All Discussions Tagged 'Getting' - THE OFFICIAL RESISTANCE2024-03-19T12:39:52Zhttps://resistance2010.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Getting&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow to overcome Addictions (video game, film, food, lifestyle e.t.c) speaking from experiencetag:resistance2010.com,2014-03-16:3228704:Topic:4712332014-03-16T15:45:07.518ZSamuel Adam Alderhttps://resistance2010.com/profile/SamuelAdamAlder
<p>I'm glad you have decided to help yourself, even the strongest fall eventually if they are too proud to ask for help or receive wisdom from others, myself included... the battle for my "I AM" and "Awareness/ Awakened state" has been going on for a long time. <br></br><br></br>I've decided to write a little about the one thing I have managed to successfully overcome again and again, which is video game and film addiction and a passive/ observer role life style.<br></br>As with anything, the "Why" is…</p>
<p>I'm glad you have decided to help yourself, even the strongest fall eventually if they are too proud to ask for help or receive wisdom from others, myself included... the battle for my "I AM" and "Awareness/ Awakened state" has been going on for a long time. <br/><br/>I've decided to write a little about the one thing I have managed to successfully overcome again and again, which is video game and film addiction and a passive/ observer role life style.<br/>As with anything, the "Why" is important, the why for playing games and watching films or eating certain foods has its origin in a place many of us cannot even remember, and sometimes, before our birth; while we were still in the womb, or even in the genetics of past family members. <br/><br/>My "Why" began when I was 7 years old, the first year of primary school, our uncle came and gifted us (our family) with a Personal Computer, a P.C, I was grateful, yet it didn't take long for me to become addicted to the "level up" and "power up", "virtual accomplishment" syndrome, <br/>I moved onto the console and the hand held device (con-soul) a few years later, the PlayStation 1 and Sega to be exact, and whilst these things are not good or bad of their own nature, they are detrimental to a child's development if usage is not gaged/ guided.<br/><br/>I believe we as conscious beings run the risk of being ruled by our inventions, if we are not wise enough to use them for good... I believe we are still in puberty, as a race, of humans, and that it is only in taking personal responsibility for our own lives that a good life can be lived. Blame cannot be placed anywhere, forever; there is no sense in repeating oneself forever, whilst suffering the same result: it is more effective to just take responsibility and change oneself, than to hope for the world to change, and as we all know: the world does actually change when we change our core self.<br/><br/>The long and short of how i overcame this addiction is</p>
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<li>Seeing the bad results of repeating my behavior (physical and mental health)</li>
<li>Imagining what would happen if i went on repeating myself (my soul's health)</li>
<li>Delaying "giving in" to the established bio-rythm; an addiction is a powerful pull... only the rarest people can quit in one go (something I did manage to do for whole months, before slipping back into my addiction). I said to myself: ok, but for 3 hours I will do something else, like going for a walk, or writing, or reading things online, then I will play. It worked; often I could "snap out of it".</li>
<li>re-framing my world view/ shifting the "dopa-mine triggers", I had compassion with myself and realized I was really struggling to let go of games, and I was becoming a shadow of a person, living through a machine, instead of through my body, cultivating merely virtual friendships, instead of actual physical ones; always having the safety to click a button and end the conversation. To get out of my "Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game" and violent/hollywood brainwashing film addiction, I decided to say: Life is a game, life is a film, and really believed it: I still do!</li>
<li>Making real friendships and feeling the sacred nature of life</li>
<li>Forgiving myself for wasting time: no amount of self accusation can replace genuine compassion and the grace of a loving heart.</li>
<li>The resistance! This site and the people on it are probably one of the main reason: something tells me that all of this talk about multidimensional life, giving all you've got, developing spiritual abilities, is not just empty talk</li>
<li>Mantak chia (discovered here): Sexual techniques; learning about my own body, and how, as a man, not to waste my power (essence), but store it up and transmute myself. </li>
</ul>
<p><br/>Thank you for reading this, I hope it helps! :)<br/><br/>"<span>He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God"</span>; The temple of "your god" is your body, and you are the god, in miniature, which you have always been waiting for :)</p>