Emotions
Emotions are a precious gift of life. You are human, you have to have emotion. It comes with the body. You cannot have a day without weather, and likewise you cannot be a human without emotion. You can try to suppress your emotions, ignore your emotions and generally deny your emotions but that just creates a mess. A big mess. The thing is, people do not like being aware of their emotions. People do not like to be in a body if what is experienced in that body is emotional pain. That is the driving force within every drug taker, every over eater, anorexic, alcoholic, workaholic, gambler etc etc - that force that says consciously or unconsciously ''I do not want to be here.'' Sad but true. We experience pain a lot in this world because of widespread ignorance of the kindness that is so important in living. When all of society becomes kinder, more aware, less materialistic and more spiritual if you like, we will have less drive towards addiction. Care and attention to one...