Addiction = Illumination

Addiction = Illumination
Your addictions are your path to wellness
As soon as try to give up even one favorite food or substance or habit , you come in contact with addiction in your own life. Its useless to judge anyone for what addictions they have because even a moments honest self examination will reveal to you your own human likeness, no matter how much worse you or society deem one addiction over another. Using a drink a drug a food a thought a person a video game a sexual experience and on and on is an attempt to assert complete control over our lives. To create a desired feeling rather than face the unknown, the fear, the discomfort we have over having, in essence, to sit and watch our lives unfold. By choosing alcohol or a food that numbs us, gives us the ability to function around that fear, and we "buy" control of our "moment" but become slaves to the substance we use to shield ourselves. As we know some of the substances take their toll in obvious ways . We become sick ,overweight or spiritually dead. Systems that show how a sick liver relates to anger issues for example or how laryngitis can happen when you have been afraid to speak up, may seem simplistic, but for many have offered a bread crumb trail to understanding how their emotions lead to a corresponding addiction which lead to a corresponding condition in the body. This trail can lead to the understanding it takes to deal with the emotional condition that unwinds the physical condition, rather than treating again and again the physical condition which either recurs with the occurrence of the craving for the substance or addiction that suppresses it momentarily.(or develops a new addiction and condition) http://louisehay.wwwhubs.com/
So lets say I smoke cigarettes to suppress my anger and frustration and develop the likely toxicity to smoking then my choice becomes to smoke or not to smoke. Lets say I choose to stop smoking but do not have any new way to deal with my anger and frustration. If I don't fall back into smoking perhaps I develop a new habit to suppress it like over eating candy. Soon I gain weight and have to face: giving up candy , losing weight and still needing a way to deal with my anger and frustration. Lets say someone or something clues me in and I now choose a more helpful way to deal with my anger and frustration like yoga and learning to accept people's actions and life situations OUT OF MY CONTROL .Now I am on my own spiritual path which has many huge benefits the least of which is my body and mind now prosper and finally I know peace despite the same activities around me. Lets take it a step deeper still and say now that my frequency has so improved I am able to deal with the addiction to being a victim of my circumstances and start having an ability to draw higher healthier circumstances to myself which ironically DOES put my life in my control. I become the creator of my universe and subsequently raise the consciousness of everything around me. http://www.whatthebleep.com
Maybe our addictiveness merely represents our longing to know God.
Maybe our personal addictions show us what needs to be healed personally and emotionally so that we may know God.
Maybe this longing for wholeness means that each illness or addiction developed is the blessing that puts us in awareness toward the purpose of our own spiritual path.
"Addiction & Grace" ,Gerald G May - Love and spiritualiy in the helaing of addictions