Addiction is always caused when we look outside of ourselves for our source of happiness. We have created the state of mind we are in with our thoughts, whether they are bored, lonely, unhappy, desperate or whatever flavour of thought you chose and then we look outside for something to change that feeling. We do this innocently, at that time this is our best shot at happiness, it doesn’t seem possible that we can be happy or peaceful without the thing we crave.

An ex-addict that I was working with told me that when he was in the grip of his drug addiction and he got the ‘clucking’ (the withdrawal symptoms) the pain and anxiety got incrementally worse until he scored. He said that once he had the drug in his hand, before he had even cooked it, the symptoms started to dissipate. When we discussed this, he was able to see that the drug didn’t change his state, the thought of the drug changed his state.

Your addiction, whatever it is, is always no more than 5% physical and 95% mental.

Let’s work together to free you of the thoughts you have about your addiction and what this means about you.

I started the first UK Wellbeing group sharing the Three Principles understanding with people rcovering from drug, alcohol and other addictions alongside those recovering from mental health issues.

I am occasionally employed to give classes to those in recovering at Centred Recovery, https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com, a non 12 step Three Principles centre in the United States