Addiction has many faces. From eating addiction to sports addiction, work addiction and sexual addiction, gambling addiction to the well-known addictions such as: Drugs, alcohol or nicotine addiction. As we can see in the first examples mentioned, it is not necessarily necessary to use substances that make the body addicted. Our body can also react with withdrawal symptoms without having come into contact with toxic and addictive substances. We become addicted to patterns of behavior.
Our body reacts to everything we do often and regularly with addiction. So what are the causes of addiction? It is often the case that we try to distract ourselves with sport or work, with alcohol or nicotine, to escape from ourselves and our lives. According to traditional Chinese medicine, people who are overweight are actually starving. They are trying to fill the holes in their souls by eating so much. These are certainly very often compensatory actions with which we try to compensate for or push away our emotional wounds or deficits.
But do we succeed? What are the consequences and effects and, above all, how can we break out of the vicious circle? There are an infinite number of methods on offer. However, most of them cannot deliver what they promise. We ourselves must become the method, the way out of addiction. We must begin to fill the holes in our souls with our own souls. To fill these holes from the inside out, with our own vitality and joy, with this infinite potential of inexhaustible and never-ending power of life that is in all of us. Only this will be permanent.
When our body starts to rebel against our intellect, wants to lead us back to what we are used to, simply won't let go. Thoughts only revolve around not being allowed to do something and that is precisely why the desire becomes ever greater. Thoughts only revolve around one thing. It is these energies that have taken possession of us. Energies that were not originally in our system. These energies have come to us in the course of our lives through various circumstances. How do we deal with them? How can we get out of this "vicious circle"?
Fighting against it is one possibility. However, this requires an iron will and a lot of strength. Only very few people manage to do it this way. I believe the first step is to accept ourselves as we are. With all our faults and weaknesses. To love ourselves - to love ourselves! Once we have accepted ourselves, we can also reflect on what is going on.
We observe ourselves without judgement, recognize what we need and what we don't need. We can say goodbye to what we don't need and let go. It can go in peace. It was once important to us, but now we no longer need it. It goes and there is room for something new. This new thing can be something very "old" and familiar. The real us. We ourselves. What we are - whole! And this whole can fill all the holes again. Fill them with our soul - unfold fully and completely. Then there is no more room for any other energies or other strange things.
If we observe ourselves, as in meditation, completely non-judgmentally, simply looking at what is there right now, then it will very quickly lose its drama. Its power will go. It can no longer overpower us, which means we no longer turn towards it. Because only what we turn to can overpower us. We decide for ourselves who or what we turn to. Photo: Tobias Geiler
