Child Within blocks of pain, sorrow, anger, and despair always want to come up into our mind , because they’ve swollen and need our attention, they are at the very roots of our addictions. They want to emerge, but we don’t want these uninvited guests to invade our adult space because they’re painful to look at. So we try to block their way. We want them to stay asleep down in the basement of our child within. We don’t want to face them, so our habit is to fill our mind with other guests. Whenever we have ten or fifteen minutes of free time, we do anything we can to keep our living room occupied. We call a friend. We pick up a book. We turn on the television. We go for a drive. We hope that if the mind is occupied, these unpleasant ghosts from our past will not come up.
But all mind needs circulation. If we don’t let them come up, it creates bad circulation in our mind, and symptoms of addiction and depression begin to manifest once more in our mind and body.
Sometimes when we have a headache, we take aspirin, but our headache doesn’t go away. Sometimes this kind of headache can be a symptom of addiction. Perhaps we have allergies. We think it’s a physical problem, but allergies can also be a symptom of mental turmoil. We are advised by doctors to take drugs, but sometimes these will continue to suppress our child within, making our sickness deeper.
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