All toxic addictions arise from accumulated trauma in the body.
All toxic addictions arise from accumulated trauma in the body. This means you're trying to ignore or escape a problem, thought, or feeling, but instead of going away, it's growing stronger inside you. It's like trying to push something underwater—it keeps rising back up. The less you can sit and meditate, the more traumas you have stored inside. Traumas are like deep wounds inside you. When you slow down and take a moment to sit quietly, you feel the pain more clearly. That pain has always been there, but you've been too busy or distracted to notice it fully. Yet pain attracts more pain and that's why you do things that hurt your body more. In essence, your traumas are simply pain magnets that control you to inflict more pain on yourself and others in order to grow. It doesn't matter how "good" you think you are, if you don't face your own pain, you will attract more pain to yourself and cause more pain to others. will So if you're wondering ...