Coaching practices for How to Resist Cravings Mindfully
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- When a craving hits I clench up and tell myself NO, and that white-knuckle fight just makes it scream louder until I cave anyway
- Telling myself to resist a craving forever feels impossible and I give up before I start
- I keep finding myself already mid-snack or already typing the sharp reply, with no memory of deciding to
- When the craving hits I get stuck in this endless head-argument
- The second I feel a craving I start beating myself up for being so weak, and the shame somehow makes me want the thing even more
Practices that may help
- Surf the urge instead of fighting it
Urges are waves — they rise, peak, and fall without action if you observe rather than fight them.
The Willpower Instinct: What Self-Control Actually Is - Buy time with a brief delay
Commit to waiting just ten minutes before acting on the urge.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Notice the urge as it arises
Catch the craving early, the moment it starts, before it becomes an automatic action.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it. - Locate the urge in your body
Describe where and how the craving shows up physically instead of arguing with it in your head.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Meet the urge without judging yourself
Treat having an urge as normal and human, not as evidence of weakness.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Redirect attention away from the reward
You do not resist the temptation by staring at it — you win by looking elsewhere.
Delayed Gratification, Made Practical - Ride the wave to its peak and down
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Urge Surfing: Riding Out the Impulse Without Acting
Treat an urge to act impulsively like a wave — observe it rise and fall without being swept away.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Engineer the temptation out of reach
Don’t out-wait the temptation — arrange your environment so the choice rarely arises.
Delayed Gratification, Made Practical
Related concerns
- How To Resist Cravings
Commit to waiting just ten minutes before acting on the urge.
Buy time with a brief delay
- Mindfulness For Cravings
Describe where and how the craving shows up physically instead of arguing with it in your head.
Locate the urge in your body
- When Classical Conditioning Habits Extinction Of Cravings
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
Ride the wave to its peak and down
- When Willpower Instinct Surf The Urge
Urges are waves — they rise, peak, and fall without action if you observe rather than fight them.
Surf the urge instead of fighting it
- Cope With Cravings
Repeatedly expose yourself to a craving cue without performing the associated behavior to weaken the conditioned urge.
Extinguish conditioned cravings through cue exposure without response
- How To Reduce Cravings
Repeatedly expose yourself to a craving cue without performing the associated behavior to weaken the conditioned urge.
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