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How Emotional Pain causes Addiction
Addiction has become so widespread, it's nearly an epidemic in our modern world. Around 240 million people around the world are dependent on alcohol, more than a billion people smoke, and about 15 million people use injection drugs, such as heroin.
From sex addiction, technology, food, shopping, drugs and alcohol, to work addiction, nearly every person has their personal habit. And for each addiction, there is a human in pain, trying to escape from the torment inside of them.
Dr Gabor Mate says the root cause of addiction is pain, and the attempt to escape pain actually creates more pain. But we can heal addiction. Watch to learn how.
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Very nice, Johm
Three of my favorite quotes
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― C.G. Jung
“Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heartfelt Advice for Hard Times
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Three of my favorite quotes
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― C.G. Jung
“Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heartfelt Advice for Hard Times
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
life expectancies
@Amazed by the Lunacy:
Here is my favorite saying (and I just now made it up):
All sayings have a shelf life and have with them a definite time period or kind of zone or space where they can either be a) of good use and help, or alternately b) be an actual detriment and extend further harm, both to the speaker and to the listener.
Live long and prosper!
Make lotta moolah.
ned, out
@Amazed by the Lunacy:
Here is my favorite saying (and I just now made it up):
All sayings have a shelf life and have with them a definite time period or kind of zone or space where they can either be a) of good use and help, or alternately b) be an actual detriment and extend further harm, both to the speaker and to the listener.
Live long and prosper!
Make lotta moolah.
ned, out
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I tell myself lies to avoid the pain
My lies tell me to numb the pain
The pain hides deep within
Each lie I tell myself and others
Digs me deeper in to my trail of lies
Lies, lies, lies...
My lies are my friends
They enable me to remain fixed
Fully enfolding outwards towards my projected self
Unlike my inner selves hidden away afraid alone, lonely, alone and lonely...
Fearful that who I am is not who I really want to be
My fraudulent self is self perpetuating
In motion stopped lost fearful
As fear may be
Tis me tis me
Lost in this world of fear and habit
This vice
This life
This strife
Stolen from self
Self stolen
From