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In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that liberation from any addiction begins with seeing the dual nature of the divided mind that claims to not want the pain of the addiction, while at the same time being attracted to the sensations that come with getting the next fix.
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Doug: Mary asks, I realize that when I have an emotion, I feel it, but I find that I hold onto it as if it is going to either prove to me that what I am feeling is right, and to keep holding onto it to protect me from something. Guy, can you help me to let this addiction go?
GF: The only way we are liberated from any addiction has nothing to do with not wanting to be addicted. The only way we're ever free, Mary, of an addiction is by waking up to realize there is a part of us that cannot wait for the next fix, whether it's drug, food, or emotion. Then we understand that it is not my job, as you have said, that I find myself that I'm holding onto it. You are not holding onto it. It clings to itself to justify itself. Being identified with that consciousness, Mary, is the problem -- waking up to the part of us that IS that identity is how the addiction is broken. The addict sees that he is acting against himself or herself. The emotional addict sees that he or she is clinging to the very thing they say they don't want. The emotional addict sees they're clinging to the very sensations they don't want. Seeing that something in me is clinging to this thing while another part of me is saying "I don't want it" proves the contradiction, the conflict is in that consciousness. It is separating the wheat from the chaff -- awareness from a consciousness that has no awareness of itself -- that brings about the freedom we're seeking. So work with that as best you can, Mary.
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