| Marijuana addiction is becoming more and more | | | | The benefits of meditation are twofold. Firstly it gives |
| common as availability and ease of access to this | | | | you another activity to take the place of smoking pot |
| "soft" drug increases. Many people cling to the high | | | | which enables you to spend your time on something |
| they get from pot and continually smoke to keep that | | | | healthier for you and replaces that time block in your |
| high going as often as they can meanwhile they sink | | | | life you once filled with an addiction. Secondly while |
| further and further into addiction until it does not | | | | meditating you can free your mind and body from the |
| become an enjoyable experience but an absolute | | | | daily pains and bothers of life and can separate |
| need. Unlike cigarettes and other drugs however | | | | yourself from your anxieties cutting off that |
| marijuana addiction is not a physical or chemical | | | | psychological craving that may be bugging you. Some |
| addiction but a psychological one which is where using | | | | find after meditation it does come back but repeated |
| meditation to quit marijuana can help people overcome | | | | meditation eventually alleviates such things. People also |
| this problem. | | | | find a certain "high" from meditation that is natural and |
| Pot, weed, cannabis, hash or whatever your name for | | | | healthy that they can use as a substitute for pot as |
| it, marijuana can take a hold of ones life much like an | | | | well which is beneficial to all parts of their life. |
| alcohol or gambling addiction in that there is no cravings | | | | Some claim that meditation is just a replacement |
| for chemicals like nicotine in cigarettes but there is a | | | | addiction or action and does not solve the root cause |
| craving for the high you get from the action. Gamblers | | | | of why someone became addicted to marijuana in the |
| are addicted to the high of winning so much they will | | | | first place. Many take up such an addiction to get |
| risk everything they have to get that high once more | | | | away from some pain in their lives and feel pot gives |
| and the same goes for any psychological addiction. It is | | | | them an escape. I also believe this is true but you |
| a dependence on that high they experienced the first | | | | cannot solve these problems while you have an |
| times but it becomes dangerous when it gets out of | | | | addiction but having the will to look at your life and find |
| hand leading to problems with health, money and social | | | | what it is that has driven you to such measures is |
| aspects of their lives. | | | | very important and using meditation can be much |
| This means there are no patches or chewing gum that | | | | easier. From a lack of direction in ones life to physical |
| can help you overcome cravings for marijuana; the | | | | assault at home to high stress jobs psychological drug |
| cravings are simply a want so bad it feels like a need. | | | | addition has many causes that need to be addressed. |
| This means everyone has a different way of coping | | | | So it is my firm belief that using meditation to quit |
| with psychological addictions to make themselves | | | | marijuana does work and can only be a good thing for |
| realize they do not need to smoke pot and can have | | | | those that try and may lead you to a better state of |
| the willpower to quit. Meditation is one way that people | | | | being in a spiritual sense and a more stable life in a |
| have used to quit successfully because of its calming | | | | very realistic sense. |
| and introspective effects. | | | | |