Addictions are normal behaviors exaggerated beyond what can be supported in balance. Why do we get addicted? Each archetype is susceptible to specific addictions. Some addictions happen because there is a well-established cultural pattern that we move into, and then may find ourselves unable to move out.

Addictions that require secrecy to maintain appeal to us because it is an opportunity for us to be clever. If you think about the intense focus required to keep an addiction hidden, yet fed, you can understand the seduction. It may be that nowhere else in that person's life are they required to show such skill and connection. To hide an addiction requires intense focus and concentration on the world around us - knowing where all the players in one's life are at any given moment, and connecting energetically so as not be to caught. For a while, this pattern is very satisfying to human nature, and feeds itself. But once the addiction destroys the body's natural balance, it usually becomes impossible to maintain the secret, and the addiction becomes the primary relationship in a person's life.

Our biology encourages us to seek intense feelings. Feelings guide us. Intense feelings satisfy the emotional self. We try to recreate intense feelings by recreating the structures in which we first experienced those feelings. For example, if we were drinking wine when we first fell in love, we may find that wine takes us back to those feelings. Wine then becomes part of the structure that leads us to feeling good. Unfortunately, the wine itself does not cause the feeling - it simply opens the door to a memory of previous feelings, and colors the current situation.

Addictions also keep us connected to parts of ourselves that yearn to be healed. Keeping the body addicted guarantees we cannot abandon those parts of ourselves but must instead pay attention to them.

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