Beyond Addiction Podcast

An innocent misunderstanding of the way we experience life creates the “fertile soil” for addiction to flourish. This misunderstanding happens when we attribute our feelings and our experience of life to people, places, things and situations outside of ourselves, which we cannot control. We are actually experiencing life, however, through the “lens” and “filter” of our own conditioning and thinking. Once people insightfully understand the true nature of how we experience life, then they can become “captains of their own ship.”

The implications of this understanding on addiction are profound. Attributing feelings of worthiness, completion, serenity, etc. to anything such as accomplishments, relationships, cars, money, drugs or alcohol, etc. innocently creates the fertile ground for addiction to take hold. Because there is sometimes a temporary feeling of delight and euphoria attached to these items, a person will return to a substance, person, activity or object over and over and over again searching for that good or “happy” feeling. The search, in the long-run, is elusive and always fruitless.