Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts (2017-03-22)

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🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts (2017-03-22) - This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixated on substitute gratifications. We then explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:06.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:27.4	Namaste and welcome.
0:31.0	Growing up, my mom was actively drinking until I was about 16 and then got very involved
0:39.3	with recovery with AA, became very active and she's executive director of the National
0:45.9	Council of Alcoholism for many years in the region that we lived in.
0:51.0	So I grew up with a lot of involvement and stories with the world of addiction and of
0:57.7	course also all the AA jokes in the world came across our dinner table.
1:02.9	And one of them was that a man goes into a bar, he orders a drink, the drink is served,
1:07.1	he pushes it aside, he orders another drink, bartender gives it to him and he drinks it
1:12.2	and the bartender says what gives and he goes, oh well I go to AA meetings and they regularly
1:17.2	say it's the first drink that leads to trouble.
1:21.2	I got thousands of those but anyway the point being that I know I'm not alone, that most
1:30.7	everyone I know struggles with their own version of addiction and has somebody nearby
1:37.9	of not themselves who's really really struggling and so we know how addiction catches our life
1:49.4	and confines our life and creates a tremendous amount of pain and the habits, the harmful
1:56.4	habits that are really the most difficult, we feel like they're out of control and we
2:03.9	feel like we should be able to control them.
2:08.2	So there's not only a sense of it's out of control, it's like it shouldn't be like that,
2:12.2	I should be able to control it.
2:15.5	And yet whether it's anger or overeating or obsession or perfectionism and striving
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