Breaking Your Addictions, you don’t know you have

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Breaking Your Addictions, you don’t know you have

In today's episode I would like to talk about addiction. If you look at society as a whole these days, it's very easy to draw the conclusion that almost everyone is addicted to something. There addictions can be their phones, Facebook, drama, alcohol online pornography, drugs or whatever it might be. So, what can people do to try and break free of their addictions? I think that we've been programmed and it's not a good thing or a bad thing, it's just how we've been programmed. Behind every addiction there's an emotion that the person is doing their best to regulate so let's just say a person has been exposed to a trauma. Then we have an event in our life that changes our emotional state to a stronger emotion. The brain Captures that thought as a photo or a freezes frame That's what we call the long-term memory. Long term memories so we remember the feeling associated with them. So, what most people don't know is that trauma or the series of events alters our internal state, and every time we think about or remember the trauma, we produce the same chemistry in the brain and body as if the event was occurring now. The brain is so objective that it doesn't know the difference between the real-life experience that's creating. That motion or the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone. It only takes a thought and a feeling an image and emotion of stimulus and response and you're actually conditioning the body subconsciously into that emotional state, and that sets the baseline of that person's emotional state so then the person goes “God I feel empty I feel anxious I feel unworthy I feel resentment I feel frustrated, and I don't know how to change it”. So then they look for things in their outer world to make that feeling go away. This can be any emotion or stimulant there use to such as, video games, Drama, Fighting, or complaining. It can also be a drug or alcohol. it's doesn't matter what it is. When they take the recreational drug or do that addiction, they notice a change in their emotional state and the moment they notice that change in their emotional state they associate that change with what caused it. They remember what caused it so that start to create a dependency. There are degrees of addiction, some are very physiological. Receptors are modified but when you get right down to it. An addiction is when the body has been conditioned to be the mind. Every time the person starts feeling emptiness or the unworthiness. They feel the frustration, they feel the anxiety their brain creates the image of what they need to do to make that feeling feel normal. Just like the last series of times it was that substance or activity that made it go away. The problem is, (let's use gaming as an example) OK so when you break through a certain level you get points for whatever you're doing in a game. When this happens, there’s a release of dopamine in the brain and dopamine is the reward chemicals. It is a pleasure chemical. As this happens the amount of dopamine that's released in a very short interval of time is outside of normal. With the rush dopamine into the brain and the receptor sites the cells say this is way too much dopamine that I'm used to processing the receptor sites actually closed down they shut down. So now in order for the person to get that same feeling they have to play more they have do more. The next stimulant has to be greater and over time we start recalibrating those pleasure centers those receptors to a higher level. The significance of that in the absence of that stimulation into our pleasure centers has been razed to such a high level that we can't find pleasure in anything, and we have to keep doing those things to keep us feeling “normal”. We also have to keep doing those things at a higher level to “feel normal”. We have to search out those things such as drama. We also feel the need to try to get other people into how we feel to re-ensure that we are right in the way we feel. If we do not reprogram our thoughts, we will keep the high levels of chemicals in the body, and this will kill you. Your body breaks down over time and you find yourself basically falling apart. Your health goes downhill and faster than you can imagine. You find yourself gaining weight or having physical health issues. Witch brings you down into a worse state.

So how do we break those patterns. There are many ways, but the main thing is to just start. You might find that the way you are trying doesn’t work. So, you just try something different. You will find that your addiction shifts to your new way of thinking. You start feeling better. you start noticing things different. You start feeling happier and you feel more energy.

Some of the techniques are meditation, Yoga, or even something as wild as Primal scream. But I suggest you just do simple things to start such as walking I the park. things like journaling the positive things you can think of at that moment. It is going to feel weird or ridiculous at first but it’s breaking the patterns you have made for years. It’s going to take time and hard work but in no time at all you will start feeling and seeing the change. You will feel better emotionally. You will notice you’re not getting sick as often or having health issues. Remember your body can produce any drug that you can subscribe to. I’m not recommending you stop your medications, but you will find that after a time you may not need them, or you can lower the dosages.

I also recommend that when you start making these changes keep track of things. One great thing is taking a series of photos of yourself. Make a “how I feel” journal. These are not to show anyone. But after a few years you will look back and see how much you accomplished. You will be shocked and then maybe you can share them with the world. Think about all the before and after photos you have seen and think about how you think when you see them.

Let this be your future. The time to start is now. You can do it and you will make a better life for yourself.