Will it be really hard to overcome evil tendencies?

It is not only in TV soap operas, but the social environment in which we live, it is common to see doctors and other healthcare smoking and drinking too much. Some even work in specialized hospitals for cancer treatment and have, among their patients, people who have been affected by this disease just smoking.

How anyone - especially professionals from that area - ignores the dangers of smoking and alcohol, it wonders, rightly: Why such people still drink and remain attached to cigarette?

The question can be extended to many other aspects of life in society. The gluttony, lust, envy, wrath, pride, the touchiness, the hurt - that addictions, feelings or defects whose harmful consequences for humans are, even partly, too well known.

Referring specifically to the vices, Manoel Philomeno de Miranda, in his work Life and Death Themes, psychographic by medium Divaldo Franco says they – the addictions - provide powerful needs after death, demanding that their addicts may seek further insanity in linking to the land companions also careless, which it generates obsessions in wide scale. If it is not check this parasitic bond, only time, long or soon, will disaggregate death particles that penetrate the perispirit it and they settle in it producing prolonged misery. And obviously these requirements may extend to the next body existence.

In chapter XVII, Section 4, of The Gospel According to Spiritism, by referring to the good spiritists, Kardec coined a phrase that is well known in our midst: "It is recognized the truth spirit by its moral transformation and the efforts that it employs to tame it evil inclinations."

Earth being a planet of tests and atonement, it does not reincarnate perfect individuals here. We all, therefore, bring diverse inclinations, resulting from habits and vices cultivated in previous existences, these inclinations that we must tame, if we effectively wish to transform us.

The task looks hard. It can say by oncologists who can’t stop smoking. 

But... will it be really hard?

Spiritual benefactors do not understand like it, as it can be seen at the answer to the question 909 from The Spirits’ Book:  

– Could man always, through his effort overcome evil inclinations? “Yes, and, frequently, making many insignificant efforts. What misses at him is will. Ah! How few among you make effort!” 

According to that answer, which will be our behavior?

Will the past be stronger than our will?

Do we wish to repeat folly actions made at previous experiences?