How I avoid temptations and move toward the Good
Channel: George Kao
Date: 2017-02-21

Do you ever feel tempted to engage in a bad habit that you're trying to quit? (Answer: all of us have)

When you feel that way, what do you do, to get back to feeling good -- without the crutch of an unhealthy addiction?

I welcome you to comment below.

Here's the practice that has been life-changing for me:

1. I take a moment and say to myself: "God is enough."
2. Then, as if that statement were true, I do something beneficial or productive, no matter how small, instead of my bad habit.

It always saves me.

I don't know if that phrase "God is enough" is meaningful and helpful to you. If it is, I encourage you to use it. If it's not, find another phrase/mantra that has profoundly healing meaning for you. Or some simple, healthy action you can take to get back to feeling good.

To me, God is the Source of all that is good ... abundant Love, perfect Wisdom, a Peace that surpasses all understanding, and endless wonderful Creativity, and other excellent virtues and traits that I cannot yet imagine.

When I say "God is enough," I am assuming that God is available to me at all times, anywhere, in any emotional or mental state that I'm in. God is here, closer to me than my heartbeats, more available than my own breaths. God wants the highest Good for me, and wants me to feel Good, in the highest sense, now.

God is enough... more than enough... all that I ever need.

With that, I can do anything I set my intentions toward.

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