Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about overcoming addiction.

And I'm going to tell you the deepest root cause at the bottom of every addiction. Listen up because this information I'm going to give you here is not just for hardcore

drug addicts this is something that's going to be useful for everybody.

I'm going to share with you some deep insights that I got from my own food addiction

and overcoming my food addiction earlier in my life.

And what that's going to give you is it's going to give you a really deep high-level understanding of what addictions are

and why they exist and where they ultimately stem from because every addiction

stems from the exact same deep place. Firstly though how do we tell that we have an addiction?

There's a great litmus test that I can give you, which I got from Gay Hendricks.

I really love this. And what he basically says is if you stop doing the behavior that

you suspect that you're addicted to if you stop doing it for one week and cravings arise then that means that you're addicted and if

you stop doing it and no cravings arise that means you're not addicted so this is a very simple rule of thumb you can

run this test on any behavior you have that you suspect of being an addiction.

And if you actually do this and try this out, you might be shocked at what you surprise at how many things you're addicted to.

You might discover that you're addicted to things that you wouldn't even have normally thought or addictions.

These days in modern society almost everyone

is an addict. The only question is to what degree? How severe is it?

And how many addictions do you have?

Most of us have not one or two addictions, but at least half a dozen,

if not a dozen or more. The most common addictions are of course drugs, but also

food, porn, tobacco,

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