Fighting Versus Building
Image via Wikipedia A lot of people see everything in life as some kind of a fight. It does not matter in the slightest whether the problem or activity actually involves any kind of violence, or even a potential for threat to a person’s well being. To some folks, anything and everything that might potentially [...]
Actually Cultivating an Addiction
A lot of people would read the title of this article and just about throw a fit. “What,” they would almost shout out in near shock. “Why in the world would anybody WANT to cultivate an addiction to something,” they would ask, incredulous at the very notion of trying to form an addiction. Then comes [...]
Good Addictions
Image by The Master Shake Signal via Flickr A lot of people think that every addiction that ever was is a bad thing. But this is not the case in the slightest. If you are addicted to breathing, that is a great thing – unless you hate staying alive. It would be truly ironic if [...]
Beware of Backsliding
A lot of times, a person develops an addiction, but thinks that they can will their way out of it. While this is a possibility (especially when the addicted person’s self image is as a person who can change their ways easily enough), the power of will alone is so rarely enough to escape from [...]
Addicted to Fear
They say that the most basic emotions we feel are rooted in the physical world. We feel the lust that drives us to reproduce, and also the hunger that causes us to want to eat. We feel anger when we are threatened and believe that we can defeat the threat at hand, and we also [...]