Feeling addiction
Some feelings can be an addiction and a trap to hold us within limitation.
Feelings
are in many ways a stimulation, a way in which to enjoy the physical. When looking back at the culture of the past
and also today, it is obvious that people are addicted to certain feelings
whether they are good or bad. They yearn
to have the experience over and over.
Whether those feelings come from love, drugs, anger and other emotions,
sex, or music, maybe it could even come from something as simple as the
enjoyment of the feeling of the warmth of the sun. Everyone has a feeling that they long to
experience over and over.
When
characterizing a feeling it is obvious that the body is stimulated by certain
reactions. Just as we fall and feel
pain, we can do things to the body that also feels good, like for instance
perhaps the feeling of skin and sensation can give a lot of pleasure to our
senses. It does not really matter what
feeling it is and how we utilize it into emotion, but in some forms they can
become very addictive.
If
addiction of drugs is bad for you in one way and yet good in the effect that
you get from it, this would then also apply to all the other feeling addictions
that we have. It is definitely nice to
feel things that we enjoyed the first time and revisit it over and over. Some feelings will never die in their
pleasure value and may be an addiction we will never want to overcome. However it is looked at it has its good and
bad sides, and can be viewed from what ever angle we wish.
Whatever way
we view it, the question that is never asked is that can these feeling
addictions become our own very trap within a world of so much more
possibility? Can they make us continue
in a never ending cycle of drug addiction that contains us in a box that we
will never want to leave from?
This is the
whole irony of feeling addiction that often people question that if something
is good then why stop experiencing it?
Well that is a correct assumption however there are always two sides to
every story. Even the most endearing of
feeling can turn a person to addiction, changing the very fabric of their own
character and making them do things that they would not normally want to do. In a trap there are only so many ways that a
person can turn and move before they run out of options.
Imagine
that you are a person that is so deeply in love with a feeling that you could
not ever imagine living without it. That
you would even sacrifice your very own morals just so you can hold onto your
feelings and desires for what you hope is the rest of your life. Your whole life is encompassed by this very
feeling and you never want to give it up, not for anyone. This may be a choice of our own doing and in
some cases might not have big consequences.
However what we consider consequence is also dependant on our own
upbringing and what we choose to accept within ourselves.
This could
also be seen in another way, even when looking at feelings that we would
normally encourage and accept in a cultural way. We can also get so addicted to it that it can
make us do things that might lead away from accepted understanding. An example of this could be when it comes to
food, that it is socially accepted by most in this world that it is a good
thing, something to enjoy and something that nourishes us to survive. Then someone comes along and they like the
feeling that food gives them so much that they eat and eat until they almost
cannot stand up from the weight of their body.
This over stimulation then is doing the opposite to their body, not
nourishing it but instead hurting it.
When certain
feelings become an addiction then they no longer become normally accepted in
our society’s eyes. When we get too
overweight then it is considered much more health taxing, not only on the
individual but also on the society at hand when it comes to health care,
sickness and hospitalization, when involving heart conditions and other things
that come from excessive overeating.
It is not
only in overeating that we see these things happening, but in many other forms,
even when it comes to the need we have to be with others. Something as simple as a love we have to be
with another and the feeling we get from their company can cause issues within
our life if it is taken to an addictive level.
Especially if it comes to the other person not wanting to participate
anymore in the partnership and yet you cannot live without them, it then turns
this addicted feeling into pain and people can become so overwhelmed by the
loss of such feeling that they can go to the extreme to try and keep it. Maybe even to kill or kidnap the other person
in order to try and keep them in their life.
These are
of course extreme angles of what addiction to feeling can create. Most do not have an overpowering addiction to
one feeling alone but instead choose many different feelings that they like to
move back and forward from. A feeling only becomes an addiction
when we no longer get what we want from it and yet we cannot live without it.
The key to
overcoming these feeling addictions is to learn to balance the feelings that we
choose as important. We can all learn to
look for many more feelings and stimulation to widen our perception within the
current framework. The smaller a persons
field of vision can make for a smaller cage of restriction that they live
within. This means that if they were to
expand their enjoyment with feeling they would then learn to balance things in
their life to a more expansive viewpoint.
Allowing room then for new ways to
receive feeling stimulation and also to access the ability to move on from
things, that is the ability to accept change.
Feeling can
be an addiction which can hold us into a cycle of repetition that can become so
hard to overcome and learn to change from.
Balance is the key to acceptance, and the ability to move into other
choices and to see the world from less limitation. This does not mean we have to give up the
feelings we enjoy but only expand the possibilities to which we come into
contact with them, in turn allowing us to experience also many other things as
we discover new feelings and experiences.
It can also expand our enjoyment of feeling , bringing in more
possibilities of feelings that we might not have discovered in the box that we
sat holding onto one feeling that only overwhelmed us in the end.
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