Shifting the Energy of Addiction

If you are struggling with an addiction or any habit you feel is counterproductive, please read this…

Stop resisting.

Stop resisting the thing you are trying to stop.

To clarify, I don’t mean to go on a binge. But I do mean stop trying to control and resist your need for this thing you’re addicted to.

What you resist will persist. That’s how energy works. Where your mind goes your energy flows. Focusing on controlling yourself around this thing will have you in an obsessive loop of blaming and shaming yourself. It will feel frustrating and demeaning. Focusing on the thing that you are resisting has you focusing on the addiction and not yourself. This mindset has confused you into believing you are your addiction.

You are not your addiction. You are experiencing addictiveness, but you are not your addiction.

Focusing on the addiction or the thing you are struggling to move past has you focusing on the symptom and not the root cause. For every illness, physical or mental, there is a root cause. That is where you need to direct your attention. What is in you that is causing you to reach for something harmful as a means to regulate your nervous system?

We become addicted to things because we need assistance in regulating our nervous system. We all do this on some level because none of us can escape this world without experiencing trauma. Trauma is disruptive to our brain and our vagus nerve (google this if you need more information) and all of this throws our central nervous system off balance. So, to find balance and comfort, we reach for substances or create habits to helps us function. Unfortunately, some of those things make it even harder to function.

So, instead of resisting or beating yourself up over being unable to control yourself, take a moment and be gentle with your energy. Have compassion for yourself for trying to survive the best way you know-how at the moment.

Also, take a moment to be curious about how you can learn new ways to comfort yourself. Be compassionately inquisitive about your triggers and discover new ways to cope with them. Maybe a change of routine will help? Letting go of old friends or relationships? A lifestyle change? Ask yourself, what are some ways I can shift my life to support myself better in my healing journey? Examine those possibilities and consider a new way of existence filled with habits of compassion, grace, and self-love.

When you are ready, your soul is waiting for you to choose YOU! It is so excited for you to realize how loveable you are. When the time comes, you will be divinely supported in your healing. For today, choose yourself and see what happens…