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We are all addicts. Yes, you are. So am I. We are addicted in many ways to many things.

It is easy to identify the obvious physical addictions; drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, sugar, etc. In addition to being the easiest to identify, these physical addictions are also the easiest to kick. If you think that kicking the heroin habit is tough, try kicking your addiction to one of your core beliefs. You'll scream. You'll fight. You'll rant and rave. You'll suffer delirium tremors.

In addition to any physical addictions you may admit to having, you also have many emotional, mental and spiritual addictions that may not be so obvious.

Physical addictions are often obvious, but is not always so easy to identify the emotional addictions you may have. Nevertheless, we all have them. You can see them if you look closely at your relationships with other people, at the recurring cycles of circumstances that show up in your life, at the things you gather around yourself to provide comfort and pleasure. People who manage to escape one abusive relationship usually end up in another one. They are addicted. People who suffer through one emotional or financial crisis after another are not unlucky; they are addicted to the emotional drama.

It is even harder to identify the mental addictions you may have. Parents worry about pushers hanging around schoolyards, hoping to entice the innocent into some drug addiction. Yet, within the classrooms, well meaning teachers are busy impressing young minds with ideas and ways of thinking about life. Parents do it too. They infect their children with their ways of thinking, with their attitudes, passing on their own addictions, their own behavioral programming.

Most people who have been programmed do not recognize their programming. Not one person who has been successfully brainwashed will readily admit to being brainwashed. And yet, we have all been, from birth, trained/programmed/brainwashed to think a certain way, to have certain perspectives, to hold a certain reality picture. And we have become addicted to those habitual thought processes, those perspectives, that take on reality. They provide us with pleasure, comfort and security just as much as any needle full of dope does.

It is harder still to identify the spiritual addictions you may have. Oh sure, it can be fairly easy to point the finger at those who are involved in cults; but, we are all addicted to belief systems. Each of us has become dependent on holding certain beliefs in order

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