As a recovery alcoholic (sober 12 1/2 years) and ex-smoker (smoke free for 15 years), I know a thing or two about how hard it is to break bad habits. The body get so used to a thing, especially an addictive thing, and the mind and the body have to be broken of the habit separately or the addiction is not severed.
Its been years upon years since I have felt the tug or pull of wanting either one of those things anymore and so I was surprised at what happened this weekend…….
We attended the wedding of some friends of ours and for part of the dinner buffet, they had a potato bar. But it was not like any potato bar I had ever seen before. The regular and sweet potatoes were mashed in separate containers and there were fixin’s for both on a huge spread. The surprising thing was the plastic martini glasses that were there to be the vessels for the potato extravaganza.
How interesting., we all commented as we loaded up and headed back to our table. Within the first 3 minutes of sitting down, my little right hand grabbed at that martini glass to drink a half a dozen times. I had a glass of water right there and I hadn’t been craving or wanting or even thinking about a drink, but here was my subconscious right hand encountering an old habit.
The martini glass was right there and out of habitual routine, my hand kept reaching for it when I was thirsty. Talk about mind boggling and strange. To not want a thing, but have your body reach for it after 12 years, is odd to say the least.
In Lyme disease, the old practices of feeling and acting and believing you will be sick forever are hard to break. The fear cycle of thinking you are on your deathbed, the discouragement of no one understanding or helping you get better are difficult to stop. The mind needs to be healed as equally as the body and together they can help reprogram the subconscious that always wants to default back to those old behaviors.
Those thoughts and habitual actions are detrimental to your healing and must be broken. Don’t go it alone. Scripture contains the power to overcome and help you become anew:
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5)
See, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19)
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