Whether it’s drugs, alcohol, food or shopping - admitting you’re addicted is simply the first step. Now what do you do? Unless you can identify the root cause of all addictions you can never figure out what you need to do to stop these destructive behaviors. How to Stop:
- Seek professional help. If you could stop yourself – it would not be an addiction.
- Seeking professional is ultimately a humbling experience.
- You realize your humanness; that you need help and are willing to ask for it.
- Ever single one of us has our demons and they often times manifest as addictions.
2. All addictions are about NOT FEELING – when you anesthetize yourself, you do not feel.
- Addictions anesthetize us. All the feelings we don’t want to feel always rise to the surface, i.e., what is in darkness, always comes to light.
- As those “bad” feelings begin to come up, the anxiety begins to build.
- We think we just might die if we feel those feelings. So….we take a drink, take a pill. And the feelings get pushed back down.
- Unless you are willing to “feel” what you have been avoiding feeling, you will never break an addiction. You can never “think” your way out of an addiction.
- Thinking can be very frustrating.
- Thinking always cuts us short and will never release the ahh-haa feeling.
- And that’s because “getting it” means you have to feel it, really feel it. Unless you feel what you are most afraid of, you will always develop some sort of addiction to block the feeling.
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