The Root of all Addictions Revealed
Understand this and you’re half way transforming yours
Roxy music singer Brian Ferry has been a fierce addict during his career.
He was a slave, according to the root meaning of the word addiction. A slave to music, women, sex and drugs. That’s why he probably wrote Don’t stop the Dance.
When you’re addicted, you don’t want the high to end.
Grace Jones was an addict too. She was a slave to the rhythm.
You can argue they had a positive addiction. They got hooked on something healthy. To music, rhythm and dance. Like thousands of other rock stars and eighties and nineties hero’s on posters in teen’s bedrooms.
Precisely what made them addicts?
What makes you applicable is that you suffer long-term consequences according this definition from expert Gabor Mate:
…an addiction manifests in any behavior that a person finds temporary pleasure or relief in and therefore craves, suffers negative consequences from, and has trouble giving up — Dr. Gabor Mate
