Addiction Part two
To understand addiction it is necessary to have working knowledge of adaptation in the human. Adaptation is the real survival. If for instance, one takes into the body a noxious substance on a continuing basis, the first attempt of the living organism is to eliminate the substance by vomiting, extra excretion, rapid oxidation. However, if the substance is taken repeatedly, the living organism adapts by creating an antidote, not only when the substance is taken in, but when the substance is expected.
Now the need for the substance is required by the body to restore balance to the antidote. This produces the craving and the compulsion to continue the substance. This is addiction.
The same process works for internal secretions, hormones produced in the body in response to emotional states, resulting in a constant repetition of the behavior patterns regardless of circumstances from outside of the body.
All addiction lowers the well being of the person and the natural ability to just enjoy living. As stated before, the recognition that one is addicted is the start towards freedom. No doubt it is easier to be aware of addiction to substances from outside than it is to recognize that one is addicted to internally produced hormones, such as those produced when one is angry or worried, or anxious, or complaining, or disgusted, or finding fault, etc., etc.
However, conditioning has resulted in many of us seeing almost all situations as dangerous and the ability to imagine things has given the conditioned person many situations that only exist in thought, to be in an emergency feeling state. Further, it seems to be that most persons feel that they are entitled to have all wants gratified at once, or else feel that they are being mistreated and denied their natural right of being totally non-disturbed; this leads to all kinds of addictions.X
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