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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9501071.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ADDICTION BALANCE DISHONESTY MEANS SALVATION GET+950107 %TRUE LOVE ACCEPTANCE AFFIRMATION AFFECTION RESPECT 950107 When we regard any thing, person, relationship or activity as a means to or substitute for true: love, acceptance, affirmations, affection, respect and integrity within a genuine community---we are addicted. When we are addicted we are tempted to be dishonest about the role of our addiction(s) in our lives. We cannot be honest about our attitudes, feelings, beliefs or behaviors as they pertain to the foci of our addictions; because dishonesty is essential to the continuity of our games of mutual self deception about the effectiveness of our addictions as presumed means to or substitutes for true: love, acceptance, affirmations, affection, respect and integrity within a genuine community. The foci of our addictions are rarely essentially evil or bad for us---especially when we maintain balance and moderation in how we regard them and are involved with them. In fact many of the foci of addictions are essential elements of healthy modern living: food, drinks, work, personal relationships, romantic relationships, sexual relationships, drugs, scriptures, dogmas, rituals, etc. It is how we individually and organizationally relate to the foci of our addictions which makes them be the foci of our addictions. The foci of our addictions are not like bacteria or viruses which upon entering our body cause a disease in us. It is a dis-ease in us which makes us approach the foci of our addictions in addictive ways. We cannot cure our addictions by eliminating the foci of our addictions from our environment. To recover from our addictions we must seek to be true to ourselves and each other about our selves and our experiences; and be willing to stop playing our collusive games of mutual self deception about the powers we think reside in the foci of our addictions. We cannot save ourselves, make ourselves acceptable, or achieve love or salvation through the use or abuse of: food, drinks, work, personal relationships, romantic relationships, sexual relationships, drugs, scriptures, dogmas, rituals, etc. They are not tools which can so be used with honesty or integrity. We will recover from our addictions when we decide to stop pretending that they can so be used with honesty and integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================