Predisposition to Addiction!

Addictions is a habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes, or shortens one’s life in the long run or after a long period but when ceased causes trauma.

It creates a pathological relationship to one’s mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences in the long run.

An addict is a person who is addicted to the source of the addictions and it could be any of the following:

1.  Alcohol

2.  Tobacco

3.  Harmful drugs

4.  Toxic Substances

5.  Negative Thoughts

6.  Negative Emotions

It is a common occurrence to see some people when they are faced with life’s usual challenges and problems to turn to the sources of addiction listed above as a means to escape the situation or circumstance.

They think when they consume these toxic substances they can readily escape their problems and by some stroke of luck, it will have vanished or be over when they get back to their normal senses.

They refuse to deal with their challenges or too afraid to look deeper into how and why such is happening in their lives.

 

If a family knows that their child has a predisposition toward either addiction or depression, or both given the commonality of co-occurring disorders, what can they do to help ensure their child live a healthy, happy and productive life?

 

Let’s say you don’t know anything about your child’s predispositions.

 

What kind of childhood do you want to give your child?

 

Don’t you want to give them a childhood in which they are loved, in which they are respected, regardless?

 

You want to give them a childhood where they are accepted for who they are, where they are celebrated for who they are, where they can explore the world under guidance but with freedom and where they can be themselves and be happy being themselves.

 

There is no difference in how you should parent one child as opposed to another child.

 

This is how we want to parent children, and it doesn’t matter what predispositions a child has, if they get these conditions of love, joy, affection and respect in their childhood, they’ll never be addicted, they’ll never get depressed and they will never be anxious especially not in terms of the medical diagnosis of those conditions.

 

Love and respect in childhood helps to prevent addiction later in life.

You will help them take responsibility for any and whatever challenges that may present itself to them in life and this will help will drive through all situations that arises and away from those are not necessary they will be able to do the following in crises situation:

1. Pause

2. Step back

3. Take a deep breath

4. Look at the situation critically

5. Understand what it means

6. Find out why it has happened

7. Look deeper for the lesson inherent

8. Understand that all situations no matter how terrible, will one day pass away.

9. Determine your role in the situation

 

When you can actually work through the steps listed above and answered the questions effectively, they will be able to see the whole scene in HD and clearly shown and played out for them, then you are ready to figure out the answer.

Thus they can rely on their strength and divinity whenever life presents challenging situations to them whether they can handle it or not at the initial instant.

By applying the wisdom given by their parents and guardians they are able to pause and follow the steps listed above and take charge of the situation and eventually figure a way out instead of turning to addictions and addictive substances.

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In closing, i believe the wisdom below will serve you in life:

“Thank you God, for this beautiful day today. Help me to always see your love reflected in each and every moment, no matter how challenging life may be. Remind me to always look to my heart for the LESSONS and BLESSINGS in life”.

Jean Voice Dart!

 

These words of Inspirations from the enlightened ones will serve you even more:

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”.

Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns, within you is unimaginable beauty”.

Robert Adam

“Don’t you know it yet, it is your light that illuminates the worlds”.

Rumi

“I am the light of the world. You are the light of the world”.

Jesus

“Your heart is the light of the world, don’t cover it with your mind”.

Mooji

 

Taking responsibility and recognizing that we cause all of our core issues is not a reality for most people.

Taking responsibility to see life differently without justification, judgement and blame, rejection or anxiety, fear or anger would really help you in the long run.

Every condition, disease or disorder is a spiritual condition that has come up for review and to be dealt with and taken care of. Once the lesson is truly learnt and absorbed, the conditions or situation reverses itself and clears out and that’s when we say a healing has occurred and a miracle has happened.

Every problem preludes a negative thought and mindset so watch your thoughts and emotions carefully and guard them jealously.

Nothing can stop you if you have the courage, commitment and the discipline to move through your limitations.

‘Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love’

The purpose of life is to discover who you really are, know and create yourself and experience yourself as who you really are (not the body that houses you) as a part of the divine source to give and receive love and serve all creatures of the divine.

As long as you don’t or you refuse to see yourself as a victim then life becomes a challenge that you can overcome with commitment and consistent work and it will pay you back handsomely.

A lesson you avoided in a past life will be forwarded to the current life until you get the lesson right or understood the reason for it. Each time the lesson is more intense, than the last experience until you recognize it.

This is an interactive universe where we all work together in each other’s lessons and life whether we want it or not or whether we are aware of it or not.

Our fears always surface when we least expect it and when it does, its better to face the lesson and conquer it.

You can take back control of your life and drive it the way you would rather want it to be and have things and have things the way you want it to be.

It takes taking responsibility for all the wrongs that have happened in your life because whether you agree or not, you are held responsible for all your:

1. THOUGHTS

2. WORDS

3. ACTION

Nobody wants to listen to your cry of wolf or denial or victim mentality and it won’t take you far except you sit still, take stock of your life and determine and desire to turn it around and that’s where and when the answers or solutions come in.

If and when you are now truly ready to take back control and look out for the patterns and lessons in your life to understand the mind aberrations that are causing your problems and have taken control of your life.

That’s when the creative centers open within and you can finally have the tools to help you change the course of your life and manifest your destiny.

To succeed in life, you must refuse to see yourself as a loser no matter what the prevailing situation or condition might be and you evaluate what you can do to succeed.

The most important qualities are self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence and that you understand that you are entitled to abundance in your life.

You can do anything you want to and be anything you want to, provided you believe that it is possible.

Victims do not hold that belief!

So ask yourself – are you a victim?

Sometimes a little help from a Therapist or Mental Health Consultant like myself and a host of others can help guide you on this journey into an amazing life that is yours and yours only.

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