If You Wanted to Let It Go... You Would

If you wanted to let go of it, you would…

I have a sort of controversial take on addiction.

Whether that be addiction to drugs, food, people, shopping, p*rn, scrolling, etc.

Many people frame addiction in this way where we’re completely POWERLESS.

Where we’ve gotten trapped by this unrelenting demon that only God can free us from.

But my philosophy on addiction is much more simple. And here it is:

The reason you’re still addicted is because you don’t want to stop.

You may WANT to want to stop… but you don’t want to stop.

And if you did thoroughly and deeply want to stop, you would.

Because you are the operant power. You’re the one who does it or doesn’t do it.

A lot of us, when we’re caught in an addiction to something, get to the point where we say, “well, I’d like to stop. And I will soon.”

And that statement right there almost satiates the part of ourself that’s looking for progress.

The mind registers it as: see? I do want to stop.

But that’s not enough.

It’s like we flirt with the idea of being done, but we’re not really ready to be done.

You know how in addiction counseling, they talk about “rock bottom”?

That’s true for many people.

But that rock bottom doesn’t have to be losing everything, pushing everyone away, and finding yourself living under a bridge.

That rock bottom, simply put, is when you finally reach a point where stopping is the ONLY option.

And guess what? That’s when you stop.

Not when you kinda sorta maybe might stop one day… but when you actually f*cking choose to stop.

That’s where your power is.

Another level of complexity to this is that many people haven’t developed alternative, natural means of fulfillment in their life.

AKA: they can’t feel good naturally. They don’t know how to make themselves feel joy and fulfillment naturally.

So they chemically bypass that incapability by just engaging in drugs or low-vibrational activities that hijack their feel-good centers, and make them feel good without having to do any work.

So that is the other point of dilemma. People don’t know how to feel good on their own.

But I’ll tell you right now, from personal experience too, that the fulfillment and high you get from letting go of something that’s not good for you is MAGNITUDES better than the short-lived high you get from dirty feel-good activities.

It is infinitely superior.

So if you’re reading this, and you’re addicted to something, here’s my advice to you.

Stop bullsh*tting yourself and saying you want to stop, and then continuing to do it.

Go out and keep doing it until you’re so fed up with yourself that letting go of it is the ONLY option.

And then, you’ll let it go.