Exercise..A Natural Stress Reliever

First of all, I’m not a doctor…so before you start any exercise program, make sure you consult with your physician and get a check-up to make sure you can start a program. If he or she clears you, then get started!

Probably one of the best stress reducers is exercise. There is a lot of research that has been showing how exercise can improve your overall well-being. Let’s face it,  it really does make it harder to “self-destruct” by abusing drugs and alcohol when you are trying to build up your body at the same time through a vigorous exercise program. When you start focusing on your overall health, then sometimes we put that destructive behavior on the back burner.

Now I’m not saying to start out by running a marathon, but take baby steps by walking or jogging at a light pace. Gradually increase the time you exercise each day, and you wil be surprised at how quickly you will improve.

I was listening to a story of an individual who was struggling with a Heroin addiction.  He was describing how his life was falling apart, and how his mind and body were wasting away by using the toxin. He admitted that he had an “addictive” personality and his game plan wasn’t to try to eliminate his addictive personality (sometimes difficult), but rather channel that personality into a “positive” addiction, namely exercise.

Well years later he was showing the world how he was now a “triatholon” participant, and would jog and swim and bike ride each and every day. He was sober now for over 15 years

So there is hope, and like I said, start off slowly. Give yourself a pat on the back after you walk your first mile. Take a deep breath and say thank you God for another day, and that you are getting stronger on a daily basis. Develop some positive habits and routines, and before you know it, some of those bad habits will be replaced with good ones that will lead to ultimate health.

Remember, we are always praying for you, and believe that God will eventually intervene in your life. Be patient and live by faith, your breakthough could be right around the corner.

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Friends-Be Cautious With That Term

You really have to be a little cautious these days with whom you are calling, or better yet labeling, your friend. Many of us just throw that term out  there with even casual acquaintances. It seems that we are naturally longing for more and more friends.

This holds especially true if you are in a “vulnerable” state of mind. Perhaps you are struggling with an addiction. Maybe you are having trouble in a relationship and you ask that assumed “friend” for advice on how to mend you relationship.  Suppose that person s coming off their own broken marriage or broken relationship.  They could be angry at the opposite sex and start telling you how to “get even” rather then make amends.

W really have to be careful with who we take advice from. Sometimes people mean well, but what worked for them might be totally opposite for you.

If you need sound loving direction then open up the bible. I like the book of Proverbs. Start reading through that and its unbelievable how what was said thousands of years ago still pertains to today’s events and ailments. Even addictions are addressed from a Christian perspective.

Here at Christian Help For Addiction Online we hope to provide some Godly insights into improving your life. This life will come with trials and struggles, and we have to learn to navigate it in a healthy way. Self-medicating with alcohol and or drugs is not a healthy way, mainly because there are usually health consequences. Start picking up some healthy habits to cope and deal with the stress. If you need guidance in finding a “healthy lifestyle” then seek professional help. It will pay great dividends in the long run.

Why Receive Christian Premarital Counseling?

“Love is long suffering, and is kind; love has no envy, love is not boastful, love does not behave itself inappropriately, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices not in injustice, but rejoices in the truth; love bears all things, believes everything, endures everything” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).

 

 

 

These beautiful words hold us to a high standard. That is why it has been said that before marriage one ought to open our eyes wide, but afterwards keep them half closed. In order to hold up this standard, so necessary for a marriage to work, we need to choose wisely. To decide if you are ready for marriage, you need to choose someone you can trust, because distrust erodes a relationship, and so does undeserved trust. You also need to know what your responsibilities to the marriage partner are so that you can evaluate yourself realistically. These two things can be done with the help of pre-marital therapy.

 

 

 

Why do you need Christian pre-marital therapy? The quote above is from the Bible. The greatest book of love is the Bible. The book of Luke is considered by many to be the most beautiful book ever written. The book of Luke, as well as the gospels of Mathew, Mark, and John, tells how Jesus died to save us – the believers and now the church- from our sins. “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, giving himself up for it” (Ephesians 5:25). God is the expert, par excellence, on love.

 

 

 

There is nothing wrong with going to a psychologist, a social worker, a professional counselor, or a psychiatrist for pre-marital and marital therapy. In fact I would encourage you because churches sometimes give only six sessions of pre-marital couple therapy, or group pre-marital therapy with non professional married couples as group leaders and this is barely just enough. Many couples who have received pre-marital therapy say that it helped them but that they wish they had received more therapy. There is so much need in the church for marital, family, addiction, and other kinds of counseling, that there is not enough pre-marital therapy. I would recommend supplementing the church’s pre-marital therapy with other pre-marital counseling.

 

 

 

However, Christian pre-marital counseling adds a dimension that secular therapies do not usually have. For example, the Christian counselor advises couples not to have sex before marriage. In his book on dating, Boy Meets Girl, Pastor Joshua Harris explains how a manager of a hotel for honeymooners would run out of activities for the newly married to do. This was because the now bored couples had pre-marital sex. Whereas, Joshua and his wife, who did not have sex prior to marriage, hardly left their room!

 

 

 

In the city where I live there is a saying among the non-believers. They say that marriage kills sex. But it is not marriage that kills sex, but pre-marital sex that kills marriage. I knew of one couple that lived together and had sex everyday before to marriage. After marriage, the wife confided, they had sex once a month. It is not worth it to ruin twenty five or more years of marital sex for one year or even less of pre-marital sex.

 

 

 

If you are contemplating marriage and you are living together, you must move apart and stop having sex for a time until you get married under the guidance of the pastor or Christian counselor. Physical intimacy is like a battery. It becomes charged with non sexual activities and gives off energy with sex. Do not skip that pre-marriage charging time.

 

 

 

When thinking about what pre-marital therapy is, people have different points of view. One woman tells how she was looking forward to marital therapy thirty years ago. “I thought that we would receive counseling courses about marital responsibility, but the entire time, the courses, which were called ‘marital counseling’, were about catechism.” She was disappointed as were many people in the course.

 

 

 

Decades later, now divorced, she expects that marital counseling should be about what marriage is, what people expect it to be, and what it will really be like. Dr. Wayne Mack makes a point that partners differ in expectations and should not wait until marriage to discuss these differences.

 

 

 

Dr. Nancy Alvarez, secular psychologist and sexologist says that some men want marriage with weekends off. That means they spend weekends drinking with their male friends as if they were single, instead of being with their wife. Obviously, that does not work out. Couples should also discuss why they are in love with one another. It has been observed that some people become happy when they hear why their betrothed wants to marry them, others become angry.

 

 

 

It is certainly natural for a marital counselor to talk about spiritual intimacy. In the book, “The Five Love Needs of Men and Women”, Christian marital experts Dr. Gary and Barbara Rosberg explain how there are two kinds of intimacy in marriage, physical and spiritual. Differences in religion could lead to a lack of understanding and different values. But not everything is religion.

 

 

 

Counselor Grisel López of El Sendero de la Cruz Christian Church in Puerto Rico explains that even in the case that the couple is of the same religion, some couples do not have compatibility of ministries. For example, if both are church leaders, and one sings in the altar and the other preaches, they are compatible. But if one is training to be a foreign missionary and the other is a pastor of a local church, then one of the two will have to give up his or her dreams for the success of the other, because they can not make both dreams come true and live together happily at the same time.

 

 

 

She adds that even church leaders, who know the Bible in general, still need pre-marital counseling. Some churches do not require pre-marital counseling for church leaders because the leaders know Christianity well, yet the divorce rate for Christians is about the same as for non-Christian marriages.

 

 

 

According to Dr. Wayne A. Mack, some of the things covered in pre-marital counseling are relations with in-laws, making a budget together, comparing differences in the way each one expresses love, good communication (a factor in most marital problems), and conflict resolution. It is important to plan ahead how you will approach problem solving, not waiting for the problems to begin and then start by seeking marital therapy. This is because there will be problems anyway so reducing their volatility will prevent bad memories that are hard to forget later.

 

 

 

Dr. Mack’s workbook, “Preparing for Marriage God’s Way”, can be used both in addition to marital therapy, (or independently, for those persons who live in areas where there is little availability of Christian pre-marital therapy). Two copies of the workbook are used. Each member of the couple reads and fills out the answers individually. Then the couple meet and discus their answers together. Mack suggests they can make note of significant differences and seek therapy for those issues as well.

 

 

 

Pre-marital counseling can be fun also. You get to take personality tests with your betrothed, learning more about each other in the process. Or it could lead to more deeper and interesting conversations to talk with your loved one. Some people think they already know each other well. But even people who have been married twenty years face surprises.

 

 

 

You should also find out some of your betrothed’s faults in the process. There may be faults that you understand about, this is called unconditional love. But there could also be faults that you do not tolerate. Some things are not negotiable like giving little importance to fidelity. Others might not matter to one husband, for example, that his future wife likes a relaxed style of housekeeping, as long as she is a business woman, but it could matter a lot to another man.

 

 

 

Counselor Grisel López teaches that the best way to find your ideal love is to tell the truth about how you are so you can find someone who will be happy with you instead of turned off. If you do not reveal your faults you will not know if it is safe to relax your guard with your betrothed and find the joy of being loved as you are.

 

 

Addicted to Pills? Jesus Can Help…

It’s easy to get addicted to potent and seductive prescription narcotic pain pills. They work very well for pain relief, and yet they also induce long and sustained pleasure, a pleasure we soon crave above all else in life, including sadly, Jesus Christ.

 

Yet Jesus, although we abandon Him in our selfish pursuits of artificial pleasures, never forsakes us, and when we are ready, when we see the folly of our ways and when we can take no more spiritual despair; He will take us in and show us again what’s needed for a better and Christian life.

 

We create our own problems, and we do so as we stray from God’s message, and as we walk a different path than He wishes for us. Jesus Christ does not wish us the pain of addiction, and if we listen to the message of His word in the bible, we would never need suffer the tragedy of pill abuse. Even when we ignore His will, He forgives us and when we are ready, and when we ask him to show us a better way again, Jesus Christ can guide us out of despair and once again into happy and righteous Christian Living.

 

We do not need anyone or anyplace to feel God’s love, and the bible has all we need to know about His wishes for our lives, but there is something powerful in a shared and honest prayer, and as such there is something very powerful about a Christian rehab, and working the Christian 12 steps to recovery in the fellowship of the faithful.

Christian Rehab

 

In a Christian rehab, what has proven effective in a conventional rehab is combined with what only prayer and faith can bring to our lives. God gave us medicines and doctors for a reason, and we would exhibit yet more spiritual conceit if we did not use those things in our power towards our recovery.

 

But even the best of secular rehabs, employing the finest treatments and professionals and offering the most luxurious of facilities, cannot offer much hope for long term sobriety; and relapse statistics show us this is so, and show us that the path out of addiction and despair must include Christian teachings, and prayer for a better life.

The Power of Prayer

 

In addition to secular therapies and medicines, a Christian rehab combines the power of prayer, a communal study of the bible, self reflection on God’s will for us and private religious and addictions therapy.

 

Through opening our hearts and our minds to God’s love and His will, we gain strength from temptation; and through the messages inherent in the bible, we take solace that our struggles are as old as mankind, and that God has always had the answer to our despairs.

 

We get ourselves into trouble, and Jesus pulls us out. Jesus forgives us, and He will help us, and all we need to do is ask.

 

Consider a Christian Rehab if you struggle with an addiction to prescription pills. The answers are waiting for you; God has the power to cure you. Don’t wait another day before starting down the road to a better Christian life, free from the pains of abuse.

Christian Recovery; Live for Jesus, and Never Take Another Drink

Jesus never wishes for us the pains of addiction and of spiritual despair, and He gave us a great reference book for life in the bible. If we follow God’s word, and act as He wishes, we never need suffer through the pains of alcoholism or drug addiction.

 

Yet even after we do terrible things in midst of an addiction, even after we abandon His love and His message, He forgives us, and when we can take no more of the pain of a life far from Jesus, He is ready for us, and He will show us how to get better.

 

An addiction is a disease of both the spirit and of the body. A disease of the spirit that occurs as we show spiritual conceit, thinking we know better for our lives than Christ. Yet it is also a disease of the body, and it must also receive physical tending. When recovering from addiction, we cannot ignore either parts of our whole, and if we do, we cannot hope for lasting recovery.

Conventional rehab doesn’t offer enough

 

A lot of very smart people work diligently on the science of recovery, and even those well off people who recover in the finest of treatment centers, receiving the finest of medical and clinical care, don’t often get better. It is important to treat the physical side of addiction, but conventional rehab relapse rates show us quite clearly that we ignore God at our peril.

 

We get ourselves into trouble thinking we can live our lives far from Jesus, but He forgives us, and we cannot solve our spiritual despair without His help.

Why Christian recovery

 

In Christian recovery, we get better holistically; we take what’s great and proven effective from secular rehabs and incorporate them into a program that also tends to our spiritual needs. We do need medications and therapy, but we also need prayer and bible study, and not one without the other.

 

We share our stories with other Christians also in recovery, and we study and pray together for a better understanding of God’s will, and for the strength to overcome our worldly conceits, and live a life as Jesus wishes.

 

Working together with Christian counselors, we dig deep into the self deceptions that take us farther from Christ and learn how we can use the power of prayer, the message of the bible, and God’s love and strength to keep us from temptation always.

A small price to pay

 

Recovery from addiction is never easy, but with the help of Jesus you never need to take another drink, and you never again need to feel the lows of a separation from Christ.

 

Jesus wants you to be happy, and all He asks is that you live a Christian life. A small price to pay for a rewarding life…and a heavenly reward!

Addiction; When We Think That God Won’t Love Us We Presume Too Much

When we lose our way and when we substitute the real pleasures of good living for the false and transient ecstasy of intoxication, we do a lot of things we’re not proud of, and we do a lot of things that Jesus would never wish us to do.

 

Only through Christian living can we find peace and happiness, and only through Christian service to others and for God can we fall asleep easy every night, knowing we do all we can for ourselves and for our Lord. Yet even when we lose our way, and even when we commit terrible sins, Jesus forgives us, His help and His power is only a prayer away.

 

It’s easy to start to feel that we are not worthy of God’s eternal compassion, and when we sink ever lower into the despair of addiction we too often start to feel worthless, worthless to ourselves, to our families, and even worthless to our God.

 

Spiritual conceit gets us into wrong behaviors, and even wrong thoughts; spiritual conceit takes us into pain and addiction, and it also fools us into thinking we are no longer worthy of God’s help and compassion.

 

But who are we to question God’s word. Jesus says he will forgive us, He will help us, and He does love us; always. Spiritual conceit gets us into trouble, and only through better living by the words of the bible can we get past our internal deception and turmoil, and again realize that Jesus has always been there for us, and that He has a plan for our lives; if we will only accept His Love and His strength into our hearts.

 

Christian Drug rehab

 

We do not need a church or minister to feel God’s love and live for him, and all that needs to be said was written in the only book of real worth; but there is something incredibly therapeutic and soul salving about the communal power of prayer. As Christians in despair we look to other Christians for assistance, and through the help of other Christians we again come to understand God’s plan and wish for our lives, and once again emerge from spiritual conceit and into a better living for God.

 

If you have a drug or alcohol abuse problem or addiction, you cannot get better on your own, and to think that you can is simply more of the same spiritual conceit that got you into trouble in the first place.

 

You need to pray, you need to pray to the Lord to help you overcome your weaknesses. You need to ask for the strength to overcome those bad habits that pull at you, and plead for a better understanding of his message towards a better Christian life.

 

If you have a drug problem, consider a Christian Rehab. All you need to know about recovery is contained within the bible, and through group study, group prayer, and even private Christian counseling, you can come to a better understanding of what led you into pain, and the steps you need to take to ensure you never again walk that path back to despair.

 

You can get better, Jesus forgives you, you are worthy of help. Work the Christian 12 steps to sobriety today, and start enjoying a better Christian life tomorrow.

Christian Treatment

Almost 20 million people are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Approximately 135,000 people die each year as a consequence of drugs and alcohol and a whooping 80% of all crime in the United States is related to drug and alcohol addiction. The above figures are more than a reason to understand how crucial it is to treat drug and alcohol addicts.A unique and special way to heal drug and alcohol addiction is through Christian drug and alcohol treatment which has become prevalent in recent times. Christian drug and alcohol treatment gets the victims closer to God which helps them to recover. Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ are used to heal the victims of drug and alcohol addiction.

Why adapt the Christian Treatment? How is it better than other drug abuse treatments?

In the words of Romans,” The truth of God is not known to all instinctively. God has embedded knowledge into the hearts of everyone. The material things such as earth, sky and water are visible to the human beings, but what we cannot see is the divine and eternal power of God which makes him undeniable”.

Here it deserves mention that the Christian drug and alcohol treatment is a special kind of treatment for victims of drug and alcohol addiction which uses the preaching of the Lord to help the patients recover. The drug abuse treatments they offer help individuals transform from active drug and alcohol abuse to leading a clean, sober, and successful life.

Christian drug and alcohol treatment doesn’t merely involve praying to recover, but involves a team of highly qualified professionals in the field of drug abuse treatment who resort to various techniques both spiritual and religious to help heal a menace like drug and alcohol addiction.

We all know about the power of God towards restoration and healing. Jesus Christ is believed to have brought back life to the dead and cure many wounded and sick people of their pain and illness. So what better way than to take up the teachings of Christianity to cure victims of alcohol and drug abuse?

Christian treatment involves unique programs which incorporate spirituality into one’s heart through its mode of treatment. As the approach is based on faith it creates an atmosphere of compassion and support that help in the restoration and healing of the victim.

Pastoral way of counseling, the services in the chapel, and the everyday readings of devotion is a part and parcel of the Christian treatment. These programs start the process of renewal within an individual and guide him or her to a better life. The success of Christian treatment is evident by looking at the increase in the people preferring this treatment.

Christian drug and alcohol treatment focuses on the healing of the mind, body, and spirit through the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ. The best part about these treatment centers is their warm and comfortable set up. The homelike atmosphere provided by these centers help the victims recover much faster and also help them calm their feelings of fear and neglect. A combination of the 12 step healing process with teachings from Christianity is employed to help cure drug and alcohol addicts.

The Christian treatmentconducted helps the victims to be cured in a religious and spiritual way. The personal counseling and other programs conducted as a part of this treatment process helps the victims not only recover from their addictions but also to emerge as a wonderful and caring person and help them lead a spiritual, sober and peaceful life.

Christian Rehab- Jesus Has the Answers.

Here’s an excellent article on addiction help and addiction recovery. Again, the main focus of support has to be God.  Christian Help for Addiction is unique, as it is Christ centered and seeing him as our higher power. Hook up with a good Christian support group, and get into a bible based church.  It might just make the difference in your recovery. Enjoy the article.

 

We can never hope to get better until we admit to ourselves and to God what we have become; the sins committed and the spiritual conceit exhibited. While we maintain a self delusional deceit over the rightness of our unchristian actions, we continue to feel worldly pain, and feel ourselves ever farther from the love of Jesus.

Jesus said, “The truth will set you free” (John 8:32) and until we can be true to ourselves and true to our God, we can never hope for real freedom from the pains of substance abuse or addiction.

Christian Rehab

The answers to all problems in life are contained within the bible, and no other text or person is required for a full and honest understanding of God’s wishes; but too many of us become mired in the depths of spiritual dishonesty and self deception and need some help to once again discover the right path in life, and once again feel God’s love and purpose for our lives.

We do not need to recover from addiction with anyone but God, but since there is real power in the fellowship and communal prayer of other faithful also in recovery, we often benefit from a shared battle with addiction, and a shared walk towards Christ.

Understanding God’s Will

Until we can be honest before God of all of our shortcomings and all of our spiritual conceits, we cannot hope to feel His strength and use His love; but for addicts coming out of lengthy periods of use and delusion, it can be tough to know just how deep our delusions run, and how deep we must delve to rid ourselves from this barrier to God’s love.

Through heartfelt prayer and soul searching we come closer to personal honesty, but we also benefit from a communal exploration of our problems and wrong actions, gaining insight from others also in recovery on where our delusions lie, and how we can rid ourselves of them for God. In addition to group therapy and group prayer sessions, working one-on-one with Christian counselors helps us to further understand the error of our ways, how God can help us live better, and how we can live better in God’s image.

Prayer

You don’t need Christian rehab for a better life for God and free from the pains of abuse, all you need is prayer, honesty and the bible; but as we remain imperfect and flawed, we often have trouble with what sounds so simple and so right; live by God’s word, and be free from the pain of addiction.

Recovering in a Christian rehab can help. You cannot live another day separated from the love of Jesus; and Jesus forgives you for all of the terrible things you have done while trapped in worldly despair. Ask for his help, listen to His Word, live your life as He wishes, and you never need take another drink, or use drugs again.

Jesus never wishes us pain, but we bring so much into our lives anyways. Recovery is not going to be easy, but recovering without God’s help is impossible. Get help, find God once again; and live for Him. You’ll be happier.

 

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Be Careful Who You Hang With

It seems we have all heard that you become a “product” of your environment.  I think that holds a certain truths, and that human being have to be thrown into that definition of “environment”.  For those struggling with an addiction, or in recovery from an addiction, they have to be extremely careful with who they share company with.  If I’m in a fragile state, and I’m trying to focus on myself and my healing, the last place I should be is hanging out with those who are actively using, or those who are surrounded by negative influence.

If  I’m in recovery and I walk into a party or social gathering and there’s a couple people in the corner getting high, and some others across the room slugging beer, get the heck out of there and quick.  There is no need to stay in that kind of environment just to see if I could “handle” it or if I’m “strong” enough to resist.  Forget it. Run as fast as you can, into a “safe” zone of healthy friends that don’t need to “regulate” their moods by introducing drugs or alcohol.  Yes, they do exist.  True it’s hard to find healthy, sober, friends, but if we look hard enough, they ae sure to surface.

So again, if you are in the early stages of change, run with the winners. Seek out healthy friends and acquaintences so you can “absorb” their winning ways, and lead a happier and sober life.

Here at Christian Help for Addiction Online we hope to provide information on addiction and addiction treatment.  Christian addiction help online is unique in that it incorporates “Christ” as our higher power, who will be there for us no matter what the battle.  Stay well and God bless..

 

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