How To Win Over Addiction

Many of us are victims of addictive behaviors that we know are harmful to our inner interests yet are unable to stop. Let's pick three of these key moments: bulimia, porn, and alcoholism. We will realize, once we have emerged from the tunnel of addiction that we have neglected our interests and injured ourselves and yet we are at a loss as to what we might do if anything could help.

One answer is that we should strive to recognize when the temptation to spew food, watch porn, or drink strikes us, albeit this may sound unusual. Those in the grip of addiction rarely notice they don't pay much attention to what has immediately happened before their desires strike. It doesn't occur to us that anything has happened.

If we did look into ourselves and study the answers very carefully, we would have an important weapon with which to escape the downward spiral and that's because before there is ever an addictive behavior there is always a moment of awareness.

Triggers of Addition

The triggers can vary, for example, a partner may not be as warm as they should be, a coworker may seem disapproving and mean, or one may have been excluded from a social event, perhaps not for the first time. Addictive self-harming habits have their roots in emotions including loneliness, shame, a sense of unworthiness, a sensation of rejection, or the conviction that one is not deserving. Addiction has nothing to do with loving what one is addicted to but with finding relief from a prior pain that has not been understood or addressed for a long time .Addictive Behavior provides a form of calming and escape from an excruciating discomfort vomiting after a meal creates a sense of lightness porn leads one into a series of physical highs and a state of drunkenness.

BREAK THE PATTERN!

To begin breaking the pattern of addiction, we must first recognize that we are in trouble, that we have grown very sad and hopeless about ourselves for whatever reason, and that we need help now rather than in a few hours. We must become better historians and observers of our moods, and aim to create a gap in time and mental activity between the moment when we are addicted and the moment when we are not.

If we can slow down the process, we should be able to wake ourselves up from our narcotic impulses and say in a profoundly helpful way, "I'm upset." Just realizing that we are upset is half the battle; at the very least, "I'm feeling deeply upset, and thus I am in danger," and from there we can ask another set of extremely pertinent questions. What is upsetting me and how am I feeling? We might have to close our eyes and remain still for a while. Allow the subconscious to provide the solution.

Alternatively, we may attempt to finish the following statement.

One of the oddities of the bizarre brains we all have is that it can take so long for us to realize what we're feeling and to grasp what might have caused it and arrive at This is why I'm currently feeling unhappy.

When we begin to recognize our distress, we can start the process of self-soothing in more effective ways. One side can embrace the other and say, "Poor you, how awful to be feeling awful again. It's likely that in your early years, no one showed even the slightest sympathy or interest."

We can repair the damage We can inquire as to how I feel about myself and what has occurred.

So we can replace addiction with self-compassion and understanding no one falls victim to addictions by chance the behaviors always have roots in an intense normally childhood-derived sense of being a terrible unworthy person, in summary, the route to stopping addictive behavior is to ask oneself how one is feeling realize one is probably feeling very bad curious about and sympathetic to the causes and then ask what would be a better alternative, knowing that there is space and love for the feeling that causes addiction is the key to weakening and eventually overcoming what we are addicted to.