just as a river, when left to its natural flow, will wind and turn every which
way as it carves its way through the landscape. You are like the river when
you are allowed to express all that you feel and experience.
and hold on even tighter. You become like a river that is dammed up. You
become stagnant and lose your flow. In this process of damming up the
river within you, new ways are developed to keep everything repressed. The
most critical way that you learn to not feel your sensory and emotional
experiences is to create addictions. In short, addictions are the direct result of
your inability to release the stress response, physical trauma and repression
of emotional and sensory experiences.
stress response. Due to the evolution of your brain, this event could be real
or imaginary. In a natural world, you complete the cycle and enter into the
relaxation response when the danger has passed.
unnatural beliefs that teach you to fear your emotions and repress them
deep inside. You then store the end results of stress, repression and physical
trauma within your body.
stuck in a hyper-arousal state--that of stress. By not being able to relax
and let go of the stress cycle, your higher brain (the cortex) has developed
relationships with addictions as a way to numb out the pain that you have
stored. You have addictions because you have lost your ability to feel fully.
It takes energy to hold on. You may feel tired all the time because your
energy is being used to hold on and repress everything. This is like a giant
tapeworm inside your intestines gobbling up all of the food that you eat. As
a result of repression, you are irritable, tired and in pain.