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| Emotional Addictions |  Not many people understand that each and every one of us is addicted to emotions. The matter is that the very same receptors on the cells of our body that are used by drug addicts are the very same receptors that are used for the chemicals compounds our bodies uses to experience emotion. Therefore by knowing this one simple fact we can easily realize that we can become addicted to emotions just as easily, and we do.
Emotions are a natural part of our normal life. They color our perception of the world. They are also the body’s way of taking experiences of life and turning those lessons into long term memories in order for us to be able to function in the world more effectively. It's not the emotions that are bad; it's the addiction to those emotions that is the problem.
Our body uses combinations of special chemicals to produce each of the different emotions. Do you know that there is a certain chemical combination for happiness, and sadness, and anger, and victimization, and any other emotion that you can think of?
Throughout the years, people develop an addiction to the different chemicals of different emotions. The point is the more people feel a certain emotion, the more addicted to that emotion they become. For example, if you get angry on a consistent basis, you develop an emotional addiction to the anger chemicals. And if you play a victim and cry why you long enough, you habituate that way of being and develop an emotional addiction to those specific chemicals. As each of the cells divides, the new cells created need more and more of those specific chemicals in order to get the same stimulation as the old cell.
So how does this all connect with the law of attraction? Our usual emotional state attracts to us more of that emotional state. So you can see that if we are addicted to specific emotional states, we have to undo the habitual addiction to those negative emotional states and develop new addictions through habit for the positive emotional chemicals. Thus, people often will act in particular ways just to get the fix of their emotional addiction. The real difficulty for many people is to get their past emotional addictions and develop more productive emotional addictions.
You have to will to practice new behaviors in order to develop new habits and there for new emotional addictions to positive emotions. This is very difficult for the first time; nevertheless, with enough practice it becomes easy to stay happy because of your addiction to that particular emotional condition.
The point is the more you practice those positive emotions, the easier it gets over time because your body will naturally develop an addiction for those emotional chemicals and attract situations and people to you in order to maintain that emotional addiction. Practice positive emotions, and eventually the universe will throw situations and people at you in order to maintain that emotional addiction.
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