Habit vs Addiction

A habit is something that you have simply gotten used to. A habit is relatively easy to change or give up. An addiction however, is something that we have to do, it is something that we crave. It is something that is suppressing how we feel. So with these key words - 'have to do', crave, and suppressing, we have insights into what dynamic is at play. With this added knowledge we are more empowered to be able to give up any addiction that may afflict us at any time.
What makes it possible, and even sometimes, easy, to give up, is the pinpointing and resolving of the emotional stuff that indulging in the addiction suppresses.
There is a mainstream belief that if you are addicted to something that that is the end of the story, done and dusted so to speak, no more room for healing implied. This could not be further from the truth of the matter. It is the beginning of the story to acknowledge you are an addict. An addict to food when full, an addict to heroin, an addict to cigarettes, an addict to alcohol, an addict to acquiring money at a huge cost to employees, business partners, family and relatives. The acquiring of money at any cost - through cheating or stealing, legally or illegally from others - is a deplorable addiction, but rife in our world of inequality and injustice and the oppression of others. But there is a way out of any and all oppression and suppression.

So the truth is that when you are addicted to something you are running away from your painful emotions. So what are those emotions - you discover them through asking yourself regularly - What feeling is this? Specifically if we ask ourselves that question when we crave anything, or find that compulsive, hard, quality emerging, it brings us the clarity of knowing what we are dealing with emotionally. Then asking - Given the fact I feel this way, what would I like to do now? We are discovering the way out of addiction, oppression and suppression when we ask ourselves that question. Following up on the healthy, life-enhancing answer to that question leads you into the addiction-free lifestyle.

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