You might be a wit’s end right now, trying to get through the peaks and valleys of drug rehabilitation. Your body craves a quick fix and your mind races ahead at a thousand miles a minute, grasping for anything to help you ease the pain of kicking your habit.

One powerful tip can help you get through a sometimes tumultuous period of rehabilitation. It lies in moving your attention from your problems to your blessings.Where your attention and energy goes, grows. This means that as you focus on any one dominant idea in your life you will tend to attract more ideas consistent with your focus.

Imagine yourself to be a magnet. You choose the thoughts and feelings, which magnetizes you to similar thoughts and feelings, which inspire you to move into certain actions.
Now the biggest obstacle that you might encounter is when low energy, desperate, fear-filled thoughts and feelings arise as you stop using. Your cravings, your pinings and your deepest urges to get a quick fix, to seek your high, will arise in your mind.

At this point you can do one of 2 things: choose to focus on what you are missing, and continue to grow that idea in your mind, or you can choose to focus on all you have, and continue to grow that idea in your mind.

This might sound silly or too simple too work effectively but if you study people who were addicted at one time, and remain clean for days, weeks, months or years, much of this crowd expresses immense gratitude on a daily basis

Write a Gratitude List

Upon waking each morning pull out a notepad and pen. Begin writing all you are grateful for: your being alive, the bed you sleep in, having a full fridge, your loved ones, whatever. Just keep writing until you hand begins to hurt.
There is no time limit here. 10, 25 or 50 minutes, this is irrelevant. The most important thing is to move your predominant focus from all you have versus all you are missing.

People experiencing drug rehabilitation tend to focus on the past. You might remember a particular situation where you experienced a ridiculously good-feeling moment after using drugs, and then your body goes into craving mode. To counteract or even prevent some of these destructive memories which can lead to a relapse begin building a gratitude list each day. Again, sit for as long as possible, to move your attention persistently to all you have.

By doing this you will be happy, and feel good, and fulfilled now, with all you have, and you will be far less likely to start using again. It’s because you are OK, you are grateful, you feel blessed, now, and you no longer feel the deep craving for a filler, or a quick hit, or to seek something outside of yourself to enhance your current experience.

Express gratitude. Use this powerful tip to get through drug rehab.

Author's Bio: 

Kelli Cooper, writing on behalf of http://www.r-e-h-a-b.org/, is a freelance writer who covers a range of health topics. She particularly enjoys writing about advice to help get through difficult times in life.