Letting Go of Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours

Introduction

There are many, many methods that people have used, with varying degrees of success, for releasing themselves from addictions and compulsive or habitual behaviours, and I am not going into those here. Rather, I am putting forward a particular combination of methods which I myself am finding most efficient in clearing mental habits and which have the potential to easily and quickly clear pretty well any sort of addiction or compulsion, ranging from minor to really serious.

I am not concerning myself here only with substance misuse but really all compulsive behaviours, and that includes sexual behaviour. In humans, healthy sexual activity can occur when two people (irrespective of gender) open up to each other in mutually respecting love, so that then it is not just sexual activity but true lovemaking. Contrary to almost universal misunderstandings, such healthy sexual activity is neither compulsive nor habitual, nor driven by any sense of need. It is not driven by an 'appetite' nor a 'drive'. Much of the sexual activity that actually occurs is driven by desire and feelings of need, and obstructs the manifestation of true love, which latter is the basis of healthy sexual activity. Great benefits come from releasing oneself from such desires and compulsions, for then experiences of true love can manifest.

Although the methods I'm presenting below do not directly take away true chemical addictions, the fact is that the main factor which keeps a person addicted is their own emotional addictive tendency, and this can be released. To come off the drug is then merely a transient uncomfortable phase (albeit more like a serious illness in the case of heroin-type drugs). Typically people who are on addictive drugs (including tobacco) will blame their addiction on the drug or other people or something in their physical circumstances (like losing a job) rather than take responsibility for themselves and recognise that the prime cause and seat of their addiction is, to at least a considerable extent, astral entities (also often called astral beings, dark entities or even demons) or spirit attachments controlling them.

One problem about the controlling activities of the interfering entities is that they seek to control the affected person emotionally to turn them away from really effective means to clear addictions. In particular, as I experienced myself, they will fight tooth and nail against their human 'host' using The Work, because it is so effective and, if it were used, say, daily, it would be speedily dissolving the very emotional issues upon which the entities are thriving and which they are exploiting to create the addiction. They will similarly fight against a person using any other truly effective means to the same end, so that it is rare for an addicted person to be properly motivated to use any such method.

Serious Warning - Any methods using hypnosis are harmful and actually dangerous.
I explain why in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Dissolving the emotional addiction

Until in May 2007, when I took on the dramatically life-changing methods of Stephen and Lynda Kane, of which more below, The Work was the most fundamental, easy and speedy way that I knew to let go of the emotional aspect of any addiction or habit. You simply identify the particular beliefs and stressful thoughts which underlie the habit or addiction and then write them down and put them through the inquiry process of The Work. This enables you to stop believing those thoughts. Such thoughts will commonly be things like "I've got to have xxxx", "I've got to do xxxx", "I need xxxx", "I couldn't survive without xxxx" and "I can't be happy unless I have [or do] xxxx". These are ALL untrue thoughts, but realizing that intellectually doesn't get you out of an addiction, and that's where the inquiry process comes in. Your mind then lets go of its attachment to those thoughts, and that issue, or a good bit of it, is then clear and you at last feel free to live differently.

It's important that the inquiry work be done on a broad front and not just applied to the one issue, as I explain on my page on The Work. If a habit doesn't fully dissolve when a whole worksheet of relevant thoughts has been put to inquiry, it doesn't mean that The Work has failed, but continuing work on a broad front is required, and you would find that in your further inquiry work variants or repeats of thoughts related to the habit or addiction would still keep cropping up. You then put each of those to inquiry, and so you continue, improving many aspects of your life as well as progressively weakening the particular issue. If, however, you just try to address the habit or addiction in isolation from other issues, then you will very likely not get very far with your inquiry work.

A particular reason for doing the inquiry work on a broad front is that the particular habit or addiction is itself an attempt to run away from one or more emotional issues which need addressing. So, without putting to inquiry the thoughts underlying such issues, it could be quite hard to get free from troublesome addictions even if they do appear to have been addressed directly through inquiry.

The clearance process is most effective if the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is used as well. Generally I find it best to use the EFT first on an issue, followed by putting the latter's underlying thought(s) to inquiry using The Work. And of course, for those who cannot get on with The Work, the EFT can still be very effective on its own - provided one develops sufficient skill in making up really effective setup statements.

The fundamental drawback of the above methods - and a more effective alternative

Such methods, when awarely and skilfully applied, work wonders. However, the vast majority of people with addiction issues have blocks to the very awareness and mental acuity which would enable them to make good use of such methods. Indeed, the vast majority of all people have such blocks regardless of whether they have an obvious addiction issue!

I myself, without any obvious addiction issues, and getting a lot of good use out of The Work and EFT, still almost immediately found myself with no further cause to use those methods once I'd taken on the dramatically effective yogic practices (not ordinary Yoga!) of Stephen and Lynda Kane, which are described amazingly conservatively as energy awareness and chi cultivation practices. They are actually full self realization and emotional clearance methods which don't require you to focus in any way on the issues being cleared, and require only the person's motivation to learn and use the actually very simple practices, which involve certain physical movements, usually in repeated sequences and usually synchronized with a particular mode of breathing.

I therefore refer you to Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, where you will find more details of these practices, some of which are best learnt from Stephen and Lynda, and some of which I present on this site in enhanced form for people to learn directly, in this case completely free of charge.

Getting round the issue of lack of motivation

It doesn't require rocket science to realize that still the majority of people with addiction issues would have a block to using even the abovementioned yogic practices, just because the addiction itself (and the entities causing it) demotivates them from using such vigorous practices on a daily basis. There is no 'magic wand' for such situations. If a person simply doesn't have the motivation to help themselves, then what do you do?

One thing which could be done, and would make tremendous sense, is for healthcare services to include facilities for group sessions for carrying out those practices - especially Power Walking - under the guidance and encouragement of an active user of the methods. That wouldn't reach anything like everyone of course, but at least some otherwise unmotivated people could be greatly helped that way. Addiction centres and mental health institutions, and indeed really all medical centres, would benefit their communities much, much more if they offered this service.

However, putting all one's eggs in one basket is never the wisest thing, and actually The Work and the EFT both work very well when people are encouragingly guided through using them on specific issues, including those relating to addictions. So the availability of 'facilitation' group or personal consultation sessions for either or both of those methods would also be a great enhancement to addiction, mental health and medical centres. It would not be the great extra drain on financial resources that many people would imagine, for the simple reason that these emotional clearance and self realization methods make people much healthier generally - physically as well as mentally - and so these people would progressively require less and less from the medical and other support services, becoming much more self reliant and self directing.

Methods to clear out or manage the interfering entities

For virtually all people with troublesome addictions, astral entities or/and spirit attachments are the cause or at least a great aggravator of the condition.

Therefore it is crucially important to address this issue. However, the good news is that any really effective emotional clearance method (see above) is carrying out the necessary groundwork for entity removal, and, through dissolving the emotional stress or trauma material, is actually progressively removing the 'ammunition' which the entities use in controlling and even attacking the person to keep them in their addicted state.

For management and removal methods please refer to my page Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Beings - Managing and Removing Them. This covers the main types of problematical non-physical entity. As I say, though, the most fundamental action to take towards disempowering and removing the entities, and not getting any more back, is to clear out the person's emotional issues - especially traumas. What better starting point than a combination of methods given in A Guide to Complete Self Realization and Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way? You will find that the range of methods which I present include one procedure for a person to completely safely work directly on the removal of his/her own entities.