Addiction Rings Your Bells

ADDICTION CAN OVER WHELM YOUR BRAIN

When we see something pleasant it rings our bell, that is we feel a sense of pleasure.

When we have a pleasant emotion, for what ever reason, it also rings our bell. So does pleasant thoughts, and patiently working on things. Our whole Upper Nature rings and chimes with joy. This occurs when we are focused on a task that includes pleasant perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and actions.

 

Unfortunately, when we lie to get our way a bell is rang, if then we can be greedy another bell rings, maybe we blame others so we do not have to be responsible, or even fight another our bells can ring and our Lower Nature can also sing. We usually only use our Upper Nature if we are focusing on a task that requires healthy and loving perception, emotion, thought, and action.

But when we drink alcohol or do drugs it can ring so many bells randomly and without purpose that we are not really good at daily living anymore. It is like a blizzard or storm.

This then can result in our Upper Nature giving up and shrinking. This then leaves us in our Lower Nature and it begins to grow. Soon, if we keep up the alcohol or drugs, or other addictions as Gambling, Gaming, or even Work, we become more cantankerous or lazy or just not connected to reality. We are then wanting to stay addicted to just try and feel any pleasure at all.