Addiction Recovery: Satisfying Natural Needs And Drives Is Necessary For A Permanent Cure

Writen by Dennis Marcellino

What defines an “addiction”? More specifically: when does a “normal action” become an “addiction”? That happens when we override the fact that the deepest part of our being either wants us to not do a certain thing or it wants us to do a certain thing… and we either continue in doing the thing that it doesn’t want us to do, or we don’t do the thing that it wants us to do and we do something else instead. That “something else” is what we can be said to be addicted to.

So a
simpler phrase could be: addictions are things we do instead of what we are
naturally inclined to do. Now “naturally inclined” doesn’t mean “everything we feel”
because our feelings can also be triggered by pathological programming in our
subconscious. For example, we might feel like binge eating when in fact the deeper
feeling is to be romantic.

Therefore, an important part of regaining
health and eliminating addiction is to develop a keen sensitivity to the deepest part
of our being.

A song once said “Wonderful is what you’ll feel in you
when you do the things you’re made to do.” That means being in harmony with and
living out the design of your being and the purpose of your life.

Another
factor here though is the difference between intoxicating addictions and non-
intoxicating addictions. That is, with non-intoxicating addictions we still can be in
touch with all parts of our being, including the deepest part. So even though we may
choose to override certain internal messages with an addictive behavior… seeing and
acknowledging them is still possible for us, and therefore we can move in the
direction of correcting that.

But once we imbibe an intoxicant, we now
mask our ability to see all of our internal workings and therefore lose sensitivity and
control over them (which actually is a big reason why people uses intoxicantsthat
is: they don’t want to be shown certain feelings that are going on within them and
be pressured to have to act on them or let them “ruin their fun”).

An
example of this would be: the body saying it doesn’t want to have sex or is not
inspiring sex and then using alcohol to override that resistance or lack of
inspiration. Whereas the emotional component of sex would try to drive us to the
complete natural way of the sex drive which is within a marriage relationship with a
safe, mature, committed partner.

Therefore, in order to be able to resolve
any addiction, there ultimately can be no masks.

(c) Lighthouse
Publishing

Dennis Marcellino is the developer of a new at-home addiction recovery program
called “Addiction Free Forever” which offers a natural, permanent cure for addiction
and helps a person find deep personal fulfillment. He is recognized as an innovator
in addiction recovery by some of the top administrators in this field and is the
author of highly acclaimed books. His breakthrough addiction recovery and life
transformation program can be seen at http://www.AddictionFreeForever.com

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