Life Patterns, Themes, Lessons

[flofrog]

On the general topic of addiction, the most helpful view I think is probably to gain awareness that there is no such thing as addictions and instead conflicting needs/desires.

Some have tried to convince me I had a problem with cigarettes for all the years I've been smoking it. That I was addicted and couldn't do without but for myself I sought knowledge for the unconscious reasons of why I was smoking and acknowledged it as my desire. Then one day I did a MDMA trip and worked with the emotional root of why I had started smoking them and lost all appreciation I had for them. I still finished my pack, tried one on a few occasions but I just can't really enjoy them anymore because I ceased to have a need for them.

So what I'm saying is basicly that nothing is overcome and that which is not needed falls away. To view things through the scope of addictions is an overcoming mentality that seeks not to know why the self has a need for what it has a need of, it rejects to avoid distilling.

There is no such thing as addiction, there is what you are resonant with.

This is so interesting Minyatur, about the emotional root...
reading what you said, I remembered reading one of Carlos Castaneda's books a long time ago like... in the 70's ! and Don Juan at one time said to Castaneda, " you think you have an addiction, but in fact it is so simple, you just drop it ! " Whether Castaneda's books were facts or fiction, I remember how I thought there was something quite true about this. At the time I was smoking plain cigarettes, and some time later I just dropped it. lol. But the emotional root, that is so interesting.