Spiritual Disease Of Addiction
Create the Spiritual Miracle
Create the Spiritual Miracle
At conception a new human seeks life, ever increasing in size along a natural path of development, and one of the first experiential events they have is a feeling or an emotion. In fact after they are born, they still have feelings and emotions, until they develop language skills at 18-24 months, and then they begin having thoughts.
The layer of the brain that creates and handles and deals with feelings and emotions is then deeper than the layer that creates and handles and deals with thought.
The word emotion has a prefix and a root word.
The prefix is e which means out, away from.
The root word motion means action, not stationary.
So emotion speaks of a need or force to move out of a person.
Again observe a baby up till they are 18-36 months old. They share their feelings, honestly, openly and willingly (where have I heard that before?).
A feeling, incidentally of which there are only six, for illustrative and uncomplicated purposed, feelings or emotions. These are the pure emotions, undiluted by intellectualization and reason. They are
Sad
Hurt
Angry
Afraid
Ashamed
Glad
SHAAAG acronym easily remembered as it is like a SHAG Carpet!!
The conception of an emotion or feeling results in its birth. At the moment of its birth, it has one and only one goal in its simple existence: TO BE EXPRESSED.
Express is the normal evolutionary responsible goal of a feeling.
Express is a compound word also, like emotion, created by the combination of
EXIT + PRESSURE = EXPRESS.
SO EMOTION MEANS MOVE OUT AND AWAY FROM, AND EXPRESS MEANS PRESSURE TO EXIT.
Can it get any more reasonable and simple than this?
However along comes the disease of addiction, spiritual disease of addiction, and since the spirit is deeper in a human than the emotion or the will. nope, I'll deal with that later.
The natural expression of emotion is compromised with the contraction of the spiritual disease of addiction.
That is why the disease of addiction used to be called
"THE FEELINS DISEASE".
A person has an emotion and instead of allowing it ot naturally express itself, they exert pressure against the feeling or emotion in the opposite direction. This is done from an intellectual and reasonable and rational perspective.
IT is called repression and suppression. You bury your feelings and emotions. When you bury your feelings you bury them alive not dead. To bury something you have to have a hole in which to put it, for burying something above ground does not work. The hole you dig is called a "depression".
When you bury enough of these feelings and emotions via the psychological process of repression and suppression you end up depressed and in depression. At this point go to your doctor or shrink and he will give you some pills.
Never the less, at the birth of an emotion, there is energy attached to the emotion, and that energy is from the spirit, and that energy is what sets the feeling in motion and provides pressure for it to exit.
If your spiritual "BATTERY" in yourself has 10 units of energy to run your body, and you get a emotion that contains .5 units of energy, and to repress the emotion it takes .6 units of energy, then you have just wasted 1.1 units of energy that you buried with your unexpressed feelings. Do that enough and you will be depressed, tired, lifeless, no energy, no motivation... Sound familiar?
Go to the family Dr. or shrink and they will give you a pill.
Fine you counter, but I am not done, these buried feelings do not remain in stasis, for they leech out and into the thoughts and actions of the person and they are unaware of this as they have told their conscious mind that the feelings are of no importance and no consequence. Eventually the buried feelings will not only cause mental and intellectual problems, actual and behavioral problems, they will begin to cause physical problems.
Sentaire is the Latin word that means TO FEEL.
The root word SENT.
RE sent ment means to refeel in the here and now reality of today a feeling or emotion that you "buried" yesterday, yestermonth, yesteryear, or even yesterdecade. You will keep refeeling over and over through your thoughts and actions and physical ailments the buried feelings.
These buried feelings rot and decay and are putrid puss pockets of rot.
The disease attaches an umbilical cord to these buried feelings and emotions and uses the energy to gain its power and energy from.
The disease parasitically feeds off of the energy and power of a feeling in this fashion.
Your disease does not want you to LIVE it wants you to DIE.
In the throes of your disease you have dealt with your feelings this way:
D= Deny, Diminish
I=Ignore, Intellectualize
E=Escape, Evade, Evaluate
S=Suppress, Repress, Depress
your feelings and emotions.
In treatment of this disease it is imperative to do this with your feelings:
L=Learn to
I=Identify
V=Verbalize
E=Express
S=Share
your feelings and emotions.
How to LIVES with your feelings and emotions.
Learn to
Identify= use one of the six pure emotions SHAAAG
Verbalize=use I message in this format I FEEL ____S,H,A,A,A,G_____.
Express=observe how a child or younger expresses their feelings and copy and imitate them.
PRACTICING ADDICTION REQUIRES ADDICTS TO DIE WITH THEIR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS:
D=DENY, DELETE, DIMINISH
I=IGNORE, INTER, INTELLECTUALIZE
E=ESCAPE, EVADE, EVALUATE
S=SUPPRESS, STUFF, SUBLIMATE
RECOVERING ADDICTION REQUIRES ADDICTS TO LIVE WITH THEIR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS:
L=LEARNS TO
I=IDENTIFY
V=VERBALIZE
E=EXPRESS
S=SHARE
The layer of the brain that creates and handles and deals with feelings and emotions is then deeper than the layer that creates and handles and deals with thought.
The word emotion has a prefix and a root word.
The prefix is e which means out, away from.
The root word motion means action, not stationary.
So emotion speaks of a need or force to move out of a person.
Again observe a baby up till they are 18-36 months old. They share their feelings, honestly, openly and willingly (where have I heard that before?).
A feeling, incidentally of which there are only six, for illustrative and uncomplicated purposed, feelings or emotions. These are the pure emotions, undiluted by intellectualization and reason. They are
Sad
Hurt
Angry
Afraid
Ashamed
Glad
SHAAAG acronym easily remembered as it is like a SHAG Carpet!!
The conception of an emotion or feeling results in its birth. At the moment of its birth, it has one and only one goal in its simple existence: TO BE EXPRESSED.
Express is the normal evolutionary responsible goal of a feeling.
Express is a compound word also, like emotion, created by the combination of
EXIT + PRESSURE = EXPRESS.
SO EMOTION MEANS MOVE OUT AND AWAY FROM, AND EXPRESS MEANS PRESSURE TO EXIT.
Can it get any more reasonable and simple than this?
However along comes the disease of addiction, spiritual disease of addiction, and since the spirit is deeper in a human than the emotion or the will. nope, I'll deal with that later.
The natural expression of emotion is compromised with the contraction of the spiritual disease of addiction.
That is why the disease of addiction used to be called
"THE FEELINS DISEASE".
A person has an emotion and instead of allowing it ot naturally express itself, they exert pressure against the feeling or emotion in the opposite direction. This is done from an intellectual and reasonable and rational perspective.
IT is called repression and suppression. You bury your feelings and emotions. When you bury your feelings you bury them alive not dead. To bury something you have to have a hole in which to put it, for burying something above ground does not work. The hole you dig is called a "depression".
When you bury enough of these feelings and emotions via the psychological process of repression and suppression you end up depressed and in depression. At this point go to your doctor or shrink and he will give you some pills.
Never the less, at the birth of an emotion, there is energy attached to the emotion, and that energy is from the spirit, and that energy is what sets the feeling in motion and provides pressure for it to exit.
If your spiritual "BATTERY" in yourself has 10 units of energy to run your body, and you get a emotion that contains .5 units of energy, and to repress the emotion it takes .6 units of energy, then you have just wasted 1.1 units of energy that you buried with your unexpressed feelings. Do that enough and you will be depressed, tired, lifeless, no energy, no motivation... Sound familiar?
Go to the family Dr. or shrink and they will give you a pill.
Fine you counter, but I am not done, these buried feelings do not remain in stasis, for they leech out and into the thoughts and actions of the person and they are unaware of this as they have told their conscious mind that the feelings are of no importance and no consequence. Eventually the buried feelings will not only cause mental and intellectual problems, actual and behavioral problems, they will begin to cause physical problems.
Sentaire is the Latin word that means TO FEEL.
The root word SENT.
RE sent ment means to refeel in the here and now reality of today a feeling or emotion that you "buried" yesterday, yestermonth, yesteryear, or even yesterdecade. You will keep refeeling over and over through your thoughts and actions and physical ailments the buried feelings.
These buried feelings rot and decay and are putrid puss pockets of rot.
The disease attaches an umbilical cord to these buried feelings and emotions and uses the energy to gain its power and energy from.
The disease parasitically feeds off of the energy and power of a feeling in this fashion.
Your disease does not want you to LIVE it wants you to DIE.
In the throes of your disease you have dealt with your feelings this way:
D= Deny, Diminish
I=Ignore, Intellectualize
E=Escape, Evade, Evaluate
S=Suppress, Repress, Depress
your feelings and emotions.
In treatment of this disease it is imperative to do this with your feelings:
L=Learn to
I=Identify
V=Verbalize
E=Express
S=Share
your feelings and emotions.
How to LIVES with your feelings and emotions.
Learn to
Identify= use one of the six pure emotions SHAAAG
Verbalize=use I message in this format I FEEL ____S,H,A,A,A,G_____.
Express=observe how a child or younger expresses their feelings and copy and imitate them.
PRACTICING ADDICTION REQUIRES ADDICTS TO DIE WITH THEIR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS:
D=DENY, DELETE, DIMINISH
I=IGNORE, INTER, INTELLECTUALIZE
E=ESCAPE, EVADE, EVALUATE
S=SUPPRESS, STUFF, SUBLIMATE
RECOVERING ADDICTION REQUIRES ADDICTS TO LIVE WITH THEIR FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS:
L=LEARNS TO
I=IDENTIFY
V=VERBALIZE
E=EXPRESS
S=SHARE
Components of Humans
Concentric Circle Model
In order to comprehend the nature of the disease of addiction it is necessary to first discuss basic human components. We conceive of a model consisting of seven concentric circles, much the design of an onion cut in half. The center component is the core or essence of humanness. The next component is commonly called the soul. The next component is behavior, private and social, and the final is the physical component. We will in further discussion call, for the human model, these "layers" COMPONENTS.
For the sake of construction from a two dimensional to three dimensional reality an onion is more representative of this human model that concentric circles. And even this "onion" concept lacks the totality of grasping the separateness of the components and their intimate inseparability.
These components are listed and defined below:
Spiritual=core of human, origin of all energy available to human. Essence, from the word "spiritus", means the same as breath, life.
SOUL consists of the following three separate components.
Volitional=will, freedom of choice, that which ultimately decides. Highest use of this component is the "Will to Live."
Emotional=feelings, only six of these Sad, Hurt, Afraid, Ashamed, Angry and Glad. Acronym SHAAAG.
Intellectual=Mental activity, thoughts, ideas, morals, values.
Actual=actions, behaviors, speech, body language, expressions, eye contact.
Social=those actions which others witness and the social systems a human is involved in, beginning with family, school, clubs, employment, churches, recreation, neighborhood, city, state country.
Physical=the eleven physical systems of the body. Muscular, skeletal, circulatory, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, reproductive, digestive, excretory, respiratory, and hormonal.
Spiritual: The center of a human, the core, the essence from which all energy and life flows.
Volitional: The power of will, free will, the exercise of choice, the system responsible for choosing how energy from the spiritual core is spent and directed.
Emotional: Emotions and feelings. There are only six emotions or feelings. An acronym tool used to remember them is SHAAAG. S=Sad, H=Hurt, A=Angry, A=Afraid, A=Ashamed, G=Glad.
Intellectual: Mental, logic, analysis, morals, values, taboos, abstract reasoning, thoughts.
Actual: Actions, speech, tone of voice, body language, inflection, eye contact, and movement, vocal, behavioral.
Social: Family, relationships, employment, leisure, recreational, church
Physical: The body, organs, nine systems of the body. Respiratory, Circulatory, Endocrine, Limbic, Reproductive, Skeletal, Muscular, Sensory, Digestive. CNS, PNS.
1. Primary: The illness exists in and of itself. (But may manifest in addition to other illnesses.) Cause unknown, etiology undetermined.
2. Chronic: Does not go away, heal spontaneously or remit.
3. Progressive: Over time it gets worse.
4. Systematic: Causes disease in other bodily systems.
5. Symptomatic: Can be diagnosed by the way it manifests in a person's psychology, physiology, behavior and lifestyle.
6. Fatal: If left untreated will result in premature death.
7. Treatable: Proven changes do result in the ability to live without the abused substance.
Development of an addiction begins with the voluntary decision to use drugs. No one starts out hoping to become an addict, but as one uses over a lengthy period of time, control of use decreases proportionately.
One who is initially a voluntary user can become a compulsive and obsessive drug user, or addict. An ever-increasing body of scientific evidence suggests that the transition from voluntary user to addict occurs through a combination of processes, including a series of brain changes affecting neuro-transmitters (brain chemicals) that result from repeated drug use.
Addiction begins with a decision to use drugs (no one thinks they will become addicted), and the addict has to be actively involved in their own treatment for it to work.
That addiction is a disease helps explain why people need treatment; why most cannot just stop through exerted will power.
The will is the captain and moderator between the emotional and intellectual components, in the soul.
The intellectual component contains the conscience, values, mores, virtues, inhibitions and prohibitions and it is morals.
The emotional component contains the desires, passions, pleasures, vices and it is amoral.
The volitional harnesses and reigns in the powerful passionate urgings and cravings in the emotional and filters them through the intellectual component for the intellectual component must weigh and form these passions into appropriate eventual potential actual events.
The conscience, posited in the highest realms of consciousness, if properly formed, is the judge and jury between the seemingly warring factions of the soul.
Most if not all drugs, whether, sedatives, stimulants or psychedelic have a pleasure stimulating and pain diminishing property. In that vein, all drugs kill and deaden pain and heighten pleasure.
For any drug to deaden pain it must act upon the highest realm of consciousness, it numbs the cerebral cortex. In affecting this part of the brain, it inadvertently also begins to put the conscience, morals, values and virtues to sleep, or relegates it to not an active judge and jury, but an observational role.
This disintegrates the cohesion that naturally exists between the three components of the soul, the volitional, emotional, and intellectual. This cohesion is called integrity. Mood altering drugs disintegrate this unity. Once the conscience becomes an observer the vices, passions and pleasure seeking emotional component trumps the intellectual.
The intellectual component contains the conscience, values, mores, virtues, inhibitions and prohibitions and it is morals.
The emotional component contains the desires, passions, pleasures, vices and it is amoral.
The volitional harnesses and reigns in the powerful passionate urgings and cravings in the emotional and filters them through the intellectual component for the intellectual component must weigh and form these passions into appropriate eventual potential actual events.
The conscience, posited in the highest realms of consciousness, if properly formed, is the judge and jury between the seemingly warring factions of the soul.
Most if not all drugs, whether, sedatives, stimulants or psychedelic have a pleasure stimulating and pain diminishing property. In that vein, all drugs kill and deaden pain and heighten pleasure.
For any drug to deaden pain it must act upon the highest realm of consciousness, it numbs the cerebral cortex. In affecting this part of the brain, it inadvertently also begins to put the conscience, morals, values and virtues to sleep, or relegates it to not an active judge and jury, but an observational role.
This disintegrates the cohesion that naturally exists between the three components of the soul, the volitional, emotional, and intellectual. This cohesion is called integrity. Mood altering drugs disintegrate this unity. Once the conscience becomes an observer the vices, passions and pleasure seeking emotional component trumps the intellectual.
Here is a list of the main theorized causes of the disease of addiction:
SINCE 1956
SCIENCE/MEDICINE HAVE INVESTIGATED THE FOLLOWING AS POTENTIAL CAUSES OF THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION:
HEREDITY
GENETICS
ADDICTION IN ONE OR BOTH PARENTS
LEARNED BEHAVIOR
ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
GENETIC PREDISPOSITION
PTSD POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
CISS CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS SYNDROME
PHYSICAL ABUSE
EMOTIONAL ABUSE
SEXUAL ABUSE
MENTAL ABUSE
EMOTIONAL DISCONTROL
EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY
BEHAVIORAL DISORDER
INSUFFICIENT INADEQUATE PARENTING
INSUFFICIENT EGO DEVELOPMENT
COPING MECHANISM
BOREDOM
LONELINESS
POVERTY
ETHNICITY
LOW SELF CONFIDENCE
LOW SELF ESTEEM
ADD ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
ADHD ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
MINORITIES
INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION
INSUFFICIENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
INADEQUATE COPING SKILLS
STRESS
SOCIAL CONDITIONING
DSYLEXIA
AUTISM
ABANDONMENT
PEER PRESSURE
INABILITY TO SAY NO TO PEER PRESSURE
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
ANTISOCIAL
AVOIDANT
BORDERLINE
DEPENDENT
HISTRIONIC
MULTIPLE
NARCISSIATIC
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
ORGANIC
PARANOID
SADISTIC
SCHIZOID
SELF DEFEATING
SCHIZOTYPAL
NEUROTRANSMITTERS
CHEMICAL IMBALANCE
HIJACKED BRAIN
LIZARD BRAIN
BRAIN CHEMISTRY
CURRENT VERNACULAR
ADDICTS ARE SELF MEDICATING
This is the current buzzword in Harvard, Yale and elsewhere.
Ask them "medicating WHAT" and they will tell you
I do not know.
PLUS ALL THE COMBINATIONS OF THESE WITH EACH OTHER, AND GUESS WHAT, IT IS STILL A PRIMARY DISEASE.
SINCE 1956
SCIENCE/MEDICINE HAVE INVESTIGATED THE FOLLOWING AS POTENTIAL CAUSES OF THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION:
HEREDITY
GENETICS
ADDICTION IN ONE OR BOTH PARENTS
LEARNED BEHAVIOR
ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
GENETIC PREDISPOSITION
PTSD POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
CISS CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS SYNDROME
PHYSICAL ABUSE
EMOTIONAL ABUSE
SEXUAL ABUSE
MENTAL ABUSE
EMOTIONAL DISCONTROL
EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY
BEHAVIORAL DISORDER
INSUFFICIENT INADEQUATE PARENTING
INSUFFICIENT EGO DEVELOPMENT
COPING MECHANISM
BOREDOM
LONELINESS
POVERTY
ETHNICITY
LOW SELF CONFIDENCE
LOW SELF ESTEEM
ADD ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
ADHD ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
MINORITIES
INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION
INSUFFICIENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
INADEQUATE COPING SKILLS
STRESS
SOCIAL CONDITIONING
DSYLEXIA
AUTISM
ABANDONMENT
PEER PRESSURE
INABILITY TO SAY NO TO PEER PRESSURE
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
ANTISOCIAL
AVOIDANT
BORDERLINE
DEPENDENT
HISTRIONIC
MULTIPLE
NARCISSIATIC
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
ORGANIC
PARANOID
SADISTIC
SCHIZOID
SELF DEFEATING
SCHIZOTYPAL
NEUROTRANSMITTERS
CHEMICAL IMBALANCE
HIJACKED BRAIN
LIZARD BRAIN
BRAIN CHEMISTRY
CURRENT VERNACULAR
ADDICTS ARE SELF MEDICATING
This is the current buzzword in Harvard, Yale and elsewhere.
Ask them "medicating WHAT" and they will tell you
I do not know.
PLUS ALL THE COMBINATIONS OF THESE WITH EACH OTHER, AND GUESS WHAT, IT IS STILL A PRIMARY DISEASE.
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