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...

Any behavior that is repeated often enough becomes a habit. Once a habit become so engrained in your mind and body that normal processes are interfered with, the habit goes to the extreme of becoming an addiction. Unfortunately, in many ways these behaviors become part of your personality. In fact, they become part of your identity. Nevertheless, change is an option – if you have the know-how.

Your actions and thoughts become habits because your brain and body are set...

An addiction is like a heavy yoke placed on their shoulders. It takes away your happiness, love, steals your money and affects you personal development. Therefore, one way of effective living and improving your personal growth is to do away with any kind of addiction.

Drugs are not the only things you can be hook up on, but it ranges from things you cannot do without, either by watching, touching, doing or taking into your body. These things always end up affecting your living...

Teen drug abuse often starts unintentionally masked as “just smoking a cigarette” or “only smoking a joint”, or even “doing shots”.   But, it quickly progresses to harder drugs, some found right within your home or the home of a loved one.

With peer pressure to experiment with drugs, teens are turning right to their own medicine cabinets, experimenting with “soft drugs” such as cold medicines or even inhalants .  With...

With drug abuse so widespread, the choices for " target="_self" drug addiction treatment are overwhelming.  The key to successful drug rehab is finding the right program which focuses on the individual.  So many times, drug rehab programs take a “one size fits all” approach to treatment.  That’s simply not an effective way to start the journey to recovery and seldom results in continued sobriety.

There are several aspects that will determine the...

Drug addiction is a problem that is growing at an alarming rate, undermining the core values of our society.  Individuals are getting sucked in to this inevitable black hole of doom and climbing out takes the caring concern of someone who is willing to intervene and confront the individual with their addiction, without wavering.

Intervention is a difficult task, met with great resistance.  Often times when a drug addict is confronted they will get angry and sometimes...

Whether you have been given the ultimatum about never drinking alcohol again, or its a decision that you have consciously made and want to keep, then coping with the unknown is probably one of the most frightening parts. Situations that are all too familiar, will now have to have a different approach. Attitudes, and responses, to peoples reactions to your now tee-total lifestyle can be a daunting experience, and one that will not come naturally. By preparing yourself, beforehand, with...

"Moderation in all things", is a common phrase to describe a generalised approach to creating a healthy lifestyle and well-being. However, because it is a generalisation, it is left to the individual to decide their own level, and this is where the problem lies. People tend to under-estimate their intake, or use words like "slightly too much", or "maybe once in a while", thereby avoiding complete denial, but playing down the effects they may be...

Making the decision to never drink alcohol again can be made for a number of reasons. Previous history of alcohol abuse can have seriously damaged the internal organs, particularly the liver, to the point at which its performance is reduced. And that by restarting a regime of alcohol intake would put indue strain on it, to potentially fatal results, with therefore complete abstinence the only way of giving you the longest potential lifespan. Maybe refraining from drink is a more...