Learn From Your Addictions

By Charanjit Singh

"Liberation is your birthright and anything that feels like a prison, like a confinement, needs your attention."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moksh Publications
• Release date: Dec 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386071129

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Learn From Your Addictions

By

Charanjit Singh

Copyright ©2015 Charanjit Singh

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Liberation is your birthright and anything that feels like a prison, like a confinement, needs your attention.

Addiction - Part 1

A  Quick Look At Addiction

Before we talk about an addiction, let us see what some of the greatest thinkers have to say about a habit.

1) The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

2)Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. 

Julian Smith

3) First you make your habits; then your habits make  you.

Lucas Remmerswaal

4) Habits are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Somersat Maugham

5) We become what we repeatedly do.

Sean Covey

6) Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

7) Habits are habits, not to be flung out of the window by any man but to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.

Anonymous

If I were to define an addiction, I would define it as a habit that is not good for your well being; that you want to quit, but are unable to. It could be anything. It could be sugar, caffeine, alcohol, cocaine, violence, unholy relationships, money, selfishness, egoistic conquering, using foul language, lethargy, miserliness, domination, manipulation, jealousy, anger, lust or anything that brings you down as far as your overall wellbeing is concerned. We are all addicted to something that has a negative value for our self development. You may be drinking more anger, jealousy, or lust on a daily basis than an alcoholic drinks alcohol, without being aware of it. So, the first thing we all ought to do is take a fresh and objective look at our weaknesses and stop camouflaging them or gold plating them.

The second thing is to become fully aware