Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.
I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.
