Mind & Body – Detox and Deconstruction
March 11, 2010 in Anna's Process Blog
So Im now a month into, a little over a month not smoking and on you can call it rehab in terms of eating with my emotions, eating to get high, eating to get energy and basically stimulating myself to get energy and to… well thats what Ive Realized after I started the diet and stopped smoking, because I have constant craving for smoking, eating, speaking, watching, basically anything that can give me the sense of being filled up or filling myself up, anything that is not just me Here keeping occupied, and its interesting because Ive noticed that there are like specific points, where I wanna smoke, it is particularly if I get stressed or if I get scared then I wanna smoke. Which could signify that that is where Ive not been able with stuff myself and have used cigarettes to control my reality and to give me a sense of comfort and safety within my world. So… something I find interesting is that when I first stopped smoking and I went on this eating rehab, detoxification programme, I thought that it was only gonna be a face or a while and then I would be able to go back to my habits, and Ive that thats not so that this is a complete change of, its basically the beginning of a complete change of who I am, which is going to have to Stand. Im not saying that I might not eat differently at some point, but at this point, what I realize is that the way Ive been attached to eating, the way Ive been eating, the way Ive been drinking, the way Ive been stimulating myself, is so completely engrained within me, where Ive diluted myself and been dishonest with myself and made excuses and justifications so I cant possibly go back to just eat what I want to, because its not what I want to. How I taste, what I feel like eating, feeling of hunger, of thirst its not real. Its not based on the body saying: I need nutrition now, I Require fuel to be able to function. So Ive basically fucked up my whole physical system in terms of making it into a mind-fuelling system, which we obviously have in other perspectives as well, but this is like very specific, like I said: eating with my emotions. And even now after a month, I find it extremely difficult and Im surprised how difficult it is. At the same time, Im determined. Im going to, Im going through it, Im walking through it, Im doing it but every day I Realize something about how intense and how attached this system is within me. I dont even know who I am, because how can I know who I am, when I experience a craving for something and it gives me a stomach ache, and its basically not optimal in any way for body, how can I say I know who I am, I mean I know who I am as an addict, I know who… I know what satisfies my addiction. I know what my addiction requires, to be able to sustain itself, because thats the tricky part it is to, for the addiction to sustain itself, its not to actually get rid of the craving. I realized earlier today as I was scratching a mosquito bite, that its basically the same principle the more you scratch, the more it itches.












I just wanted to send you a little message to say how much you are inspiring me right now.
I first found you on the desteni website, and just watched this video from the community tab on the desteni sight.
I am going through the same process as you as well, and like you said, you know you aren’t alone, and I felt like you were speaking directly to my heart! Directly to the part of myself that knows the show is over.
When you said you had fantasies about just wanting to eat pizzas and watch movies and not give a fuck anymore, I was laughing out loud, not because it’s funny, but because I used laughter as a coping mechanism to the fear I was feeling because I have those same thought sometimes and realize that I can’t do that anymore and I’m scared to let go.
Please keep posting your process!
Hi Anna, thanks for sharing this. I don’t smoke but I found your video supportive, especially the metaphor of the mosquito bite –
You know?, I wasn’t aware about this eating by taste and not by body requirement thing. I actually haven’t really thought too much about food and my eating habits, and you have opened this little of window I’m starting to explore – thanks!
Cool – yeah, it’s not only smoking or foods, but for me those have been the ‘drugs of choice’, but it seems that all addictions play out the same way, where we believe we need something that we do not actually need.