A Key Emotion to Address in order to Address Addiction

Addictions are mainly meant to suppress the emotion of fear from childhood events.

If you are not willing to experience the emotion of fear, you will find that you will substitute the one addiction with another. When I first realized that I will need to process emotion of fear, I made a list to my blocks to feeling fear and work through them emotionally. It took me close to a year to release the blocks after which point, I could start shaking in fear whenever it comes up. Now I was ready to start addressing addictions. I have found that most people prefer to feel sadness and can cry for days, but refuse to feel fear. I think fear is easy to work through. I am shaking in fear as I write this blog, and my mind is clear and focused. If I shut down my fear, I become distracted and start having paranoid thoughts. Who wants that? I don’t.

Some of the blocks to fear are, I will be seen as weak, I will make my fear real if I feel this, something terrible will happen to me if I feel this, I won’t be able to function, I will die from this fright, I am a coward, etc. I had to release the blocks by feeling them emotionally and I have to say, I came to discover truth about each of these blocks that changed how I perceived myself.

Here is what I have learned about fear; it is always about the past, it represent a lie, it blocks truth from entering me, it causes many health issues (if not all), nothing will happen to me while I am processing emotion of fear. Of course I am writing this in the relatively safe city of Vancouver in which my fears have no real basis, compared to the unfortunate situation in many parts of the world.

I have done workshops posted online on fears, where my friends and I discuss our blocks to fear. I am grateful to their honest and vulnerable sharing of themselves in these videos. I will add the link to these videos somewhere on this page or website.

Love,

Dr Dharm