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Addiction An addiction (noun) is an urge to do something that is hard to control or stop. If you use cigarettes, alcohol, drugs , certain medications , you could become addicted to them. The fact or condition of being habituated to a particular substance or activity. Pattern Addiction Being addicted is giving up one's power to a substance or a habit. Addictions suppress emotions so that we don’t feel. If we don’t want to deal with what’s in front of us, or if we don’t want to be where we are, we have a pattern that keeps us out of touch with our lives. It can be a food addiction, a chemical addiction, or an emotional addiction. Maybe we’re addicted to running up bills or to getting sick. It can be physical or one can also be addicted to certain habit patterns - blaming people or judging people, to illness, to debt, to being a victim, to being rejected. Steven Pressfield ** in "Turning Pro" had a few of his own interesting insights on ADDICTION , calling them Allies of Resistance. He felt that all addictions shared two primary qualities: 1. They lead you on a circular path - repetition without progress. 2. They produce incapacity as a payoff. Addiction comes to substitute the youthful Aspirations we had , as life knocks us down. Addiction to Failure - Secretly relieved when we do NOT succeed since we are absolved from future responsibility and forging ahead ? Addiction to Sex - Possibly the most complex to decode , are we pursuing conquest or surrender ? Are we running to or from ourselves ? Addiction to Distraction - Resistance with a Capital R loves this one. Resistance hates concentration and depth most of all. Because when we work with focus we succeed. It wants to keep us shallow and unfocussed . So it makes the superficial and the vain intoxicating. Addictive televisions , online games , social media feeds ? Addiction to Money - Currency as a tool or as an end in itself ? Amassing more than we need for that sense of "security" ? And COVID has taught us all how secure we really are. Khalil Gibran's wise words describe the "thirst when your well is full as the thirst that is unquenchable" Addiction to Trouble - Similar to failure , being in trouble absolves us from staying the ground and excelling at what we do. Its payoff is incapacity and the blame game. Know the unhappy people that are never happy unless they are unhappy ? Same difference ..... Louise Hay , the Affirmation-Queen , felt that - Addiction to criticism , to fault finding were more latent , common and harmful than those to physical substances. Addiction to Rejection - the feeling that everyone is watching you , that they dislike you , when really they are busy with their own problems. As we think , so it is and so it attracts. Hence , we must choose our thoughts wisely . They must rise from a place of love and acceptance of ourselves . We can move beyond the negative. If you’re going to be addicted to anything, why not be addicted to loving yourself and to positive habits ? Addiction is giving up our power , but there is nothing to say we cannot take it back !! Addictive thinking is not logical and ignores evidence of facts. Recovery thinking reflects reality and helps you stay centered. When faced with addictive thinking, consider these four steps to creating a new recovery belief system:
(( A derivative of Katie Byron's limiting belief 4 questions ? See blog on overcoming-limiting-beliefs.html )) Addictive thoughts are never random, so the moments when they occur take a few steps back and ponder. Whatever event, circumstance, interaction, thought or feeling that happened just before the addictive thoughts will be a clue to the issues for which addiction is a solution. To distract oneself at just that moment is the last thing to do if you hope to gain control of addictive behavior. ** Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. www.louisehay.com/addiction/ awakeningsrehabilitation.com/2017/12/26/the-consequences-of-addictive-thinking-patterns/
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