form of saturation.
addiction = fear = unaligned thoughts
higher self trust ā higher self confidence ā higher self concept
disciplining yourself means youāve mastered ur mind and w it reality
using a combination of healing & manifesting techniques to become more self-disciplined will teach you a lot about how to manifest, such as how to build ur self concept & identity shift
and thatās all! hope u liked this one. I am open to hearing your thoughts about this post & sparking a discussion, whether you agree or disagree. thanks for reading & good luck manifesting your dreams <3
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