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• When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.19, BookBaby

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• If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.

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  Believe, Outlook On Life, Goal

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.23, BookBaby

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• Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

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  Decision, Today, Made

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.228, BookBaby

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• You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

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  Past, Ideas, Benefits

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.40, BookBaby

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• There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

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  Lasting Happiness, Way, Achieve

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

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  Believe, Belief, Action

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.18, BookBaby

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• The true source of happiness is within each of us.

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  Source, Source Of Happiness

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• If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

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  Cells, Feel Good, Calling

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.133, BookBaby

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• choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

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  Happy, Knowing, Benefits

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby

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• To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

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  Giving Up, People, Change For The Better

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.108, BookBaby

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• I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

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  Inspirational, Book, Sobriety

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.129, BookBaby

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• Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Disease

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

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  Lonely, Painful, Worthy

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

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• If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

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  Believe, Reason, Make You Happy

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.34, BookBaby

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• The Universe doesn't make mistakes.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Universe

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.237, BookBaby

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• A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

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  Differences, Brain, Information

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.19, BookBaby

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• Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

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  Successful, Alcohol, Drug

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.110, BookBaby

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• When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

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  Stress, Believe, Giving

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.109, BookBaby

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• You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

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  Forever, Substance, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.115, BookBaby

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• If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

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  Withdrawal, Substance, Psychological

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.25, BookBaby

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• At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

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  Pain, Healing, Steps

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.113, BookBaby

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• Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment

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  Time, Moments

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby

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• Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

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  Pain, Emotional, People

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.15, BookBaby

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