This is my second post in this weeks series of relaxation techniques to help bleed off some of the stress associated with quitting weed. We will be looking at a chi-kung technique from the falun-dafa school in China. I have practiced this technique and found that the more I practiced and ‘knew’ the exercise, the more relaxing and rejuvenating it became.
This video clip is about 8 minutes long and guides you through the moving meditation called “Buddha Showing 1000 Hands”.
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I will be performing this exercise daily. I recommend doing three complete sets of the exercise once per day. You will get the most benefit out of this technique by going slowly, and really learning the steps and body movement. Even though you aren’t moving much, there is good chance you will sweat a lot….You are sweating out your stress and toxins, so enjoy it!For more information on these and other Falun Dafu exercises, visit the Falun Dafa website
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I was running a google on “falun dafa smoking” today to see what other people had quit smoking with Dafa and ran across this page. I think it’s cool that you are recommending Exercise 1 of Falun Dafa to help the people who use your page to quit smoking weed.
I quit weed and alcohol back in 2003, but had gone to psychiatry for help, so I was immediately put on antidepressants. *rolls eyes* Things got pretty out of hand with that, where side-effects of the pills were labeled as mental illness rather than effects of the drugs. Eventually I was on stuff that was worse than weed and alcohol, but I kept playing along thinking psychiatry had the answer. It didn’t. In retrospect it was a nightmare and a hoax.
Finally four and a half years later, a new doctor easily saw during our first meeting that I was misdiagnosed and overmedicated. My life had pretty much been ruined at that point. I was unemployed and applying for Social Security Disablity for mental illness. He got me off everything except Prozac, which included an antipsychotic (Seroquel), a mood stabilizer (Trileptal), a benzodiazephine (Klonopin). It took several months of tapering the dose down a tiny bit at a time and every time the withdrawal was really something else… waking up in the middle of the night scared and that type of thing. Those drugs are just awful even though they’re prescribed like candy, even to small children.
Well, in mid-April of 2008 I discovered Falun Dafa. Two weeks into it, I quit Prozac and Wellbutrin cold turkey. No withdrawal. None of the usual nausea, vertigo or depression relapses I’d had every other time I’d tried to _taper_ off antidepressants, let alone when I quit all at once! Nothing happened. At the very least I would have had a depression spell worse than anything before the drugs. Instead, absolutely nothing happened. It was over.
A week after that I was doing Exercise 2. In the middle of the exercise I grabbed my last pack of smokes, broke them each in half one by one and threw them away. I quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey that day and haven’t had an urge since. It’s been over two months now without one single urge or mood swing. I can even be at a convenience store staring right at the cigarettes with money in my pocket and think, “Do I need a cigarette?” The answer is always, “No.” I just couldn’t care less. I just shrug it off, but it’s really quite amazing.
All I can say is that Falun Dafa will save your life. For me it was a 360 degree turnaround in mental and physical health in such a short time… I know it sounds too good to be true… but it’s not. It’s just good. Falun Dafa is good.
I don’t know how it works, but it’s easy and powerful. You don’t even need to know. It’s the one thing you can just do and not think about. I do the exercises pretty much everyday, even getting out to the local practice site to be with others. It’s always free. There’s never an obligation to anyone. All anyone in Falun Dafa ever wants to do is share the practice with you.
I am not an addict but a person I love is. I hope I could convince him to read these posts…
I have had such a struggle with pot. I have smoked for 10 years. I’m what you would call an enhancement smoker. I love to be high while eating anything, which subsequently has caused me to over eat and become over weight . The fact that I smoke almost everyday is something only a very very few know abut me. Mostly just my husband, who also smokes and has no desire to quit. That makes this harder. I have tried to quit many times before, and would find myself taking pinches from his stash. Or even at worst taking hits of resin from his bowls! I wish he were more supportive. He isn’t addicted the way i am, so he doesn’t understand how much I really struggle with this addiction and that i need his help! I quit cigs a few years ago, and that was cake compared to this. I am even considering hypnosis, or accupuncture to aid in my cessation. I was happy to find this site, and see how
Many others are having the same struggles and feelings that I am. I would like today to be the first day of the rest of my life!