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Your Progress Is My Progress Is Our Progress: Understanding The Underlying Causes Of Addictions

Discussion in 'Self Improvement' started by Sekhmet the Fury Bringer, Feb 16, 2017.

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    Struggles ya I got 'em.

     
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    What a hard time we're all going through. When are we gonna tell the cause of our problem to run and hide cause we're fuckin' done playin' games?

     
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    I bug out when I see these kinds of things, even on a screen it gives me the heebie jeebies:

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    Step Seven: "Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings."

    Kuan Yin will not 'do the work for me'. Karma is difficult to understand sometimes but it is possible one is bound up in karmic afflictions and is perhaps destined for death even but they end up being saved by a power outside themselves. Such is life. Such is death. Whatever works for you and helps you get better.

    However I ask when I bow to Her at my home altar daily. Well sometimes I just sincerely bow without expectation of anything. Through devotion without seeking I think I'll be ok. Kuan Yin is not really male or female, Her true form transcends gender. She is also known by a male or female representation as Avalokiteśvara.

    No wonder there is the Big Book. There's so much more to the Steps than what they state in themselves.

    I'm not going all in the with the Steps here. I will return to more scientific approaches to understanding and fixing the causes of addiction once these are banged out.
     
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    Step Eight: "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."

    What about all the females I clicked on? How can I possibly make amends to them all let alone compile a list?

    I will make a list of people offline I harmed and make amends where possible. I have already done this to an extent. I will not report back on it but it will be done I was planning on it before I even thought about working these steps.

    For me to make amends to the exploited females and tormented minds of Hentai artists and other sexualized art from minds that will one day pay the price for their works I clicked on, I'm going to have to fight long and hard in this War well into the next several years. Transitioning to above ground tactics will be a great step forward in the War for myself once I'm ready.
     
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    Step Nine: "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

    Yes sir. On it.
     
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    Step Ten: "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

    Loud and clear.
     
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    Step Eleven: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out."

    10-4 Commander.
     
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    Step Twelve: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

    Done.
     
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    Recovery hurts but relapse hurts worse.

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    Well if this man isn't just a chipper spruce of life if I've ever seen one:



    First saw him in the show Party Down I believe. Great show, I do recommend it. I think there was a scene where they were catering a party for pornstars in an episode lol not triggering. Speaking of triggers let's do a quick spotlight on them.
     
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    I like what he has to say. I don't know what his qualifications are but he speaks to my soul and it makes sense. Lemme dig up something from an expert too.
     
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    Experts say there are internal and external triggers. Emotional and environmental triggers.

    I say gain control of yourself and guard your senses, this is what I'm doing. How easy it is to think we are some kind of invulnerable master when we actually aren't even close to being a true master of any kind lol.

    Some people aren't easily triggered after a certain amount of time clean. Others become super sensitive. It's all about self discovery in the end.

    www.addiction.com/expert-blogs/porn-addicts-do-you-know-what-triggers-your-behavior
     

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