All Humans Are Addicts

If you realize it or not you are all addicted. Not just mildly addicted, but addicted to the point of total insanity.

“Addicted to what?” I hear you ask.

You are addicted to unconsciously listening to a voice which is constantly babbling away in your mind.

A voice which directs your actions, thoughts, feelings, emotions and decisions. A voice which is torturing you and talking you into a lifetime of self-abuse. Every moment of your life.

It is like you are sitting in a horror movie.

You are wearing an invisible virtual reality headset and you are listening and reacting to everything that you hear, completely unconscious of it most of the time. The vision is blinkered, so only the straight ahead view is visible.

As the headset sends a verbal and sensory message into your body a knife appears in your hand and you thrust it into your own guts. Then, with the blinkered view, the head moves around to see who has stabbed you. There must be someone to blame, it can’t be your own fault. You would never do that to yourself.

A face is found and blame is given to that One.

You thrust the knife again, as if you can cause pain to another, but again the knife is thrust into your own guts. This time it is a conscious thrust, but the unconscious kicks in as the knife goes in. As that One is just another aspect of yourself, and is in reality the same One, all blame is instantly reflected back to you in personal pain and suffering.

You look pleased with yourself and thrust the knife in again, seemingly oblivious to the self-inflicted nightmare which is being acted out. As if you are being clever or something.

There is blood everywhere. It is ugly, ugly, ugly but you have no idea what you are doing to yourself.

You meet someone who is free of the headset. Their compassion wells up for you and they suggest that you take the awful virtual reality headset off.

They are able to show you how to easily take this awful headset off. Their wish is to help, and with ease for a moment you are free from the pain and see the insanity of your actions. You also see the beauty of life in all of its glory and simplicity.

In the next moment, like an addicts who need a fix, you snatch the headset back up. The knife appears in your hand again and the thrusting into your own guts continues.

That One is now to blame for the pain and the withdrawal symptoms.

Jokes are made and life goes on and on in the self-inflicted hell which is ‘normal’ daily living. There is always another excuse to put the headset back on again and get another hit of this drug.

To begin with the drug of the chattering mind feels as if it soothes the pain. It promises glory, happiness and love. It is only after a lifetime of failing to deliver that on your deathbed you will see the lie and at that point regret and remorse floods in.

What a wasted life. This drug has sucked the marrow out of the bones of your life and has left you tormented and in agony, with a smile on the top for everyone to see.

Will you let it get away with it? Will you carry on pretending that everything is OK?

This drug of the chattering mind is ruining your life and you are so intoxicated by it that you don’t even seem to notice. There are moments when the light of truth shines through and hope glistens on the horizon, and then those blinkered headsets are back on, and you are trying to fill the gap and numb the pain that they are causing once more.

Like any addict, it is not until you ‘really’ want to stop that you will do what it takes to actually kick the habit.

You can know and understand all of the theory of how it is your choice and your creation for an eternity, but the real moves can only be made when all parts of yourself have a definite and definitive, committed YES to stop.

Half assed yes, will never work.

Half assed yes, will never get you through the tough times without another hit of the drug to help you through.

Half assed yes, will have you back at the beginning over and over again until the big, core deep YES is finally chosen.

It appears to take a lot of pain to inspire that big YES, that commitment to fight until the finish and be free of the drug.

In truth the pain is not necessary, but the drug of the chattering mind has you under its spell.

The headset tells you that “it’s really hard if not impossible, especially for me”, “the finish is a long way away” and “maybe tomorrow will be soon enough to start” or “I don’t know what she’s talking about, there’s nothing wrong with me”.

Please take off the headset and kick the habit. It is a lie.

You can. Now.

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