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    How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana
    How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana
    How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana
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    How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana

    By Lua Sáenz del Castillo

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    There are many people who fail to overcome cannabis addiction by themselves. In fact they get lost in self-reproaching and blaming for not being able to do it on their own.

    Lua Sáenz del Castillo, a psychologist specialized in cannabis addiction with more than 10 years of professional experience, has written a book which is an essential tool for people who have this problem and who are interested in overcoming definitively the addiction by working in themselves the psychological and emotional causes that led them to be marijuana dependent.

    "It takes much more than willpower and self-control to overcome a long-term dependence on cannabis."

    INDEX

    FIRST PART UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM

    Chapter 1 The Lights and Shadows of Marijuana

    Chapter 2 Does this have anything to do with you?

    Chapter 3 What happened here? Why consuming Marijuana no longer produces what it used to generate? The stages of the relationship with Marijuana. Reasons for using cannabis. Types of consumers.

    Chapter 4 Lack of willpower, frontal lobe, and dopamine

    Chapter 5 How do you know if you really are a cannabis addict? What are the symptoms of addiction? Denial as a defense mechanism. The types of denial of the cannabis addict.

    Chapter 6 Opening your eyes to your denial mechanism. I quit or I don ́t quit. Personal empowerment.

    Chapter 7 Working on the motivation

    Chapter 8 Resolving long-term addiction is much more than overcoming physical withdrawal and having self-control. Honesty and avoidance.

    About beliefs

    Chapter 9 The Addict's Belief System

    Chapter 10 The beliefs of addiction and marijuana. How does marijuana help to contribute to your self-deception and that you continue to hold your unreal and addictive beliefs?

    Chapter 11 Get rid of the beliefs that lead you to addiction. The transformation of your beliefs.

    Chapter 12 The great lie. Free yourself from the belief "I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy enough"

    Chapter 13 The Addictive Personality and What Cannabis Does for You

    Second part Overcoming the problem

    Chapter 14 How to transform your addictive personality tendencies without using the drug to do the job for you

    Chapter 15 Beyond Beliefs. Skills to deal with life conflicts. To internalize thoughts that support ourselves. Social pressure and the need to be assertive and learning to say no.

    Chapter 16 The abstinence. To stop consuming Marijuana.What happens when you stop using marijuana? How to balance the brain naturally and increase your dopamine levels without needing drugs.

    Chapter 17 Understanding the cravings: compulsion, yearning to consume

    Chapter 18 12 strategies to overcome the cravings to consume

    Chapter 19 Coping with the problems of your life

    Chapter 20 Keys to deal with your feelings and emotions

    Chapter 21 Self-sabotage because you are feeling good. The self-fulfilling prophecy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLua Sáenz del Castillo
    Release dateSep 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370019038
    How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana
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    Lua Sáenz del Castillo

    Lua Sáenz del Castillo holds a degree in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Lua completed her career with various scholarships at the University of Kent (England) and at the University of Cordoba (Argentina), where she studied postgraduate studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy. She was trained in several innovative psychotherapeutic currents, and trained specifically in the evaluation and treatment of drug addiction, specializing in the treatment of marijuana addiction. Lua has more than 10 years of experience as a psychotherapist and teacher of courses and workshops on different psychology topics in Spain and abroad.

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      How to Overcome Cannabis Addiction. The Shadows of Marijuana - Lua Sáenz del Castillo

      Lua Sáenz del Castillo

      How to overcome

      Cannabis addiction

      The shadows of Marijuana

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      How to overcome cannabis addiction. The shadows of Marijuana.

      Lua Sáenz del Castillo

      © 2017 Lua Sáenz del Castillo

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      Lua Sáenz del Castillo

      www.supera-adiccioncannabis-marihuana.com

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      Thank you for purchasing this book. The copyright is the exclusive property of the author and therefore its reproduction, copying and distribution is not allowed.

      INDEX

      FIRST PART UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM

      Chapter 1 The Lights and Shadows of Marijuana

      Chapter 2 Does this have anything to do with you?

      Chapter 3 What happened here? Why consuming Marijuana no longer produces what it used to generate? The stages of the relationship with Marijuana. Reasons for using cannabis. Types of consumers.

      Chapter 4 Lack of willpower, frontal lobe, and dopamine

      Chapter 5 How do you know if you really are a cannabis addict? What are the symptoms of addiction? Denial as a defense mechanism. The types of denial of the cannabis addict.

      Chapter 6 Opening your eyes to your denial mechanism. I quit or I don´t quit. Personal empowerment.

      Chapter 7 Working on the motivation

      Chapter 8 Resolving long-term addiction is much more than overcoming physical withdrawal and having self-control. Honesty and avoidance.

      About beliefs

      Chapter 9 The Addict's Belief System

      Chapter 10 The beliefs of addiction and marijuana. How does marijuana help to contribute to your self-deception and that you continue to hold your unreal and addictive beliefs?

      Chapter 11 Get rid of the beliefs that lead you to addiction. The transformation of your beliefs.

      Chapter 12 The great lie. Free yourself from the belief I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy enough

      Chapter 13 The Addictive Personality and What Cannabis Does for You

      Second part Overcoming the problem

      Chapter 14 How to transform your addictive personality tendencies without using the drug to do the job for you

      Chapter 15 Beyond Beliefs. Skills to deal with life conflicts. To internalize thoughts that support ourselves. Social pressure and the need to be assertive and learning to say no.

      Chapter 16 The abstinence. To stop consuming Marijuana.What happens when you stop using marijuana? How to balance the brain naturally and increase your dopamine levels without needing drugs.

      Chapter 17 Understanding the cravings: compulsion, yearning to consume

      Chapter 18 12 strategies to overcome the cravings to consume

      Chapter 19 Coping with the problems of your life

      Chapter 20 Keys to deal with your feelings and emotions

      Chapter 21 Self-sabotage because you are feeling good. The self-fulfilling prophecy.

      Epilogue

      Appendix 1

      References

      About the author:

      Acknowledgments

      FIRST PART

      UNDERSTANDING

      THE PROBLEM

      Chapter 1

      The Lights and Shadows of Marijuana

      When talking about cannabis use usually people take an extreme position. Either they idealize its use or they criminalize it. Angel or demon.

      Those who see it as an angel think that it should be legalized and consumed without major consideration. On the other hand, for those who perceive marijuana as a demon, its use should be forbidden and their consumers condemned, regardless of the type of use that they made of it. But, like everything in life, marijuana has at the same time lights and shadows

      This book is aimed to people who know firsthand what it means to consume marijuana. Its goal is to try help people to deal with the shadows of its consumption. That is, the dependency and deterioration at the physical, mental and emotional level that their addiction has given rise to.

      I won´t talk in this book about the light or good side of Marijuana. In other words, I won´t go into the medicinal side, nor the benefits it can produce if used in a responsible and conscious way. Marijuana has been used for thousand of years in rituals of expanding awareness, spiritual connection, and physical healing, but it has also been used incorrectly for hundreds of years, to escape from reality or as a strategy to not face the reality of ones life.

      This book is intended for people who feel lost and who have harmed themselves by the misuse of cannabis. The goal is that they learn to overcome their addiction and to face the reality of their life and their inner world of feelings and sensations.

      Cannabis is consumed by both women and men. With the intention to normalize gender equality through language, there will be times when this book will be written in masculine and other times will be in feminine.

      It is for no casual reason that the first book I write about marijuana focuses on its shadow aspect. Cannabis addiction can destroy your life and the life of the people around you. Cannabis use is not a game. Knowing first the shadows of cannabis and your own shadows is fundamental to avoiding addiction.

      Chapter 2

      Does this have anything to do with you?

      You have been smoking marijuana for years and now, unfortunately, it’s no longer what it once was?

      For quite some time consuming marijuana was one of the best things in your life. Maybe you even thought it was the best you had. When nothing made sense, when you were sad, distressed, angry or frustrated, a few drags were enough to change everything. Suddenly the world felt again a place worth living. And you felt so relaxed…

      For a long time Marijuana gave you so much and asked for so little that it seemed the perfect companion. Thanks to her you have wonderful memories. You spent unforgettable times with your friends, with your partner and with yourself. With it you could break the barrier of normal sensations and see beyond the reality of the daily routine.

      Do you remember? The colors were intense. The food was exquisite. You let yourself be carried away by hypnotic sounds and music. To make love was an indescribable experience, the physical sensations were dazzling. You felt totally attached to your partner, as if you were one. Your life was emotionally full. You became aware of many things that had previously gone unnoticed. Sometimes when you consumed it you would solve the great mysteries of humanity. You gave meaning to nonsense. The thoughts you had were worth writing a book.

      Perhaps you felt the connection with your own spirit. The perfection, God, the sacred (or whatever you would like to name this experience) was part of you and you were part of it. You were connected to the rest of the people and you felt love for humanity.

      You felt the connection with nature and with the world in a very special way. You were one, you thought, we are all one. Your chest opened and was invaded by a feeling of tranquility and love that made you very happy.

      You developed your creative part. Perhaps you painted, wrote, danced or expressed your creative energy in other ways.

      You agreed that marijuana should be legalized. How are we going to deprive people from discovering so much about themselves, from feeling so much tranquility, so much love, so much pleasure. Everyone should smoke marijuana. That would be the end of wars, of hatred, of lack of understanding and love. There would be laughter, creativity; the world would be a much better place.

      At the beginning you did not smoke every day. You were told that its consumption could damage the brain or have some others negatives effects, but as the time went by you either stopped believing this or it didn´t matter to you anymore. "A herb that leads you to experience these incredible inner states cannot be bad. How can it be bad to open the mind, open the heart and feel united, feel pleasure and relaxation? People who are afraid of marijuana do not realize it, they live in their little materialistic world and they do not dare to feel what I dare to experience." So you started smoking every day without much control or censure on your part. For a while it seemed like a good decision.

      You felt good. You liked your life more by smoking marijuana. Thanks to marijuana you were able to resolve your conflicts in a much more peaceful way than before. Thanks to marijuana, the tedious moments of life, work, waiting and times without knowing what to do were filled with magic. You realized that you loved marijuana, that you felt deeply grateful for all that marijuana was bringing into your life. You could no longer understand your life without it. And you were sure that you were going to smoke marijuana until the end of your days. It could not be otherwise.

      But time was going by and things that were not so pleasant began to happen.

      Your memory was getting worse. You did not remember the name or even the face of people you had met recently. "I don´t need to remember all the people who are introduced to me, I don´t even care about them."

      You forgot why you had come home for or why you went into the kitchen. Well, these kinds of things also happen to people who don´t smoke marijuana, my grandmother has never smoked in her life and this also happens to her.

      You forgot basic math. How was it to multiply, how was it to add, how was it to subtract, how was it to divide? Well, never mind, I have a calculator on my cell phone. And I don´t need to check the change that the shop assistant gave me, I'm sure it’s correct.

      You stopped reading books, or you had to reread every page several times to understand the meaning. Well, reading is not that important either. There are many people who do not read and are very happy and very interesting. Intellectuals are boring. I prefer direct experience. I'd rather live my life than to read about it.

      You had to abandon your studies because your ability to concentrate and your ability to understand and retain the meaning was not enough to pass the exams.

      "Well, it is a pain in the ass that I couldn´t finish my degree. But if my brain can´t take it, so be it! …

      I have to accept my limitations. And there are also many people who have finished their degree and haven´t really done much with it. It's not the end of the world."

      You stopped enjoying talking to people in social situations. You could not follow the thread of the conversation. You did not understand fully

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