Imagine how much happier you would be if you were addicted to good stuff? by Malti Bhojwani – Professional Certified Life Coach & Author

We all need a buzz in our life. It can help deal with anything from stress to boredom. Whatever turns us on, everyone feels the desire sometimes to indulge themselves and take a break from reality.

Anything from sex to shopping, gaming to gambling, drink or drugs.Sadly, many don’t realise this until it’s too late to quit. By then, the buzz has become a way of life: an addiction.An addiction is a compulsion to use a substance or persist with a certain behaviour in order to feel good or to avoid feeling bad. It can dominate your mind, and keep you coming back for more, while some habits can also create a constant craving in your body. An addiction is different for everyone, depending on your vice and the kind of person you are.Does your addiction infringe on your time together with your partner?

Does it affect the intimacy you share with them?Does it make you lie and hide from your partner?Does it create erratic mood-swings that the people around you have to put up with?If you answered yes to any of these, then perhaps your addiction is ….hmmmmm….not bad, but perhaps not congruent with the rest of the things you want in your life.The only way to change that is to find new things to get addicted to.Imagine if, you can (and you can!) choose activities or substances to deliberately “get addicted” to that will in fact IMPROVE your sense of well-being and your health?

What if you addiction actually enhanced the lives of the people you love and your own? What if you had addictions and habits that if done often, in fact even MORE would only bring you closer to the people around you, make you feel and look better?One that I have recently come up with to replace one of my addictions which was a “hand-to-mouth” action like eating chocolate, �is drinking water. No jokes, sounds simple, but I feel like a water-druggie now. I have to have a 1-litre bottle with me at all times!!!!

Can you think of a few useful addictions? Healthy addictions? Inclusive addictions?Please share!!!