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blame to anything, you are imprisoned by that same thing.

To achieve freedom from emotional addictions, raise your level of self-esteem. Teach yourself to see yourself as being sacred. Get to know that you are divine. Learn to love yourself without reservation. If you find yourself in an abusive relationship of any kind, it is not the fault of your abuser, it is because you do not love yourself enough. I am not talking about the one of a kind abuses, like a random mugging; I am speaking of abuses that occur repetitively over time, that are habits. The relationships you have are the relationships that you feel worthy of having. If you desire to have better relationships (with people, with money, with success), then improve your opinion about your self-worth.

To achieve freedom from mental addictions, stop allowing your culture to be your cult and stop using your five physical senses and your previous programming to determine your reality picture. Start asking why at all times. Start bringing intentionality to everything. Continuously ask yourself... Why do I think that? What is my intention in thinking that way? Does it serve me to think that way? Is there a better way to think? A more productive way? In other words, start paying attention to how and why you think. Start thinking about your thinking. If you want to call yourself a Homo Sapiens, start bringing some Sapiens to bear upon your Homo Habilus.

To achieve freedom from spiritual addictions, you must come to recognize and accept that while it MAY be true that some Omnipotent Creator created you, it is CERTAINLY true that any god you choose to believe in and to revere is a god of your own creation. In other words, you must teach yourself to see yourself as being not just a creature, but as being a creator. The world you exist within is at least as much your own creation as it may be that of some supernatural creative force.

Set yourself free. Know that even your most profoundly held belief is only your opinion. You are certainly entitled to your opinions, but you don't need to be imprisoned within them by pretending that they are anything more than what you are habituated to using to fill a hole in your self, to fulfill some dependency.

Finally, let me say this: I don't believe it is possible to be entirely free of addiction. I do believe that it is possible to be free enough to be capable of consciously choosing what addictions I have. I'd much rather be addicted to happiness than to sadness, to pleasure than to pain, to enjoyment than to suffering. I'd much rather be addicted to success than to failure. I'd much rather be addicted to love than to fear. I'd much rather be addicted to those things that exalt me than to those things that denigrate me.

My name is Leslie. I am an addict.

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