I’ve played with addictions and addictive behaviors for a large part of my life. In fact, I’d say that these various addictions have been among my greatest teachers, allowing me to see that there’s a higher level of consciousness and blissful awareness available to us all. But I’m also aware that using substances of non-well-being in order to experience this separate reality is assuredly a counterfeit means of doing so.
The pattern goes something like this: We must have more and more of what we desire. The more of it we take or imbibe, the more we need. The less effective it is as we consume more. Then, to top off this huge imbalance, what we’re using to get to this place of bliss is toxic to our well-being! The addiction is increasing our imbalance. Our desire is for bliss, peace, love, health, freedom, and so on, but the addictive behavior gives us precisely the opposite. If it goes unchecked, it will wreak havoc on our body and mind, and ultimately destroy us.
I’m essentially addiction free, and I want you to know that I didn’t get to this place by fighting my addictive nature. In fact, the more I tried to conquer addictions at various stages of my life to things such as sugar, soda pop, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and certain drugs, the more they’d gain a foothold on me. Force/counterforce: I’d apply my weapons, and they’d bring out their artillery, with my body as the battleground where the war was being waged. I was blundering my way into deeper addiction. I quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said: “The remedy for all blunders is love.” How would things be different if we followed his advice? The two key words are blunder and love. Let’s examine them more closely.
— Blunder. Why call an addiction a blunder? Demanding more and more of something your body and mind vehemently despise is addiction. Choosing the lopsided world of addiction over the equilibrium that is your spiritual heritage is a major distortion of your birthright. When you do that, you’re mismanaging this life. This is something I strongly believe is a blunder that can be balanced with love.
You originated from an invisible spiritual energy field of pure well-being. Your desire is to be balanced in that spirit in your thoughts and behaviors—now, in this life, in this moment, in your bodily form. You want that harmony and sense that it’s available without having to leave your body, or in other words, die. So, in that interpretation, you’re seeking a balance that allows you to die while you’re alive.
You’ll return to spirit, the non-form, upon your death, but you have the option of choosing to live in true enlightened balance, or God-realization… now, in this physical state. Your Source doesn’t create from toxicity. It doesn’t fill your veins or your stomach or any part of you with poison or excess. It creates from well-being, balance, and effort-less perfection. This is your spiritual heritage. And love can correct the blunders that distance you from your spiritual self.
— Love. Why is love the antidote to addictions? It’s very simple—because love is what you are; it’s the center of your creation. It’s your point of origination and can become your point of attraction as well. As Karl Menninger told his patients, and anyone else who was suffering and willing to listen, “Love cures, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.” In transcending your addictive habits, you have the opportunity to be both the giver and the receiver of the spiritual balm of love. As you apply it, you feel the balance returning to your life. You no longer pursue a counterfeit freedom, and you no longer attract what you don’t want. Instead, you seek the balance of being connected to your authentic nature.
— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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