Curing Multiple Addictions

[OnceMore]

How do you go about cleansing yourself from multiple addictions?

With me, I am really addicted to pornography, sugar, and the internet. 

I know with habit setting that a person should start with one habit, do it for maybe a few months, and then install a new habit, rather than installing 4 or 5 habits at the same time. 

I assume this probably works with addictions as well, if not more so, because each addiction is so embedded at this point that it's going to be difficult to just say: 'ok, no more porn, no more sugar, no more internet, starting....now!'

Has anyone here had multiple addictions, and have now rid themselves of them? What was your method? 

[Faceless]

There is a common root of addiction. The root is the same for all forms of addictions. The only thing that is different is the object. 

Here is a start....

What is the root of addiction? 

What is pleasure? 

What gives pleasure continuity? 

Once the this unknown source that gives continuity to pleasure is realized inquire into that. Learn about it. Understand How it moves in its pattern. Use direct current or past experiences to visualize this process. 

See this movment it in its totality. 

In becoming free from addiction, The seeing of its whole movment is the doing. In this observation there is action. 

If you really want to become free from all addiction, the only way is to become free from yourself.

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Edited December 21, 2017 by Faceless

[TriteNTrue]

@OnceMore What is an addiction?  a loss of control over a substance?  our resistance to the thought of it?

I used to be addicted to porn - i didn't have a girlfriend for years so pornhub was  my gf. i treated her well. Even while in relationships it'd continue. I'd have sex with my gf and when she left I'd rub one out. And I'd feel like shit every time even though i'd convinced myself jackin it was 'ok'. I'd be moralizing all my life growing up in the church. 

i had a huge realization a couple of months ago after understanding  my sexual energy better  and i stopped watching porn immediately.  Though i still appreciate a good one every now and then. I try to stay present and  enjoy sex more with my girl now

[Soulbass]

1 hour ago, TriteNTrue said:

understanding  my sexual energy better

tell us about that

[Joseph Maynor]

You need to set up strategies for each one:

Internet: Get blocksite software that blocks problem internet sites.  Put your phone in grayscale mode and get blocksite software for your phone too.

Porn:  Block all the Internet porn sites.  

Sugar:  Stop eating candy, adding sugar into things, and drinking sugary beverages.  Get rid of sugar that is around the house.