The basis of all addiction is emotional in nature….

Voices WithinAlthough addiction is a very complicated subject involving many different factors, when we get down to the real nitty-gritty of it, it’s often preceded by long-term negative emotions that have not been moved into a better feeling vibrational place because we have been unaware that…..

1. We have the absolute ability to improve the way we feel to any and every subject that is important to us.

2. What we are thinking and therefore feeling not only determines how good our present moment experience is but also pre-paves or lays down the vibrational foundation of our future experiences.

The need to feel good is a factor that insures all human beings strive for better and improved experiences in their lives and is how all species evolve and expand into greater versions of what they currently are. This does not mean we are not already good as we are, it simply means that without this core desire no species would evolve very much, and what would be the point of that???

The fact that an addiction is an attempt to sooth negative, not good feeling emotions from within ones self with external substances or circumstances does not downplay the  physiologically dependence that many may experience, especially when it comes to substances that have strong chemically based reactions within the brain and body that potentially cause stronger levels of addiction both physiologically and emotionally. That being said, the basis for reaching for anything from a position of need has the potential to become an addiction.

Almost every thing people are thinking, saying, and doing is because it feels good, for why else would anyone do anything if it wasn’t to have good experiences and to feel good. This only becomes a problem when we reach for external circumstances or substances to sooth negative emotions we may be feeling such as pain, hurt, disappointment, rage, anger, fear, and despair. Although we all have the absolute power to feel better to any and all circumstances we’ve experienced in the past, are experiencing now, or that we may experience in our future, without knowing this you might say many have been left in the lurch so to speak, reaching for the perfect diet, partner, exercise regime, substance or circumstance that will temporarily make them feel better.

Relief from these feelings are only temporary because the real cause of our long-held negative emotion has not been addressed and remains within the physical mind and body until it is released through feeling better to whatever the source of the negative emotion is. This is often strongly connected to what is turning up in our experience especially if the negative emotions are strong and often thought about as the Law of Attraction will be responding with similar people, places and events that match our dominant vibrational, feeling place.

It is very difficult to move forward in a positive manner in relation to any subject where strong negative emotion still surrounds it until that resistance has been released. If action is taken from a strongly resistance place, it often doesn’t unfold as we are wanting and requires immense effort and hard work unless we have managed to move into a better vibrational place, particularly when unwanted circumstances happen. This can be quite a big ask if we have never been taught that this is how we create better circumstances in our lives, but it is never something we can start doing too late.

As far as dealing with an addiction once it is present in our lives, calming the physiological craving the body has especially to substances such as alcohol, drugs and food is a crucial first step. It’s very hard to work on any emotional psychological issues that have caused the addiction when our body is still strongly craving substances. Once we have been deprived of such substances for over approximately a week the body starts to come back into balance and the strong physiological craving is greatly reduced if not completely eliminated. Any craving we experience after this period will now be to feel better emotionally and the reason we originally reached for this or that.

At this point effort needs to be put into doing our best to improve how we feel about issues or circumstances from the present and past that we are feeling strong negative emotions about. It is not enough to only work on eliminating the physiological cravings and to leave it at that.
A person may be forced into a program where the substances they desire are taken away but without their true desire to move forward and let go of an addiction themselves, the emotional work needed will be unlikely to be done as this takes immense strength and perseverance to undertake.

Although it’s not the easiest journey in the world to undertake……When one is ready to move forward with desire and a belief they have the ability to live more of the life they deserve, that they have the strength to find better solutions, that they have the ability to feel better and succeed, the right people, places, and events will appear to help them in their journey…..

And so they will….

Our intentions are everything!!!

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No action, good or bad, comes from nowhere….All things that happen in this physical world are preceded by thought that’s been given focused attention over time that the Law of Attraction has responded too until we experience the full physical manifestation of our thoughts and emotions, our vibration.

Many people speak about the best intentions meaning nothing if action doesn’t follow those intentions….And I say, nothing could be further from the truth.
Absolutely nothing good could ever happen if it was not first preceded by good intentions and thoughts, end of story, and taking action because others feel we should or before we feel ready makes whatever we’ve decided to do harder with more bumps in the road than if we’d taken action when it felt right. (Remember, if it feels good, it is good…..And if it feels not quite right, it isn’t quite right!!)

When our intentions and thoughts are strong and given continued focused attention, it eventually inspires action, if action does not happen, not enough power and momentum has been achieved to inspire it.
If we do take action before we’re ready it doesn’t matter too much, it just means that some resistant unwanted circumstances may arise giving us the opportunity to release whatever resistance we’ve still got going on. Once we’ve moved ourselves into a better feeling place this helps to propel us into even better, more wanted circumstances and experiences than before!!

If we’re often wanting others to take action on the good intentions we believe they have, this sometimes comes from a need to see people behave in a way we see as “appropriate or nice,” so that we can feel good as we observe them, and of course it’s nice to see others doing nice things, but when our disapproval and focus is strong when we feel people are not being “nice,” we may find ourselves faced with many examples and circumstances where people aren’t being nice, through our own focus and therefore attraction of such things!!!

So our intentions behind what we’re thinking, speaking or doing means everything, whether we’re taking action on those intentions or not….For there’s no hiding from the Law of Attraction and Universal Law, our intentions are continually broadcasted loud and clear and we will eventually reap the rewards of what we’ve originally given out, whether we’re aware of it or not.
How someone takes something given with positive intentions depends greatly on where they generally are in relation to what’s happening, for even the nicest action coming from the best place can be taken in a negative way when one spends most of their time in a not good feeling vibrational place.
When things don’t turn out as we’ve wanted or someone has not taken something we’ve said or done in the positive way we’ve intended, the fact that we were coming from a good place with pure positive intention and that we’ve been true to who we really are, has to be enough….

And so it is….

When they say you should change, can you lift your head high and stay strong???

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These are lyrics from the song Soar, by Christina Aguilera.

So, the question is….When others believe we should change our behaviour in some way, especially those that we respect and care about, do we stay strong when we feel what we’re doing is right for us???

Well, that depends doesn’t it, on whether it’s more important for us to stay true to what we feel is right for us in any given moment, or whether it’s more important for us to keep someone else happy by doing what they feel we should or shouldn’t be doing.

The question could be….When is someone else other than ourselves, better equipped than we are to know what we’re truly wanting and what the best route to take to get there is??? Well, they are not!!

I can imagine many would strongly disagree, especially if we feel people should be doing what we feel and tell them they should be doing, not what they feel they should be doing!! Now, before anyone gets their knickers all bunched up,(Hehehe, that’s funny don’t you think!!) I know we can get very good advice and inspiration from the others we come into contact with, that’s the Law of Attraction responding to our own positive vibration that has been maintained long enough with emotional intensity until we start attracting and receiving positive manifestations…..And I say that’s totally AWESOME!!

Our emotions are our Inner Guidance letting us know if we’re moving towards something we’re wanting (positive emotions) or something we’re not wanting (negative emotions) so it’s virtually impossible for someone else to have experienced all we’ve experienced in our lives and feel the same as we do in relation to everything that’s important to us and everything we’re wanting, so the truth is, no other is in a better position than ourselves to decide what’s best for us, end of story. (Not really end of story, but you know what I mean don’t you?)

In reality all the answers we’re looking for are around us all the time, no exceptions ever, the question isn’t if they’re there, it’s more whether we’re seeing them or not. The fact is, if we’re not in the same or very similar vibrational place as the answers we’re seeking, we don’t see them even when they’re right under our noses!!
Depending on where we are and how we feel about that, it could be annoying or exciting, probably a bit of both.

No matter where our answers come from, whether from external sources in the form of people and experiences or from internal sources like our own thoughts and feelings, the final decision on which way to go is always ours.
If what we’re receiving feels good, it is good, especially when we make an effort to focus on all the positive aspects of what we’ve decided on doing. If what we’re receiving doesn’t feel that good but we feel that’s what we need to do to get the results we’re wanting, we can make it a better choice by taking the time and making an effort to move into a better feeling vibrational place by again focusing on all the positive aspects of what we’ve decided to do.

The truth is….Action taken from a not good feeling vibrational place is very hard work and doesn’t usually reap very good results, whereas by listening to how we’re feeling and making an effort to move into a positive vibrational place, makes our journey much more enjoyable and reaps much better results, and I think it would be fairly true to say, there’s not many of us here that wouldn’t want that….

And so it is….

Sometimes, “things just happen”…. Or do they?

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That’s absolutely not true, things do not “just happen.” This is just another way of saying,”I have no idea how this thing that just happened, happened.”
But one thing is for certain, nothing can come into this physical reality we are living in now from nowhere or nothing, there are always thoughts words and actions that precede all that happens, whether we are aware of it or not.
So it’s true, we can feel like things “just happen” to us, but that feeling comes from a place of not having awareness that our thoughts were focused in a certain direction that created circumstances that we may or may not have been wanting to experience. I suppose its similar to the saying ignorance is bliss, or in other words, we don’t know what we don’t know, and sometimes we’re better off not knowing?
Well, I would have to disagree with the statement “we’re better off not knowing,” because knowledge is power, even though it can sometimes initially be hard to swallow.
For how can it be better to not know something that will help us to make better, more informed choices that produce much better results, and move us in more of the direction we are wanting to go?
Many do not really want to know what the solution may be to something they are living because it often involves changes that we may not yet feel ready or prepared to undertake.
And I would definitely not encourage someone to take action on anything they do not feel ready or prepared for as the outcome achieved from this unsure, unknowing place often produces less than satisfactory results because the vibrations (thoughts and feelings) within us are often split.
Think of it in terms of walking on very hot sand with one bare foot and one foot with a shoe on….Hehehe, that’s just put a really funny picture in my head! As you can imagine, one shoe is better than having no shoes at all, but it would be definitely better to have two shoes on, don’t you think?
Lets go on with this analogy, because it’s fun!
So, we might burn our foot, or maybe we won’t, depending on how far we have to go and how good we are at hopping!! (Yep, I’ve done that more than once!!) And so it’s similar when we don’t take the time to get our thought in a good feeling vibrational place before we take action, or in the case of our analogy, take the time to ensure we had everything we needed with us before venturing out onto the hot sand!!

So nothing just manifests in our life experience from nowhere, but that doesn’t mean everything has a deep vibrational basis that we need to get to the bottom of, and sometimes trying to “get to the bottom of it” just increases our attention upon something unwanted in our experience and ensures it stays around longer!! It’s often enough to acknowledge to ourselves that this or that has just turned up, so even if we weren’t aware of …. before it showed itself to us, now we are aware, and have the ability to move ourselves to a better feeling vibrational place regarding whatever it is we wish to have an improved experience of.

I don’t know about you, but nothings more important to me than that I do my best to feel as good as I can at any given moment in time, for not only is it awesome to feel good, but I know that my awesome good feelings are being responded in-kind to by the powerful Law of Attraction, bringing into my experience evidence of the vibrations that are dominant and pulsing strongly within me.
Now that’s something that really is happening to us all, and I say, “It is so good!!”

And so it is….

Does the truth really hurt…???

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Well, whether or not the truth hurts, depends entirely on where you are in relation to the truth.
Let’s think about that for a moment…if we are told something that sits a long way from where our experiences and beliefs are, even if it is the truth, we often do not feel good about hearing such things.
There may be hundreds of reasons why the truth does not feel good when we hear it, but often it’s just a knee-jerk reaction to something we have never heard or considered before because not many like the unknown, because, it’s well, unknown…
And why do most of us dislike the unknown?
For more reasons than I could say, but they all come down to the same core reason, and that is fear.
Fear is an extremely strong negative emotion and I would never encourage anyone to take any action from this extremely not good feeling place, but I would definitely encourage movement into a better feeling place regarding whatever it is we are fearing, and when we are feeling better and have maintained our improved vibrational place for some time, that is when taking action may be a good idea, if that’s what we’re wanting to do.

So just as a mighty oak tree once came from a tiny seed, something just as great can come from the truths we are receiving through the living of our own life, but we must be open to receiving the benefit these truths hold for us, otherwise even when they are right in front of us, we do not see them.
Deep within us, we know the truth when we hear it, and we are being guided towards the truth about how life is really working by the Non-Physical part of us that has remained in the Non-Physical realm and is communicating with us through our emotions, but it can be unsettling when the physical part of us doesn’t like the truths that are being shown or presented.
It’s a bit like an internal struggle within ourselves, and the struggle, or better said misalignment, is between the Physical here and now part of us and the Non-Physical part of us. The Non-Physical part of us always knows the truth about life and all things, that is why we know the truth when we hear it, even though the physical part of us may not be understanding or comprehending what it is we are really experiencing.
If we are a long way away from the truth, we often don’t like it because by taking these truths on board it means major changes will be on the horizon, for when you learn anything new this changes your perspective on many things which means your thoughts and feelings ( vibration ) on many subjects will be different from what it previously was.
So you will be emitting a different ( hopefully improved ) vibrational signal that the Law of Attraction is constantly and consistently responding in-kind to by reflecting back to you with physical manifestations, that which you have been emitting through your focused thoughts and emotions.( vibration )
Now that sounds wonderful doesn’t it, ( I hope it does, but maybe not? ) for as our vibrations ( thoughts and feelings ) improve and we maintain that improved feeling place over time, we should be noticing an improvement in our physical manifestations.
Although this is definitely true, there is a period of time, a transition period if you like, where some of our thoughts are still focused on our old beliefs and perspectives and some of our thoughts are moving into our new and improved beliefs.
This often causes a turbulent time where manifestations may be “all over the place” with some being greatly improved and feeling wonderful and others that are not feeling so good and are bringing up resistance circumstances for us to clear so we can continue our journey into more of the things we’re wanting to experience.
Hey, maybe that’s where the saying “the truth hurts” comes from?
It’s a definite possibility don’t you think!!
But as we continue down the road of our new and improved thoughts and feelings, ( vibrations ) and we work through past resistant patterns of thought,
( old beliefs that are not consistent with the “Laws of the Universe” ) there is only one place this can take us……
And that’s into more awesome life experiences, for anything that has truth at its core, is always an improvement from that which is not truth…

And so it is….