A good Proverb (19:22):
What a person desires is unfailing love.
Perfect. No strings attached. Unconditional. Secure. Never-ending. Never-leaving.
We aim to attain, but this is where we need God.
Archive for addiction
Sex Addiction
Greetings all - from wintery Waikato, New Zealand,
A few brief notes on Sexual Addiction.
Sexual addiction is more about masking stress and shame than about sex. A form of self-medication for the pain in one’s life. In the words of James Brown: “I feel good…”
Masturbation on a repeated basis, with or without porn, is a common form of sex addiction.
The compulsion starts with curiosity and escalates until it consumes a person’s life - body, soul, and spirit.
Anger, loneliness, and confusion are common feelings for both addicts and their partners.
http://www.sexaddict.com/ - Douglas Weiss’ website - check out his books.
Help is available …
regards,
Mark
Addictions - ‘Think and Do’ Differently
Greetings everyone,
Been reading up more on Addictions:
Bondage doesn’t respond to common sense, logic, and clear thinking.
Alcoholics Anonymous calls such actions “insanity”, which they define as “continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results”.
- on page 27, “Freedom From Addiction”, by Neil Anderson (with M+J Quarles), Regal Books, 1996. [Read reviews at Amazon.com]
As Mike Riddell quotes in his “Living Wisdom” course:
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.
The computer industry talk about: GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out).
Here’s some links that have some truths for you:
http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/
http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/truths.htm - more than a dozen articles **
http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/Truths/answer.html
Living in the Truth,
Mark
