I was born a Jewish infant in Budapest, Hungary in January 1944.

Two months later, the German army occupied, the Wehrmacht, occupies Budapest, departs half a million people to their

deaths in Auschwitz, my maternal grandparents being amongst them. That experience sets your brain in a certain way because it is all about trauma.

So eviction is manifested in any behavior that a person craves, finds temporary pleasure or relief in, but then experiences

negative consequences in the long term and doesn't give up. So I'm going to ask you now by that definition Brian have you ever been an addictive behavior in your life

Yes many in my opinion. I was probably a functional alcoholic I every day. It gave me temporary relief from

from the pain I was feeling usually related to interacting with my fellow humans.

As a spiritual teacher said,

addiction is all beginning pain and end in pain.

So why do people use?

Why do people engage in addiction?

Because they have deep emotional problems.

They don't have the means to resolve on their own.

Most chronic illnesses also originate in trauma, including autoimmune disease and

cancer and degenerative nervous system disorders and so on because of the unshakable unity of mind and body.

Echart Touli was a spiritual teacher. He said that the greatest achievement of human kind is not

it's architecture or art or scientific glories but our ability to see our own insanity.

That's where the healing is. By the way, healing comes from the Anglo-Saxonal word for wholeness.

So I have a totally optimistic message, really.

I think healing is entirely possible.

So if we're going to heal, if we're going to become whole, let's look at everything. Oh,