The goal of living is to survive well and happily. And some people believe that goal can be achieved with the help of drugs. Soon, they find themselves unable to achieve any real goals without leaning on the drugs like a crutch, and they find that the goals they were achieving on the drugs were not really desirable goals to begin with.

Then come the first attempts to quit using and end dependence on drugs and beat addiction. But using drugs has created a change in their physical...

Are you an addict? Do you feel like your life is in the pits because of your addiction? Do you feel so low in life that you don’t think you’ll ever get out of the dark hole you’re in?

Do you think that being an addict is the worst thing in your life? Well, it may be, but only if that’s where you stay and you don’t do whatever is necessary to change.

The process of getting out of your addiction, when you learn the right motivation...

by Jeremy Myers

Have your possessions become you? Spend more time organizing, cleaning and storing your hoard than actually using it? Are you a slave to payments for things that don’t have a place in your life? Perhaps it’s time to become chronically un-stuffed! Here’s how to do it without loosing your mind.

1. The ego and the stuff have become linked in your mind. The ego says “I need a huge house, if I downsize my friends will think I’m a...

This week I officially started my book tour. For many years I have done radio interviews promoting what I thought was going to be the soon release of my bookThe LifeQuake Phenomenonand then a sudden upheaval in my own LifeQuake journey would force me to put the book aside and deal with the health crisis du jour that was presenting itself at the moment. What each illness I encountered had in common was that they were incurable by modern medicine. Each time I went on a search to be...

Making the decision to give up smoking will no doubt be one of the best decisions ever made by just about any smoker out there.  The benefits of giving up smoking are tremendously rewarding.  Aside from protecting your health, prolonging your life and your physical appearance, giving up smoking can also do wonders for your wallet and budget  The average smoker spends up to five dollars per pack of cigarettes of $720 every year – all of which could be going to...

Addiction rehabilitation is a hard thing in itself, but making it harder is the criminal aspect of drug addiction. Due to the classifying of certain dangerous drugs as illegal, drug users are less open about their addiction and their need for help. Drug rehab should be available for all, even those who could not afford to be bailed out of jail.

A drug addict may have made the wrong decisions in taking drugs and eventually becoming dependent on it, but this should not be a reason...

If you are an addict or alcoholic, or both- then you are probably familiar with the term "Intervention". In fact, if you are an addict or alcoholic, the thought of an intervention is probably your worst nightmare. To all of a sudden find yourself duped or enticed by some means to show up somewhere, and when you walk in the door, SURPRISE! You find yourself in the middle of a room full of people that have by one way or another been affected by your addiction.

When this...

Once the all important decision has been made, a commitment has to be made to getting help; once there is an acknowledgement that there is a problem and that problem needs help to be tackled, then one goes on to the next step; that is choosing an alcohol rehab center. That imperative has been identified, that the alcohol rehab detox intervention is actually required and then you come to the next hurdle; how to choose the right alcohol rehab center.

Choosing the right alcohol...

For people who are struggling with drug addiction, the good news is that there are now many treatment programs available to help them with their recovery.  At one point in time, treatment programs for drug addiction were cold and stark addressing only the addiction itself not the psychological implications brought about by that addiction.

Now, the treatment programs that are available focus on healing not only the body but the mind as well.  They realize that drug...

Even though drug addiction is a complex disease, assigning a definition for that disease is actually quite simple.  Drug addiction is, in its simplest form, defined as the continued compulsive use of drugs in spite of adverse health or social consequences.

The definition of drug addiction should also include the fact that it is a state of heavy dependence on a specific drug.  Generally, it's thought of as a physical dependence, but in actuality, there is a...