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A compulsion is an irresistible urge to behave in some way. The four types of addiction are harmful compulsions. Premises: Most people have several reactive "Inner Child" personality subselves who activate periodically and cause the host person significant inner pain. People raised in low-nurtur-ance childhoods develop Guardian personality subselves to survive. Two well-intentioned subselves seem to work together to cause toxic compul-sions like addictions - the Addict / Comforter, and the Magician. When one or more young subselves experience (and cause) overwhelm-ing pain, the dedicated, narrow-visioned Addict subself causes the host per-son to self-medicate with distracting chemicals, actions, relationships, or "states" like rage, zeal, or sexual arousal. If other subselves warn "This is dangerous!," the Magician creates persuasive reality distortions ("I am NOT addicted - I can stop any time I want!"). True addictions are self-amplifying, for they inevitably increase inner pain. Because the Addict subself is de-voted to protecting the Inner Children and sees no better way to help them, s/he will never listen to "logic" or "common sense." Project 1 in this nonprofit site provides an effective way to help free the resident true Self to use other subselves and human help to protect and comfort the inner kids. This frees the Addict subself to adopt a new role in the personality, so inner pain and compulsive self-medication can recede. more detail / slides / Lesson-1 index and guidebook / Q&A / close |
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