Why can’t I stop? Stop what? You know…

• Drinking…drugs…smoking (!)
• Hitting (the kids, my wife, my husband-domestic violence) (other folks, things)
• Gambling
• Illicit sex, porno…
• Overeating
• You know…

It just keeps getting worse, no matter what I’ve tried. I have been to lots of churches. I have gone to doctors, psychologists, therapists and other counseling. I have gone to jail. I have gone to AA, NA, CA, GA. I have taken lots of medicine, been through various treatment programs and therapies. Why can’t I stop?

Here’s why! We have lost sight of the real problem. The problem emerged in our lives way before we could even see it. For some of us it began when we were very young…two or three years old or younger! Our conditioners (parents) yelled at us, called us names, hit us (!). Why? To make us behave according to their rules. We could not even think (reflect) for a few more years. The energy of the emotional pain that we experienced was just too much for us to resolve; so we stuck a virus (unresolved emotional pain) in our little, undeveloped “hard drives.”

Let me say this on behalf of our conditioners (I have been one myself). They behaved as conditioners have behaved from the beginning of conditioning (parenting), applying the same ineffective rules and “solutions” that have been passed down, generation after generation.

Here’s what I experience as a universal human condition…we all hate emotional pain! Unresolved emotional pain is a primary health condition…a leading cause of all addictions. We will do anything to avoid it. When I was a small child, my first avoidance technique was to hit out at the pain. I hit everything: my bed, my walls, my toys, my pets, my siblings, playmates…everything. Why? To make it go away! Did that work? No. Some of us never stop hitting! Some go to prison. Some die. Some go to war. The pain just grows.

• Violence may be the primordial addictive response to unresolved emotional pain.

In any case, any solution for emotional pain that comes from our ego-driven mind, if it is not in our best interest and is repeated…is an addiction. This never works. The virus grows until it kills the host.

• Unresolved emotional pain (trauma) will always manifest as physical trauma.

There is a solution to this energetic condition. It is energetic healing. You are your own healer. Discover The Freedom Step (www.thefreedomstep.com). Seize the solution.

Why can’t I stop? Oh, but I can. So can you.