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This video explores the cause of addiction rather than the symptoms and looks at how becoming progressively more peaceful changes the dynamics. All addictions are an escape mechanism and a result of the overwhelming feeling that often builds throughout our lives to become something we want to escape.
Most addiction provide a temporary escape from those feelings and as such provide a rest or gap from the way we feel. As we explore the process of reducing our thoughts to a point where our mind is quiet, we see that it is thought that creates the suffering and overwhelm that we often feel a need to escape from. What we think and feel, which is an accumulatioon of our ideas about life, becomes the reason we need to escape.
By changing the underlyiong feeling we have about life, removing the negative thoughts and the huge management effort that life can have, we can reveal a joyful life that we need no escape from. As we do the need and dependency on the mechanisms of escape falls away. Is an addiction a lifelong issue, no it remains only while we feel a need to escape how we otherwise feel about life.
Inner peace and a quiet mind removes the cause of addiction. It removes the thoughts and feelings that drive us to the need to escape. It also changes every other aspect of our lives too, allowing us to enter a new paradigm of joy and peace.
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Listening to this it all makes perfect sense. I am one week away from being alcohol free for a year but have found myself turning to other things on occasion because in my head I’m missing the high and I have a sense that I am no longer that person I was for 35 years and I miss her at times! I often think of and crave a more simple life, even if it is just to get away from all the temptation and materialistic aspects of modern life but how do you do it without going to the extreme and selling up and living off the land in a remote place.