Releasing Addiction

Releasing addiction is about understanding what addiction really is – and why it keeps repeating.

Why are you addicted to something? When does a behavior move into the realms of addiction? Why does addiction happen? And how can YOU let it go from your life?

I am going to discuss these questions today, and share with you my unconventional advice about addictions and why they happen.

Conventional psychology goes deeply into the triggers that induce an addiction and what the effects are on the brain. This can be useful but somewhat lacking as to the core roots of the addiction.

According to APA (American Psychological Association) Addiction is:

“Addiction is a state of psychological and/or physical dependence on the use of drugs or other substances, such as alcohol, or on activities or behaviors, such as sex, exercise, and gambling.“

I believe that on a level higher above, on the level of consciousness, an addicted person is using the addiction as a way to escape reality and cope with trapped emotions, trauma, and pain.

Reaching the release of addiction from your life is a process of letting go of these trapped emotions, energies, and lower vibrations.

Once that’s done and you ascended to a higher level of consciousness, you are no longer trapped by these emotions. You won’t need them.

Addictions come in many forms. They can come as smoking, drinking, drug usage, sexual addiction, food addiction, social media addiction, video games, and more.

The common factor to all of these addictions is that they satisfy core needs and desire in a strong, intense, and immediate way.

Addictions usually appeal to the lower, more animalistic side of the human being, where the desire for immediate satisfaction, dopamine, and primal urges arise.

When does normal behavior become addiction?

Smoking the occasional cigar, drinking a glass of wine, eating a large meal, or indulging in sexual fantasy once in a while isn’t a sign of addiction.

If a behavior is under control, you are unattached to it, and it doesn’t interfere with your emotions, psyche, and self control – then you are not addicted.

Addiction is behavior that is irrational, compulsive, and repetitive.

I know a lot of people who believe they are addicts for life. For example, they have been addicted to a substance for a prolonged period, released the addiction, and have a slip – once in a long period of time (more than 4-6 months). In my view, this doesn’t consist of addiction, but of trapped emotions that are stored in energy pockets in the body. The energy pockets still contain the memories of the addiction, of the past behavior, of the primal desires and are being released. Through deep introspection and emotional release that we’ve discussed in the Trapped Emotions article, you can let go of the remains of this trapped energy.

Additionally, behavior that is compulsive doesn’t always mean you are addicted. It can be a compulsion that is relatively in your control.

Addiction is when there is close to no self control and ability to navigate one’s own Self and patterns. There is a force beyond the self that dictates the ability to maintain the addiction or one’s behavior.

Why does addiction happen?

Addictions happen usually from trauma, lack, and pain.

When you are lacking a form of energy in your life – whether that be love, comfort, happiness, growth, abundance, success, or fulfillment – the mind wants to create that feeling for you.

It goes the length to find ways to create these feelings, even if it means artificially to allow you to enter a different reality for a while. The mind doesn’t understand the long term consequences, it simply wants to feel better.

If the situation is unbearable and you are used to comfort yourself with food, then the first sign of distress can lead to a food binge. The first sign of discomfort can send the mind to drink a glass of whiskey, to numb the pain, induce a feeling of comfort, and then relax.

The mind is seeking a FEELING – to fulfill you with something. It knows only of the external world as the solution as that is what it sees.

Yet you, as a conscious being, can bypass the mind and realize that you are greater than it’s control. You are able to re-shift the paradigm and realize that nothing from the external world fills you up with anything.

It is your own chemicals and emotions that fill you up with a feeling. You can shift your emotional state this very moment by becoming more aware and present to what you are feeling. Simply feeling these emotions will result in a release and allow you to feel happier, pleasant, grateful and abundant.

Releasing Addiction RM Methods:

Method No. 1: Doing the thing consciously

When you are addicted, you are operating under an unconscious/semiconscious behavior that is ruling your behaviors. This causes the behavior to SEEM as if it isn’t under your control. You are ruled by the behavior and it causes you to feel a sense of fear, worry, and anxiety about when it will strike again.

In order to bypass this unconscious connection, you can make the addiction a conscious aspect of your psyche. This means you will schedule a time and date where you are able to pursue the addictive behavior, without guilt or shame. Part of the appeal of the addiction is that it’s exciting, edgy, and gives you a moment of complete escape from reality.

But what if you take that away? It’s no longer that exciting. You are now CHOOSING to do this addiction. It’s YOUR addiction and you own it. Now, it will become much less appealing and exciting for you to pursue it.

Additionally, you create clear parameters where the addiction is confined and it can go through that filter – you don’t need to worry when it will happen. You have a schedule – how’s that for a change?

After doing this for a while, it will get old and you will ascend the addiction naturally – and even if you don’t, you’ll have set times to engage with these behaviors in a safer way rather than an erratic, uncontrollable behavior.

Method no. 2: identifying and declaring out loud why you do it

This method involves honesty, integrity, and self-love. You are now going to take a walk or a drive in your car, and use the voice recorder on your phone.

When you are on this trip, you are going to discuss with yourself exactly what, why, and how you pursue the addiction. Speak with yourself like an adult that is aware of exactly what this behavior entails – whether that is binge eating food, a drug addiction, porn, alochol, or video games.

Describe in vivid details – and do not feel ashamed to describe the behaviors, the motives, the way it arouses and attracts you, and the excitement and fulfillment you receive from acting on the addiction.

This alone is going to illuminate your addiction with so much light, love, and awareness that the behavior itself will neutralize. You will be able to look your addiction in the eyes and see it’s not that scary, and it isn’t really who you are. It’s just a behavior that clinged on to you and you are ready to release it.

In this self-recording, don’t seek solutions or promises to yourself. Simply be honest about what’s going on. A lot of times this alone will create a consciousness shift and a higher vibrational reality to correspond to you.

Method No. 3: Accepting and loving yourself

One of the main points in addiction is that you are feeling a sense of lack, you are feeling that you are not enough or that there is something missing in your self and reality.

This is the premise of all addictions – a desire to fill a sense of pain, lack, worry, fear, depression or other negative emotions. Then, once they are fulfilled momentarily, you return with an even lower sense of confidence, and your self esteem goes even lower – which creates a cycle of continuous repetition of these behaviors.

You get to a point where you need the addiction to feel something, yet it saps you from more than it gives you in the net sum. This is the problem with addictions – they don’t recharge you with energy. They give you an artifical, decoy boost, and then you fall back to a lower state of energy than before.

For the energy of your SELF to grow and become self-sufficient without external resources, you can begin practicing self-love.

Can you begin to love yourself no matter what? Can you show yourself how great, beautiful, interesting, and unique you are – despite your challenges?

And what about inspite of your challenges? is that also possible? how far can you go in loving yourself? How would you treat a friend who comes to you with a similar situation? What advice would you give to such a friend? Can you love yourself the same after all?

I highly suggest you explore these questions for yourself and notice how your consciousness expands by considering them, reading them out loud, and answering them in writing in your notebook/computer.

You are going to become more aware of how much you can love yourself, and often love is the greatest cure to the feelings of lack and the desires to pursue compulsions will greatly taper off.

I trust that you found this article useful in your journey to reach higher states of consciousness and energy levels, and sending you strength on your path.

Yours,

Aaron

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