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from Jesus:
That depends somewhat on
what kind of an addiction you are talking about. If the addiction involves
a physical/chemical addiction, such as alcohol or smoking, you will
need to treat both the body and mind. In other words, once a chemical
addiction has been established, you should use physical means to help
the body recover from the chemical addiction. However, the chemical
addiction was not the cause of the problem because the addiction started
in the mind. Therefore, you must also treat addiction in the mind.
To successfully treat an addiction in the mind, I recommend adopting
the attitude that you are literally fighting a battle for your soul.
There is indeed an adversary, a villain, in this battle, namely forces
that are seeking to prevent your spiritual progress through the addiction.
The essence of an addiction is that it causes your mind to feel that
you cannot move beyond a certain point, you cannot rise above a certain
level on your spiritual path. In other words, the addiction is like
a hook in your mind that pulls you back to a certain level or perhaps
even to lower levels.
In every addiction, there is an enemy without and an enemy within. The
enemy within is the human ego, and much detail is given on the human
ego in the book The Inner Path of Light. The book The Christ
Is Born in You talks about outer enemies in the form on non-material
beings. In fact several answers on this website also talk about such
beings.
So what happens here is that an unholy alliance is formed between the
human ego, which wants to hold you back and prevent you from uniting
with your Christ self, and the outer forces, which want to keep you
trapped in the material universe. If your soul is not aware of these
forces, it cannot protect itself effectively, and therefore it becomes
an ignorant victim of these forces. It becomes easy prey for those forces
who stalk the world, seeking whom they may devour.
To successfully fight such an attack, you need to use all the tools
described on this website. You need to be diligent with spiritual
protection and call for the binding of all imperfect forces that
are attacking your soul, both from within and from without. You can
call to Archangel Michael and myself to bind, consume and replace your
ego and human self. You can also call for your Christ self to descend
into your being and fill your consciousness and energy field with light
so that there will be no room for any lower forces to enter.
You can also use the Violet
Flame to consume all imperfect energies stored in your energy field.
As explained in The Inner Path of Light toxic
energies form a magnetic pull on your mind and emotions that drags
you into repeating negative habits.
Yet in the end, the cause of any addiction is an imperfect belief about
yourself, about God and about your relationship to God. To effectively
overcome this belief, you need to consciously see the belief for what
it is, namely an imperfect belief. You must then decide to replace it
by making a better decision that affirms the reality that you are a
son or daughter of God. This can best be done through attunement
with your Christ self.
Let me say that an essential element of any recovery from addiction
is willpower. The addiction started with a decision you made, and it
has been reinforced by many smaller decisions that all weaken your will
to break the pattern. So it is important to know and acknowledge that
the essence of fighting any addiction is that you must strengthen your
will to break the pattern. You can call for your Christ self and for
me to reinforce your will, but the most efficient way to strengthen
your will is through love.
You must find something that you love so much that you realize the addiction
is standing in the way of expressing or experiencing that love, and
therefore you are willing to give up the addiction to reap the reward
of what you love. You might love another person, a particular activity,
your own soul, spiritual growth, me or God.
If you can find a love that is greater than the downward pull of the
addiction, you have won half the victory. If you do not have such a
point of love, use the Miracle Rosary to call forth a miracle of my
Mother’s love in you. I can assure you that Mother Mary has love
to spare, and she will be happy to give you a portion of her love for
your soul.
Another important tool is to realize that an addiction is simply a habit
that has been created and reinforced by numerous repetitions of certain
actions and thoughts. To break such a pattern will take time, and it
is beneficial to make up a short affirmation which affirms the positive
decision you are using to replace the toxic decision.
However, don’t seek to overpower the old habit by creating a new
one. Always ask your Christ self to consume the imperfect thoughts and
feelings. You might have heard the popular saying that what you resist
persists. There is some truth to this, in the sense that if you give
negative thoughts too much attention, you reinforce them. Therefore,
it is better to consciously surrender the thoughts to your Christ self
and ask it to consume them and to replace them with Christ truth. If
you make an effort to build the habit of surrendering imperfect thoughts,
you will have taken a major leap forward on your spiritual path.
All of these tools can be very effective, but when you accept the reality
of reincarnation, you realize that the decision that led to the present
addiction might not have been made in this lifetime. It can go back
many lifetimes, perhaps even to the very point when your soul first
decided to turn its back upon God and separate itself from the spiritual
self. One aspect of this is that you cannot expect that such an addiction
can be resolved overnight. It might indeed takes years to get to the
bottom of such a problem.
Another aspect is that in some cases, depending on how severe the addiction
is, it will be strongly advisable to seek the help of a skilled professional.
There are many forms of therapy that can help you more quickly get to
the bottom of the dysfunctional decision that caused the addiction.
Traditional psychotherapy can have an effect, but because the science
of psychology is currently so based on a materialistic view of the world,
it is not the best tool for helping you solve deep-seated psychological
problems. There are a number of new and alternative psychological healing
methods that are far better at doing this.
I do not intend this to be an exhaustive list, but here are a few recommendations.
Some psychologists have started using a method called Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing (EMDR), and it can be quite effective. Certain forms
of Health Kinesiology can also help you resolve psychological problems.
Finally, I would recommend certain forms of hypnotherapy.
Let me make it clear that I do not recommend traditional hypnotherapy,
in which you are put in a deep trance where you have no control over
the session and no memory of it afterward. I emphatically discourage
people from engaging in any kind of hypnotherapy in which a therapist
puts suggestive thoughts into your mind. This very easily leads to a
violation of your free will, even if the therapist is unaware of this
and has the best intentions.
However, there are certain forms of therapy that are called hypnotherapy,
yet they do not put you in a deep trance, you have full control over
the session, you can remember everything and the therapist does not
put any suggestions into your mind. These forms of hypnotherapy are
more like a guided meditation that can help you get in touch with deep
aspects of your psychology.
To determine if it is beneficial for you to make use of such therapy,
follow the impulses you get from your heart. Use the technique for inner
attunement to gain greater clarity.
If you do decide to engage in a form of therapy, use the spiritual tools
to prepare for your sessions and to follow up. In other words, spend
some time using the spiritual tools on this website working on a particular
problem. Then go and do as many sessions as needed until you feel you
have gained a greater clarity. In between sessions, use the spiritual
tools.
Call for spiritual protection and for the binding of any inner and outer
forces that are standing in your way. Use the Violet Flame to consume
any imperfect energies that are brought up during the sessions. Also
use the miracle rosary to call for a miracle of the transformation of
these old habits. If you will combine therapy and the spiritual tools,
you can make much faster progress, and you might indeed be amazed at
the results.
I can assure you that if some of the psychological tools that are available
today had been available 2,000 years ago, I would have had each and
every one of my disciples go into some form of therapy. Many of the
psychological healing tools are indeed sponsored by the Ascended Host,
for the particular purpose of helping people speed up their spiritual
growth and manifest Christhood in one time lifetime instead of many
lifetimes.
You live at a time when many valuable tools have been brought forth
in many areas of life. There is absolutely no reason not to make use
of these tools to speed up your progress on the spiritual path. Let
me say that I am amazed that people will look backward and think that
in order to follow Christ, they should live the way I or my disciples
lived 2,000 years ago. This really is not my recommendation. As you
can see, I am now making use of the technology of the internet, and
I can assure you that I would have done so back then if the technology
had been available.
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