Addiction

Addiction is dependency on a substance or behavior that makes us feel good. Often it is to alleviate painful thoughts about our life experience. This chapter is about the Spiritual View and its potential to heal addiction.

While the painful thought can be experienced as physical, emotional or mental, it is always about what we want and what we do not want. When we are looking to feel good, there seems to be only temporary relief and no healing of the underlying thought. 

Relieving our pain with dependence on drugs, food, entertainment, smoking, work, sex, pornography, shopping, gambling or alcohol can only be temporary. They bring no lasting peace. 

The healing of addiction is an event in awareness. It is the recognition that being here to feel good is not good. Most of us believe that the good of life is feeling good until we realize that feeling good is not always good. This is the “aha” moment that we all need to beneficially change our lives. Life can be good only after giving up wanting to feel good. Then there is mental freedom from all the personal thoughts that express themselves as addiction. This alternative is the gift of the Spiritual View where we can become expressions of joy, assurance, gratitude, harmony and goodwill.