Stopping a Habit

Many wonder how one is comfortable partaking in a bad habit, you see a man smoking tobacco and wonder how he’s comfortable doing this despite the harm the action would cause. You see a woman commercialising her body, and you wonder as well.

Pause for a minute and examine yourself, think back to a bad habit that you were able to let go of… ask yourself, what helped you to drop this habit? Then you will see the gap that still exists in the lives of those who still partake in bad habits.

Inner conviction, a strong volition and discipline strengthens all actions! While ignorance, indolence and doubt encourages bad habits. I personally have sat down to reflect on this deeply, and I have come to realize that once upon a time, I was deep into certain bad habits, and despite corrections from experienced persons, I did not consider changing my ways until experience, the best universal teacher, came to school me which ultimately strengthened my conviction that the habit I was indulging in was truly bad for me.

However, the road to stopping said bad habit is not a smooth one. Picture this: one has dug themselves so deep into a hole and they are struggling to climb out, occasionally falling back into this hole. That’s the journey towards stopping a bad habit, a deep hole one has dug for themselves. However, with the grace of the Universal Laws, when one has a strengthen inner volition and continuous inner longing, one is able to attract that which he seeks.

The Lecture, the human words from the Book “ In the Light of Truth” explained that “… do not imagine that promises are fulfilled according to their wording and thus grow to deeds, unless at the same time the speaker bears the purest intentions in his soul; but the words form that which from out of the inner most being of the speaker simultaneously vibrates with them”.

Through inner conviction and a strengthened volition, one is able to begin the journey towards ending bad habits