No child is a born addict; addiction is the outcome of a mental disease. Many may seem healthy physically. But physical health alone does not contribute to the fullness of a personality. This is where we need to assess the mental state of the person.
No child is a born addict; addiction is the outcome of a mental disease. Many may seem healthy physically. But physical health alone does not contribute to the fullness of a personality. This is where we need to assess the mental state of the person. If a person is at peace and is enjoying himself at all times from morning till he goes to bed and is in harmony with himself and reacts to situations agreeably, he is said to be mentally healthy as well. Some react to certain situations very severely wherein they lose all control of themselves and realize their folly later after having calmed down.
How do these characteristics and weaknesses make a person dependant on certain kinds of addictions and why?
It is noticed that some express their feelings and release their emotions instantaneously; some do not express at all; some show it after a very long time having thought and rethought over the matter. These feelings also have a deep impact on the character of the individual concerned. Some experience an unpleasant situation in the loss of their dear one and are unable to bear or come to terms with it. This in turn makes them dependant on some addictions. It is usually drinking as they feel that they can temporarily forget by becoming unconscious of the reality. Gradually it becomes a habit and they lose control of their lives attached to such addictions that in course of time destroys them. Not only the person loses out in life, but the whole family suffers.
Everyday at every moment we experience happiness, sorrow, feeling of hurt, fear, jealousy, in accordance with our understanding of situations, circumstances, persons we like or dislike. I may be comfortable with some people while with others, I may not be. Many of these data in the person's mind is the result of his attitude and reactions at any given point of time; it is his perception only of that moment. After some time if there are changes in his life causing a broadening of outlook, the person may evolve. If he does not change, then he is stuck with an attitudinal defect. His defective reactions accumulate till neuroses sets in. This in turn makes the person adopt a negative attitude in all matters. This is further increased if there is no release. The individual finds a means to release it through certain addictions, be it smoking, drinking alcohol, eating continually, always muttering to oneself, biting nails, drinking too much of any stimulants like tea, coffee etc. All weaknesses can be eliminated by the individual when given the right knowledge to understand and support himself to learn and accept things in life. When light illumines within by the right touch, ignorance or darkness has no place. Such is the knowledge of yoga. It is this knowledge that when given with the right approach and scientific base, a person realizes his weakness and immediately understands and is able to reform his attitude to life within and without. Thereby he is relieved of all weaknesses and their manifestations in the form of addictions.
Every person in this world has only one common objective. And it is to seek ultimate peace and happiness. Some think that money will alone give peace and happiness; for others enjoyment of all pleasures of the senses seem to give peace and happiness; for some eating and relishing good food may lead to peace and happiness and so on. All these give him/her a sense of peace and happiness. But these notions of peace and happiness being material in nature will not last long as everything in nature has to change from time to time. But if man can understand and experience himself in all fullness the external situations, circumstances will never perturb him or distract him from attaining inner peace and happiness, which is the only reliable and permanent source of living.
Treating addictions on the surface is never a lasting solution. The best method is to impart the right knowledge of things to the individual. That enables him to understand the root cause of all problems and helps him eliminate it rather than treat it only at the surface level.
Yoga and its scientific approach is the only lasting solution to help a person know himself better, love himself and know everyone and everything around him so that they are in peace and harmony with him and in turn he is able to give and spread love and peace around him. This in turn makes a mind strong and hence weakness will never overpower him towards addictions.
Life is divine,
Ignorance is darkness,
Darkness leads to weakness.
Weakness misunderstood transforms into addictions,
The earlier the knowledge, the less the damage,
Or else life itself is in darkness all the way,
Yoga is knowledge
yoga is light.
Yoga is the knowledge to light,
and the path to wisdom,
The dispeller of all ignorance and weaknesses,
To everlasting peace and happiness.