Addiction: Is it a chosen experience?

What if being addicted was simply an experience you once had? What if that experience had nothing to do with heredity, your background, your family, your religious upbringing, or your relationships?

Wouldn’t that make you the creator of your addiction and leave no room to blame anyone or anything? Wouldn’t this belief also encourage you to take full and complete responsibility for your choice?

Please imagine the following scenario by seeing, hearing and feeling it. Once upon an experience, before you decided to be born in human form, in your greatness, you made a deliberate decision to come to this planet to experience earthly love and non-judgment. (You already knew about divine love and recognized that you were!) You didn’t know exactly how your life would unfold, but you knew that you would find yourself in situations that required your love and non-judgment. (What if we all came here with an experience plan?)

So, you chose to be born into an abusive family and were abused and humiliated…certainly a good way to understand love, right? But you got lost in your pain and thought you desperately needed to find a way to lessen it. Alcohol worked, as did marijuana and cocaine. Yes, initially these substances seemed to help you forget the pain of childhood that you had not yet emotionally dealt with. At that time, you had forgotten your magnificence and the fact that you came here to experience love and non-judgment. You quickly became addicted, denied your addiction and pretended he was your “next” love. You therefore continued to abuse yourself with alcohol and other drugs, prescription and illegal. Those drugs were certainly distractions (chosen by you), taking you away from your true self and your love and not judging yourself.

So what if that addiction had been unconsciously chosen by you so that you could finally give it up, release it, and discover your authentic self? What if that addiction had been a gift from you to YOU? Maybe you could have found your true self in some other way; However, addiction was your plan, no one else’s.

NOW, can you see addiction through different eyes? Can you understand that there are no mistakes… only choices? And when those choices return us to our magnificence, there is no room for judgment, but for self-love and acceptance.

So if you want to end an addiction, do it now with your choice! If you wish to remain sedated and drugged, that is also your choice. And, if you love someone who is currently addicted, stop blaming yourself in any way for causing their addiction. You are not that powerful. There is nothing you can do except love her and that doesn’t mean take care of her, lie and cover up her actions or give her money. Let your loved one experience the result.